“GAO”35 pages
- p. 3 …Force and to the General Accounting Office (GAO). It was written
as a result of Colonel…
- p. 11 …Washington Post, "GAO Turns to Alien Turf in Probe," January 14, 1994
2. Letter and GAO…
- p. 12 …Jr., AF/SE, for SAF/AAZ, subj: GAO Review
on Records Management Procedures with Weather Balloons…
- p. 17 …In February 1994, the Air Force was informed that the General Accounting Office (GAO),
an investigative…
- p. 21 …in support of a General Accounting Office (GAO) audit that
is seeking to identify information concerning…
- p. 25 …In February, 1994, the General Account-
ing Office (GAO), acting on the request of a New…
- p. 26 …On February 15, 1994, the GAO officially notified Secretary of Defense William
J. Perry that it…
- p. 27 …Because of
this organization, SAF I AA was the logical entity to assist the GAO in…
- p. 31 …To do so would have encroached on GAO's charter in this matter. What Air Force…
- p. 35 …One of the additional areas specifically set forth by GAO in its efforts was to deal…
- p. 41 …target."
Balloon Research
The original tasking from GAO noted that the search for information included
"weather…
- p. 47 …Washington Post Article, "GAO Turns to Alien Turf in New Probe,"
January 14, 1994
2. GAO…
- p. 51 A22 FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1994
GAO Turns to Alien Turf in Probe
Bodies of Space Voyagers…
- p. 55 …DOD Office of the Inspector General
Director for GAO Surveys and Reviews
Dear Mr. Secretary:
In…
- p. 56 ISSUE:
GAO ENTRANCE CONFERENCE FOR
ASSIGNMENT CODE 701034
Has the Government met its responsibility in the…
- p. 59 …SEE DISTRIBUTION
Genoral Ac:c:ounti.nq Offic:a (GAO) Latter Dated
February 9, 1994, •aeccrds…
- p. 60 2
We have scheduled an entrance meetinq with the GAO for·
February 28, 1994, 10:00…
- p. 63 …GAO Review Letter Dated February 15, 1994, wRecords
Management Procedures Dealing With Weather Balloon,
Unknown Aircraft…
- p. 64 …Central Point of Contact., GAO Code 701034
l. CPC Richard L. Weaver Co 1 ,SAF/AAZ…
- p. 67 …GAO Review on Records Management Procedures Dealing with
Weather Balloons, Unknown Aircraft, and Similar Crash Incidents…
- p. 68 …GAO Review on Records Management Procedures Dealing with
Weather Balloons, Unknown Aircraft, and Similar Crash Incidents…
- p. 71 …FORCE
MEMORANDUM FOR
FROM: AFiiN
SUBJECT:
References:
GAO Inquiry into Records Management Procedures Dealing with Weather…
- p. 77 …Because the GAO will have searched the records of many federal agencies, HQ NAIC
suggests that…
- p. 81 …GAO Review on Records Management Procedures Dealing with Weather Balloons,
Unknown Aircraft, and Similar Crash Incidents…
- p. 85 …GAO Review on Records Management Procedures Dealing with
Weather Balloons, Unknown Aircraft, and Similar Crash Incidents…
- p. 89 …GAO Review on Records Management Procedures Dealing with Weather
Balloons, Unknown Aircraft, and Similar Crash Incidents…
- p. 93 …GAO Review of Records Manaqement Procedures Dealinq with
Weather Balloons, Unknown Aircraft, and Similar Crash
Incidents…
- p. 97 …AL 36112-6424
8 Mar 94
SUBJECT: GAO Review on Records Management Procedures Dealing with
Weather…
- p. 98 REPORT
GAO INVESTIGATION OF "THE ROSWELL INCIDENT":
RELEVANT HOLDINGS AT THE AFHRA
8 March 1994
Preface…
- p. 113 …DC 20332-0001
11 May 1994
SUBJECT: GAO Review on Records Management Procedures (Your memo 16…
- p. 181 …Asking the GAO to look at
this. Karl pt}ock...
SC: You know, you can look…
- p. 213 …I was provided a background on the Air Force efforts related to the GAO audit and…
- p. 309 …Secretary of the
Air Force, for the GAO, to leok into facts concerning what has become…
- p. 317 …in support of the General Accounting Office (GAO) audit that
focused on obtaining infonnation relative to…
- p. 594 …Assuming gao-
strophic tlaw, members or a graduate class in meteorology at New York
apparatus and materials for the project, so if he said that it was debris from the project, rm sure
that's what it was. He was not concerned with a breach of security for the project.
Concerning the name Maj Pritchard, he may have worked for me but I don't recall him. I have no
knowledge of any counterintelligence. or intelligence persons on the project or associated with my
directorate at Watson or Cambridge Labs. When we took over the project, we were aware of the
sensitivity of the project-we were aware that we were working in the open-it was a weakness of
security because the activity could be obselved. I never obsCJVed any of the balloon "trains" but I
did see some of the early reflectors. Some of the reflectors were procured from sources out of
normal channels. Some of the contractors lined up were not quite in concert with typical Signal
Corps practices and procedures. Jack Peterson was vety energetic and could make procurement
actions take place. Ed Itsvan, who I believe actually arranged for production for some of the
reflectors, actually went to a toy manufacturer in New Yark city to get some. It was kind of a
standing joke. I remember that some of the prototype and preproduction targets had this pink or
pw-plish tape holding the material to the balsa beam. This tape had flowers and other designs on it.
The reflectors were probably made starting in late 1944 but I do not recall how long the
production run was. I do not recall any other specific attributes but they were geometrically and
structurally simple.
I am not part of any conspiracy to withhold information from either the US government or
American public. There is no classified information that I am withholding related to this inquiry
and I have never been threatened by US Government persons concerning refraining from talking
about this situation .
SIGNED:
~I
WITNESS(s):
Subscn'bed and sworn to before me, a
person authorized to administer oaths
this
~'l,ltlt day of June 1994 a~ , VA
~~~~USAF
MALJ