JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP71B00364R000200100026-7
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 1, 2014
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: April 8, 1969
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 2
Tuesday - 8 April 1969
4. Colonel Seymour Schwiller, on the staff of
the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, called to say that Representative
Craig Hosmer (R.,Calif.) had requested a briefing on Thursday morning
at 0930 hours on the Soviet ABM system. He said that the Congressman
might also be interested in other areas such as CEP of ICBMs and the
Tallinn system. I told Schwilier I would look into this and be back in
touch with him later this afternoon or tomorrow morning.
5. Left with Winston Bryant, Legislative
Assistant for Senator John McClellan (D. , Ark.), back up materials
including the exchange of correspondence between the Director and Senator
Ervin having to do with the Agency's problems regarding S. 782. I told
Mr. Bryant that after he had an opportunity to review this material,
I would be happy to discuss it with him further and answer any questions
he might have.
6. Called George Murphy, on the staff of the Joint
Committee on Atomic Energy, regarding his query about Suslov. I told
Murphy that I had talked with our people about this, that there are, in fact,
two Suslovs: one is a member of the Politburo and the other is a member of
the Foreign Ministry, who has been involved in disarmament negotiations at
Geneva. I told him that in any event we are not aware of any militant
statements made concerning actions which the USSR planned to take against
the United States.
In connection with Murphy's general question on this point, I
advised him that the Soviets were not making strong statements regarding
their missile superiority and, in fact, appeared to be suppressing this type
of conversation in view of the current atmosphere regarding disarmament
negotiations.
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JOHN M. MAURY
Legislative Counsel
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SECRET
JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Monday - 7 April 1969
1. John Lofton, Republican Congressional
Committee staff, called and said he would like to review the FBIS Latin
America Daily Reports covering the summer of 1964 in hopes of coming
across further statements by Robert F. Williams along the lines of Williams'
August 1964 broadcast from Havana. Based upon information provided by
FBIS, told Lofton that these reports were available in the
Library of Congress in the agency serial collection.
2.
Special Subcommittee
interview for
15 April 1969 with
Mr. S. Arnold Smith, Staff Attorney, House
on Investigations, called to request an employment
\The appointment was made for 9:00 a.m.,
\ Personnel, and Mr. Smith advised.
3. Hand carried to George Murphy, on the staff of
the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, the Director's letter of 4 April 1969
proviaaing-fuTithe?r-di-ii-,4---.seinent information on I also
hand carried to Murphy, Mr. Maury's response to Mr. Bauser's letter
requesting any information which the Agency had on commercial use of
classified U.S. information by NATO countries.
Mr. Murphy that a Soviet named Suslov allegedly made
statements recently of a rather bellicose nature with regard to actions
which the Soviet Union could, and possibly would, take against the United
States. Mr. Murphy would like any references which we might have to
such statements. He said he would also appreciate if we could pinpoint
in the Library of Congress or elsewhere sources of some of the more
obvious and recent statements by Soviet officials on the subject of Soviet
missile superiority. I told Murphy I would check on this and be in touch
with him.
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