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B-130961 1 (1972-12-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaagal0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 B- 130961 DEC 1 3 1972 C( The Honorable Hubert H. Humphrey 7 United States Senate LM096218 Dear Senator Humphrey: This is in further reply to your letter dated October 5, 1972, for information regarding a State Department ma g4i used for mailing political material. As you are aware, the background events regarding the use of this list were reported by the press around September 27, 1972. Our inquiries of officials at the State Department, the White House, and the Republican National Committee generally confirmed the published story that the use of the mailing list was accidental. The sequence of events developed in our interviews are shown below. The Director of Communications, Executive Branch, White House, told us that he had requested a mailing list from the Department of State. He said the list was to be used for mailing a speech to be given by an official of the Department of State at the United Nations on September 25,-1972. In response to the request, the State Department prepared a list from its files of the names of members of national and local organiza- tions, educational institutions, and other groups. The names were printed on plain, white, gummed labels and sent to the White House on September 11, 1972. At the Office of the Director of Communications, White House, we were informed that the labels were then sent to the Republican National Committee where the mailing was to be made at no cost to the Government. We were also told that this procedure had been set up to avoid the possibility of any politically oriented material being sent from the White House at Government expense. After the labels were sent to the Republican National Committee, the Director of Communications cancelled the mailing request.

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