JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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Approved For Releas ~ 007J ,..~ 73B00296R000100140003-3 fUl ~\`E Journal -Office of Legislative Counsel Page 2 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. cc: `~ JOHN M. MAURY ER O/DDCl Mr. a ~ Legislative Counsel Mr0 Mr. Goodwin Mr. Houston DDI DDS DD5&T EA /DDP OPPB ?~~'~? Approved For Rele~se, ~~0?T/b~'/0-T :'~I~-RDP73B00296R000100140003-3 Approved For Release 2007/02/07 :CIA-RDP73B00296R000100140003-3 JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATNE COUNSEL Monday - 27 September 1971 ~TATOTHR 25X1A 5X1 5X1 STATOTHR St~A~~THR Bill Woodruff, Counsel, Senate Appropria o 1. 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 3. 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. Approved For Release 200 I -RDP73B00296R000100140003-3 ~~~~ ~~ Approved For Release 2007/ 3~~A-~2DP73B00296R000100140003-3 Journal -Office of Legislative Counsel Page 3 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 f the Library of Congress prepared for Nedzi. Johnson is making a copy o this bibliography for me. cc: ER O/DDCI Mr. JOHN M. MAURY Legislative Counsel Mr. Mr. Houston Mr. Goodwin DDI~DS&T EA/DDP OPPB Item 1 - CA Approved For Release 200/v0-~~` ~1~-RDP73B00296R000100140003-3 Approved For Release 2007/OQ~ r ~~r~~~~l~~:~~(~96R000100140003-3 Journal -Office of Legislative Counsel Page 2 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. C0~' Approved For Release 2007/02/07 :CIA-RDP73B00296R000100140003-3 Approved For Release 20~~~~~IA-RDP73B00296R000100140003-3 JOURNAL 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. Approved For Release 2007/02/07 :CIA-RDP73B00296R000100140003-3 Approved For Release 2007/02/07 :CIA-RDP73B00296R000100140003-3 Journal -Office of Legislative Counsel Page 2 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. Approved For Release 2007/02/07 :CIA-RDP73B00296R000100140003-3 Approved For Release 2007 2/07 ~~-RDP73B00296R000100140003-3 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. Approved For Release 2007/02/07 :CIA-RDP73B00296R000100140003-3