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B-168527 1 (1970-03-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabkss0001 and id is 1 raw text is: '~compTRLZR GENERAL oy THz ammnfl'EC T13 L i*ti:: L LT2QJ; D B-168527 RELEASED MAR 1970, Dear Mr. Murphy- In accordance with the requests contained in your letters of November 20 and 26, 1969, and subsequent discussions with members of your staff, we have inquired into whether Federal funds may have been used to finance transportation costs or administrative leave of New York City area participants in the Vietnam moratorium activities held November 13 to 15, 1969, in Washington, D. C. Our inquiries revealed no evidence that the federally funded organizations in the New York City area which we con- tacted used Federal funds for such purposes. We visited 54 bus companies, listed in the 1969 Manhattan classi- fied telephone directory, which were available for charter and which serviced the five boroughs of New York City, the adjacent counties of Nassau and Westchester, and northern New Jersey0 We also met with officials of certain of the city's antipoverty agencies--including the Human Resources Administration, the Community Development Agency, the Youth Services Agency, the Manpower and Career Development Agency, and University Settlement--and made limited examinations into their records. From data made available to us by the bus companies, we determined that 30 of the companies chartered buses to Washington on the days that moratorium activities were held. Among the organizations hiring buses, we identified one agency, Action for Progress, which has been receiving Federal funds. Action for Progress is located at 64 Rivington Street, New York, N. Y., and is acting as a store-front agency of University Settlement, an organization that has been granted $71,000 in OEO funds through the Community Development Agency for the year ending September 30, 1970. We visited Action for Progress and its parent agency, University Settlement, at 184 Eldridge Street, New York, N. Y. The comptroller of University Settlement stated that no Action for Progress funds had been used to charter buses to Washington, D. C., in connection with Moratorium Day. He stated also that all funds had been provided by the individuals who attended the march. The comptroller stated further that Human Resources Administration officers had emphasized that no public funds were to be used for moratorium activities. On January 13, 1970, we reviewed the checkbooks at University Settlement which con- trois the funds allocated to Action for Progress and found no evidence of payments to bas companies that might have been related to the moratorium.

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