JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Publication Date: September 29, 1971
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Wednesday - 29 September 1971
5~ Met briefly with Chairman James
M. Hanley,,Ernployee Benefits Subcommittee. I-l~e was somewhat distressed
at the need for cancelling the mark-up on the invasion of privacy draft bill
twice in one day due to lack of quorum. He intends to discuss the matter
with each of his members before the next meeting of the Subcommittee.
Late in the day, Mrs. Lois G. Myers called for the Chairman and
advised that the mark-up has been rescheduled for Wednesday, 6 October,
at 10:00 a. m.
6. At the request of Russ Blandford, Chief Counsel,
House Armed Services Committee, I met with the members of the Intelligence
Subcommittee of House Armed Services regarding the breakfast and meeting
with the. Director scheduled for Monday, 4 October. Representative William
Bray (R. , Ind.) was out of the city and will not be returning until tomorrow
afternoon. Chairman Nedzi (D. , Mich.) will be attending the briefing and
will drive himself. Representative Melvin Price (D. , Ill.) thinks he will be
able to attend and will drive himself if he does. I will recontact him during the
day tomorrow. Representative O. C. Fisher (D. , Texas) will be attending
and will be picked up at the Rayburn Building. Mr. Blandford will be attending
and will be picked up at Rayburn. Mr. Slatinshek will be attending and will
drive himself. Representative Alvin O'Konski (R. , Wisc. } has a school
dedication in his home district Monday morning and will not be returning to
the city until the afternoon. He would like, however, to come out on another
date far a visit to the Headquarters. I told him I would arrange it whenever
his schedule will permit.
7~ Met briefly with Mr. John S. Leahy,
Department of State, Office of Congressional Relations, who told me that
House Foreign Affairs Committee will be marking up the Radio bill tomorrow.
It is expected that the Fascell bill, which provides for atwo-year study and 25X1A
financing of the Radios, will be reported out by the Committee.
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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATNE COUNSEL
Monday - 27 September 1971
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Bill Woodruff, Counsel, Senate Appropria o
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advised of a letter Chairman Ellender received from a
In his letter
enclosed a response he ha receive rom Fulbright to a query he made
earlier about a newspaper article stating that the Agency was about to get
involved again in internal politics in0 Fulbright responded that he 25X1A
doubted the Agency was involved in this kind of thing but went on to say that
~~~ such legislative oversight as is exercised over CIA is conducted by
the Armed Services and Appropriations Committees. " Fulbright added that
several efforts to change this arrangement in the Senate had been unsuccessful.
Ohas subsequently written to Ellender asking whether allegations in
the article of CIA involvement in Latin America governments were true.
Woodruff proposes to provide the Senator with a reply which merely says that
in accordance with the legal precedents of the Senate and of the Appropriations
Committee matters pertaining to the Intelligence Operations Subcommittee
which has jurisdiction over CIA. are handled in executive session and are not
made public. I made several suggestions such as quoting Secretary of State
Rusk's response to a question from Senator Margaret Chase Smith along these
lines and excerpts from the Director's recent speech, but Woodruff felittwas
would only tend to encourage followup correspondence from 25X1A
agreed that he would stay with the response he originally proposed. STATOTHR
Accompanied Messrs. Duckett, DDS&T, ands
FMSAC, to a briefing of Chairman George P. Miller (D. , Calif. )
and Charles F. Ducander, Executive Director and Chief Counsel, House
Science and Astronautics Committee. The briefing updated the Soviet space
program and discussed in brief the Soviet SST program. Chairman Miller
will be departing later in the week for Italy and from there to a science
convention in Paris. No followup action is required from the meeting.
Talked to Miss Jo Ann Ciaravella, House
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Post Office and Civil Service Committee staff, who told me that the Em to ee
Benefits Subcommittee meeting scheduled for today was cancelled and has been
rescheduled for Wednesday, 29 September, at 10:00 a. m. at which time the
Subcommittee will continue mark-up of the Committee print concerning invasion
of privacy of Federal employees.
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Friday - 24 Septernbe r 1971
10. Met with Mr. W. H. Boone, House Science
and Astronautics Committee staff, and briefed him for Chairman
Teague (D. , Texas), of the Manned Space Subcommittee, on the Soviet
lunar program.
11. ~ I Met with Mrs. Lois G. Myers, Employee
Benefits Subcommittee, and received from her copies of the Committee print
of 23 September of a bill to protect civilian employees in the enjoyment of
their constitutional rights. Mrs. Myers told me that the Subcommittee meeting
for Monday is very unsettled as to time and place. If it is firmed up
during the day, she will call me.
12. Left for Ed Braswell, Chief Counsel, Senate
Armed Services Committee, the text of a Moscow radio broadcast criticizing
Chairman Stennis.
13. Met with Jim Gehrig, Staff Director, Senate
Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee, and alerted him to Soviet
preparations for another lunar launch using the SL-12 booster.
14. Dropped by the office of Representative
Michael Harrington (D. , Mass.) and talked with Dave Johnson, on his staff,
who had queried us a while back in connection with articles on Soviet defense
related industries authored by Agency employees which appeared in a Joint
Economic Committee study. I talked to Johnson at some length about reasons
why intelligence estimates on Soviet research and development could not be
declassified. Johnson has done considerable study on the subject of U. S. and
Soviet R&D, on the Agency and on the intelligence community. I told him I
would make available to him a copy of the CIA pamphlet which discussed the
role of the Agency and the statutes which established it. Johnson said that
Mr. Harrington has talked with Representative Lucien N. Nedzi (D. , Mich. ),
Chairman of the newly established Intelligence Operations Subcommittee, and
Nedzi apparently gave Harrington a copy of a bibliography on the Agency which
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the Library of Congress prepared for Nedzi. Johnson is making a copy o
this bibliography for me.
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Thursday - 23 September 1971
4, I I Talked to Mr. Michael Van Dusen,
Near East Subcommittee staff, House Foreign Affairs Committee, who told
me he is waiting an appointment with Chairman Hamilton to discuss setting
the tentative date for meeting with the Agency for the week of 11 October.
There is a possibility. that the House will recess on noon, 7 October, for
the Columbus Day holiday weekend and he does not feel that members of the
Subcommittee will be available for morning of the 7th if such is the case.
He will advise me as soon as he talks to Chairman Hamilton.
5, Talked to 5B Division, 25X1A
who told me that 5B has been advised that is planning to see STATOTHR
Representative Joel Broyhill (R. , Va.) and Senator Henry Jackson (D, , Wash, )
in his quest for assistance in locating Federal employment. No problem ~STATOTHR
foreseen in either of these contacts with Congress. She told me also that
the Division has been advised by Secret Service that the letter from
to the President seeking assistance never arrived. In consequence, a letter
will be forthcoming telling that the "copy of the lett~~ATOTHR
to the President" furnished in the meeting with the Secret Service has been
forwarded to interested Government agencies. No further action is required
concerning the White House visit by STATOTHR
6. Received a call from Mrs. Lois G.
Myers, Ern to ee Benefits Subcommittee, House Past Office and Civil
Service, who said that the Subcommittee meeting for Wednesday has een
cancelled and will probably follow the meeting of the full Committee scheduled
for 2:00 p. m. Monday, 27 September. She will keep us posted as more
information becomes available on the Subcommittee meeting.
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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Wednesday - 22 September 1971
1. Accompanied Messrs. Duckett and Bruce Clarke
to a briefing of Jim Woolsey, General Counsel, Senate Armed Services
Committee, and Dorothy Fosdick and Richard Perle, of the Senate Subcom-
mittee on National Security and International Operations staff. It covered
Soviet strategic weapons systems including: ICBM and ABM programs,
strategic aircraft, and submarine production. Similar programs for
Communist Ghina were also discussed. Woolsey seemed to express the
feeling of the staff members when he said that the briefing presented a
rather distressing picture, but he was grateful to us for bringing him
up-to-date.
I asked Jim Woolsey what he thought the schedule would be for Senate
consideration of the military procurement bill, especially provisions (like
the Symington amendment) pertaining to programs in Laos and Southeast
Asia generally. Woolsey said Chairman Stennis had sent a letter to Majority
Leader Mansfield suggesting that the Senate consider the bill in three
sections:
(1) Provisions and amendments pertaining to U. S. military
weapons programs.
(2) Provisions and amendments on Southeast Asia.
(3) End the war amendments .
Woolsey thinks the debate on weapons systems will take at least two weeks;
therefore, he does not expect discussion on Southeast Asia until after the
1st of October at the earliest.
2. Met with Mr. Richard Barton,-Employee
Benefits Subcommittee staff, who to d me that he has forwarded a revised
Committee print for reproduction and expects copies sometime during the
day tomorrow. This print will contain for the first time complete exemption
for the Agency in the four-year considerations of congressional measures
relating to the invasion of privacy of Federal employees. Mark-up of the
Committee print will continue in open session on Wednesday, 29 September.
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Tuesday - 21 September 1971
6. ~ ~ The Employee Benefits Subcommittee of
the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee, chaired by Representa-
tive James M. Hanley,. continued the mark-up session today of the Committee
print of a bill to protect civilian employees of the Executive Branch in the
enjoyment of their constitutional rights, to prevent unwarranted Govern-
mental invasion of their privacy and for other purposes. The mark-up was
in open session and was attended by Representatives White (D., Texas),
Gross (R. , Iowa), Hogan (R. , Md. ), and Hillis (R. , Ind. ). In keeping with
the announcement Chairman Hanley had made at the beginning of the mark-up
last week, he presented an amendment to provide for full exemption from
the bill for:
a.
b.
c.
The Central Intelligence Agency,
The National Security Agency,
The Federal Bureau of Investigation,
and
d.
Such other executive agencies or parts thereof
as the President in the interest of national security may
recommend to the Congress.
The motion was. approved by the members present. Further discussion of
the bill and possible further amendments will be made during the next mark-up
session. At that time it is anticipated that a final vote will be taken by the
Subcommittee on the bill.
7. Received a call from Mrs. Lois G. Myers,
Employee Benefits Subcommittee staff, House Post Office and Civil Service
Committee, who told me that Chairman Hanley has scheduled resumption of
the mark-up of the Committee print on invasion of privacy for Wednesday,
29 September, at 9:30 a. m. in room 207 Cannon House Office Building.
8. Maggie, in the office of Representative Bob
Wilson (R. , Calif. ), called and asked that an application form and employment
brochure be sent directly to a constituent,
Office of Personnel has been advised and
9. In response to a call from Sam Black, in the
office of Senator Adlai Stevenson (D. , Ill. ), set up a personnel interview for
a constituent, for 10 a. m. tomorrow morning.
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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Monday - 20 September 1971
l~ Met with Mrs. Lois G. Myers,
Employee Benefits Subcommittee, House Post Office and Civil Service
Committee, and received from her a Committee Print of 17 September
on the invasion of privacy of Federal employees legislation. Mark-up
of the bill will continue on Tuesday, 21 September.
2, Met with Mr. Ralph Preston, House Appropriations
Committee staff, and briefed him on Soviet fighter aircraft and ABM testing,
and tank production.
g, Met with Mr. Arthur Kuhl, Chief
Clerk, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who told me that as of yet no
legislation of interest to the Agency has been scheduled far hearings in the
C ornmitte e.
4. Met with Representative Lee Hamilton (D. , Ind.
Ghairrnan of the Near East Subcommittee of House Foreign Affairs Committee,
and agreed on plans for an informal Agency briefing on Near East developments
for 7 October. See Memorandum for the Record.
5, formed Roy Bullock, Staff Administrator,
House Foreign Affairs Committee, of my conversation with Chairman Hamilto~5X1
of the Near East Subcommittee.
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