JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73B00296R000300250014-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 5, 2001
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: September 14, 1971
• Content Type: NOTES

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SECRET
JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Tuesday - 14 September 1971
STATOTHR
1. (Internal Use Only - PLC) Mrs. Schwarzman, in the office of
Representative Bill Archer (R., Tex. ), was called concerning her request for
possible informa 'o bout Mr. , President,
She was asked whether she had received any infor-
mation from the Departments of State and Commerce. She stated she had
not. She also stated that the request had been made for a constituent, a
close friend of Representative Archer, who was interested in getting into
a business deal whereby was purchasing military aircraft for
resale to Indonesia. We discussed generally the caution that must be
exercised in such deals. She stated that the constituent understood and
she was sure that any firm business deal would undoubtedly be first
checked formally with those U. S. Government agencies concerned.
2. (Unclassified - JMM) Mrs. Ward, in the office of Senator
Frank Church, called to slip my appointment to 2:15 p. m. tomorrow.
3. (Confidential - JMM) Joe Wolf, State Department, called to
suggest a counter-proposal to our suggested language for State's reply to
Senator Symington's request for information on exchange agreements with
foreign countries regarding classified and intelligence material. .I discussed
Wolf's proposal with the Director and later called Wolf's office back to say
this proposal was acceptable.
4. (Secret - JMM) Met with Ed Braswell, Chief Counsel and Staff
Director, Senate Armed Services Committee, and told him of the Director's
desire that I discuss with Chairman Stennis the question of briefing Senator
Henry M. Jackson on recent developments regarding the Soviet ICBM and ABM
programs. I informed Braswell of these developments.
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5. (Secret - JMM) Met with Senator John Stennis and briefed him
on latest developments regarding Soviet ICBM and ABM programs and
asked his advice about briefing Senator Henry M. Jackson. He said Senator
Jackson should be fully briefed on these matters.
Senator Stennis asked about the effects within the Executive Branch
of his letter to the President regarding Agency involvement in.Laos. See
Memo for Record.
6. (Unclassified - JGO) Talked to Mr. Richard Barton, Employee
Benefits Subcommittee staff of the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee
who told me that the Subcommittee considered the invasion of privacy draft
bill this morning but did not complete their considerations. The Committee will
again meet on the bill next Tuesday, 21 September. See Memorandum for the
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Record.
7. (Internal Use Only - JGO) Talked to Mr. Albert Westphal, House
Foreign Affairs Committee staff, who told me that the hearings this morning
on H. R. 9637, to provide for the establishment of an American Council for
Private International Communications (the RFE/RL bill), were uneventful.
Discussion was on a rather philosophical note although former Ambassador
Gronouski seemed to make the best impression on behalf of the Radios. Hearings
will continue tomorrow.
8. (Unclassified - JGO) Met with Mr. Jack Conmy, Press Secretary
to Senator Richard Schweiker (R. , Pa. , who gave me a copy of the newest
1PATp, PIR epistle dated 7 September from Mr. I. The Senator's office
had also received a previous one dated in August which contained about the same
material. No action by the Agency is indicated.
9. (Unclassified - GLC) In followup on an inquiry which was made
to us through the Library of Congress by Mr. David Johnson, on the staff
of Representative Michael Harrington (D., Mass.), I called Mr., Johnson
this morning and explained to him that the CIA authors of paper.3 which had
been printed in a Joint Economic Committee study on the Soviet economy
could really add nothing to what they had already written on the subject of
their articles. (Johnson had advised the Library of Congress that Representa-
tive Harrington was interested in talking to these two people.) I said that by
agreement with the Chairmen of our Agency Subcommittees we did not normally
make our people available for questioning for sessions such as ae had contem-
plated,
Mr. Johnson did not press this issue but said he was interested in
obtaining an unclassified statement as to why intelligence estimates on Soviet
R&D could not be made public. I discussed the matter with hirr. and agreed to
talk further with our people and be back in touch with him on this subject.
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