JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73B00296R000300190029-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 5, 2002
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: October 29, 1971
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsle Page 2
Friday - 29 October 1971
4. (Confidential - GLC) Received a call from Rady Johnson,
Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (Legislative Affairs), who said they
had been discussing with Senator Stennis possible action on the Senate
floor with respect to the Foreign Assistance Act which is to be voted on
in the Senate today. Johnson said that Deputy Secretary of Defense Packard
talked briefly with Senator Stennis yesterday.
DOD expects Senator Stennis to offer an amendment to delete all of
Section 512 but they feel the Senator would have difficulty in obtaining the
deletion of all of Section 513 on the Senate floor. DOD has talked to Roy
Bullock, Staff Administrator, House Foreign Affairs Committee, who said
he thought that Committee would be willing to knock out Section 5.3.3 when
the bill goes to conference. Johnson said some thought is being given to
asking Senator Stennis to move to delete Laos, South Vietnam, and Cambodia
from Section 513 leaving Thailand, Burma, and North Vietnam subject to
the restrictions of that section.
25X1 A I told Johnson I thought we would have problems with this and, after
checking with Mr.OC /FE, confirmed that we would not want to see
any action taken in the Senate on a partial deletion which would foreclose
25X1A deletion of the entire section by the House Committee in conference. I
passed on Mr. II comment that leaving Thailand, Burma, and North
Vietnam in the amendment would preclude even such action as possible
raids on opium refineries in some of these areas. I said we would be
25X1A opposed to any split deletion as a final measure. Johnson said he understood
and particularly liked comment about drug raids.
5. (Confidential - GLC) Received a call from Stuart French, ISA,
DOD, concerning a letter that Lawrence S. Eagleburger, ISA, has received
from Senator Strom Thurmond urging the declassification of the Penkovskiy
Papers. French said he would like to send the correspondence over to us
for our views and suggestions as to a further answer to Senator Thurmond.
6. (Confidential - GLC) The DDI called to ask if we would prepare
a list of Members of Congress who have had access to compartmented
information. He said a question has been raised about the possibility of
briefing Members and committees who have had access to this information
in connection with SALT developments. I told Mr. Proctor we would have
a ;list available for him on Monday.
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