Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1952 — Page 15

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Reveal More’ Waste of U. S. Funds

By EDWIN A. LAHEY WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (CDN) ~ ~The General Accounting Office has found new and flagrant evis dence: of waste in military spendIng at home and abroad.

Details of extensive leakage from the $61 billion Pentagon kitty and the $7.3 billion mutual security program have been put into a report by Lindsay C, Warren, the Controller General of the ¥ United States. He has the reputation for being the tightest man with a government dollar in Washington. The preliminary draft of this explosive report is now in the custody.of Speaker of the House Rayburn and Vice President Barkley, It will remain a secret until Congress orders the report Jto be printed. | It was further learned that tax money has been thrown around | Europe with such abandon that Warren has decided to set up a a shop on the continent, where { his investigators can keep closer watch on the foreign aid program,

Special Team Set Up.

A special team will leave for Europe some time next week to lay the groundwork for the new branch of the Controller General’'s operation, i The Instances of waste in military and “foreign ald spending were found by the team of 231 investigators who operate out of {the accounting office somewhat like bank examiners, deseending unheralded on particular operations and going through the books with a fine comb. . While the report of these investigators remains secret for the | moment, it was learned that they U 4 A DOZEN CA N : found their greatest examples of CN hd

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have already taken up the job of exposing the waste in the construction of air bases in French Morocco.

HILLCREST ; ° Even before the Pentagon hee came a $61 billion establishment, oh investigators for the Controller |General were turning up widespread instances of military waste ’ and fraud. ARTEX Bo 20 Per Cent ‘Cheating’ A year ago the investigators [gave a cursory examination to . |the records of 5000 officers of the N 0. 2 “wan v |Army and Navy, and found that CANS. : 20 per cent of them were cheate 2, ode | ° —— ng the government out of dependency allowances. : ; The guilty officers turned up in } (this spot check claimed dependent ; DOZ. parents and relatives who either | 'didn’t exist or weren't dependent.

| The. “overpayment” through these fraudulent claims was totaled’ $1.5 million.

| The officers found to be cheat|ing the government were not 'court-martialed, as they might have been some years ago under Similar circumstances.

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[elms were turned over to the inJu mbo ize spectors general of the different branches of the military service. {The offices of these inspectors are CALIFORNIA now trying to recover the dependHEADS J. ency allowances from the officers ICEBERG who perpetrated the frauds.

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