JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73B00296R000300190006-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 4, 2002
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: December 9, 1971
• Content Type: NOTES

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CONFIDE TI A L
JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Thursday - 9 December 1971
1. GLC) Having been advised by Cover Division
that DOD would not have sufficient time to clear the transcript of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff's testimony before the Senate Armed Services
Committee on the efore it was returned to 25X1
the Committee, I called Mrs. Frances Fun c, on the Committee staff,
and told her if there was any question about this in connection w:.th future
publication of a sanitized version of the transcript to let me know. She 25X1A
said she would confirm that General Westmoreland's response to Senator
Symington's question about intelligence activities on
of the transcript) was deleted and would be in touch with us if there was
anything further. While they are sanitizing the transcript they do not plan
immediate publication of the testimony.
2. GLC) In a conversation with him Jack. Ticer, on
the staff of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said that fro-In their
standpoint the hearing on General Cushman's nomination had gone well
this morning, that CIA matters did not come up, and that the nomination
had been ordered favorably reported.
3. GLC) Jim Ludlum called to say that John Ingersoll,
Director, Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, planned to meet with
Representative Paul Rogers (D., Fla.) in the next few days to brief him on
allegations that the Chinese Communist were secretly encouraging drug
traffic in Southeast Asia. Ludlum said there was no real evidence to support
this claim and added that he would send us a copy of the statemeat which w?TAT
were giving Ingersoll for his use in briefing Rogers.
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