JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Publication Date: April 29, 1969
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8. Delivered to William. Sullivan, in the
office of Representative enar . Lipscomb, a recent Pravda article on the
"military-industrial complex" theme. Sullivan advised that the various
materials provided on this subject did not cover the earlier pronouncement
believed to have been made in the Moscow press probably in November or
December 1968. I advised Sullivan I would relay his request and be back
in touch with him.
9. Met with Mr. Paul Goulding, in the office of
Senator Claiborne Pell, and reviewed with him the current status of
case. Goulding advised that the Senator was requesting the Department of the
Army to review their files for
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ossible employment records during the
Met with Robert Michaels, House Appropriations
Committees , an con armed with him the briefing for Michaels and Bill
Woodruff, Senate Appropriations Committee staff, on Thursday, 9:00 a.m.,
at the Agency. I briefed Michaels on the following items:
a. Soviet
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c. Moscow May Day parade;
SS-9;
d. ChiCom naval spring training exercises;
e. land-based IRBM testing.
11. Received a call from Colonel Roy Steele,
Chief, Investigations i.vi.sion, Army Office of Legislation. Colonel Steele
advised he had talked with John Reddan, House Armed Services Investigations
Subcommittee, during the day and that he will be arranging to have Army
Operations personnel meet with Reddan on the question of E&E procurement
by the Department of the Army. I thanked Colonel Steele for the advice.
12. I Called Robert Hull, Department of
State, to get a current reading on t e epartment's efforts to obtain the benefit
provisions of the Daniels bill for the Foreign Service retirement system (see
Memorandum for the Record).
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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Monday -- 28 April 1969
1. I I Due to conflicts in schedule, both
Mr. Robert Michaels, House Appropriations Committee staff, and Mr.
William Woodruff, Senate Appropriations Committee staff, desired to
change their meeting at the Agency to Thursday, 1 May. The Offices
of the DD/I and DD/'S&T have been advised.
Accompanie and
of OCI1 to a meeting with Mr. Darrell St. Claire,
Clerk of the Senate, for a debriefing concerning Mr. St. Claire's recent
trip to Belgrade, Yugoslovia, as Executive Secretary to the American
delegation to the Parlimentary Union meeting in Vienna, Austria. (See
Memo for the Record.)
3. Met with Mr. Frank Slatinshek, Counsel, House Armed Services
Committee, and briefed him on the following items:
a. Recent Soviet extended range tests of the SS-9;
b. IIIRBM testing;
c. Chinese Communist naval spring training exercises;
d. Suslov's speech of 25 March.
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Wednesday - 23 April 1969
5. The Director, accompanied by Messrs. Duckett,
Bruce Clarke, briefed the Subcommittee on
International Organization and Disarmament Affairs of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee. See transcript and Memo for Record.
6. I Advised Bill Sullivan, in the office of
Representative Glenard Lipscomb (R. , Calif.), regarding his earlier request
that we were not able to find reference to the "military-industrial complex"
in any December 1968 Pravda articles, but will continue to search for it
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DD/S&T, to brief Mr. Robert lichaels, on the staff of the House A ro riations
committee, on certain radar programs. The briefing was very well received.
(See Memo for the Record. )
8. I I Met with Mr. Arthur Kuhl, on the staff of
the Senate Foreign Relations ommittee, who advised that Senator John
Sherman Cooper (R. , Ky.) is reported to have invited Senator Robert W.
Packwood (R., Oreg.) and Senator William Spong (D. , Va.) to attend the
Director's briefing of the Subcommittee. Mr. Kuhl also advised that
Messrs. Marcy, Holt, Lowenstein, and he would probably be in attendance.
He noted in passing that no personal staff people will be in attendance.
9. I I Met briefly with Mr. John Reddan, Counsel,
House Armed Services Investigations Subcommittee, who advised that he
has not as yet heard from the Army people concerning procurement of
materiel through other agencies. He requested that I get the names for
him so that he can call them. Mr. Roger Currier, Army L&L, has been
advised. Mr. Currier extended apologies saying that internal pressures
in the Secretary's office had -interfered with their getting back in touch
with Mr. Reddan.
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10. I I Met with. Mr. Robert Michaels, on the staff of
the House A. ro riations _Qomm' tee who advised that in the next Sub-
committee meeting Chairman Mahon would be interested in a briefing on
order of battle: what is it and what is its importance .
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mission; what is this type of mission looking at, what is it that they are after,
and is it necessary that they fly "pup and down's everyday.
11. I I Met with. Mr. Darrell St. Claire, Clerk in
the Office of the Secretary of the Senate, who recently traveled to Vienna,
Austria as Administrative Secretary to the Interparliamentary Union. He
was Administrative Secretary to the U. S. delegation. Mr. St. Claire noted
that the delegation's visit to Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia were
each interesting in themselves but that the reception they received and the
people they met with in Yugoslovia might be of interest to our Yugoslovian
experts. Time did not allow further discussion. but Mr. St. Claire advised
that if it would be of interest, he would be pleased to meet with one of our
Yugoslovian experts and relate the delegation's experiences. I thanked
Mr. St. Claire for his kind offer and told him that I would be back in touch
with him.
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OHN M. MAURY
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5. J. Sourwine, Chief Counsel, Senate Special
Subcommittee on Internal Security, called to ask for any information we could
STATOTHR give him on I Iwho were reported by the press
to have been questioned by Scotland Yard concerning espionage activities.
Subsequently, Sourwine called again and asked for any available
STATOTHR information on I told Sourwine I would check and be back in
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6. William Crawford, in the office of
Representative Charles H. Griffin (D. , Miss.), called and said he and the
Congressman would like a briefing on strategic deployment of troops and
materiel in Communist China. Crawford said they wanted unclassified
information and when I told him that the Agency would not have unclassified
information which is not also available to the Library of Congress it was
agreed he would withdraw his request for a briefing by the Agency.
7. I I Bill Sullivan, in the office of Representative
Glenard Lipscomb (R. , Calif.), requested copies of Pravda articles in
December 1968 which carried reference to the "military-industrial complex. "
is working on this.
8.1 1 In response to Representative William
Cahill's (R. , N. J.) letter request to the Director, made arrangements through
Mrs. Virginia Pickett, of the Congressman's office, for a personnel interview
for ersonnel, at 2:00 p.m. today.
9. Talked with Mr. Robert Michaels, House
Appropriations Committee stall, and confirmed the meeting for 10:30 a. m.
tomorrow, 23 April, with of DD/S&T, concerning 25X1A
certain radar techniques.
10. I I George Murphy, Joint Committee on Atomic
Energy staff, called to inquiry about press reports of a KGB defector having
fingered members of a Soviet net operating in Germany. Murphy was specifically
interested in whether any classified NATO information might have been
compromised. I told him I was aware of nothing in the case that would indicate
this, and would advise him promptly if we obtained any information in this
connection.
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8. 1 1 After checking with the Office of
the Director, OSR, I scheduled a showing of the Soviet film, "True Sons of
the People" for Mr. Robert Michaels, on the staff of the House Appropriations
committee and Mr. William Woodruff, on the staff of the Senate Appropriations
Committee, for Thursday morning at 9:00 a. m. and confirmed the time of the
showing with Mr. Michaels.
9. I I After consulting with DD/S&T25X1A
I scheduled a meeting tor 0 a.m., Wednesday, 23 April 1969, with Mr.
Robert Michaels, on the staff of the House Appropriations Committee, for a
briefing on certain radar techniques that had been requested by Mr. Michaels.
10. I I Received a call from Carl Marcy, Chief of Staff,
Senate Foreign. Relations Committee, concerning the meeting this afternoon
between the Director and Chairman Fulbright. (See Memo for the Record. )
Later in the day, I received a call from Mrs. Mary McLaughlin,
on Mr. Marcy's behalf, requesting advice on whether the Director would approve
Mr. Marcy' s attendance at today's meeting with Chairman Fulbright. It was
indicated that Mr. Marcy had discussed the matter with the Chairman but that
his attendance would be subject to the Director's determination. After checking
with Office of the Director, I advised Mrs. Mary
McLaughlin that the Director had no objection to Mr. Marcy's attendance at the
meeting.
Talked to Mr. William Birdsall, Congressional
Reporting Firm of Ward and Paul and finalized arrangements for security control
of the transcript of the Director's meeting with the Gore's Disarmament Sub-
committee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee which is scheduled for
Wednesday, 23 April.
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JOHN M. MAURY
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6. Hand carried to William Woodruff,, on the staff
of the Senate Appropriations Committee, "fact sheets" and photographs on the
Harke and Homer Soviet helicopters in response to his earlier request. Woodruff
asked if I knew the status of the Army's assessment of the Harke and I responded
by indicating that we did not keep up with this on a day-to-day basis but it was
my understanding that a substantial assessment had been made by the Army's
Foreign Science and Technology Center and a report prepared on the basis of
this which was probably available through Army channels.
Talked with Woodruff about arranging for him and Robert Michaels,
on the staff of the House AppropriationsCommittee, to visit the Agency to view
the Soviet film, "True Sons of the People" and to receive a briefing on a special
project. This has been set for Thursday at 9:00 a. m.
I briefed Woodruff on the following items:
a. Soviet naval exercises in the Mediterranean.
b. Soviet satellite reconnaissance.
c. Soviet propaganda attacks on Yugoslovia and
Romania.
d. Strategic arms talks.
e. Recent developments in Soviet attitude toward
China.
f. North Korean exploitation of U. S. aircraft
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"Realists" in new Czechoslovakian Government.
Soviet leadership difficulties.
Soviet SS-9 tests.
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7. I I Hand carried to George Murphy, on the staff of
the Joint Committee on omic Energy,
Talked further with George Murphy regarding recent Soviet
tests of the SS-9 in connection with his query regarding Secretary Laird's
statement "that the Soviets have tested in the last two weeks a very new and
sophisticated A.BM weapons system. "
Murphy expressed continuing interest in statements being made
by Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) officials regarding our
national verification capability with respect to undeclared facilities. He said
he understood that ACDA had recently finished a study on this subject. ,?
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that he would trv to be available at a time convenient for
of the Senate Appropriations Committee. Mr. Michaels also advised
3. I I Talked with Mr. Robert Michaels,
on the staff of the House Appropriations Committee, who advised that
he would appreciate a viewing of the film, "True Sons of the People"
and suggested that next Wednesday morning would be a good time for
him, if it could be worked out with Mr. William Woodruff, on the staff
first of next week.
The time for both meetings will be confirmed with Mr. Michaels the
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4. I I Received a call from the office of
Senator Claiborne Pell (D. , R. I.) requesting that I contact Mr. Harold
in the office of Legal Advisors, Department of State, concerning
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Department on the Senator's behalf and provide whatever information is
required pending the Senator's return. (See Journal of 26 February and
4 April 1969. )
I talked with Mr. Harold Burman and advised him of Senator
Pell's interest in the claim on Mr. Burman thanked e~TOTHR
for the advice and indicated he would draft a response from the Departmen
to the Senator that would not inhibit the Senator's ability to introduce private
legislation in this matter even though there is no support that can be provided
by the Department or the Agency in identifying the individual with employment
by American intelligence services during the period in question. Mr. Burman
will call me during the coming week.
5. I ITalked with Representative Glenard
Lipscomb (R., Calif.) and advised that the updated information on the Soviet
threat which he had requested would be available late in the coming week.
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9. I I Received a call from Mrs. Mary
Miller, Senate Preparedness Subcommittee staff, who advised that Mr.
Stuart P. French has left the staff for an appointment in the Department of
Defense. Mrs. Miller also advised, on behalf of Chief Counsel James
Kendall, that the Subcommittee's sponsorship of Mr. French's "special"
security clearances is withdrawn. I thanked Mrs. Miller for the advice.
10. Talked to Mr. Robert Michaels,
House Appropriations Committee staff, who advised that he had talked to
Chairman Mahon concerning the employment application of STATINTL
I nd had advised the Chairman that the A ency had been unable to
locate an appropriate position for The Chairman appreciatATINTL
the advice.
11. Received a call from Miss Carol
Tuchmann, Legislative Assistant to Representative Ogden R. Reid (R., N. Y. ),
who called on Mr. Reid's behalf and requested, if possible, an updating of
the information previously provided on the Middle East. Mr. Reid indicated
he would appreciate it if would meet with hixSTATINTL
Wednesday, 23 April, at a.xn. thanked iss uchmann and advised
that I would relay Representative Reid's request.
12. I Received a call from Miss Doris Scott,
House Armed Services Committee staff, who requested the transcript of
the Director's briefing of 18 March for review by a member. The transcript
was forwarded to the Committee and returned to the Agency at the end of the
day.
13. ( eceived a call from Miss Mary
Keough, Senate Armed Services Committee staff, who advised that the
confirmation hearing scheduled for tomorrow morning had been canceled
and rescheduled for 1:30 p.m., Thursday, 17 April. Miss Keough requested
that we advise General Cushman that he need not be present until 1:30 p.m.
tomorrow.
14. (Internal Use Only - JGO) Received a call from Senator STATINTL
J. Caleb Boggs (R., Delaware) who desired appropriate detailed information
for responding to a constituent,
STATINTL concerning mployment application with the Agency. After
receiving the file from Records Center, I reviewed some of the highlights
by telephone with Senator Boggs and advised him that we had examined our
personnel needs in the various offices of the Agency and had found no office
STATINTL which could utilize qualification. Senator Bogg's apologized for
bothering us on such a matter and appreciated the first-hand information.
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4. I I Hand carried to William Woodruff, on the staff
of the Senate Appropriations Committee, an additional map book for Senator
Richard B. Russell's (D. , Ga.) use and an additional copy of our Indochina
map folio.
In connection with his expression of interest in the Soviet film,
"True Sons of the Soviets," I mentioned to Woodruff that this film was being
shown to the House Armed Services Committee today and that we could make
arrangements for him to see it at his convenience. He suggested that we try
to do this sometime next week. He added that he thought Robert Michaels,
on the staff of the House Appropriations Committee, would also like to attend
the viewing. We are coordinating this with Mr. Michaels.
I mentioned Senator Stuart Symington's (D.,Mo.) conversation with
the Director on the subject of the Agency's budget figure and Mr. Woodruff and
I discussed this at some length. We agreed that the best course would be for
us to make it clear to the Senator that there was certainly no objection to his
receiving this information (which he has, in fact, received on prior occasions
as a member of the CIA Subcommittee) but pointing out that any public discussion
of the Agency's budget, even in veiled terms, could be counter productive.
I mentioned to Woodruff the request which we had received from
Mr. Bruston, on the staff of Senator Gaylord Nelson (D. , Wis. ), for a briefing
of the Senator on the Soviet and Chinese Communist's threat and Bruston' s
request to attend such a briefing. I told Woodruff we were taking this up with
the Director but, in any event, planned to exclude any members of Senator
Nelson's staff from a briefing which may be given by us. Woodruff acknowledged
that requests like these posed a serious problem and mentioned in passing the
possibility of having Senator Russell hold a committee meeting to which all
senators would be invited and at which Mr. Helms would brief all interested
members of the Senate at one time. This was merely a reaction of Woodruff's
and certainly did not reflect any views on Senator Russell's part to this effect.
Woodruff and I discussed, at some length, Senator Symington's
new subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the staff
of that subcommittee. Woodruff expressed some concern in this connection.
(See Memo for the Record for details. )
Woodruff asked if we would provide him with a "fact sheet" on the
new large Soviet helicopter. He said he wanted this in connection with Senator
Russell' s consideration of a request from the Army for R and D money for
the development of a new helicopter. Woodruff felt that any appropriations
funded for the Army for this purpose should be delayed until the U. S. analysis
of the Soviet helicopter had been completed.
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5.1 At his request, delivered to Mr. J.R. Blandford,
Chief Counsel, House Armed Services Committee, the transcript of the
Director's briefing of the Armed Services Committee of 18 March for use by
the Committee during Secretary Laird's appearance. The transcript was
returned to the Agency at the end of the day.
Finalized the arrangements with Mr. Blandford for tomorrow's
presentation of the film, "True Sons of the Soviets, " for the full Armed
Services Committee at 8:30 a. m. in the Committee Room.
6. Met with Mr. Robert Michaels, House Appro- 25X1A
priations Committee staff, and advised him that the Agency had been unable
to find a suitable position for employment for
Mr. Michaels indicated he would mention this to the Chairman during t e
day and be back in touch with me.
. Delivered to Mr. Michaels the Agency study prepared at the
Chairman's request entitled, "Ch.romite: World Demand and Supply. " I also
briefed Mr. Michaels on the continuation of Soviet propaganda attacks on
Yugoslavia and Rumania, Soviet disarmament talks and Soviet/Chinese
attitudes .
7. Mr. Wayne Granquist, Administrative
Assistant to Senator Abraham A. Ribicoff (D., Conn. ), called to say the
Senator would appreciate it if the Agency representative in Saigon could contact
the two investigators (LaVern Duffy and Carmen Bellinno) from the Senate
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. He said he had received a report
from the investigators from Hong Kong which stated the Agency was "substan-
tially involved," presumably as a supplier of information. (The investigators
are looking into black market and currency manipulations. See memo for the
record of 20 March 1969.) I told Granquist I would be back in touch and
informed FE Division, of this request.
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