JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70B00338R000200110028-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 10, 2004
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: July 10, 1968
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 3
Wednesday - 10 July 1968
10. ( - CEA) Attended a hearing of the House Subcommittee
on Manpower and Civil Service at which Representative Spark Matsunaga
(D., Hawaii) appeared as a witness, and picked up a copy of the prepared
statement. Matsunaga followed his prepared statement verbatim and in the
question and answer period did not appear to be very familiar with the bill
which he had introduced. Representative Charles Wilson (D., Calif) asked
if the purpose of this bill could not better be handled administratively in view
of its complexity and the difficulty of writing language which would not be too
rigid... Matsunaga stated he felt legislation was necessary.
11. ( - JGO) Met with Mr. B. Benton Bray, House
-Manpower and Civil be-ice Subcommittee staff, and received from him
the final two copies of the Director's testimony of 25 June for safe keeping
by the Agency. It will be necessary to return all copies to the Subcommittee
for use by the members in executive session on mark up of "constitutional
rights" legislation. The executive session is tentatively scheduled for
Wednesday, 17 July. Mr. Bray will call when the transcripts are desired.
Mr. Bray advised that in the judgment of Committee members the
fact that only one member of Congress, Representative Spark Matsunaga,
had appeared to testify on S. 1035, provided a demonstrable measure of the
lack of interest in this legislation by the members of the House of
Representatives.
12, 0- JGO) Met with Representative Frank T. Bow and
reviewed with him the Director's letter of 8 July concerning Radio Free
Europe and Radio Liberty. He was pleased with the information provided
and noted that it has been his judgment that there should have been a way
for us to continue this worthwhile activity. He was quite complimentary
in observations of Mr. Helms' conduct of his office and asked that his best
wishes be transmitted to the Director. Representative Bow returned the
letter for our retention.
13. (I - JGO) The scheduled meeting of Mr. Duckett
with Mr. Robert Michaels, House Appropriations Committee staff, was
cancelled due to a meeting of the Appropriations Committee for mark up of the
Defense procurement bill. Mr. Michaels advised that it will probably be
some two weeks or so before he will be able to reschedule the meeting.
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