JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73B00296R000100170012-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 30, 2006
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: March 15, 1971
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 2
Monday - 15 March 1971
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Section of DIA, called and asked if they could be provided with an updated
machine run of the 1969 machine listing on Compartmented Information
Access for Congressional Staff Members. I tol would contact
our Security people and have them follow up on this. is was turned over
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6. Accompanie OCI225X1A
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to a briefing of former Speaker John McCormack. This was the
of the bimonthly briefings which are being given McCormack pursuant
to instructions from the White House. Subjects covered included the new
Soviet ICBM developments, Vietnam, the Middle East and Pakistan.
7. Called Jim Gehrig, Staff Director,
Senate Space Committees and made arrangements for Mr. Duckett and
Mr. Brandwein to brief junior members of the Committee on the Soviet
space programtomorrow at 10 a. m. Gehrig expects Senators Weicker,
Buckley, and Goldwater to attend.
I mentioned to Gehrig that Senator Margaret Chase Smith had
expressed an interest in attending any of our briefings on this subject
and suggested he might also want to include her. Gehrig said he would
consider this; but in view of her senior position and the fact that much of
the material that would be covered in this briefing is already known to
her, he felt it would be better to bring her up-to-date at another time.
8.' OCI, and
briefed Messrs. John Blandford and Frank a ins e , House Armed
Services Committee staff, on the Israel/Egypt situation. The briefing
was an informal general updating to insure that there had been no major
change in the "relation" between the two countries. One item of followup,
Mr. Slatinshek requested information on Egyptian delivery capability for
CBW. OSI, has been advised.
9. Talked to Mr. Ralph Preston, House
Appropriations Committee staff, who confirmed his earlier conversation
with John Clarke, OPPB, that he will accommodate the Agency's needs
and schedule our budget presentation for late April.
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