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B-159451 1 (1974-02-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaagrk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMFTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 B-159451 FEB3 12 1974 672 I ill JIIll 11 IIII Ill1111111 Illit l Il LM096762 The Honorable Patricia Schroeder 4- House of Representatives Dear Mrs. Schroeder: In your August 29, 1973, letter, you asked us to examine the financingof Dqpatment ofefnseDOD) contracts in Ind-g jai. During a later meeting with your office, it was agreed that we would limit our examination to determining if DOD, in reporting to the Congress on the Military Assistance Service Funded (MASF) program, had used the value o he contracts shown on the list of the U.S. Defense Attache Office in Saigon. We found that DOD's reports to the Congress have not reflected the entire value of contracts shown on the Attache Office's list. Until fiscal year 1966 the United States furnished military assistance to the Vietnamese and other free world forces in Vietnam through the Military Assistance Program. In 1966 the Congress authorized the use of military funds to support Vietnamese and other free world forces in Vietnam. This arrangement is known as the MASF program. The Secretary of Defense had requested this program on the grounds that separate financial and logistics systems for U.S. and other military assistance forces in Vietnam would be too cumbersome, time consuming, and inefficient. The Secretary stated that a similar problem during the Korean War had been solved by pro- graming, budgeting, and funding all requirements under mili- tary appropriations. In authorizing the MASF program, the Congress stated: Within thirty days after the end of each quarter, the Secretary of Defense shall render to Congress a report with respect to the estimated value by purpose, by country, of support furnished from such appropriations. (Underscoring supplied.) 7?0 &a-3_ 0%7~

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