JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73B00296R000200030058-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 3, 2004
• Sequence Number: 58
• Publication Date: January 21, 1971
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Thursday - 21 January 1971
1. I GLC) Mr. Goodwin called to advise us that
one of his sources told him Senator Case had put out a press release
for Sunday linking CIA and Radio Free Europe. We are making arrange-
ments to get a copy of this release.
2. GLC) Talked with of STATOTHR
about his report on a secret Soviet bacterio-
logical warfare base. See Memorandum for the Record.
3. I I GLC) Called Bill Woodruff, Counsel, Senate
Appropriations Committee, to alert him to Senator Case's release on
Radio Free Europe. Woodruff thanked me for the call.
Woodruff advised that there would be no service for Senator
Russell in Washington, D. C., and that services would be 'held in Winder,
Georgia, on Sunday.
4. GLC) Called Ed Braswell, Chief of Staff,
Senate Armed Services Committee, and alerted him to Senator Case's
press release on Radio Free Europe. Braswell thanked me for letting
him know about this and said he would get a copy of the release on the
Hill.
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Thursday - 21 January 1971
6. JMM) Called Dave Abshire, Assistant Secretary
of State for Congressiona Relations, regarding the Case press release.
Abshire said his office had learned of the release only today when they
had made another one of their series of calls to the Senator offering
to brief him in response to his letter to the Secretary of 8 October.
Abshire said since receiving this letter he had repeatedly- -at least
seven times--offered to brief the Senator on a classified basis but for
some reason the briefing had not come off. Abshire said the last occasion
when he brought the matter up was New Years Eve, and Case's response
at that time left the impression that Case had decided to drop the matter.
Abshire feels that nothing more can be done at this stage.
7. JMM) James Lowenstein and Richard Moose,
of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff, called to say they hoped
to take off Wednesday, 27 January, for a survey trip to Greece and would
like an Agency briefing preferably tomorrow afternoon, 22 January. I said
I would be back in touch.
After checking with DDP and DDI, I called back to say that Miss
of OCI, and I would meet with Lowenstein and Moose at
3:30 tomorrow in their office. 25X1
g, I ~- JMM) Represent ain nsnai1
called to say that he had two Korean friends,
I I who were visiting in town and planned to
see Secretary Laird at 3:00 tomorrow afternoon. Minshall said they
would like to pay a courtesy call on the Director thereafter, probably
around 4:00 p. m. , en route to the airport. I told Minshall I would check
with the Director and be in touch with him in the morning.
9. RCR) In response to her call, provided
application forms and brochures to Dean Wurdemann in the office of
Senator John C. Stennis (D. , Miss. ).
10. I I- JGO) Delivered a personal letter from
the Director for the new Speaker of the House, Representative Carl Albert
(D., Okla. ), to Mr. Charles L. Ward, Administrative Assistant to
Representative Albert.
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