JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73B00296R000100180027-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 25, 2003
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: September 27, 1971
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Monday - 27 September 1971
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1. Bill Woodruff, Counsel, Senate Appropriations
Committee, advised of a letter Chairman Ellender received fro
In his letter
enclosed a response he had receive trom ulbright to a query he made
earlier about a newspaper article stating that the Agency was about to get
involved again in internal politics in Bolivia. Fulbright responded that he
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.
Hancock has 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 felt these
would only tend to encourage followup correspondence from Hancock. It was5X1A
agreed that he would stay with the response he originally proposed. LL
Accompanied Messrs. Duckett, DDS&T, an
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.
3. Talked to Miss Jo Ann Ciaravella, House
Post Office and Civil Service Committee staff, who told me that the Employee
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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to advise of a query he has received from Martha Cameron, in the district
office of Representative James G. Fulton (R., Pa.), requesting verification
of prior Agency employment of a candidate for a position on the Congressman's
staff. will check the file and give a general response to thtTATOTHR
inquiry.
12. A man identifying himself as
called to explainTFT7e was seeking employment with the House Armed
Services CIA Subcommittee, but that he had been told by a secretary of the
full Committee that there was no subcommittee by that name. He said he
understood that there were four subcommittees in the Congress that deal
with Agency activities. I told
Subcommittee" and in response to his question, that Mr. Nedzi is the
Chairman.
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13. Miss Baird Brown, in the office of
Senator Lawton Chiles (D. , Fla. ), called and said the Senator had requested
her to obtain a copy of a SAC briefing entitled "The Threat," and had
suggested that CIA would have a copy. I told Miss Brown that I thought her
best bet would be to check with SAC directly, but that since the Senator had
asked her to contact us I would see what useful information could be turned
up. Later, based on the advice of DDI, I left a message
for Miss Brown recommending that she get in touch directly with SAC.
14. et with Bill Woodruff, Counsel,, Senate
Appropriations Committee, and briefed him on a number of current
intelligence items. See Memorandum for the Record.
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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Thursday - 23 September 1971
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1. I advised Bill Woodruff, Senate Appropriations
Committee staff, on an informal basis of the decision which has been reached
in favor of the Agency's I I told him we did not know
at this point in what form the Committee would receive a formal response.
Woodruff thanked me for keeping him informed. Referring to the original
briefing which Mr. Duckett gave him in which he said he thought he could
still live within the fiscal 1972 budget estimates, Woodruff said he would
like Mr. Duckett to check on this again and let him know if any revision was
necessary. He added that in this respect he would be much more inclined
to follow the advice of Duckett than that of John McLucas.
Tom Dine, Legislative Assistant to Senator
Frank Church (D. , Idaho), called to say that he and Michael Gertner, Legisla-
tive Assistant to Senator William B. Saxbe (R., Ohio), would like to have an
Agency briefing on the Russian-Indian pact. I asked Dine for his indulgence
and suggested this was a matter on which they should be briefedby the State
Department, that they were in the best position to do this. Dine commented
this wasn't the case when he was in the embassy in India, but he accepted our
suggestion in good grace. I added that we had planned to have Mike Gertner
out to lunch'some day and perhaps he and Gertner could come out together.
He expressed interest and appreciation for this and I told him I would follow
up on it.
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that Bill Cook, on the staff of the House Armed Services Committee, would
be traveling in the Soviet Union between 20 and 27 October. Wood said that
since we had granted Cook compartmented. clearance access, we would
probably want to debrief him before his trip. I told him we would follow up
on this unless I let him know to the contrary.
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7. Met with Ed Braswell and John Goldsmith, of the
Senate Armed Services Committee staff, who told me that apparently Senator
Symington will now plan to concentrate on legislation imposing a monetary
limit on expenditures in Laos rather than his legislation limiting the definition
of "local force's. "
I provided Goldsmith, who is preparing notes for Senator Stennis' use,
with guidance regarding the various levels of sensitivity of material contributed
by us.
8.1 Lunched with Bill Woodruff, Counsel, Senate
Appropriations Committee, and reviewed problems relating to our operations
9. Informed Miss Jo Anne Glisson, in the office
of Representative Paul Rogers (D. , Fla. ), that Philip Vandivier would be the
appropriate State Department official to participate in the meeting which
nd I had scheduled with Mr. Rogers for Wednesday afternoon
to discuss drug traffic in Southeast Asia.
10. Jim Woolsey, General Counsel, Senate Armed
Services Committee, said he and Ed Braswell would like to be brought up-to-
date tomorrow afternoon or Wednesday on recent developments (over the past
two to three months) regarding the Soviet ICBM, ABM, SLBM, and manned
aircraft programs. He said they would like to cover both deployment and
research and development, and would therefore like to hear from both DDS&T
and OSR.
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