JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP72-00337R000500170006-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2005
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: January 29, 1969
• Content Type: NOTES

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OF IC:. Or LEG15 TiVE COUNSEL
Wednesday - 29 January 1909
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m7 5%Ciir~ cases as they i.~i~ affect U.5. atoi'ria
programs, recent NATO gh
information and anything else the Director night feel pertinent. He said the
Director might get questions regarding he overall strategic balance between
the J. 5. and the USSR, regarding nuclear capabilities. Dr. Chamber la., D/SI,
mention of the Soviet ADM sys em, status of the
1. Called George Murphy, Joint Committee on
Atomic Energy staff, to clarify plans for the upcoming (but as yet unscheduled)
briefing of the Joint Committee. Murphy recommended a general review
of Soviet and ChiCom n;:.clear weapons programs and delivery capabilities,
Bruce Clarke, D/SR, and
preparing the material.
OCI, have been alerted to start
2. Senator Stuart Symington (D. , Mo.) called
to say he would like to take us up on the Director's invitation for a briefing
at the Agency preparatory to his upcoming trip to Europe and the Middle
East. He said he would prefer a working lunch probably on Tuesday, 4 February
and would like to bring Mr. Arthur Kuhl, of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee staff. The Senator said he fully understood how busy the Director
was and would not want to interrupt his schedule but would like to hear from
a couple of Agency specialists regarding current figures on Soviet bomber
production and the Middle East situation. Recalling our lunch a year
ago, he said he would like to talk with me about current conditions
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Mr. Bruce Clarke, D/SR, has been informed and has designated
to handle the Soviet bomber and other military matters,
OCI, has been alerted to cover the Middle East
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4 February breakfast briefing from t He following Congressmen: Glenn M.
Anderson (D. , Calif. ), William V. Chappell (D. , Fla. ), and Patrick T.
Caffery (D. , La. ). I was advised that Lawrence J. Hogan (R. , Md.) and
Manuel Lujan, Jr. , (R. , N. Mex.) will be unable to attend.
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contusion In L he date for the orea:~fast briefi ng L-Y of r e ruary. She said
that when the Con ressm n taiced to ..a about it on ridgy, 2t January,
she just assumed it was the fo owing -I ueSday, the 28t1-1 of January. S'ne -
said the Congressman now realizes tne breakfast is the 4th of February
and there were no fingeri:.g problems on it.
Left with Stan Kimmitt, Secretary to Senate
Majority Lea er Mans_e ., an ~~ BSS item containing the text of a Cambodian
radio comment on a recent statement by Senator Mansfield With respect to the
Vietnam war.
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