JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73B00296R000100110038-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 2001
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: August 24, 1971
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Tuesday - 24 August 1971
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9. (Secret - JMM) Called John Lehman, of Dr. Kissinger's staff,
to say that Larry Houston, General Counsel, had been in touch with Fred
Buzhardt, of Defense Department, regarding the Pentagon papers which
Senator Gravel is turning over to Beacon Press for publication. (See Journal
of 18 and 19 August.) I said Houston and Buzhardt agreed that in view of the
likelihood that the material was already in the hands of Beacon Press the
best solution might be for Justice to proceed under Title 18, Section 793 of
the Code, requiring the unauthorized possessor of classified material which
might be used to injure the United States to surrender it on request. I said
I thought it best for this avenue to be thoroughly explored before we further
considered a direct approach to Gravel. Lehman agreed, and I said we
planned to take no action in the matter pending further development.
10. (Confidential - JMM) Met with Russ Blandford, Chief Counsel,
House Armed Services Committee, and discussed pending legislation affecting
the Agency. Blandford said he didn't expect any of these bills to move in
the House in the near future.
Blandford said he was preparing a speech on the subject of the
importance of discipline in the armed forces, and would like to have some
material on the history of Soviet experiments in the early days of the Red
Army when they attempted to abolish rank and discipline. Blandford said
he would like this by 30 August. OSR is preparing this.
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