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087286 1 (1944-11-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobactvx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES wasmuaE ED November 13, 1944. Recorded . 1 26 On September 27, 1944, Messrs. Robert P. Patterson, Under Secretary of War, Major General George J. Richards, Director of the Budget Division, and Brigadier General Kenneth C. Royall, of the War Department, conferred with the undersigned in the Office of the Comptroller General. At the meeting the Under Secretary and his associates from the War Department explained generally the nature and purposes of a War Department program of develop- ment and experimentation of the highest urgency and secrecy. It was stated that the program is under the direction of Major General L. R. Groves and has reached the point that its secrecy can no longer be safely guarded if disbursements in connection with the program must be made in the usual way. Accordingly, it was proposed to advance to Major General Groves a sum of approximately $12,500,000, from the appropriation, 210/50141 Expediting Production of Equipment and Supplies for National Defense 1940-45, 501 P110-07, to be expended by him direct as needed and fully accounted for by records to be kept in a con- fidential file in the War Department, such records to be made available to the General Accounting Office for special exami- nation and audit at such later time as such examination and audit may be directed by the Comptroller General, after con- ferring with the Under Secretary of War, without endangering the secrecy of the project. Based on the oral explanations of the Under Secretary why the proposed advance of funds offered the only safe way to main- tain the project's secrecy and in.view of the subsequent account- ing to be made, the undersigned agreed that a voucher covering such advance would be passed to credit by the General Accounting Office in the audit.of the accounts of the Disbursing Office making payment thereon. It was further agreed that the War Department would send a confidential photostatic copy of the paid voucher to the General Accounting Office as soon as the advance was made. Such copy of D.O. Voucher No. 125784, for $12,500,000, accounts of Colonel Carl Witcher, D.O. Symbol No. 210-846, for September 1944, is attached. The Chief of the

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