JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73B00296R000300190058-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 7, 2002
• Sequence Number: 58
• Publication Date: July 30, 1971
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 2
Friday - 30 July 1971
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accompany me to which Liddy agreed.
5. (Confidential - JMM) Mr. Egil (Bud) Krogh, of the White House
staff, returned my call of yesterday regarding the still outstanding request
of Senators Muskie and Ribicoff for the appearance of the Director, along
with Secretaries Rogers and 1. and Attorney General Mitchell, to testify
on the complicity of prominent Southeast Asian officials in the drug traffic.
Krogh said Muskie had just "torn us to shreds" for failure to reply earlier.
I told Krogh that we had been concerned over the delay in replying to the
request (of 7 July) and told him of a draft response we proposed to send at
once. He asked that we defer this until we could have an interdepartmental
meeting to decide who should respond for the Administration and what line
they should take.
6. (Confidential - JMM) Gordon Liddy, of the White House staff,
called as a follow up to my conversation with Mr. Krogh to ask our attendance
at a meeting at 3:30 this afternoon in the Executive Office Building where
Art Downey and John Lehman, NSC staff, Wallace Johnson of Justice, andw-`.,
7. (Confidential - JMM) After discussing the above with the Director,
and I called Mr. Liddy to say that we felt it important that a
State Department representative be present since the matter of identifying
by name prominent Southeast Asian leaders was one which should primarily
be of State Department concern. He thanked me for the call and said he would
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8. (Confidential - JMM) Bill Burke, in the district office of
STATOTHR Representative Robert A. Roe, called to say a constituent of Mr. Roe's,
family which had disappeared without a trace last April en rouge from
STATOTHI 't. Lauderdale to La Guaira, Venezuela. Burke said the vessel was a 12, 000 ton
LSM flying the Panamanian flag, with a crew consisting of Venezuelans, Cubans
and Colombians, and had been due in La Guaira on 10 April. Although the Coast
Guard,: Interpol and State Department have investigated without results,
STATOTHR brotherQ suspects the vessel may still be afloat in the Caribbean,
possibly in:aCuban port. He said the Congressman would appreciate any
information the Agency might be able to develop on the subject.
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