JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL MONDAY - 4 AUGUST 1969

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 12, 2006
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• Publication Date: August 4, 1969
• Content Type: NOTES

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Monday - 4 August 1969
9. (Confidential - JMM) Accompanied the Director who called on
Chairman James O. Eastland, Senate Judiciary Committee, regarding
-q- 782 (Ervin bill). The Director explained our problems with Senator
Ervin's request that the transcript of our hearing before the Subcommittee
on Constitutional Rights be sanitized for publication, and our desire to
obtain exemption from certain provisions of the bill. Senator Eastland
agreed that the transcript should not be published, and said he understood
our problems with certain provisions of the bill. He said he was at a .
loss to explain Senator Ervin's attitutde in the matter. Senator Eastland
suggested that we might contact Senators McClellan, Bayh, Hruska, Thurmond,
Dirksen and Russell.
After our meeting with Senator Eastland, the Director instructed that
I draft a letter explaining to Senator Ervin our reasons for finding it impossible
to agree to publication of any version of the transcript and check this draft
with Senator Bayh.
10. (Confidential - JMM) Larry Conrad, Chief Counsel, Senate
Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments of the Judiciary Committee,
(Senator Bayh is Chairman) called to say that he was working in Senator
Bayh's behalf in connection with our problems on the Ervin bill. He
explained that he had just talked with Marcia MacNaughton, of Senator
Ervin's Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights, who had commented that
the Ervin Subcommittee was meeting on Wednesday, 6 August, and wanted
to report the bill out as soon as possible. She asked Conrad to try to work
out a "limited exemption" for the Agency and NSA for consideration at the
6 August meeting.
Conrad expressed considerable concern over the fact that copies of
the transcript of our 22 July hearing, although classified "confidential",
were being freely disseminated among the Subcommittee members and
staff officers with no security controls whatsoever.
11. (Confidential - JMM) Called Chairman David Henderson, House
Subcommittee on Manpower and Civil Service of Post Office and Civil Service
Committee, and explained to him our problems with the Ervin bill and the
terms we had in mind for a suggested limited exemption as requested by
Larry Conrad (see above). Henderson said he thought we would have trouble
with an exemption from a provision for the right of counsel for aggrieved
employees, since Ervin was under heavy pressure from employee organizations
in this connection. Henderson fully agreed we should strive for an exemption
from the provisions giving aggrieved employees immediate access to Federal
courts. He fully endorsed our suggestion that aggrieved employees should
have access to the Employees' Review Board only after exhausting administra-
tive remedies. nn~
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Monday - 4 August 1969
12. (Unclassified - JMM) Received a letter to the Director from
Senator Ervin requesting clarification of the extent to which Agency and
NSA personality tests for applicants or employees would be affected by
certain limitation's contained in S. 782. DDS is drafting a response and
coordinating it with NSA.
13, (Unclassified - JMM) Received a call from Doug Baldwin,
in the office of Representative John Wold (R. , Wyo. ), who said that
Representatives Wold, David Dennis (R. , I.nd.) and Earl Landgrebe (R. , Ind. )
are planning a trip to Vietnam for the period 13 August to 3 September and
would like an Agency briefing on the pacification program and the Vietnam
situation. I said I would call him back and let him know whether something
could be a^rranged.
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