JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73B00296R000200050058-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 23, 2006
• Sequence Number: 58
• Publication Date: October 25, 1971
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Monday - 25 October 1971
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On Saturday, 23 October, I received a
call from Colonel Frank Burdell, DOD/ISA, concerning provisions in the
Foreign Assistance Act (H. R. 9910) having to do with the use of advisors
in Cambodia and the payments of salaries to foreign forces in Cambodia.
After talking with FE Division, I told Colonel Burdell that
our involvement in Cambodia was quite small and I was not sure we had any
problems with these sections as such but told him I planned to.get the bill
and report (which were released on Saturday) and look them over more
closely.
2. Made arrangements with Alex Schnee,
Congressional Relations Office o4 State Department, to obtain, a copy of
H. R. 9910 as reported by the Foreign Relations Committee and of the
Committee report (92-404). This bill is scheduled as the pending business
before the Senate on Tuesday, 26 October. Copies of these were run off
and made available to Messrs. Houston, and John Clarke for
their review.
At a meeting chaired by Mr. Maury and
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attended by Messrs. Houston, I Clarke, DandO the various
sections of the Foreign Assistance Act were reviewed and a concensus
reached concerning them for Mr. Maury's guidance in attending a Legislative
Interdepartmental Group meeting in the White House Tuesday morning.
4. Contact was made with Bill Woodruff,
Counsel, Senate Appropriations Committee, and Ed Braswell, Chief Counsel,
Senate Armed Services Committee, regarding the general impact upon the
Agency of the Senate amendments to H. R. 9910. Particular reference was
made to Section 405(b) of the bill which would make the State Department
responsible for keeping the Foreign Relations Committee and Foreign Affairs
Committee "fully and currently informed" regarding the activities of all
departments and agencies. It would require those agencies to provide any
information requested by either of these Committees concerning their
activities and responsibilities. Braswell said he thought Senator Stennis
would be willing to take issue with the jurisdictional aspects of the bill and
suggested we provide the staff with backup material for this purpose and
those papers are being prepared.
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5. John Lehman, of the White House staff,
called to say there would be a LIG meeting Tuesday, 26 October, at
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6. On Saturday, 23 October, I called General
Haig, of the White House, to register our concern about a number of
amendments to the Foreign Aid bill which had been reported out by the
Foreign Relations Committee. Haig agreed with my suggestion that this
matter be taken up at the LIG meeting scheduled for 26 October and said
I should work out details with Colonel Kennedy of the White House staff.
Later I discussed the problem with Assistant Secretary of State
for Congressional Relations David Abshire who said they were planning
a meeting on the same subject Tuesday morning with Clark MacGregor
at the White House. I suggested this meeting might be merged with the
LIG meeting where General Haig had planned to take the subject up.
7. Called Colonel Kennedy, in the White
House, and recommended that the meeting with MacGregor and the LIG
meeting be merged, to which Kennedy agreed and said he would arrange
accordingly.
8. I Alex Schnee, State Department, queried
us regarding the applicability of Sections 402, 408, and 409 of H. R. 9910.
He said he understood that John Marks, of Senator Case's staff, had drafted
these sections to have a direct effect on Agency activities. I told Mr. Schnee
that the impact of these sections was still unclear but we were checking on
them.
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9. John Lehman, of the White House staff,
called to determine those sections of the bill which were of particular
concern to the Agency. I told him that we were concerned about a number
of sections of the bill as were other members of the Executive Branch,
but we had special problems with Section 405(b) concerning responsibilities
of departments and agencies with respect to the-Foreign Relations and
Foreign Affairs Committees and with Section 655 which applied to Cambodia,
the amendment previously placed in the Military Procurement Act by
Symington establishing a ceiling on operations in Laos. It developed that
Lehman did not have a copy of the bill as reported out or of the Committee
report and copies of these documents were forwarded to him.
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JOHN M. MAURY
Legislative Counsel
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