OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSELTUESDAY - 17 JULY 1962

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 11, 2004
• Sequence Number: 108
• Publication Date: July 17, 1962
• Content Type: NOTES

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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Tuesday - 17 July 1962
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and I discussed whether or not Representative Rooney should be made
witting of the Agency connection with Radio Liberty and decided that since
a State representative had already been in touch with Rooney on this, we would
wait to see if Rooney expressed other than passing interest. If he should have
further interest, we will then consider the desirability of an Agency briefing.
State Department to inform him as to just what Radio Liberty was.
Representative John J. Rooney read Senator Wiley's remarks. and asked
1. I ICA Staff, called to say that the
State Department had been in touch with him with regard to Senator Wiley's
complimentary remarks in the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD on Radio Liberty.
Senator Thomas H. Kuchel, a de-crypt of a coded message which the Senator
office had asked us to try to break. (See Journal of 6 July) The letter appears
to be the work of a psychopath but the Senator's office appreciated our decipher-
ing the me s sage for them.
Left with Miss Whelan, in the office of
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Czarnecki, now a member o e House Foreign Affairs Committee staff.
He said that Representative Edna Kelly has become interested in the subject
of Soviet oil activities in Europe. She is particularly interested in the role
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mentioned that the Air Force had asked the Rand Corporation to do a study on
this some time ago in connection with the National Petroleum Institute. I
advised Czarnecki I would look into this and be in touch with him.
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5. OSI, called to say that the
Arms Gont-r-ol and Disarmament Agency been in touch with him, in
connection with ACDA's proposed briefing of the Disarmament Subcommittee
of Senate Foreign Relations on disarmament and nuclear testing, and he
raised the question as to whether they should take the same position with
Foreign Relations as had been suggested they take with the Joint Committee
on Atomic Energy. (See Journal of 16 July.) I advised that this
was quite a different situation from the question involving the Joint Committee.
I told him it was our general policy not to brief subcommittees except our own
CIA Subcommittees and that we would not want ACDA to, commit us to any kind
of briefing of the Foreign Relations Committee or its Subcommittee in this
area. I suggested that if ACDA was questionned by a Committee member
on a matter that involved intelligence, the ACDA witness should indicate
that the question involved intelli ence and was one which he did not feel he
could comment on. L Jagreed with this position.
6. Security, called to say Mr. Gillead,
in the General Counsel's office o e ense Department, had raised a question
with him concerning DOD;s report to the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
on. its investigation of a Restricted Data leak. The Joint Committee has
asked Defense for that portion of SNIE 11-14-61 covering the subject of nuclear
testing. Defense has asked permission to make these pages available to the
Committee. I called Gillead and advised him that there were problems
involved in making this material available to the Committee but I would
discuss it with our people and be in touch with him. Gillead said he appreciated
this and mentioned he had taken this matter up with DIA.
Later in the day, Oren Long, USIB Secretariat, called to say DIA had
been in touch with him on this question concerning the pages of SNIE 11-14-61.
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8. Met with Senator Margaret Chase Smith in
connection. with, her request to the State Department for information on
Since much of the information which we had on
was from other intelligence services, I told the Senator that in
view of the sensitivity of the sources of this information I would not be able
to give her a document on However, I let her look at the blind
memorandum prepared by Staff- s she read the document, Senator
Smith said the reason for her inquiry was that she had received a letter
fro the contents of which she did not disclose) and as is her
custom, since she knew nothing about had asked State for information
on. him. I told. the Senator that in reading this paper she would see that the
wisdom. of this policy was borne out in this instances is very much
of a name dropper and opportunist.) Sent or Smith returned the paper to me
thanked me for my time in coming to see her personally and then chatted with
me for about twenty minutes on matters ranging from roses, through the
Medicare bill, to her "cottage" in Maine. No mention was made concerning
the .Agency., the Armed Services Committee, or Mr. McCone's confirmation.
Assistant Legislative Counsel
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