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GAO Faults Pentagon for Mishandling Surplus Military Property

HeadlineJul 08, 1999

Congressional investigators want to know what happened to more than $2.5 billion in surplus military property that’s unaccounted for. A report by the General Accounting Office faults the Pentagon for the way it handles property deemed excess. It says the material, including sensitive weapons parts and communications equipment, was marked for disposal or sale, but then disappeared.

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