JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL MONDAY - 16 JANUARY 1956

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP60-00321R000300260132-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 21, 2014
• Sequence Number: 132
• Publication Date: January 16, 1956
• Content Type: REPORT

Declassified and Approved For Release @ 50-Yr 2014/04/24: CIA-RDP60-00321R000300260132-5
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Journal
Office of Legislative Counsel
Monday -,..14rJanuary 1956
1. The Director and Messrs. Amory, Kent, Kirkpatrick
and Paul lunched today with Congressman Zablocki (D., Wis.) in
order to receive the Congressman's impressions as a result of
his recent trip around the world with other members of the
House Foreign Affairs Committee and Mr. Wigglesworth of the
House Appropriations Committee. Mr. Zablocki did not have
any particular points to make with respect to our activities,
except to say that he felt that the caliber of CIA personnel in the
field was generally very high, and above the caliber of Foreign
Service representatives he had encountered.
The Congressman did not have any particular views
on policy or operational matters. In a discussion with the
Director following lunch, he indicated that he was still in favor
of his bill for a Joint Committee, and reaffirmed his earlier
statements that his purpose in proposing such a bill was to pro-
tect CIA rather than provide another medium for Congressional
prying into its business. The Director stated that this was, of
course, a matter for Congress to decide but pointed out his own
personal apprehensiveness about the creation of a committee
staff which would have to pry into CIA business in order to keep
busy.
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Declassified and Approved For Release @ 50-Yr 2014/04/24: CIA-RDP60-00321R000300260132-5