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CONTINUED INVESTIGATION OF SENIOR-LEVEL EMPLOYEE MISCONDUCT
AND MISMANAGEMENT AT THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE
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Hearing before the Commerce, Consumer, and Monetary Affairs
Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations,
House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress,
First Session, July 24, 1991.
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Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the U.S. G.P.O.,
Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office, 1992.
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GOV DOC # Y 4.G 74/7:Em 7/16
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The following excerpt is from a letter written by former IRS Senior Criminal
Investigator William C. Duncan to Congressman Doug Barnard, Jr. (D-Georgia),
former Chairman of the Commerce, Consumer, and Monetary Affairs Subcommittee.

The letter was written on October 7, 1991.

From page 311.


  (2.B.) WHY DO YOU BELIEVE THAT THEY WANTED OR NEED TO SUPPRESS YOUR 
         TESTIMONY?

         Recent sworn testimony from several witnesses concerning events
         in the Mena, AR area, indicates that the United States Government
         had interests which would have not been best served by 
         unobstructed completion of IRS and Arkansas State police money
         laundering and drug smuggling investigations. Nor would their
         interests have been well served by exposure of interference
         in the investigations through testimony before the Subcommittee
         on Crime. I believe that someone in the IRS was told to suppress
         my testimony in an attempt to protect other United States
         Government interests at the Mena, AR Airport. The cooperating
         Arkansas State Police Investigator has stated that he was told
         twice during 1987 by FBI Agents that the Central Intelligence
         Agency was involved in some sort of operation at the airport.
         He also stated that he saw an FBI teletype which referred to the
         CIA operation and the United States Attorney's Office interference
         in our investigations into allegations of drug smuggling and
         money laundering by Barry Seal and/or associates of Seal. This
         interference was exactly what the Subcommittee on Crime
         wanted me to testify about.