JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL THURSDAY - 21 JUNE 1962

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 5, 2005
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• Publication Date: June 21, 1962
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Thursday - 21 June 1962
1. JSW) Picked up from Bob Smart, House
Armed Services Committee, a copy of the letter from the Comptroller
General to Representative Carl Vinson dated 21 June 1962 in which the
Comptroller General again raises the question of withdrawal of the
General Accounting Office from audit activities in CIA.
2. - JGO) Received from Doris McCracken, of
the House foreign Affairs Committee staff, the transcript of the hearings
of 13 June 1962 by the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the subject
of Poland. The other transcripts will be made available when they are
ready.
3. (0- GLC) At the request of Chet Cooper, I called Mr.
A. L. Peaslee, of State Department, on the subject of NIE 13-2-62.
Peaslee indicated that their liaison with the Joint Committee on Atomic
Energy, Dana Orwick, was having some difficulty with the Committee staff
over the fact that the estimate on Chinese Communist nuclear energy programs
had not been sent to the Committee. I advised Peaslee that we had been in
touch with the Committee staff on this subject and while we had not sent
the estimate, the Committee staff had not given us any indication that they
were upset on this subject. I advised Peaslee that the question of the trans-
mittal of NIE 13-2-62 had been forwarded to the Director and a decision
had not been reached as yet. Peaslee asked if I would pass this information
on to Orwick and I agreed to do so.
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Thursday - 21 June 1962
5. - GLC) While on the hill, I saw Jack Leahy, of the
State Department, who reported to me that the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee had held hearings on the Communications Act amendment this
morning. George Bull and Admiral Kurtz testified. Leahy said the hearings
went well and only one problem remains. The Committee has asked the
Department to obtain written statements from the three major commercial
communications carriers that they would not object to this amendment. Leahy
feels that although the companies have said they would not object, it would
be awkward to obtain a written statement from them to this effect.
Leahy was on his way to meet Kurt Borchardt, House Interstate and
Foreign Commerce Committee staff, to discuss hearings in the House on
this amendment and at his request I accompanied him. Borchardt said he
thought the House Committee could set the bill for hearings on 2 July and
agreed to talk to Chairman Harris about a specific time. Borchardt is
aware of the Agency's interest in the legislation and the fact that we do not
propose to testify on the bill. He commented that they would be happier not
knowing of any CIA secrets. Leahy is to provide Borchardt with some written
material on State's presentation.
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JOHN S. WARNER
legislative Counsel
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