JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73B00296R000300190100-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 7, 2002
• Sequence Number: 100
• Publication Date: April 26, 1971
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 2
Monday - 26 April 1971
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4. - GLC) DCS, called to say he had
met with Representative G. V. (Sonny) Montgomery (D., Miss.) socially over the
weekend. Montgomery, who has just returned from Vietnam, spoke critically
of Agency activities in Vietnam.
5. 0- GLC) Met with Ed Braswell, Chief Counsel, Senate
Armed Services Committee, and talked with him about the letter the Director
had received from GAO asking the Agency to assist the Department of Defense
by providing GAO with information on the cost of Soviet military research and
development programs. This would be included in a study on U. S. and Soviet
R&D expenditures which GAO is undertaking at the request of Senator McIntyre's
Subcommittee on Research and Development. Braswell seemed favorably
disposed toward my suggestion that DOD and CIA provide this material directly
to the Subcommittee, thus eliminating GAO as a middleman. Braswell said he
would look into this and be back in touch with me.
I advised Braswell that the Agency investment program had reached the
point where we were now asking for an expression of interest from Agency
employees and expected to implement the program shortly. Braswell appeared
to have no difficulty with this and, in fact, gave the impression he thought it
was a good idea.
I told Braswell we were preparing summary views on S. J. Res. 83
in response to the Committee's request. This is a bill by Senator Proxmire
to establish a commission to review expenditures involved in interdiction
bombing in Southeast Asia. Braswell said there was no press on this at the
moment, but they would like our views.
6. ~- GLC) Met with Bill Woodruff, Counsel, Senate Appro-
priations Committee, and told him of my conversation with Ed Braswell
about the study on U. S. and Soviet R&D expenditures. Woodruff also agreed
that we should try to deal directly with McIntyre's Subcommittee on this and
eliminate GAO.
I briefed Woodruff on the status of our employee investment plan
and told him we were about to implement this if there was sufficient employee
interest. Woodruff expressed no reservation.
Woodruff said that at the conclusion of the current briefings from the
Department of Defense the Chairman would want the Director, DIA, and NSA
to come up jointly for several days of hearings on the intelligence community
budget. He said he expected this would be some time around 15 May.
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