JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP71B00364R000200070019-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 18, 2006
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: August 5, 1969
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Tuesday - 5 August 1969
1. With the Director's concurrence, I called
Mr. Doug Baldwin, in the office of Representative John Wold, to say that
the Agency was no longer responsible for the pacification program in Vietnam
and to suggest that Mr. Wold and his colleagues, Representatives Dennis
and Landgrebe, would get a more useful and broader presentation of this
and other Vietnam matters from the Defense Department.
I (Showed Senator Birch Bayh a draft letter
to Senator Jinexp ining our reasons for opposing publication of
the Director's testimony regarding S. 782 before the Constitutional Rights
Subcommittee. Senator Bayh said he thought the draft was satisfactory.
Discussed with Senator Bayh and Larry Conrad, Chief Counsel of
Bayh's Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments, our draft "fall-back"
amendment providing for the intelligence community limited exemptions from
S. 782. Bayh indicated that at tomorrow's meeting of the Subcommittee on
Constitutional Rights he would raise the poss ibility of a full exemption for the
Agency but if, as expected, this was unacceptable, he would propose our
suggested fall-back position.
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9. I I Larry Conrad, Chief Counsel, Subcommittee
on Constitutional Amendments, called to say he had been in further negotiation
with Marcia MacNaughton, staff of the Constitutional Rights Subcommittee,
and felt progress was being made regarding our proposed amendment for
limited exemption but he wished to be reassured that we considered the
Agency bound under this amendment by all of the provisions of S. 782 except
Section 1(k), Section 4 and Section 5. After consulting with Mr. Houston
and Mr. Warner, OGC, we called Conrad back to say that this was true
but pointed out that our proposed amendment specifically provided that
nothing in the Act should affect the Director's authority as set forth in
Section 102(c) of the National Security Act of 1947. We explained our view
that this Act did not seem directly related to S. 782--that Section 102(c)
was intended, and interpreted, to take care of special cases affecting the
national security, etc. , but apparently would have no bearing on cases arising
from a violation of the provisions of S. 782. Conrad said this was his impression
but he appreciated our comments.
Conrad said that Miss MacNaughton had expressed some optimism
that our compromise proposal might be acceptable.
10. Talked to Mr. Pat Holt, Senate Foreign
Relations Committee stall, an advised in response to his question to
Mr. Houston yesterday that the Agency has not subsidized the Hawthorne
Press and Pergammon Press. Mr. Holt indicated he was sure this would
be the case.
11. I Received a call from Mr. James Cline,
Counsel, House Immigration and Nationality Subcommittee, who advised he
will be traveling with Representatives Byron G. Rogers (D. , Colo.) and
Clark MacGregor (R., Minn.) to Warsaw and Prague probably departing
sometime next week. It would be appreciated if a country briefing could
be provided some time on Friday.
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