Mr. Cornstein said an experienced businessman is the best choice to manage the state's $130 billion pension fund and audit agencies.

Still, the high cost of fuel prompted criticism from Congress, as well as questions by the Pentagon's audit agency.

An external audit agency, by contrast, could force a sustained, department-wide focus on the values, culture, systems and operations that bear on corruption control.

Bank board officials said they disputed the size of the F.S.L.I.C.'s 1987 deficit with the audit agency.

The national audit agency of Denmark later conclued that he had not had a conflict of interest.

Rigsrevisionen is the national audit agency of Denmark and an independent institution of the Folketinget.

Later on he resigned his parliamentary seat and became head of the Account Chamber of the Russian Federation, the federal audit agency.

It is rather a professional external investigatory audit agency.

Other oversight bodies would include Select Committees and audit agencies.

The audit agency has also discussed with K.B.R. the delays in the pricing of elements of the logistics contract, military officials said.