},

WEEK IN REVIEW

- Y. 1\1:\"Y 29, 1966.
'Two Sherlocks on Foreign Aid
By FEUX BELAIR JR.
sp..,;t} to Tho New York Ti""",
WASHINGTON, May 2S
When one of the
operations of the state De
front page
,news, ,the most ,likely reason
is a. colossal blunder or a
splendid success.
In, the case of its Office of
Inspector General of Foreign
Assi.,tance, success is hardly
the 'Word. J. Kenneth Mans
field and
.rlU\, the Inspector,
and Deputy Inspector Gener
al, had .been credited by no
less :an authority than the
Secretary of. State witb sa.-
Federal Government
"many millions of dollars" 115
watChdogs of .the multlbll!O
doUarprogram. _ _
In a well documented re
port requested by Chairman .I.
W. Fulbright of the Senate
Foi-eign Relations Committee..
the Secretary seemed almOEt
fl}l' the State
Department's vigorous oppo
sition when creation of the>
office was fil.'st proposed five
years ago.
The, report cited instances
of savings to the Federal.
("rl)vernment in more than 50
of the 86 countries visited by
the office on routine inspec
tions.
Mr. Mansfield's reaction to
all. the sudden publicity on his
hitherto 5eC'ret world-wlde po
licing of foreign assistance
programs w::u; typical.
"I guess it had to come:'
hf; said a little ruefully. "But
thought we were doing all
right by staying out of the
limelight. Whatever sn{;ces
we've had in carrying out the
intent of CongresS had been
due in large part. to the co
operation wc'\'e had frolll the
operating agencies."
U.S. State DelIt,: u.s. An:n:1
WAT1:HDOG TE,\!'I[: "Many millioDs 0.1 doUars"have
by J. Kenneth Mansfield ,(left), Inspector Gen
of FI.Jreign Assistance, and HowardE. erud,
Dep-nty Il'l9Jerlo)" General, in overseeing the m lion
nt,flu LB. aid program.
:<.:- E=-:;::-2":rt bmk a sim
-:",c_' 0TI:e thing's for
f""',,? - '---": :-c: 0".lI" anonym
::c'. ;::;'C:: I guess it
C::.27T_: :: 'verybody-'
::-:
,--;: -of work
,::::-:; publicity
:;;- t'.-.:..::--::-i : =. v,,!"ork
::,,::: stacks of
lead.
Q-e-cn good
",:::::.>:-e,,,"o,,j'-':J. so
-:;-::;01 Hau
_-: -::::: c::rL . .J\.t
41 ,;" __ ;:

:Z:'" :--1(':-;-= ;m
.-.! ;;;!':i (-x;:: ".<, '.-c. 1:; .ys'
Hi' ha" " n,;''';: ,;,',ile
that puts a Visitor completely
at ease and that mol'C than
one miscreant has foimd mo
mentarily disarming.
Howard Haugerud shares
with Mr. Mansfield a Mid
west background. He came to
Washington from lVIinnesotil
to work for Senat.or Hum
phrey and became the pro
fes:o:ional staff member of the
Senate subcommittee on na
tional defense policy when Mr.
Mansfield was chief of "taff
of that group, He will be 42
in August.
Mr. Haugerud is not an im
patient man but if a polite
memo to some aid division
chief brings no action in a
reasonable time he might g-et
him on the telephonc and say.
"If you don't cancel that
shipment I wrote you about
last week, rn do it for you."
He could. too. mem
ber of the team has direct
authority from Congress to
suspend all or any part of
any project or operation with
. respect to which he has con
ducted or is conducting an
inspection, audit or review,
provided he has first given
notice to the Secretary of
State." The authority applies
to the foreign. aid program,
the Peace Corps' activities,
and Food for Peace.
, Both men were given the
rank of As.-;istant Secretary
of State and the same salary
of $27,000. In this the House
Foreign Affairs Committee
showed unusual foresight. One
or the other is usually out of
the country and the other
takes over. When the Secre
tary's report went to the
Capitol, Mr. Haugerud had
just returned from Greece and
Mr. Mansfield was in Saigon,
Both men know the ins
outs of commercial
gery like the back of
hands: And in running
all kind;; of leads each
about 165.000 air miles an
nually. Tbey are supported by
It staff of 20 "bookkeeper de
tectives" recruited from alum
nae of the F.BJ.. the General.
Accounting Office and the le
gal profession.
Sin(X! :'1:1'. Man.'>field began
organizing the staff on his
appointment in May 11:162 the
staff flo,,'n more than
3,5-n.illion mile.:::-- ,always in
tourist class. 'Witha travel
schedule of such magnitude
there have to be risks. But
only two inspectors have been
lost. They were flying in a
Nepalese plane t.hat crashed
in the Himalayas during a
sudden storm,
I