JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 19, 2006
• Sequence Number: 69
• Publication Date: October 27, 1969
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Monday - 27 October 1969
1. (Secret - JGO) Met with Mr. Robert Michaels, House Appro-
priations Committee staff, who advised that Chairman Mahon has scheduled
the CIA Subcommittee meeting for 10:00 a. m. on Wednesday, 29 October.
See Memorandum for the Record.
2. (Confidential - JGO) Met with Mr. Frank Slatinshek, House
Armed Services Committee staff, and gave him a draft report on the
Agency's retirement act amendments. Mr. Slatinshek advised that the
Chairman's schedule is such that there is some difficulty in getting to him
for introduction of the bill. He suggested that I talk to Mr. Blandford, Chief
Counsel, in the morning.
3. (Secret - JGO) Met with Mr. Arthur Kuhl, Chief Clerk, Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, and confirmed the arrangements for the
Director's appearance at 10:00 a. m. on Tuesday, 28 October before the
Symington Subcommittee on U. S. Agreements and Commitments Abroad.
4. (Unclassified - JGO) Received a call from Representative Cornelius
Gallagher (D., N. J.) and in response to his request made an appointment for
10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, 29 October for a Ito meet with 25X1A
I Office of Personnel.
5. (Confidential - JGO) Received a call from Mr. Mel Christopher,
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Congressional office, concerning
a letter to the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy which will be coming over
this afternoon for our review from Mr. William Hancock, ACDA General
Counsel. See Memorandum for the Record.
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Wednesday - 22 October 1969
6. (Secret - JGO) Met with Mr. Wayne Birdsall, of the
commercial reporting firm Ward and Paul, and confirmed arrange-
ments for handling of reporters' notes and transcript of the Director's
appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday,
23 October. ? Mr. Birdsall advised that he does have some problem with
availability of appropriate transcribers this week which is causing delay
in turning out the finished transcripts, but that this is a problem that has
to be handled on a day-to-day basis by his office.
7. (Secret - JGO) Talked to Mr. Walter Pincus, Senate Foreign
Relations Committee staff, who told me the Director's appearance for
tomorrow before the Symington Subcommittee is to be put over. He said
Chairman Symington will be calling the Director later in the day and
possibly by that time it will have been determined when the Director will
be appearing.
8. (Secret - JGO) Met briefly with Mr. Arthur Kuhl, Chief
Clerk, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and confirmed the security
and administrative arrangements that had been made in his absence with
regard to the Director's appearance before the Symington Subcommittee.
JOHN M. MAURY
Legislative Counsel
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Tues- 21 October 1969
t). (Secret - JGO) t with Mr. John R. Blandford, Chief
Couxn House Armed Ser, Committee, and briefed him on the
follot ,4 items:
a. Soyuz 6, 7 ar,
b. Soviet bombe , st;
c. Soviet-ChiCoi 0order.
11. (Secret - JGO) j Lh Mr. Frank Slatinshek, House
Armed Services Committee sE and gave him the dates for insertion
in the draft of the CIA retiren i bill which was given to him last
week. Mr. Slatinshek told m{ - !.,t the Chairman is away until tomorrow
or possibly Thursday. Consid? +tion of Committee handling of the bill
will have to await the Chairman's return.
12. (Secret - JGO) Escorted FE Division, to
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's rooms in preparation for the
Director's appearance on Thursday. We met with Mrs. Mary McLaughlin,
who is acting in the absence of Mr. Arthur Kuhl, Committee Clerk, and
confirmed appropriate portions of the security and administrative arrange-
ments for th'e Agency's appearance on Thursday.
13. (Confidential - JGO) Met with Mr. Al Tarabochia, on the
staff of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, who requested that
he be provided with a biographic sketch of I
Although he does have a short outline from a news publication that he was
furnished, it is not sufficient for Committee needs.
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Monday - 13 October 1969
6. (Confidential - LLM) J. Sourwine, Chief Counsel, Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee, asked if we had any information on or
were interested in three Czechs in the United Nations who were expelled
from the Communist Party according to a Prague broadcast on 2 October.
He said he had already checked with those responsible for "internal
security" and received no information. He said if we had no interest then
flip individuals were "fair game" for the Subcommittee.
7. (Confidential - JMM) In an chance encounter I asked Carl Marcy,
Chief of Staff, Senate Foreign Rel?t'ons Committee, about the Symington
Subcommittee hearings on U. S. involvements in Southeast Asia and what role
his staff was playing therein. He said that Messrs. Pincus and Paul were
"running this show on their own, " but that he personally was following the
hearings with interest and expected they would produce some very far-reaching
results indeed.
8. (Secret - JMM) Met with Russ Blandford, Chief Counsel, House
Armed Services Committee, and briefed him on:
a. Recent developments regarding Soviet strategic
missile deployment.
b. Preliminary analysis regarding a new Soviet aircraft.
c. Current Soviet Soyuz mission.
Blandford complained that items a. and b. above confirmed his belief that
Agency estimates on such matters were often too conservative.
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he was interested. (See Memo for Record. for details)
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/Soviet Envoy'.
Is Guest of
Senators
The Senate Foreign Rela.
tions Committee yesterday
Ifad Soviet m assador Anato
liy F. Dobrynin as a luncheon
:guest. "I invited him because. I just
wanted the members to get ac-:,
quainted," explained Chair-
man J. W. Fulbright (D-Ark.). ',
He acknowledged that it was
the first time in 10 years the
committee had such a high-
ranking Russian guest-since
former Soviet Premier Nikita
S. Khrushchev in September
1959.
Sen. Karl Mundt (R-S.D.),
termed the two-hour-long .
steak luncheon "a general dis-
cusslon of what can be done to
bring about better understand-
ing between the two coun-
tries." '
Sens. George D. Aiken (R- i
Vt.) and John J. Sparkman (D.
Ala.) both termed Dobrynin.
"frank."
Others attending were Sen.
Stuart Symington (D-Mo.), and
three non-committee members,
SenI.Allen J. Ellender (D-
Mike Gravel (D,Alaska) and
Harold..E.. Hughes: (D-Ta
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