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Inspector General
Howard Hunt
27 FEB 1974
1. At the recent request of the Deputy Director for
Management and Services, the Office of Finance has searched
its records to determine if we could find any payment to
Mr. Hunt in an amount of approximately $30,000 that required
no accounting.
2. We have searched the following records:
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The expense runs for the period July 1964 to
June 1973 for the immediate Office of the DCI,
the immediate Office of the DD/P, FI Staff,
CI Staff, CA Staff and the Office of Security.
We have checked various items that were re-
⠀flected in these expense records but have
identified nothing relating to Mr. Hunt.
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The Madrid Station, JMWAVE and FR/Washington
Office accountings to determine if there were
funds passed by the Stations to Mr. Hunt during
the year he served under non-official cover in
Madrid. We could find no payment to Mr. Hunt
either in his true name or his two identified
pseudonyms.
Mr. Hunt's travel claims for the period
1960-1972 and have found nothing in these
travel claims that were not consistent with
normal travel expenses, i.e., transportation;
per diem.
We made a specific analysis of Mr. Hunt's
advance account for the period he was under
non-official cover (July '65-Sept '66) and have
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determined that $33,500 was advanced to him
for travel and transportation of household
goods to and from Madrid with 
one trip to
Paris for he and his family to renew their
Spanish visas. All of this advance was fully
accounted for. However, in his accounting
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It was an
one item appeared unusual.
expenditure of $1,600 for a sensitive
operation which was approved for write-off by Mr.
Desmond Fitzgerald on 1 June 
1966 without
further accounting.
3. Also, we confirmed that no other Agency advance accounts
were established for Mr. Hunt during this period
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4. At the beginning of his non-official cover tour, it
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was necessary to establish a bank account in 
his name.
EUR Division accordingly requested we open 
an account 
at the
Chase Manhattan Bank in Mr. Hunt's 
name to receive all non-
salary payments. (Mr. Hunt had an account at Riggs National
Bank to receive his salary and allowance 
payments). The
following deposits were made to the account 
during 1965 
and
1966:
Account opened: 13 July 1965
13 July 1965
$10,000
22 July 1965
5,000
15 September 1965
5,000
6 October 1965
5,000
19 July 1966
5,000
$30,000
All of the above have been accounted for by submission
of travel and transportation accountings.
5. We feel at this time without specific guidelines that
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further searching would be somewhat fruitless.
aspect of the non-official cover assignment in Madrid is that
all the costs were charged to the support 
allotment of the
EUR Division which is not normal as 
non-official cover 
people
are usually assigned to a project. It is unusual 
to have a
case officer abroad for one year on an 
operational assignment
without him incurring operational expenditures
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6. The Office of Finance has not found operational
expenditures except for the $1,600 mentioned above.
Therefore, it is suggested that Mr. Karamessines be questioned
as to a project or projects to which Mr. Hunt's operational
expenditures if incurred would have been charged.
7. Another possible course of action is to request the
Director to approve my asking a cleared contact at Chase
Manhattan Bank to provide a transcript of all entries into
Mr. Hunt's Chase Manhattan Bank account.
8.
We are currently reviewing records of all cashier's
checks prepared and issued by Monetary to determine if any
were payable to Mr. Hunt. Hopefully this effort will be
finished by the end of the week.
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Thomas B. Yale
Director of Finance
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