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This Central Intelligence Agency file, dated April 1963, contains financial and travel records for Project MOSES, run by CIA General Counsel Lawrence R. Houston. It includes requests for advances of funds for a Project MOSES agent, along with domestic travel vouchers for trips from Washington, D.C. to New York City, West Palm Beach and Miami in March and April 1963. The records cover airfare for Houston and two agents, per diem and operational expenses. Receipts for the operational expenses were not obtained, for security reasons.
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SECRET (When Filled In) REQUEST FOR ADVANCE OF FUNDS NAME OF ADVANCEE Lawrence R. Houston DATE 4 April 1963 AMOUNT $300.00 VOUCHER NO. (Finance use only) PAYABLE TO Lawrence R. Houston ROOM 7D01 BUILDING Hq. TELEPHONE EXT. 6111 PURPOSE This request for advance of funds in the amount of $300.00 will be advanced by Mr. Houston to a Project MOSES agent to be used for operational and travel and related expenses. The agent is to account to Mr. Houston for this advance. STATUS OF OUTSTANDING ADVANCES I agree that I will fully account for this advance by submission of vouchers and refund of any unexpended balance to the reporting point stated and by the due date checked below. In the event of my failure to so account and refund any unexpended balance, I authorize deduction from my salary to effect settlement. DATE AMOUNT UNACCOUNTED BALANCE REPORTING POINT DUE DATE √ FINANCE DIVISION - HEADQUARTERS ON ARRIVAL AT DESTINATION ON OR ABOUT MONTHLY - ON THE LAST WORKDAY OF EACH MONTH REQUESTING OFFICER APPROVED RECEIPT FOR FUNDS ADVANCED DATE 4/4/63 SIGNATURE Lawrence R. Houston DATE 4/4/63 SIGNATURE OF APPROVING OFFICER Lawrence R. Houston I acknowledge receipt of funds in the amount stated here-under to be used for the purpose stated and accounted for as shown above. I CERTIFY FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE CERTIFIED FOR PAYMENT OR CREDIT DATE 4/4/63 AMOUNT $300.00 OBLIGATION REFERENCE NO. 9-63 CHARGE ALLOCATION NO. 3117-0000-8000 DATE SIGNATURE OF ADVANCEE. Lawrence R. Houston DATE 4/4/63 SIGNATURE SIGNED SIGNATURE OF ADVANCEE. Lawrence R. Houston SPACE BELOW FOR EXCLUSIVE USE OF FINANCE DIVISION (b)(1) PREPARED BY REVIEWED BY VOUCHER NO. 7-12 (b)(3) DESCRIPTION-ALL OTHER ACCOUNTS 13-33 40-42 EXPEND CODE 43 FUNDS 45-46 PAY PERLIQ CODE 47-52 OSLIG. REF. NO. ADVANCE ACCT. NO. EMP. NO. 53 CAYR 54-57 GENERAL LEDGER ACCT. NO. 58-67 ALLOC. OR COST ACCT. NO. 68-70 DUE DATE OBJECT CLASS 71-80 AMOUNT DESCRIPTION-ADVANCE ACCOUNTS 13-27 28-33 T/A NO. P.O. NO. 32-33 DIV. 34-39 STATION CODE PROP. NO. PROJECT NO. IFY 62-67 CK. NO. X REF. NO. DEBIT CREDIT SECRET (38-49)
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 44 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.