JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL WEDNESDAY - 8 JANUARY 1964

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• Document Release Date: January 13, 2005
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• Publication Date: January 8, 1964
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Wednesday - 8 January 1964
1. Met with Mr. Samuel Archibald
and Mr. i i.am Barnaby of House Government Operations Information
Subcommittee concerning the Committee questionnaire concerning
qualifications of polygraph operators. Mr. Archibald indicated that
the Committee desire is simply to acquire answers in uniform format
from the 19 answering agencies and if desired, no formal response
would be necessary.
2? Received a request from Miss
Comfort, Assistant to Congressman Ed Foreman (R. , Tex.) for
unclassified information that she might forward to a high school junior
who is writing on the subject of the Central Intelligence Agency. I
advised that I would drop it off to her on my next visit to the Hill.
3? Mr. Blandford, House Armed
Services Committee staff, inquired on the status of our response to
Mr. Vinson's letter on the query from Congressman Farbstein on AFME.
I reminded him that he and I had talked with the Chairman who had
requested that this matter be brought up at the next meeting of the Agency
with the Subcommittee. Blandford then recalled that this was so. NE
Division was reminded that a report will be expected for our next meeting.
4. Talked with Robert Michaels., House
Appropriations Committee staff, who stated that Mr. Mahon wanted six
copies of the report on the Soviet economy which formed a basis of the
column in the NEW YORK TIMES of today by Edwin Dale. I said I would
provide these as soon as possible. Mr. Cline was alerted to this as well
as Mr. Elder.
Advised Mr. Michaels that the Director would be glad to brief the
Mahon Defense Subcommittee on Soviet posture and possibly the time of
the 15th is all right although I asked him not to send forward any final word
on this until I have confirmed it to. him. Mr. Michaels said Mr. Mahon is
most anxious to get this one settled.
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5. Talked with Marian Czarnecki
several times. I advised him that the Director did not believe that it
would be appropriate for him to appear before the Fascell Subcommittee
concerned with hearings on the U. S. Ideological Effort. On the other
hand, in order to be helpful I pointed out we would be glad to brief
Fascell on some of the procedures.
Later Czarnecki said that Fascell was insistent and wished the
Director to appear and that if he could not get the information from the
Agency he would get it from other sources. I indicated to Czarnecki
that while we did not wish to appear uncooperative the Director's
position on this was firm.
6. Talked with Boyd Crawford, Staff
Director, House Foreign Affairs Committee, to advise him of our position
on the Fascell request. He again pointed out that Chairman Morgan
thought that the entire series of hearings was more or less of a fishing
expedition and he certainly was not in sympathy with Fascell's request
to have the Director appear.
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9. Miss Natalie Martin, in the office of
Senator George A. Smathers, provided for our information a copy of a
letter which the Senator had received from Maneul A. de Varona entitled
"An Intelligence Report on the Changes Made by Venezuela Against the
Cuban Communist Regime," This is being forwarded to SAS for their
information,
Miss Martin made reference to an item in the MIAMI HERALD
of 5 January 1964 on the subject of missiles in Cuba. It quotes Dr. Luis
Conte-Aguero as stating that the Cubans have three 70-foot missiles
"in a position ready to fire" toward the United States;. No action is
necessary on this item,
10, Robert McManus, Senate Internal
Security Subcommittee staff, asked if we could provide the Subcommittee
with the information referred to in the WASHINGTON DAILY NEWS today
under the headline "CIA Paints Red Economy Black." I told McManus I
would look into this and be in touch with him.
Frank Schroeder, of the Subcommittee staff, asked if we could
provided on an informal basis any information which we might have on
who is supposedly an IZVESTIA correspondent, Schroeder
is interested in knowing whether he is still in the United States. He said
had written a damaging article criticizing the U. S. Congress and
the U.S. Government generally.: I told him I would look into this.
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