JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73B00296R000200050023-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 25, 2006
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: November 29, 1971
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 2
Monday - 29 November 1971
5. (Confidential - JMM) Called Ed Braswell, Chief Counsel, Senate
Armed Services Committee, who said he thought it would be an excellent
idea for the Director to thank Senator Stennis for his support during last
week's debate on the intelligence situation.
Mr. Braswell said he was still concerned over the legal authority
under which the Director carried out his "two hat" responsibilities over the
Agency and the community. He indicated that this authority might come
under further attack in the Senate and he and Senator Stennis wanted to be
prepared to debate the issue from a strictly legal standpoint. I pointed out
the broad provisions of the National Security Act, but Braswell noted that
nowhere did the Act authorize the establishment of a United States Intelligence
Board or prescribe the Director's authority as Chairman of the Board. He
noted too that there were no Executive Orders covering this ground, and
in the absence of any specific documentary authority the whole system was
subject to legal attack. He asked whether we had anybody in the Agency who
could prepare a legal analysis of the Director's authority. I said we would
be glad to have a go at it. He said he might also query the Attorney General
in this connection.
Referring to followup questions from the Director's appearance before
the full Committee on 23 November, Braswell said I should go ahead and
make arrangements to brief Senators Tower and Dominick privately on the
internal situation in China. When I asked about followup questions which
Senator Stennis said he planned to submit following the Director's appearance,
Braswell said these were questions he had prepared and were of no urgency.
I said in that case we would forget about them until we heard from him further.
6. (Confidential - JMM) Called Phillip Trimble, Senate Foreign
Relations Committee staff, and arranged for him to visit Headquarters at
2:30 p. m. on Wednesday, 1 December, for a briefing on the ChiCom strategic
weapons program by Mr. Duckett.
7. (Unclassified - JMM) Called Jean Garnett, Secretary to
Representative Lucien Nedzi, to make a date with Mr. Nedzi to follow up
on some matters we had discussed previously. She said Mr. Nedzi would
be tied up most of the day on the floor and I agreed to call again tomorrow.
8. (Internal Use Only - RJK) Delivered to the offices of Senators
Alan Cranston (D., Calif.), Lee Metcalf (D., Mont.), Russell B. Long
(D., La.), Mike Mansfield (D., Mont.), and J. W. Fulbright (D., Ark.)
FBIS items in which their names were mentioned.
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