ERVIN BILL - S. 782

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP72-00337R000400030092-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 14, 2005
• Sequence Number: 92
• Publication Date: March 7, 1969
• Content Type: MFR

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7 march 1969
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Ervin Bill - S. 782
I talked with Roger Jones, Assistant Director, Bureau
3udget, about the Ervin Bill. He was well informed on
up to date on what we had been
doing. He felt we should assume we had carte blanche from
au to continue our activities again,
d take soundings in the Bureau as to
d take. He personally believes it is a bad Bill.
RENCE R. HOUSTON
General Counsel
Executive Director
DDS
Legislative Counsel
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Thursday - 6 March 1969
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14. Hand carried to Mr. Edward Braswell, Staff
Director of the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Director's letter
to Senator Stennis transmitting a copy of the statement which the Director
gave before the Pike Subcommittee on the Pueblo. Braswell said he had not
devoted any time of study to the Pueblo case and added that this would be
a useful summary for him.. I. had the impression from Braswell's remarks
that he feels Senator Stennis would like to avoid hearings on the Pueblo but
is under some pressure from certain of his members to schedule them. He
also has outstanding the request from Senator Fulbright that any hearings on
the Pueblo be conducted with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Braswell reviewed again his conversation with Senator Ervin on S. 78g.
He indicated that he would like the Agency to be in touch with him before we
respond to the letter which Senator Ervin is sending us.
15. During the course of a conversation with
Charles Kirbow, of the Senate Armed Services Committee staff, the subject
of the Ervin bill came up. We reviewed the membership of Senator Ervin's
Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights and Kirbow admitted that Senator
Thurmond was a member of that Subcommittee. In response to my light query
Kirbow said he thought Senator Thurmond would be sympathetic to the Agency's
position on the bill and suggested that we discuss it with James Lucier, of
Senator Strom Thurmond's (R., S. Car.) staff, in whom the Senator has great
confidence.
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