JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL TUESDAY - 5 AUGUST 1970

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• Publication Date: August 5, 1969
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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Tuesday - 5 August 1969
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.
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to Senator Sam J. Ervin explaining our reasons for opposing publication of
the Director's testimony regarding S`4 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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4. Senator Birch Bayh said he would like an
orientation and defensive briefing on the USSR in preparation for a trip he
and his family are making there during the latter part of August. This was
arranged for 2:00 tomorrow, 6 August.
5. In a chance encounter, Representative
Donald W. Riegle (R., Mich.) said he was planning a visit to Germany during
the upcoming congressional recess and might like an Agency briefing prior
to departure.
I talked to his Administrative Assistant, Dean Pohlenz, regarding S. 782
(Ervin bill).. Pohlenz said Senator Hruska had been quite impressed with
the Agency presentation on 22 July and was anxious to be helpful. I explained
to Pohlenz the draft amendment for limited exemption for the intelligence
community and Pohlenz commented that he thought we had gone as far as
possible in meeting Senator Ervin's objections to a complete exemption and
was reasonably certain that Senator Hruska would actively support our "fall-
back" version.
met with his Legislative Assistant, Glen Smith, and explained to him our
proposal for a limited exemption from S. 782 (Ervin bill). Smith said he was
sure Senator Thurmond agreed with our position in principle, but would be
reluctant to directly oppose Senator Ervin. However, Smith was sure that
Thurmond would privately try to prevail upon Ervin to accept our compromise
amendment.
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Assistant to Senator John L. McClellan, a copy of our proposed compromise
amendment for limited exemption from S. 782. After studying this, Bryant
called me to say he would carefully explain it to the Senator and was sure
Senator McClellan would support it.
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9. 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 10Z(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.
Relations Committee staff, and 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. 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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of State, concerning the status of the legislation and advised
that no final Agency decision has been made as to the substantive provisions
to be included in updating the Agency's retirement program pending passage
of this legislation. Mr. Hull indicated that the Department of State has had
no further conversations with the House Foreign Affairs Committee which is
fairly well geared to introduction of amendments to the Foreign Service Act
along the lines of th legislation.
14. Met with Mr. Charles Ward,
Administrative Assistant to Representative Carl Albert (D. , Okla. ), and
ascertained that Mr. Albert was invited to attend the San Clemente,
California, conference with the President on 22 August, but that no followup
had been received from the White House. No plans have been made for
Mr. Albert to attend. See memorandum for the record.
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and Mr. Lawrence M. Baskir, Ervin Constitutional Rights Subcommittee Staffa letter from the Director to Senator Ervin concerning classification review
and publication of the transcript of the DCI testimony before the Ervin Sub-
committee on 22 July 1969. See memorandum for the record.
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