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HRD-80-106 1 (1980-08-13)

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GAO
United States General Accounting Office             Human Resources
Washington, DC 20548                                Division

B-199847
                                                AUGUST 13.1980


 The Honorable Alan Cranston
 Chairman, Committee on Veterans'
   Affairs
 United States Senate

 Dear Mr. Chairman:

      Subject: Analysis of Veterans Administration
                Investigation of Allegations Involving
                the Palo Alto VA Medical Center (HRD-80-106)

      Your letter of January 21, 1980, asked that we monitor
 the Veterans Administration's (VA's) Office of Inspector
 General (OIG) investigation of allegations made concerning
 the Palo Alto VA Medical Center. There has been significant
 congressional concern about these allegations, which appeared
 in a series of articles in the Peninsula Times Tribune and
 in correspondence from several VA police officers.
      The major allegations at the Palo Alto Medical Center
 involve

      --significant increases in the rate of crime,

      --widespread illegal drug use,

      --inadequate support from local and Federal law enforce-
        ment agencies,

      --interference by medical center officials in criminal
        investigations, and

      --reprisals and threats against VA police officers
        making the allegations.

 In addition, other allegations concerning employee wrongdoing
 and questionable medical center activities were made during
 the DIG's onsite investigation which began in December 1979.

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