LETTER TO JACK BROOKS FROM WILLIAM J. CASEY

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 23, 2008
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: September 14, 1984
• Content Type: LETTER

- Canial Intelligence Agpxy
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The Honorable Jack Brooks
Chairman .
Committee on Government Operations
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515
Dear Mr. Chairman:
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14 SEP 1984
This responds to your request for actions taken or planned by the Central
Intelligence Agency regarding your Committee's report on the first year
implementation of the Federal Managers' Financial Integrity Act (the Act).
Senior Agency officials have long recognized that'the nature of the
Agency's' mission and the special trust implicit in the grant of unique
authorities requires the establishment of strong internal accounting and
administrative control systems. Since the Act became law in September of
1982, the Agency has reinforced those systems with the issuance of an
"Internal Accounting and Administrative Control Directive. This Directive
implements the provisions of the Act and complies with Government Accounting
Office standards and Office of Management and Budget guidelines. At this
time, the Agency has effected the.seven step process for evaluating and
reporting on internal control systems. We have evaluated the Agency
Accounting System and can affirm that Comptroller General principles,
standards, and related requirements for accounting systems have been and will
continue to be used as the guidelines against which the system has been
developed and is being maintained.
The Committee Report states that a management deficiency should be a
material weakness for reporting under the Act if it could impair fulfillment
of an agency's mission, deprive the public of needed government services,
violate statutory or regulatory requirements, or result in conflict of
interest. I agree with that concept. My 1983 report to the President and the
Chairmen of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence did not identify any material
weakness. There were none to report. My certification to this effect was
based upon the results of an ongoing evaluation, review, and reporting process
which enabled me to conclude that the Agency had achieved the optimum
accountability possible, within the bounds of practicality, over its total
operations.
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The Central Intelligence Agency is fully dedicated to the prevention of
fraud, waste, and abuse. Our efforts to that end will continue unabated and
the status of our internal control and accounting systems will be reported
annually to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Sincerely,
7s1. William J. Casey
William J. Casey
Director of Central Intelligence
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SUB=: Reply to Letter from Congressman Jack Brooks
Federal Managers' FinancitL} Integrity Act
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