(404-10103-10038 . woe eae - C] UNCLASSIFIED wip ED CONFI SUBJECT: (Cptional) aft FROM. oe j EXTENSION Di tor »£ Finance 519 Kev Building 27 February 1974 TO: (Officer designe: building) OFFICER'S. | COMMENTS (Number each comment to show from whom athe, tt “fact ont 7 z 7 . INITIALS to whom. Draw.a line across calumn after each comment.) “Inspector “General: -_RETURNTOCIA’: |. Background Use Only. _, “Do Not Réeproduce-....: -
14-00000 : f SECRET a 27 FEB 1074 MEMORANDUM FOR: Inspector General SUBJECT + Howard Hunt 1. At the recent request of the Deputy Director for: Management and Services, the Office of Finance has searched ae 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: as 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, —“. Cl 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. ome The Station, JMWAVE and FR/Washington . Office acfountings 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. a ae 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. Bo Bo 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 a B2 IMPDET. 2 2: oe ee EES US ER BYE"! 006567 0%
SUBJECT: Howard Hunt 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, . 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. a -.° 3. Also, we confirmed that no other Agency advance accounts .- Bs were established for Mr. Hunt during this period. en a . 4. At the beginning of his non-official cover tour, it . was necessary to establish a bank account in his name. The BUR Division accordingly requested we open an account at the. | Chase Manhattan Bank in Mr. Hunt's name to receive all non- .-galary 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 --§,000 15 September 1965 oe 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. eS > 8, We feel at this time without specific guidelines that further searching would be somewhat fruitless. One strange aspect of the non-official cover assignment in Madrid is that ali the costs were charged to the support allotment of the oe x BUR, Division which is not normal as non-official cover people .- = :0i.). “are usually assigned to a project...It is.unusual to haye pe “case officer abroad for one year on: an operational ‘assignment —" %.; without him incurring operational expenditures. == — BG | I oe) Pry y Re be oO} peng OD 1 aed me ‘aac { BER EREe <o~
14-00000 ~ * ' / ee SECRET SUBJECT: -Howard Hunt 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 actjon is to request. the Director to approve my asking 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. ee . £inished by the end of the week. — , . hom B. tf Director oF ‘Pinance