JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73B00296R000200050105-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 23, 2006
• Sequence Number: 105
• Publication Date: July 15, 1971
• Content Type: NOTES

Approved For Release 2007/01/29 : CIA-RDP73B00296R000200050105-9
SECRET
Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Thursday - 15 July 1971
Page 3
11. The Director advised of a call he received from
Walt Rostow asking about briefings of the CIA Subcommittees prior to 3 August
1964 (when Sec r McNamara briefed the Senate Foreign Relatioi
Committee) on Secret
The Director instructed that we review our
files and have Mr. Maury advise Rostow of our findings. We are working on
this.
Senator Abraham Ribicoff (D., Conn.), called and requested a copy of the
report which Senator Mansfield referred to in a Flora Lewis column which
was allegedly prepared by CIA on foreign drug traffic. I explained the facts
concerning this report which was published by the Bureau of Narcotics and
Dangerous Drugs to Amitay and referred him to the reports placed in the
Congressional Record by Representative Gubser (page E5305 of 2 June 1971)
and by Senator Javits (page S 8686 of 9 June 1971). Mr. Amitay thanked me
for these references.
a call from Representative George Mahon to him. Mr. Mahon said he would
like someone in CIA to prepare, on four or five typewritten pages, the most
understandable history of the Southeast Asia situation that we could come up
with. He said he wanted nothing classified, and wants no reference made to
CIA activities, but he outlined the chronological steps which he wished covered
in this paper including: French presence in Indochina, the difficulty encounterec
Dien Bien Phu, the French withdrawal, the date of the first U. S. involvement
in Southeast asia, the provision of military supplies and equipment and the
extent of this assistance, the extent of our help to the French, and the date
which MAAG was established. I told the Chairman I thought George Carver
was the best person to do this for him and reminded him of the articles which
Carver had written for Foreign Affairs magazine on the subject. Mr. Mahon
recalled this and said he would like to have copies of these articles again in
addition to the original piece which he requested. He said he wanted to show
this has been a long, drawn out, and expensive program which began not in
1964 but in the late 1940s. He said he would like this in the next week to ten
days and I assured him we would have it within that time period. Mr. Carver
is working on this.
Approved For Release 2007/01/SE%"A 73B00296R000200050105-9