JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL TUESDAY - 14 SEPTEMBER 1971

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• Publication Date: September 14, 1971
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5. Met with Senator John Stennis and briefed him
on latest developments regarding Soviet ICBM and ABM programs and
asked his advice about briefing Senator Henry M. Jackson. He said Senator
Jackson should be fully briefed on these matters.
Senator Stennis asked about the effects within the Executive Branch
of his letter to the President regarding Agency involvement in:Laos. See
Memo for Record.
6. Talked to Mr.. Richard Barton, Employee
Benefits Subcommittee staff of the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee,
who told me that the Subcommittee considered the invasion of privacy draft
bill this morning but did not complete their considerations. The Committee will
again meet on the bill next Tuesday, 21 September. See Memorandum for the
Record.
7. Talked to Mr. Albert Westphal, House
Foreign Affairs Committee staff, who told me that the hearings this morning
on H. R. 9637, to provide for the establishment of an American Council for
Private International Communications (the RFE/RL bill), were uneventful.
Discussion was on a rather philosophical note although former Ambassador
Gronouski seemed to make the best impression on behalf of the Radios. Hearings
will continue tomorrow.
Met with Mr. Jack Conmy, Press Secretary
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STATOTHR to Senator Richard Schweiker (R. , Pa. ), who gave me a copy of the newest
epistle dated 7 September from The Senator's office
had also received a previous one dated in August which contained about the same
material. No action by the Agency is indicated.
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9. In followup on an inquiry which was made
to us through the Library of Congress by Mr. David Johnson, on the staff
of Representative Michael Harrington (D., Mass. ), I called Mr. Johnson
this morning and explained to him that the CIA authors of papers which had
been printed in a Joint Economic Committee study on the Soviet economy
could really add nothing to what they had already written on the subject of
their articles. (Johnson had advised the Library of Congress that Representa-
tive Harrington was interested in talking to these two people. ) I said that by
agreement with the Chairmen of our Agency Subcommittees we did not normally
make our people available for questioning for sessions such as he had contem-
plated.
Mr. Johnson did not press this issue but said he was intere-sted in
obtaining an unclassified statement as to why intelligence estimates on Soviet
R&D could not be made public. I discussed the matter with him and agreed to
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Friday - 10 September 1971
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10. 1 1 Met with William Woodruff, Counsel, Senate
Appropriations Committee, and provided him with a copy of the OSR paper
on the comparison of the "Backfire" and U. S. B-1 bomber capability.
Mr. Woodruff mentioned that, largely because of the insistence of Secretary
Laird, selected members of the Appropriations Committee staff (principally
Messrs. Tom Scott and T. Farrell Egge, and himself) will be receiving
periodic briefings from DIA. Woodruff said he made it clear, however, that
if these briefings consisted only of confidential material which could be found
in newspapers, they would be discontinued.
11.1 I Dr. Allen, D /OER, called to say that
Mr. Proctor would like us to contact Mr. Johnson, of Representative Michael
Harrington's (D. , Mass.) office, and try to dissuade him from contact with
the two Agency authors who recently wrote articles which were included in
a study published by the Joint Economic Committee. We will contact
Mr. Johnson next week. (We discussed Representative Harrington's interest
in talking with these employees with Frank Slatinshek, House Armed Services
staff, who saw no reason why we should make these people available to
Harrington. )
connection and asked for their addresses which I provided.
12. I I Senator Stuart Symington returned a call
I made to him earlier in connection with his 23 August letter to the Director
inquiring about a story in the 14 August Guardian by T. D. Allman alleging the
Agency was involved in hassles with State and Defense in Cambodia. I told
Symington most of this story was pure nonsense and he seemed satisfied.
Senator Symington said a journalist friend of his is planning a trip
to Southeast Asia and he wished to put him in touch with a couple of our
people. He said he wanted to write to Ted Shackley and in this
13. 'Called John Lehman, White House staff,
and told him we would like to confer with Defense and OMB regarding the
letter from Senator Stennis to the President and asked if they had been
included in its distribution. Lehman said he sent copies to Rady Johnson,
Stuart French and Fred Buzhardt in Defense so we were free to talk with them
about it and he had no objection to our making a copy available to OMB and
discuss it with them.
Mr. Lehman said we would probably have an LIG meeting on the subject
on Wednesday, 15 September.
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