Foreign Affairs: Scope of Our Review of Palestine Liberation Organization
Finances (Testimony, 09/20/95, GAO/T-NSIAD-95-227).

GAO discussed its classified report on the Palestine Liberation
Organization's (PLO) finances, focusing on: (1) major cooperation
issues; and (2) its efforts to have the report declassified in response
to congressional requests. GAO noted that: (1) it generally received
good cooperation from federal agencies in conducting its review; (2) the
Federal Bureau of Investigation stated that it would not share
information with GAO, either because the requested information was not
available or could not be discussed due to its sensitive nature; (3)
although it encountered limited access to records and some cooperation
problems with the Department of State and the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA), the problems did not materially affect its final report
conclusions; (4) members of Congress requested that the report be
declassified to facilitate public discussion of PLO finances; (5) it
does not have the authority to declassify the report without the
originating agency's consent; and (6) CIA stated that with certain minor
exceptions, no CIA material used in the report could be declassified,
while State has not yet commented on the matter.

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 REPORTNUM:  T-NSIAD-95-227
     TITLE:  Foreign Affairs: Scope of Our Review of Palestine 
             Liberation Organization Finances
      DATE:  09/20/95
   SUBJECT:  Classified records
             Information disclosure
             International agreements
             Audits
             Financial management
             Auditing procedures
             Data collection operations
             International relations
             International cooperation
IDENTIFIER:  Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
             Israel
             West Bank
             Gaza
             Palestine
             
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