JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL, 23 NOVEMBER 1971

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73B00296R000300220003-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 15, 2003
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• Publication Date: November 23, 1971
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Tuesday - 23 November 1971
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I. I - JGO) Ambassador Wymberley Coerr, Deputy
Director, INR, State Department, called and asked for our comments on
S. Res. 192. This is the Symington resolution to create a select committee
on the coordination of the United States activities abroad to oversee activities
of the Central Intelligence Agency. He said the Department has received a
request from Senator Fulbright (D. , Ark.) to provide a coordinated response.
I told him that we have received a request from Senator Stennis (D. , Miss. )
for the Agency's views. Ambassador Coerr asked that our views be provided
this afternoon or tomorrow, if possible, since the Department has a short-
time suspense for their response.
2. JGO) I talked to Mr. John Wilson, Staff
Assistant to Representative Paul N. McCloskey, Jr. (R. , Calif. ), concerning
Representative McCloskey's letter of 4 November. Mr. Wilson told me this
matter is being handled by Representative McCloskey and that he had written
the letter personally. In brief, I told Mr. Wilson that the Agency has no record
of any such agreement or contract with Mr. Lester of Overseas Services for
his services in recruiting individuals for employment in Laos. A:; for
Representative McCloskey's request in the final paragraph concerning Agency
activities, I told Mr. Wilson that this type of information is releasable only
to the Chairman of the Armed Services Committee. Mr. Wilson acknowledged that
his office is familiar with this fact. He will relay this information to Repre-
sentative McCloskey but has no way of knowing whether the Representative wi~5X1
care to pursue the matter further.
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