1. See statement by Comptroller General Elmer Staats in U.S. House Select Committee on Intelligence, U.S. Intelligence Agencies and Activities: Intelligence Costs and Fiscal Procedures (Washington, DC: GPO, 1975), Part 1, pp. 7-8 and 496-518. Additional coverage of the GAO-CIA interaction during this period is found in the statement by Senator John Glenn (D., Ohio), in U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Oversight Legislation, Hearings, 100th Congress, 2nd session (Washington, DC: GPO, 1987), pp. 20-29; U.S. General Accounting Office, Letter regarding congressional oversight of intelligence, from R.F. Keller, Acting Comptroller General, to Honorable William Proxmire, U.S. Senate, 10 May 1974, GAO Letter Report B-179296 (Washington, DC: GAO, 1974); and Pois, Watchdog on the Potomac, pp. 132-133.
2. John F. Bibby, "Congress' Neglected Function," in Melvin R. Laird, ed., The Republican Papers (New York: Anchor Books, 1968), pp. 477-488; and Joel D. Aberbach, Keeping a Watchful Eye: The Politics of Congressional Oversight (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1990), pp. 19-47.
3. Information provided by the Office of General Counsel and the National Security and International Affairs Division, General Accounting Office, 4 March 1997; and in U.S. General Accounting Office, Central Intelligence Agency: Observations on GAO Access to Information on CIA Programs and Activities, Statement of Henry J. Hinton, Managing Director, Defense Capabilities and Management, on 18 July 2001, GAO Report GAO-01-975T (Washington, DC: GAO, 2001), herein after referred to as: GAO, Access to CIA Information (2001).
4. Statement by Comptroller General Bowsher, in House Select Committee on Intelligence, U.S. Intelligence Agencies (1975), p. 8.
5. GAO's workforce decreased from 5,325 positions in FY1992 to 3,245 in FY1998; it has stabilized since then at 3,275. U.S. General Accounting Office, GAO's Downsizing Efforts, GAO Report T-OCG-96-4 (Washington, DC: GAO, 1996), and Fiscal Year 2001 Budget Request, Statement of David M. Walker, Comptroller General, GAO Testimony T-OCG-00-5 (Washington, DC: GAO, 2000).