JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL THURSDAY - 24 SEPTEMBER 1970

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 5, 2004
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: September 24, 1970
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Thursday - 24 September 1970
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2. and I accompanied Messrs. Duckett
and Brandwein who briefed the Special Group of House Science and
Astronautics Committee on the Soviet space program. See Memo for
Record.
3, Received a request from Vincent Augliere,
Staff Administrator, House Government Operations Subcommittee on Foreign
Operations and Government Information, for any late information on the
Middle East, situation which Chairman John Moss might properly use in a
TV interview this afternoon in California. After checking with DDI and OCI
I called Augliere to say that Mr. Moss mi ght take advantage; of the opportunity
to refute Soviet claims for credit in cooling off the Middle East crisis by
noting that in fact the Syrians had backed off primarily as a result of defeats
administered by the Jordanian army
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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Monday - 21 September 1970
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1. I Richard Perle and Dorothy Fosdick, on the
staff of Senator Jackson's Subcommittee on National Security and
International Operations, came to the Agency Saturday for a briefing
by OCI/NE, on Arab guerrilla organizations. The
briefing lasted about one hour. In addition to the briefing on Arab
guerrillas, answered several questions on the situation in
the Middle as ; in general and whether there had been an increase in
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2. SB Division, called to
say he had learned indirectly from one of his employees thaL Malcolm Hawk,
on the staff of Senator Roman Hruska (R. , Neb. ), has recently been
approached by the third secretary of the Russian Embassy in Washington
and has met him officially several times. Hawk wondered if the Agency
had any interest in his pursuing this contact. I advised f our 25X1
office policy which was to avoid involvement in situations of this sort in
the absence of some compelling reason to do otherwise and our referral
of the individual concerned to the FBI. I added that if Hawk wanted a
point of contact in the Agency, however, he should call this office.
3. In response to his request, hand-carried
to Ed Braswell, on the s a o e Senate Armed Services Committee,
another copy of our Agency Text and Explanation book and identified for
him section 5 of the CIA Act concerning transfers of funds.
4. Jim Gehrig, Staff Director, Senate
Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee, called to check on the
accuracy of the Tas s announcement that the Soviet Luna probe had landed
on the moon, scoop~d up moon rocks, and was heading back. After checking
with Mr. Brandwein I confirmed the accuracy of the Tass announcement to
Gehrig who asked that we keep him informed of any other developments.
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Thursday - 17 September 1970
1. Met with Frank Slatinshek, Assistant Chief
Counsel, House rme ervices Committee, and obtained his signature on
a secrecy agreement for a sensitive project.
Briefed Slatinshek on the current Middle East situation.
2. Following my above meeting with Mr. Slatinshek
he called in John J. Ford, of the Committee staff, and we discussed the
problem of the "Fulbright amendment" to the Military Procurement Authorizatior
bill which goes to the House-Senate Conference next week. Slatinshek was
under the impression that the amendment would cause grave problems for
the Agency's operations in Southeast Asia and asked what we proposed to
do about it. I explained to him our earlier meeting with Russ Blandford
and Pentagon representatives (see Journal of 3 September) with which
Slatinshek was apparently unfamiliar. I went on to say we had since discussed
the matter among ourselves and that our current, but perhaps not final,
position was that while the amendment might cause us some trouble, it was
unlikely it could be struck out of the bill entirely and as an alternative it
might be amended as Blandford had suggested. Slatinshek was puzzled and
obviously annoyed that the DOD had not taken exception to the Fulbright
amendment, and asked that we provide him by close of business tomorrow,
Friday, 18 September, any arguments which Chairman Rivers might use in
seeking (a) the deletion and (b) the revision, of the Fulbright amendment.
3. Met briefly with Russ Blandford, Chief Counsel,
House Armed Services Committee, and summarized the Middle East situation.
Blandford will enter the hospital next week for extensive surgery and said he
would probably not be back before Christmas.
4. Briefed Chairman John Stennis, Senate Armed
Services Committee, on the highlights of the present Middle East situation.
Stennis said he very much hoped to call on us for a full round-up briefing in
the near future, explaining that he realized this was long overdue but his
hectic recent schedule had made it quite impossible.
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