JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP72-00337R000200210006-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 2, 2006
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: April 23, 1970
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Thursday - 23 April 1970
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4. Met with Mr. Robert Hanover,
Administrative Secretary to Representative Daniel J. Flood (D. , Pa.),
and returned to him the correspondence concerning
which had been forwarded to us in error.
5. In response to his request hand-carried to
Ed Braswell a paper prepared by OER on Communist Forces in Cambodia.
Braswell said he would like to talk with Bruce Clarke to obtain
his assistance in providing Senator Stennis with unclassified material on
the Soviet threat which the Senator can use in the upcoming discussion
of the U. S. ABM proposal. Braswell mentioned that he is also requesting
assistance m~lTilliam Baroody in DOD. I told Braswell that preparing
unclassified material was somewhat out of our bailiwick but added that
I would talk to Clarke about this and be back in touch with him tomorrow.
6. Bill Woodruff, on the staff of the Senate
Appropriations Committee, is out of the city until Monday. in his absence
I talked with Guy McConnell, of the Committee staff, who said the Defense
Subcommittee's hearings on the Defense budget were progressing on
schedule and should be concluded around the 15th of May. I took the
opportunity to brief McConnell on Soviet naval exercises and the landing
of two Bear bombers in Cuba. McConnell mentioned that Senator Russell
was still in Georgia and is not expected back next week.
7. I I After clearing with the Director, called
James Lowenstein, Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff, in response
to his request of yesterday to say that we would brief Mr. Lowenstein and
Mr. Richard Moose (also of the Committee staff) at 0830 on Monday,
29 April at Headquarters in preparation for their upcoming trip to Cambodia.
(The Director has designated DDI to conduct the briefing. )
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Monday - 6 April 1970
6. Met with Mr. Frank Slatinshek, House
Armed Services staff, who asked what information is available to
support the intelligence community conclusion that the Soviets are
testing a "follow-on ABM system. " I told him I would check the
matter. Mr. Slatinshek was briefed on the following items:
a. Soviet equipment and personnel support provided for Egypt,
b. Communist campaign in Laos,
c. Communist insurgency in Northern Thailand,
d. Soviet Y-class submarine construction.
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7. I talked to Mrs. Dorothy Maneri,
Executive Secretary to Representative Barber B. Conable (R. , N. Y. ).
Representative Conable has been delayed in Rochester and will be
returning by plane arriving on Wednesday at 8:04 a. m. and will come
directly to Headquarters. With apologies, he requests that we not wait
breakfast for him. She also advised that with the return of the
other SOS /CM members to Washington today, she will not have a final
head count on those who will be attending the breakfast until sometime
during the day tomorrow. (See Journal item of 27 March 1970.)
8, In response to a request from
Mary Jo Sottile, Counsel, House Armed Services Committee staff, an
appointment was made with I Office of Personnel
forl for 10:00 a. m., 8 April 1970.
9. Bernard Poirier, Administrative
Assistant to Senator Mike Gravel (D. , Alaska), called to say that he
had been mistaken the previous day about the subject of his inquiry
which should have been Tele-Orient. After checking wit
on the Lebanese Desk, I told Poirier that we are aware that Tele-
Orient is involved in television, but that we have no information of our
own and he would be well advised to get in touch with USIA.
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