PROPOSED VISIT OF THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL TO MR. MCCONE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R003100190038-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 28, 2003
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: May 1, 1962
• Content Type: MF

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SUBJECT : Proposed Visit of the Comptroller General to Mr. McCone
1. The Comptroller General has communicated his desire to call
upon the Director.
2. Courtesy aside, the purpose of the Comptroller General's visit
is probably to discuss audit of the Agency's affairs by the GAO. Until
1959, GAO audited so-called vouchered transactions of the Agency but was
precluded from auditing transactions involving funds certified by the
Director under his statutory authority as allocated for confidential
purposes.
3. In 1959, the GAO raised with the CIA Subcommittee of the House
Committee on Armed Services (the so-called Kilday Committee) the desira-
bility of an expanded audit of Agency activities. After considerable
negotiation, letters were exchanged between the DCI and the Comptroller
General establishing the framework for a rather limited expansion of
GAO audit. A GAO report dated 16 May 1961 concluded that the GAO did
"not have sufficient access to make comprehensive reviews on a continuing
basis that would be productive of evaluations helpful to the Congress...
we plan to discontinue our audit of CIA activities".
4. Both the DCI and Mr. Vinson, Chairman of the House Committee on
Armed Services, requested the Comptroller General to continue to audit
Agency affairs on a limited basis. This has been done but it appears that
the GAO continues to feel that they should either have very substantially
broadened access to information about the Agency transactions or that they
should discontinue their audit entirely. Presumably, this is a question
which will be raised by the Comptroller General.
5. I recommend that the Director invite the Comptroller General to
a meeting in the Director's Office and that Messrs. Houston, 0 and 25X1
I attend this meeting.
25X1
JOHN A. BROSS
Comptroller
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