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ID-80-17 1 (1980-02-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabaka0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ~~~2V~~~th q - *t Reree u 0,~ 1, the ir s? cirC RELEASED V COMPTROL..ZR GENERAL OF THE UNiTED STATES s WASHINGTON. 0,C. 20548 B-197064 FEBRUARY 26, 1980 The Honorable Max S. Baucus Chairman, Subcommittee on Limitations of Contracted and Delegated Authority,,,,, Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate Dear Mr. Chairman: Subject: FDiplomatic and Official Passport tletrieval System1 (ID-80-17) Your letter of June 15, 1979, outlined concern that executive branch procedures for retrieving passports issued to agency officials may be somewhat lax and requested tnat we examine the matter. We selected, in consultation with your staff, the Fed- eral Maritime Commission and the Departments of Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development, Commerce, and State, for review. We examined the (1) kinds of passports issued by the U.S. Office of Passport Services (herein referred to as the Passport Office), an entity within the Department of State; (2) criteria for issuing each type of passport; and (3) procedures and practices followed by each selected agency for securing, controlling, and retrieving passports required for its officials. We found that U.S. Government officials whose duties require travel to foreign countries are issued either official or diplomatic passports, depending on their posi- tions or the nature of their duties. At the time of our review there were 350,000 diplomatic and official passports outstanding. We were unable to develop a list of all holders of diplomatic and official passports as you requested, because the files for these passports are not segregated from the nearly 14 million regular or tourist passports. Both diplomatic and official passports are the property of the U.S. Government and are to be returned to the Govern- ment upon demand. Written in each passport is the instruction (462560) 111892

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