JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP72-00337R000500120003-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 13, 2006
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: December 23, 1970
• Content Type: NOTES

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Wednesday - 23 Dace~.ber 1970
1. (Secret - GLC) I I FE Division, called concerning
a contact made with him by ,;irn Pont, Deputy Director East Asia and
Pacific Affairs, ISA, DOD, concerning ISA's response to an inquiry from
Senator Fulbright about incursions in South Laos. ISA had punned to
include in their response a suggestion t hat Fulb-righ t the Director
if he wished an intel;lgence brie ": ng on this areabut _I nad Obiec a
to this and I agreed with his position, as interested, however, in
providing Pont with the date of the Director's appearance before the Senate
Foreign Relations r: n~i
t,o 1.,~e.. advised that the 1E.):Lactor briefed
the Committee on 28 October 1969 and was present at Ambassador Ungers
appearance on 17 November 1969, but aid not participaat
:.e.
2. Messrs. Houston, Warner an d l attanded a meeting with 25X1
State Department officials: Colgate Prentice, Deputy Assistant for
Congressional Relations; Stanley Futterman, East Asian and Pacific
Affairs; and Thomas Pickering, Deputy Director for Bureau of Politico-
Military Affairs. The meeting was at their request to discuss possible
congressional action on the so-called Fulbright amendment to the Defense
Appropriations Act. We discussed several possible provisions which
might come out of the House-Senate conference on the bill. While no
conclusions were reached, it appeared the State Department representatives
appreciated the Agency's position with regard to some of these alternatives,
.It was agreed that we would keep in touch regarding subsequent developments
on the bill.
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