EXCERPT FROM JOURNAL- OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSELTUESDAY-10 MARCH 1959

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00965R000400040040-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 24, 2004
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: March 10, 1959
• Content Type: NOTES

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Odic* of Legislative Counsel
Talked with Mr
who Indicated he had axot
Accounts and Auditing
accompanied by ,Mr. I
GAO, to discuss ihue GAO
it Smart, House, Armed Services Caumnittee,
Adeipte T. Samuel son, Director, Civil
be General Accounting Office,
arttany, Office of .Legislative List***,
ackered fads. Mr. Smart tadtcated
that Mr. - laws did not seem, to know precisely what the two auditors
from his vtate a. did at the Agency Is connection with the audit of funds.
Mr. smart stated the co nclusio>ns reached, however, were that the two
auditors at the Agency, a Mr. d eappeie and a Mr.
perform the same type of audit that would corn uilly be performed In any
other agency.. M the first iastan+a:e, there was recognition that any auudit
by GAO was solely at the Invitation of the Director and there was no law to
re,quiue such audit. Under these circumstances. with"" necessarily
reflecting an the perforce of trh* two auditors who are grades GS-11 and
GS-9, Mar. Samuelson I nddicated that normally they would have assigned
More Senior people for a tau and compgere audit. It was also i*dicatsd
that while the GAO auditors ,made ro-- sn datlcnne they had as authority
to follow up an recommendation* ant did not review procedures to make
rec awn"tiaas. it was indicated further that the ant was not a full
At the conclusion a our discussion
. Ohappelle and Mr. Williams
would attempt to aecertaia the facts here
a wave arranged. I Magid Mr. .art
JOHN S. WARNEI
Legislative Counsel
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