JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Publication Date: July 27, 1971
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Tuesday - 27 July 1971
7. In meeting with Mr. Ralph Preston,
_ House Appropriations Committee staff, today, he told me that the Radios
will be covered in the continuing resolution which will be going before
the House next week before the August recess. He foresees no problem in
passage of the measure,
8. In response to his request I provided
Jack Ticer, of the Senate Armed Services Committee staff, with additional
copies of the paper entitled "The World Opium Situation. "
I queried Ticer about Committee action on the markup of the
military procurement bill. He said the Committee would be meeting again
on Thursday, but he doesn't expect the bill to be reported out until after
the summer recess.
George Murphy, of the Joint Committee on 25X1C
Atomic Energy staff, asked for any information we might have regarding
10. Rush Greenslade called to alert us
to the fact that the Joint Economic Committee has informally asked our
economists for contributions to two studies which the Committee will be
compiling. One is on the Soviet economy and the other on the economy
of Communist China. A formal request is expected.
11. Messrs. Houston,
conferred by phone with Mr. Maurice Lanman, Assis an- enera ounse
(Fiscal Matters), OSD, concerning a request Lanman made to Mr. Houston
for Agency views on S. 2254, a bill by Senator Case to amend the Foreign
Assistance Act and the Military Procurement Act. Lanman indicated that
State Department had contacted them to coordinate a response which the
Department is making to Senator Fulbright on the bill. DOD foresees
passible Agency problems with this bill and asked us for our views. We
discussed the bill with Lanman and told him we would be in touch with
him tomorrow with a more definitive position.
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9. Called Frances Henderson, Administrative
Assistant to Senator Clifford P. Case (R. , N. J. ), to make an appointment
with the Senator in response to a question he raised in a letter to Secretary
o.f State Rogers of 27 May 1971. She said she understood what this was about--
in .fact they had discussed it in the office yesterday. She said she would let
me know when the Senator was available.
John Marks, Executive Assistant to the Senator, called to say that the
Senator would not be able to see Mr. Helms this afternoon. I explained my
call had been to make an appointment for myself to see the Senator since I
was handling the matter for the Director, I said Marks might want to remind
the Senator this subject had been discussed by the Director at a session of
the Foreign Relations Committee on 23 March 1971 at which Case was ~preser9:. 25X1
Marks dis uted this sa 'n that the discussion at that t'm
I said I had checked the record and could verify rom t e
record that the Newark Star Ledger story by Michael Morrow had been discussed
on 23 March, and quoted excerpts from the transcript, explaining that the
Director's answers to questions about this story had been off the record,
Marks asked if I knew about the State Department letter, saying he
understood the Director himself was coming to see the Senator. I said I
knew about the letter but the Director asked me to handle the matter since
it was something with which I was familiar. After some discussion about
.fixing a time for me to meet with the Senator it was agreed that unless I
heard to the contrary I would meet him in his office at 5:00 on Wednesday,
28 July. I added that I would discuss the subject only with the Senator alone.
Marks said he had "the clearances. " I said he did not have clearances fo r
this matter which concerned Agency operations and which, per ground rules
laid down by our Committee chairmen, we discussed only with appropriate
Members themselves.
10. Called Ralph Preston, Staff Assistant, House
Appropriations Committee, to c arify Chairman Mahon's desires as to a
written outline or summary of the history of the Southeast Asian situation. FIe
explained that the Chairman was interested not only in Laos but in a chronological
outline of developments in the Indochina situation over the past several years.
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Tuesday - 20 July 1971
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10. Met with Dorothy Fosdick and Richard
Perle, in the office of Senator Henry M. Jackson (D. , Wash. ), and
Gommittee.
12. In response to his query of yesterday
I recommended to Harriet helconta t the office of Jerome Ht~Jaffe,l the
Moorhead (D. , Pa. }, tha
President's Director of Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention.
Miller said this was an excellent suggestion and added that he would call
that office.
13. In the absence of Senator Edward J.
Gurney (R. , Fla. ), I talked to his personal secretary, Lois Elliott, about
the inquiry the Senator's office had directed to the Department of Labor
regarding payments being made to the widows and families of the "Birmingham
flyers. " As we expected, Miss Elliott said Senator Gurney was not aware of
the constituent inquiry which prompted their contact with the Department of
Labor. I advised her these men were not soldiers of fortune as alleged by
the constituent and left with her a suggested reply which merely said the
Senator had looked into the ate She sa d she was sure this would satisfy
accordance with applicable 1
their needs.
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Thursday - 15 July 1971
6. In response to a call from the office of
Representative Thomas Downing (D. , Va. ), Personnel, was
called and asked to send employment brochures to
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7. Mr. Larry McHugh, on the staff of the Joint
Economic Committee, called with further reference to the Committee's hearings
which will include testimony on the status of the Soviet economy. He said
that Dick Davies, of State Department, has agreed to testify before the
Committee at 2 p. m. on 9 August. McHugh has been unsuccessful in getting
through to the right people in the State Department, but wanted to be certain
that we were in touch with the Department to give them whatever information
we had to contribute on the subject. I told McHugh I would assure this was
being done and passed this message to Mr. Paul Walsh.
g. Met with Bill Woodruff, Counsel, Senate
Appropriations Committee, an left with him a New China News Agency
broadcast allegedly quoting statements made by Senator Ellender as to the
size of the U. S. budget. Woodruff said the Chairman would be interested in
this and thanked me for bringing it to him.
I took thisopportunity to brief Woodruff on the fact of the Director's
budget sessions with the ~3ouse Appropriations Committee, the problem which
the flood of bills such as the Church, Cooper, and McGovern bills would
create far the Agency, and the situation regarding contacts xn.ade by the
Ribicoff /Muskie Subcommittees and Representative Rogers on the drug
situation.
9. I I After conferring with the Director, I contacted
Robert Maher, on the staff of Representative Paul Rogers (D. , Fla. ), to tell
him I had talked with the Director and while we could not release the TDCS
to the Congressman, the Director was happy to have Mr. Ludlum meet with
Mr. Rogers to brief him on the Agency's role in assisting in coping with the
overall drug problem. This meeting was scheduled for 10 a. m. on Friday.
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Thursday - 15 July 1971
1. Delivered to the offices of Representatives
James Abourezk (D. , S. Dak. ), Gerald Ford (R. , Mich. ), John Mass
(D. , Calif. ), William Moorehead (D. , Pa. ), Don Edwards (D. , Calif. ),
Robert Steele (R. , Conn. ), Paul McCloskey (R. , Calif.) and Senator
J. W. Fulbright (D. , Ark.) FBIS items in whigh their names were mentioned.
2, Delivered to the offices of Senators Mike Gravel
(D. , Alaska), Bob Packwood (R. , Oreg. ), and Birch Bayh (D. , Ind.) FBIS
items in which their names were mentioned.
3, Accompanied the Director, Colonel White
and Messrs< Kararnessines, Duckett and John Clarke who appeared
before Chairman Mahon and Representatives Andrews, Bow and Minshall,
of the House Appropriations Committee, for a briefing on the Agency
budget, See Memo for Record for details.
4. A c companie d
OCI/AFN, who briefed Senator James O. Eastland (D. , Miss.) on
recent developments in Morocco. It turned out that Senator Eastland
was also interested in Libya and we promised to provide him with the
answers to some of his questions on that subject.
5, Mr. J. Sourwine, Chief Counsel,
Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, called concerning an article by
Alice Widener entitled "SECRET NSC-68 MUST BE DECLASSIFIED!"
appearing in the U.S.A. Magazine. In her article, Miss Widener referred
to the leak to a newsman in 1964 of "NSC-b8", described as a highly classified
document on U. S. policy in Korea and written in 1950. In view of the recent
leak of the Pentagon papers, Miss Widener stressed that "NSC-68" should
be declassified to give the true story on Korea. Mr, Sourwine stated that
"a Senator" had read the article and questioned him as to whether such a
document would still be classified. He asked if we could. check this out for
him, Internal checks were negative concerning "N5G-68" and Mr. Sourwine
was advised our inquiries failed to reveal any information as to such a docu-
ment. He furnished a copy of the article and did not press his inquiry.
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Tuesday - 13 July 1971
14. Accompanied the Director, Colonel White and
Messrs. K , ckett, .Tweedy and John Clarke who a'p'peared
before Chairman Mahon and Representatives Bow, Andrews and Minshall,
of the House Appropriations Committee, to discuss the community and Agency
budgets. See Merno for Record for details.
15. Ed Braswell, Chief Counsel and Staff
Director, Senate Armed Services Committee, called to say Chairman Stennis
would appreciate a briefing on the Agency budget for himself and Senator
Margaret Chase Smith tomorrow afternoon, 'possibly at 2:00 or 2:30 ~p. m.
16. Called Joe Wolf, State Department, regarding
Senator Stuart Symington's letter t o the Secretary asking for information about
U. S. agreements and arrangements for the exchange o.f intelligence and
other classified information. I emphasized our concern that nothing be said
which would commit any of us to anything in this regard, since I felt it raised
a principle of primary concern to the Director in connection with intelligence
sources and methods. Mr. Wolf said he fully appreciated this adding he and
Ray Cline had discussed the matter at some length and speculated that Symington
was mainly concerned not about intelligence liaison but about the exchange of
other classified information, perhaps based on intelligence on high levels
within the NATO community. He mentioned atomal information as an example.
Mr. Wolf said he planned to examine the matter further and perhaps call a
meeting- of interested agencies to discuss it before a final response to Symington.
17. Called Art Kuhl, Chief Clerk, Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, to remind him that we looked to him to ensure the security
of the conclusions of a TRW study which we had given to Phil Trimble, o.f the 25X1A
Subcommittee on Arms Control, International Law and Organization, Kuhl
said he already had it in his safe.
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Tuesday - 13 July 1971
5. Mr. Morris Amitay, Special Assistant to
Senator Abraham Ribicoff (D. , Conn. }, called about drug hearings which the
Subcommittees on Intergovernmental Relations and Executive Reorganization
and Government Research of the Senate Government Operations Committee
proposes to conduct on the subject of the part which officials of allied govern-
ments are playing in the drug traffic and the steps our Government is taking
and can take to stop that traffic. Amitay said that Senators Muskie and Ribicoff
would like to have members of the two Subcommittee staffs as well as himself
and members of Senator Muskie's personal staff receive a briefing on this
subject prior to the executive session. I asked Amitay if he was thinking of
a briefing by the Agency only or one in which several agencies would participate.
Amitay said it was his understanding that the Agency was the best source of
information for their purposes and he proposed a staff briefing by the Agency
only. I told him I would have to check on this and be back in touch with him.
6. Following the budget briefing session with
the House Appropriations Committee, Mr. Ralph Preston, of the Committee
staff, called and asked if we could resume the hearing Thursday morning
at 9:30 a. m. After checking on this I confirmed the time and date with Preston.
7. Mr. William McAfee, of INR, State Depart-
ment, called about Senator Church's bill, S. 1887. He said INR was preparing
some counter-arguments against this bill and would like to keep in touch with
us. I told McAfee we were asking our prople for suggestions on this and we
would keep in touch with him.
g. Hand-carried to Mrs. Mildred Ward, Secretary
to Senator John Stennis (D. , Miss. ), a draft of a speech v~hich Mr. Maury had
prepared in response to Senator Stennis' request.
9. Delivered to the offices of Senators Edward
Kennedy (D. , Mass. ), Hubert Humphrey (D. , Minn. ), Hugh Scott (R,., Pa. ),
and Jacob Javits (R. , N. Y.) FBIS items in which their names were mentioned.
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Monday - 12 July 1971
12_, Ed Braswell, Chief Counsel, Senate Armed
Services Committee, called and asked if we could be available to brief Senator
Stennis and Senator Margaret Chase Smith on the Agency's budget tomorrow
morning. I told Braswell that the Director and all of our budget people would
be attending a budget hearing with the House A ropriations Gomrnittee
tomorrow, making tie session with the Senators impossible. I emp asized,
however, that we were not only willing but anxious to brief Senator Smith on
the Agency's budget since she had been unable to attend the budget hearing
with the Senate Appropriations Intelligence Operations Subcommittee. Braswell
said he would explain the problem to Senator Stennis and added that he would
probably ask us to do this sometime before the end of the week.
Braswell suggested that we be marshaling our arguments against
S. 2224, Senator Cooper's bill to require the Agency to transmit to the
Congress intelligence information and the Agency's analysis of it. We
discussed the impact of this legislation at some length, but Braswell suggested
that we wait until we had had further contact with the Committee before we 25X1A
submitted views on the bill.
JOHN M.
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g. After checking with the Acting DDI on the
procedure followed in a similar situation in 1969, I called Larry McHugh,
on the staff of the Joint Economic Committee, concerning the JEC's request
to have the Director appear at an open Committee session next month to
testify on the Soviet economy. I advised McHugh of Senator Proxmire's call
to the Director, the Director's consultation with Senator Stennis, and our
understanding of the latter's contact with Senator Proxmire on the subject
with the ultimate understanding that the Director vvo uld not testify but that
the Agency would cooperate by assisting the State Department in the prepara-
tion of testimony on the subject. McHugh was~not aware of any of these
contacts and thanked me for advising him. I indicated that if there were any
further questions to let me know.
9o Checked with Ralph Preston and Austin
Smith, of the House Appropriations Committee staff, on arrangements for
tomorrow's budget hearing.
10. At their request I gave copies of the
pocketbook edition of the"Pentagon Papers" to Bill Woodruff, Counsel,
Senate Appropriations Committee, and to Ralph Preston, House Appropria-
tions Committee staff.
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Friday - 9 July 1971
9~ Accompanied the Director and Messrs.
ho appeare before Chairman Mahon and Representatives
Andrews and Minshall, of the House Appropriations Committee. See Memoran~
dum for the Record.
10. Met with Chairman Stennis, of the Senate Armed
Services Committee, and explained our problems with Senator Proxrnire's
request for the Director's appearance in an open session of the ,point Economic
Committee to discuss the Soviet military budget and Senator Muskie's request
for a copy of a sensitive study on the Soviet ICBM program prepared for the
Agency by TRW.
Stennis agreed and said he would support my recommendations that
Proxmire's request be met by our providing material to the State Department
for presentation to the Committee and that Muskie's request be met by pro-
viding the conclusion of the study in question and allowing a duly cleared staff
member to examine the backup material under our control.
Senator Stennis explained his request for a draft speech he could make
on the floor emphasizing the importance of the Agency, the necessity for
maintaining its security, and its effectiveness in serving the national interest.
He said he wanted me to prepare this speech and include any material I thought
useful, and that it was not necessary to coordinate it with members of his staff.
11. In response to a call to the Director's office
from Senator Kennedy's office, I called Mark Schneider, of the Senator's staff.
Schneider said the Senator wanted a copy of the CIA publication quoted by Tad
Szu1c in today's New York Times. I said this was an official publication for
the use of the White House, NSC, and other Executive agencies and not avail-
able for circulation outside of the Executive community. I told him that while
we could not provide the document we would be glad to brief the Senator orally
on the significance of the Viet Cong peace proposals which the document
discusses. Schneider said he had checked with Mrs. Davis, of the White House,
who said it was not an NSC publication. I said it had not been requested by
the NSC but was disseminated to NSC members and to the Executive officials.
He asked the classification and I said I was not sure but believed it was higher
than confidential. He asked if the item contained anything more than the
passages quoted b~rthe Times. After consulting with Mr. Carver and checking
with the Director, I called Schneider back to say the portions quoted by the Times.
did not represent the full text.
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5, Ed Braswell, Chief Counsel, Senate Armed
Services Committee, called regarding the article by Tad Szulc in the New
York Times discussing a document reportedly prepared by the Agency on the
latest Viet Cong peace proposal. Braswell commented that this appeared to
be a leak from an Administration source and added it was very difficult for
people on the Hill to take a stand against indiscriminate Leaks of classified
information when it appears that the Administration is engaging in the same
practice. I told him we were very concerned about the article also and added..
Mr. Maury was on the Hill and would be seeing Senator Stennis and him during
the course of the day. I told him Mr. Maury might have some further thoughts
on this.
6, Mr. John Clarke, D /PPB, called to advise he had
notified Bill Woodruff, Counsel, Senate Appropriations Committee, that a
careful review of the situation has brought us to the conclusion that if it should
become necessary to terminate Radio Liberty and Radio Free Europe the
estimated termination cost was see Mr. Clarke's
Memorandum for the Record). This is the figure that will be used in the
budget briefing of the House Appropriations Gommittee on 13 July.
7, Picked up from Bill Woodruff, Counsel, Senate
Appropriations Committee, Senator Ellender's letter to the Director (with
a similar letter to Assistant Secretary of Defense Packard) asking that
Defense and the Agency make a decision in favor of either the DOD or Agency
sensitive readout systems. This has been forwarded to the Director and copies
sent to Colonel White and Mr. Duckett.
g. Bill Shinn, a State Department intern now
working in the office of Senator Adlai Stevenson III (D. , Ill), called in connection
with the bill introduced by Senator Cooper. Shinn recalled the briefing we had
given Representative Brad Morse (R. , Mass.) on Africa prior to the Congress-
man's travel there and asked if the Agency did this with other members. I
told Shinn that we try to be responsive to requests of this sort whenever we
could do so. Shinn obviously was concerned with the impact of the Cooper
bill.
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Thursday - 8 July 1971
7, Met with Bill Woodruff, Counsel, Senate
Appropriations Committee, and briefed him on several current intelligence
items including ChiCom MIG-19 production, latest information on the "Back-
fire" bomber, the Soyuz 11 problem, the nuclear test on 30 June, and the STATSPEC
latest evidence of ICBM silo construction.
9, Met briefly with Ralph Preston, House Appropria-
tions Committee staff, and firmed up arrangements for the Director s mee ing
with Chairman Mahon tomorrow morning and our budget hearing next Tuesday,
13 July. Both meetings will be held in Room H-140 of the Capitol at 10 a. m.
No transcript will be taken at either of these sessions.
10, In a telephone conversation I explained to
Senator John Stennis that the Director wished nze to consult him about two
problems, one involving a request from Senator Proxmire .for the Director's
appearance before an open session of the Joint Economic Committee, and one
involving a request from Senator Muskie for an Agency-sponsored TRW study.
Senator .Stennis said he would call me later to fix a date for a meeting but in
the meantime wanted to tell me he was concerned about Senator Cooper's bill
to make CIA. information available to the Senate as a whole, and wanted to
speak against this bill, and a,t the same time pay tribute to the Agency. He
asked that we prepare material suitable for this purpose to be available
early next week,
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Wednesday - 7 July 1971
4. Talked with Dorothy Fosdick, Senate Sub-
committee on National Security and International Operations staff, about her
1 July 1971 note concerning articles published by Dino Frescobaldi. I told
Miss Fosdick that on the basis of a review of Frescobaldi's articles over the
past three months our people would not rate this material very highly, adding
that much better work is available in the Western press. I advised that
Frescobaldi's work is based primarily on the Cairo rumor market, Sadat's
public speeches, and articles carried in Beirut newspapers. Under the
circumstances we would think that the Subcommittee would not want to be
in a position of having his articles translated and circulated. Miss Fosdick
said this was precisely what she wanted to know, but asked if we would
translate one or two of Frescobaldi's better articles for her own perusal.
is arranging for this.
5. Talked to Ralph Preston, Staff Assistant, Ho~use~
Appropriations Committee, who said Chairman Mahon wanted to meet with the
Director .for no more than an hour on Friday, 9 July, and discuss the Director's
trip and have a "philosophical" chat about the "Pentagon papers"--not just the
security aspect but their impact on U. S. policy and the U. S. leaders involved.
He said Representative Frank Bow. would be out of town but Representative
George Andrews would attend and possibly Representative William Minshall.
6. Later Chairman Mahon himself called and repeated
that he had in mind just an informal chat with the Director, particularly about
his recent trip at 10:00 a. m. on Friday, 9 July. Regarding the "Pentagon papers"
Mahon said he realized the Director had been out of town and hadn't had a chance
to study the documents closely so it would be all right to bring someone else
who had, and not bother the Director with it,
Chairman Mahon expressed concern about the two bills just introduced
by Senators Cooper and McGovern (the first making intelligence information
available to the Congress, and the other requiring CIA funds appear in the
budget).
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4. Mr. Ralph Preston, House Appropriations
Committee staff, called and asked if the Director would be available to
meet with Chairman Mahon and "a Republican member of the Committee"
tomorrow for the purpose of discussing the "Pentagon papers" and bringing
them up-to-date on any new developments worldwide. I told Preston the
Director had returned from his trip abroad, but was presently out of the
city again and was not expected back until Wednesday evening at the earliest.
We subsequently agreed to the Director's coming up Friday morning. When
I asked Preston for clarification about Mr. Mahon's interest in discussing
the "Pentagon papers," he said the Chairman merely wanted to talk this situation
over in general with responsible people in Government and since he had a high
regard .for the Director and his opinions he merely wanted to chat with him
about it.
Mr. Preston also asked if we could make our budget presentation on
Tuesday morning, 13 July. This session might run into the afternoon but
it is doubtful that the afternoon session would be very lengthy since the
Chairman has another commitment. Preston said he would like us to follow
essentially the same format which was used in the Senate budget hearings,
i. e. , 15 to 20 minutes on the intelligence community budget and the balance
an the Agency budget. I told Preston I would check both of these dates with
the Director and be back in touch with him as soon as_ I could confirm them.
5. Delivered to Jack Norpel, Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee staff, a summary of the material in
Russian he had given us on 29 June. The material was not of much interest.
6. Mr. Tim Daze, in the office of Representative
Barry Goldwater, Jr. (R. ,Calif. ), called and asked that we arrange a personnel,
interview for An appointment was made with Mr.
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Friday - 2 July 1971
4. Received a call from Mr. Norman Cornis~.TATOTHR
House Foreign Operations and Government Information Subcommittee, wh TOTHR
requested a biographic report on a
who has been associated at times w an o ers m STATOTHR
currency manipulation in Vietnam. was formerly with ~ STATOTHR
and Company(currency exchange, airman oorhead is considering
STATOTHR calling as a witness before the Committee and would appreciate
whatever in orrnation can be provided. The Chairman would appreciate
an early reply.
Committee staff, who told me that it is not possible to determine today wFe`n ~Fiie
Chairman might schedule the Agency budget briefing. The Chairman has
not mentioned the matter. Mr. Preston will take a look and see when things
' 1. Talked to Mr. Ralph Preston, douse Appropriations
settle down a little next week after return of the members on Tuesday.
OPPB, has been advised.
2. In the absence of Mr. Pat Holt, Senate Foreign
Relations Committee staff, I left with his secretary, Elly, ~a blind memorandum
on the matter he had requested during the meeting with Milton Brown and
myself on Wednesday, 30 June 1971.
3. Talked to Mr. W. H. Boone, House Science
and Astronautics Committee staff, and briefed him on the two recent
Soviet space failures,
5. Received a call from Mr. James STATSPEC
Speakman, Executive Assistant to Representative John Ware (R. , Pa. ),
concerning a ,recent item in the Congressional Record about an FBIS
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Thursday - 1 July 1971
6. Received a call from Mrs. Burke, in the 5X1A
office of Representative Edwin D, Eshleman (R. , Pa. ), who requested
` ~(.)ffice of Personnel, I advised Mrs. Burke that an appom men
had been set up for ednesday, 7 July 1971 at 2:00 p, m.
7. Frances Hughes, in the office of
Senator J. Glenn Beall (R. , Md. called and requested an employment
interview for a constituent, After checking with
Office of Personnel, I advised Miss Hughes that an
interview as een scheduled for Thursday, 8 July, at 10:00 a. m. at
the Ames Building.
8. In response to a call from Mr. Frank
Sady, Mouse Appropriations Committee staff, picked up a copy of the
"Appropriations Analysis, etc, for 1970-71" for delivery to Mr, John
Clarke, OPPB,
9. In response to a request from Senator
Lloyd Bentsen (D, , Texas) for review of the Agency rules implementing
Executive Order 10501, I met with Mr. Cristobal Aldrete, Legislative
Assistant, Mr. George Lowrance, Special Assistant, and Mr. Charles.
Hodges, Legislative Aide. After brief preliminary discussion, the
meeting was continued with Mr, Hodges alone where we reviewed in detail
Executive Order 10501 and topic headings and random paragraphs from
At least for the moment the staff appeared
completely satisfied with this "review" of the Agency regulations. It is
noted that the Senator's staff is feeling its way at present and is not
certain as yet what is expected by the Senator.
10. Met briefly with Dr. Roy Bullock
and Messrs. Albert Westphal and John C. Chester concerning House
Foreign Affairs Committee handling of the Radios bill, H. R. 9330.
Mr, Chester had met earlier in the day with representatives of State
Department and learned from them that in their judgment the continuing
resolution will be extended at least through Labor Day. It is the staff's
opinion that this is to the good for the reason that the energies of the
full Committee will be taken probably until Labor Day in consideration
of the aid bill. Since consideration of H. R. 9330 will be had by the full
Committee rather than by a Subcommittee, no hearings are anticipated
until the Committee completes action on the aid bill.
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