Pentagon accounting plugs
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| Date | 18 November 2013 |
|---|---|
| People | Catherine Austin Fitts |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 178 |
| Year | 2013 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2013 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 10 |
A Reuters special report published on 18 November 2013 found that staff at the Pentagon's Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) routinely entered false figures, known as "plugs", to make military accounts match U.S. Treasury records.[1][2]
Linda Woodford
The report, by Scot J. Paltrow, opened with Linda Woodford, who said she spent the last 15 years of her career at DFAS's Cleveland, Ohio, office inserting made-up numbers into Navy accounts. Each month, until she retired in 2011, the Navy's figures arrived late or incomplete, and her job was to reconcile them with Treasury data.[1][2]
Approved practice
Jeff Yokel, who spent 17 years in senior posts at DFAS Cleveland before retiring in 2009, told Reuters that supervisors had to approve every plug, thousands a month. Reuters reported that false entries were standard practice at the DFAS offices handling the Army, Navy, Air Force and other agencies, and that senior Pentagon leaders had long known.[1][2]
The series
The report was the second part of Reuters' series "Unaccountable: The high cost of the Pentagon's bad bookkeeping"; the first appeared in July 2013.[1] In 2015 Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said the Navy could not account for all its spending because of the finance agency's problems.[3]
Later audits and the UFO link
The Defense Department's first comprehensive audit was completed at the end of fiscal year 2018, and it did not produce a clean opinion. Some UFO researchers argue that such accounting gaps could let hidden programs be funded without oversight, but no evidence ties these failures to any UAP program.[3][4]
People and topics
- U.S. Navy — The U.S. naval service, whose pilots reported the UAP encounters revealed in 2017.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- Catherine Austin Fitts — Former HUD official who argues trillions flow to secret programs.
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
On the Timeline
- Boeing engineer's LeMay story (1 November 2013) — An anonymous former Boeing engineer claims Gen. Curtis LeMay told him of a UAP crash.
- Bearden's vacuum energy claim (2013) (24 December 2013) — Thomas Bearden claims he saw energy extracted from the quantum vacuum.
See every 2013 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- "Special report: the Pentagon's doctored ledgers conceal epic waste", Reuters (18 Nov 2013) · reuters.com · archived copy
- "Special report: the Pentagon's doctored ledgers conceal epic waste" (Reuters reprint), The Star · thestar.com.my · archived copy
- "Mabus: Navy cannot account for all its spending due to Pentagon's finance agency", USNI News (June 2015) · news.usni.org · archived copy
- Defense Finance and Accounting Service — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- MSU scholars find $21 trillion in unsupported adjustments — MSU Today · msutoday.msu.edu · archived copy
- Pentagon plugs: hidden trillions in missing money — Jonathan Turley (on Reuters' investigation) · jonathanturley.org · archived copy
- Reuters investigation sheds light on the Pentagon's epic waste — Daily Kos · dailykos.com · archived copy
- Cooked books and 'plugs' at DoD — Foreign Policy · foreignpolicy.com · archived copy
- Senators urge Pentagon to end systematic faking of its accounts — Bangor Daily News (Reuters) · bangordailynews.com · archived copy
- Fudged Pentagon accounts hide wasted billions — Newser · amp.newser.com · archived copy
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