JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL WEDNESDAY - 1 NOVEMBER 1967

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• Document Release Date: December 6, 2004
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: November 1, 1967
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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Wednesday - 1 November 1967
and two technical specialists from the office of Security, did a technical
sweep of the personal office of Senator Milton Young (R. , N. Dak.) in
response to the Senator's personal request last week.
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6. Talked with Representative Philip Philbin
concerning the possibility of hearings on amendments to the Agency Retirement
Act. Mr. Philbin said he was very anxious to move this for us and he would
check immediately into available dates and coordinate with the full Committee.
He promised to be back in touch on this.
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1: nd his Assistant, John R. Buckle 'efed them in general on the
They were most appreciative
o is and requested if any developments occur which we feel are of concern
to them to please inform Mr. Buckley of them. In turn, if they need further
assistance from us they will contact us.
Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee staff, who indicated he had discussed
the implications of the Director's appearance before the Jo ntCommittee on
tomic Energwith Senator Jackson who stated he would certainly discuss
this with Senator Russell. Senator Jackson also sent out a letter to Senators
Stennis, Margaret Chase Smith, and Symington personally urging them to
attend the JCAE Subcommittee briefing by the Director next week in their
capacities as members of the Nuclear Safeguards Subcommittee of Senate
Preparedness.
ment Operations Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations staff, in connection
with the letter from Chairman McClellan to the Director. As it turned out,
that we were looking into this and wanted to be of every assistance possible.
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recognized there might be security or other problems and they are perfectly
willing to cooperate in handling the information on any basis which we
propose including no publication or use thereof in accord with Agency
restrictions.
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10. Talked with Boyd Crawford and Al
Westphal, House Foreign Affairs Committee staff, and they explained the
House rules and procedure whereby an appropriation act can be brought to
the floor for a vote prior to the act authorizing the appropriation.
Mr. Westphal also advised that S. 1785,which would have limited visits
of Government employees to dependents stationed away from the employees'
stations to two a year, has been broadened to authorize trips not to exceed
the equivalent of two trips per year to the District of Columbia. Westphal
said this has been agreed to by the House Committee and that Committee had
in turn been informed that the Senate Committee would approve this.
Mr. Bannerman has been advised of this.
Atomic Energy staff, called mentioning the LIFE article on thel He sa.cie wanted to have it clear that we were refusing to give information
on the case. I again told him that my answer was the same as given him
yesterday, that it was too early for us to respond since when we did respond
we wished to have confidence in the accuracy of our information. Mr. Murphy
was obviously unhappy about what he termed our lack of cooperation. Admiral
Taylor advised later that Murphy apparently had gone to the AEC who had
suggested to Admiral Taylor that the information in the Director's memos
to USIB be made available to JCAE. Admiral Taylor informed them that
this would not be possible.
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JOHN S. WARNER
Legislative Counsel
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