JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 10, 2003
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: September 29, 1969
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Monday - 29 September 1969
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25X1 Met with Bill Woodruff, Senate Appropriations 25X1 D
Committee staff, and briefed him on the Chinese nuclear test
25X1 D I also advised him of the Soviet missile test
Woodruff commented in passing that he thought the budget briefing Friday
had gone very well.
25X1 2. Met with Ed Braswell, Senate Armed Services
S omm ttte -staff, and briefed him on the Chinese nuclear test that took
place this morning. I also asked Braswell if he had any background on the
discussions between Senators Thurmond and Stennis on Thurmond's interest
in the Panama Canal. (Senator Stennis had talked with the Director about
this at the conclusion of the budget briefing on Friday.) Braswell was not
able to shed any light on this but said he would see what he could find out.
We have since obtained a copy of Thurmond's bill (S. 2228) to provide for
improvements in the Canal and several statements made by Thurmond OCI's in the
25X1A Senate on this subject. These are being sent to
in preparing a paper which Senator Stennis requested on t 's.
I took this opportunity to again mention to Braswell the subject of
retirement legislation and suggested that we get together with him on our
proposals as soon as it was convenient for him to do so. We will follow up
on this.
Braswell also expressed the opinion that the budget briefing on Friday
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had gone quite well. He added that we should Russell not react at these too
briefings. or
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too literally comments made by Senator specifically referring to the Se?ator's comment that he did not share our
enthusiasm about a sensitive project which was covered in this briefing. )
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3. Received calls from both 'lvlessrs. Woodruff
and Braswell expressing surprise and some consternation over the phrasing
of Army Secretary Resor's statement on the Green Beret case as it referred
to the Agency. I advised them that I had no information on the considerations
that were involved in this statement.
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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Friday - 26 September 1969
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5, The Director briefed the CIA S ,h .omm;tt s
of Senate Appropriations and Senat;rmed Services Committees on budget
matters. See Memo for the Record for details.
JOHN M. MAURY -
Legislative Counsel
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Thursday - 25 September 1969
4, Senator Birch Bayh called to say that a
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birth, was in his office and had some interesting information regarding
.Burma. After checking with FE Division and OCI, it was arranged that
25X1A I f OCI would meet Professor ErSelcukin Senator Bayh's
office later this afternoon.
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called about the 25X1
upcoming hearings which ena-or Symington's Subcommittee on U. S. Agreements
and Commitments Abroad of Senate Foreign Relations Committee, will be
holding on Laos. I is coordinating DOD's participation. He
merely wished to establish a point of contact in the Agency for future reference.
He also informed me that he is air-mailing to Saigon Senator Symington's
questionnaire with instructions that field units coordinate their preparation
of material for these hearings in the field.
6. Called Lt. Colonel R. A. Jones, in the
office of the Army Judge Advocate General, about his draft letter to
Senator Vance Hartke responding to an inquiry the Senator had received
from a constituent on the Green Beret case. I gave Colonel Jones several
minor suggestions on his draft which he seemed willing to accept and told
him we appreciated their cooperation in contacting us on this.
7, Frank Tsutras, Administrative Assistant
to Representative James Kee D. , W. Va. ), called about a constituent from
Bluefield, West Virginia (60 years of age) who is interested in CIA or State
Department employment. Avoiding the age factor, I gave Mr. Tsutras some
suggested language for a letter to the constituent indicating that our personnel
situation was such that we were not taking on many new -employees. STATOTHR
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19 Sept 1969
CROSS REFERENCE
MEMO FOR THE RECORD
DATED: 19 Sept 1969
SUBJECT: Meeting with Chairman John Stennis, Senate Armed Services
Committee
ORIG. FILED: Senator Stennis
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13. Ed Braswell, Chief of Staff of the Senat
Armed Services Committee, called and said that Senator Stennis would like
a briefing at M5 p.m. is afternoon on Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand.
Mr. Braswell indicated that this was in connection with Senator Cooper's
amendment having to do with this area.
I mentioned to Mr. Braswell the request which we have
received from Senator Symington to have an Agency officer appear before
the Senator's Foreign Relations Subcommittee to testify on activities in
Laos. We then discussed some of the problems involved in such an
appearance.
14. FE/TBL, and I 25X1A
met with Messrs. Pincus and Paul, Investigators for the Symington Sub-
committee on U. S. Agreements and Commitments Abroad. See Memos
for the Record for details.
I conveyed to Mr. Paul orally our response to his earlier query
tol regarding the number of Chinese and North Vietnamese deaths
during the communization of these two countries.
I reminded Messrs. Pincus and Paul that we were prepared to
respond orally, through a briefing by to Senator Symington's 25X1
inquiry of some weeks ago regarding COMINT involvements 25X6
Mr. Pincus said it would be sometime- -probably a matter of months rat Pr
than weeks--before they would be ready to go into this.
15. Accompanied Acting Chief,25X1A
FE Division, who briefed Senator John Stennis, Chairman of the CIA Sub-
committee of Senate Armed Services, and Mr. Edward Braswell, Chief of
Staff, on the subject of Agency involvement in Laos, Thailand and Cambodia.
This was in response to the Senator's request for such a briefing. See
Memos for Record for details.
CONFIDENTIAL
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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Wednesday - 10 September 1969
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25X1 11. Hand carried to Senator Mike Mansfield's
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Far East.
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in the Senator's recent trip to the
of Senator Charles Percy (R. , ill. ), commenting on the
12. Hand carried to Mr. Ed Braswell, on the staff
of the Senate Armed Services Co= -itte,e, a Moscow Tass commentary
on Senator Stennis' management of the military procurement bill now pending
in the Senate.
Mr. Braswell mentioned tha-.: Senator Symington had talked with
him recently about the Green Beret case. The Senator expressed a view
that the Agency was getting a bad name in connection with this case and he
thought the Director should be asked' to brief the CIA Subcommittees on this
case so they might be of some assistance to us. I advised Braswell of the
Director's briefing of the Senate Appropriations CIA Subcommittee and told
him that the Director was seeing Senator Symington today and this would
undoubtedly come up during the course of conversation.
I also briefed Mr. Braswell on the status of our negotiations on
S. 782. I queried Braswell on the Daniels bill. Braswell said he was quite
certain that the bill would pass the Senate in some form but he feels sure
that the income tax provision will be deleted from the bill on a point of order.
13. Met briefly with Bill Woodruff, on the staff of the
Senate Appropriations Committee, and advised him of my conversation with
Ed Braswell regarding the Director's appearance before the Senate Appropri- 25X1A
ations CIA Subcommittee. Woodruff saw no problem with this.
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10. Hanel carried to Scott Cohen, on the staff
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