JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP72-00337R000500130025-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 14, 2006
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: July 6, 1970
• Content Type: NOTES

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3. (Confidential - JMM) Met with Chairman David Henderson,
Subcommittee on Manpower and Civil Service, House Post Office and
Civil Service Committee, regarding S. 782 (Ervin bill) and delivered to
him our formal response to his request for a statement of the Agency's
position on this legislation. Henderson said he hoped to hold hearings in
the near future, but was not sure whether he could get his Subcommittee
together by 8 July. He said he personally had expected not to hold hearings
but hearings had been requested by the Civil Service Commission and he
would leave the decision up to the Subcommittee members. He explained
that pressure from Senator Ervin left him no alternative but to report out the
bill, since he couldn't afford to have Ervin spread the word around North
Carolina that Henderson had buried it. However, Henderson repeated his
assurances that he personally would insist on a full exemption for CIA,
NSA and the FBI. He said the letters from Chairmen Mahon and Rivers
requesting exemption for the Agency had been received and they were very
helpful. Henderson believes that we can win an exemption in the House, but
there may be trouble when the bill goes to conference between House and
Senate, especially since the House conferees may not be members of the
Henderson Subcommittee and may not be familiar with some of the details.
4. (Confidential - JMM) Discussed with Representative Henderson
the case of the Special Forces officers from Ft. Bragg, who formerly
served in Vietnam in the PRU program and from whom the-Arm is attempting
to recover extra jump pay and demolition pay. I told Henderson that, as
I had expected, these officers had been detailed to a project under Agency
direction, but their administrative support was strictly an Army matter
and we had no direct responsibility for their pay and allowances, etc,
However, I said we queried the field for any relevant information they could
contribute.
I told Henderson my understanding was that the case was now in the
hands of the Army Comptroller and he might want to call him directly. He
said he preferred not to do so, since there were sensitive security angles
involved, but he would be glad if the Agency would tell the Comptroller of
Henderson's interest and ask the Comptroller to get in touch with Henderson
if the matter could not be resolved to the satisfaction' of the, officersl
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regarding Mr. Maury's most recent conversation with Reresentative
David Henderson (D., N. C. ), on the PRU cases. I told that
Henderson did not want to bother the`Army Comptroller people on these
cases, but asked if we could pass the word to them that if the issue of
compensation for hazardous duty pay could not be resolved in favor of
the officers concerned, he was ready to tak h e matter up at the
highest level in the Army and in GAO. Mr. said he would ask
his liaison contact to pass this message to the Army Comptroller's office.
13. (Internal Use Only - LLM) Called General
Counsel, NSA, in the interest of keeping him abreast of developments
on the Ervin n Till, S. 782, and brought him up to date on several matters,
including the Hampton letter, the transmittal of Agency views and the
Henderson Subcommittee meeting scheduled for Wednesday.
was particularly pleased that Chairman Rivers, House Armed Services
Committee, had included specific reference to NSA in his letter to
Chairman Henderson.
14. (Internal Use Only - LLM) Called Robert Hull, Department
of State, and asked if he could provide us with a copy of the Department's
letter to Chairman Henderson, House Manpower and Civil Service Subcom-
mittee, on the Ervin bill, which he said he would be glad to do.
15. (Internal Use Only - LLM) Called Theodore Kazy, Senior Staff
Assistant, House Post Office and Civil Service Committee, and told him
that the Agency's views on the Ervin bill had been delivered to Chairman
Henderson's office today and that it was substantially similar to the draft
reviewed with him on 23 June. Kazy thanked us for keeping him up to date
and said he thought there would be no problem to get a copy of our report.
He told me of the Henderson Subcommittee's meeting scheduled for Wed-
nesday and said there were rumors that the Subcommittee mig 6onsider
introducing its own bill, although he has not seen a copy.
16. (Confidential - LLM) Picked up a copy of the
transcript from House Internal Security Committee which was forwarded
to SB Division for review, edit and return.
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