JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73B00296R000200110009-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 18, 2004
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: May 27, 1971
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Thursday - 27 May 1971
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of Representative Lawrence G. Williams (R. , Pa. ), on a constituent letter
asking the Congressman to comment on the CIA involvement: in heroin
traffic from Laos to Vietnam and gave her a fact sheet for her use in drafting
a suitable reply to refute the charges. Miss Bailey is new on the job and
asked for guidance on how to handle inquiries in the future concerning CIA
and I explained the "no comment" policy and that if it is helpful we would
be glad to work up suggested replies.
6. 1 1 Met with Mrs. Peckham, in the office of
Representative Charles Thone (R. , Neb. ), on a constituent letter implicating
CIA with the current drug problem and gave her a fact sheet for her use in
preparing a suitable reply without attribution to the Agency. She said she
wasn't sure that the constituent deserved a reply.
7. Left with Hendrick Gideon, Senate
Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization staff, some material on the
organization of the intelligence community that he had requested (see Journal
of 25 May).
25X1 8. In followup of his call, of 21 May, met
with Al Taraboc ia, Senate Internal Security Subcommittee staff, and he
pointed out several passages of special interest in the book Venceremos
Brigade , recently published by Simon & Schuster, and told me that in about
a week he would make available to us a transcript on an individual being
detained in the Virgin Islands who alleges detailed knowledge of training
25X1A of revolutionaries in Mexico and Haiti< H Division, has
been advised.
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9. I I Robert Hull, Department of State,
advised that Howard Mace, Deputy Director General and Director of Personnel,
will be appearing before the Hanley Subcommittee, 2 June 1971, and in his
testimony will support full exemptions for CIA, NSA, Defense, FBI and
State and, in addition, that the President be given the authority to designate
'1critical-sensitive" positions to which the bill would not apply.
With respect to the HEW proposed legislation to provide for a
transfer of credit between Civil Service and Social Security, Hull said that
State would most likely defer to the views of the Civil Service Commission.
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