ADDENDUM TO JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL TUESDAY - 24 JANUARY 1967

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 3, 2004
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• Publication Date: January 24, 1967
• Content Type: NOTES

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Tug s r-a^y , - 24 January 1967
1, Talked further with Mr. Russ Blandford,
House Armed Services Committee staff, regarding
for several days by the policy group of the full House rme cervices
Committee. I followed up Admiral Taylor's conversation indicating
that for a period of several days there was a security problem in
terms of telephone calls and, without having to go into any details,
Mr. Blandford saw the point completely and agreed that probably
it would be inappropriate to use any of our facilities and suggested
that we just forget the matter.
2. Representative Glenard P. Lipscomb
was briefed on East-West trade matters for about two hours. Present
were.. ohn S. Warner.
ave a general briefing on the East-West trade situation
and then went into the CIA support aspects to the control committee
including great detail as to how this actually functioned. Mr. Lipscomb
had a number of specific questions about this which the group was able
to answer. Mr. Lipscomb did make a point that where intelligence
indicated that a particular item would be of assistance to a Communist
country and the license was granted anyway, shouldn't the Agency take
further action. It was explained carefully that in the first place none
of these matters were that clearcut and they were matters of judgment.
In any event, the Agency position was that it presented the facts and it
was up to the policy makers to make their judgment based on those
facts and this was the limit of the Agency responsibility under law.
Mr. Lipscomb also indicated that one of the members of the House
Banking and Currency Committee which has a copy of the Fiat Report
apparently is interpreting it differently than he, Lipscomb, interprets
it. I agreed that we ought to follow up and possibly look
at their draft report which we will do.) Mr. Lipscomb closed by saying
the session had been very helpful to him and I believe it was. On the
other hand, it was perfectly apparent that his problems with the procedure
and machinery really go to the question of his opposition to the
Administration's policy itself.
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