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B-159451 1 (1974-04-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabkoq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACC'OItrNGOFFICE:.. 7cu WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 APR 974 A,. APR 30 1974 LOGISTICSANCOMMUNICTIONS RELEASED DIVISION ' . B-i 59451 Y2 ''o ' The Honorable William V. Roth, Jr. ' United States Senate C Dear Senator Roth: This report is in response to your request of March 22, 1974, that we provide answers to two questions posed by one of your constituents concerning epartment of Defense (UDLdn&foxr L.....jaJ The questions arose as a result of a newspaper article that quoted our report to Congresswoman Patricia Schroede con- cerning DOD's reporting of the Military Asistance Service Funded (MASF) program to Congress. The answers to the questions follow. QUESTION I Does not the Department of Defense have a legal obligation to accurately report to Congress how much it has spent in a given budget line such as military assistance or supplies and support contracts or how much it intends to spend for a given area? 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 pro- gram on the grounds that separate financial and logistics systems for U.S. and other military forces in Vietnam would be too cumber- some, time consuming, and inefficient. The Secretary stated that a similar problem during the Korean War had been solved by programing, budgeting, and funding all requirements under military appropriations. The MASF system was not designed or intended to provide program data, budgets, costs, and other management information normally re- quired by Congress when military assistance is funded under foreign assistance legislation. Since the system was not intended to pro- vide this information, the Congress has included in the appropriate appropriation acts each year a provision requiring the Secretary of Defense to provide the Congress with quarterly reports of the estimated value of MASF assistance to Vietnam.

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