JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73B00296R000300260036-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 1, 2006
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: October 6, 1971
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATNE COUNSEL
Wednesday - 6 October 1971
ec reta ry
for Congressional Relations, Department of State, to offer some revisions
to the draft letter from Abshire to Fulbright commenting on the Cooper bill
(requiring the Agency to provide intelligence material to the Congress). Abshire
didn't have this draft and I later called Bill McAfee, INR, and passed on our
proposals to hirn which he accepted.
I told Abshire we were curious as to why he, and not the Secretary,
was signing the letter to Fulbright on what appeared to be a major issue of
this sort. Abshire said the chief reason was that letters from an Assistant
Secretary attracted less publicity than letters from the Secretary adding
that also, .if necessary, the Secretary could repudiate them with minimum
embarrassment.
Bill McAfee, --r---`"" "" "y? ~~`~"??~~ 1 p:;-oviaea
INR, with rough figures on the number of Agency appearances
before congressional committees which he said they might need in response
to questions from the Foreign Relations Committee arising out of the above
mentioned letter to the Chairman cpposing' the Cooper bill.
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e mee mg an would hope for Agency suppc-~rt on this
issue. I said I wasn't clear on the matter at issue, and Syrnmes said
he was sending me their proposed position which, in effect, sought to head
off a confrontation with the Foreign Relations Committee, but which he
feared might be unacceptable to the NSC representatives who h: expected
to recommend "stonewalling. " I said I'd have to see his paper before I
could comment on the matter,
`'? Received a call from Michael VanDusen,
Near East Subcommittee staff, House Foreign Affairs Committee, who
requested that the date for Agency briefing be set over until 14 ~>ctober
due to the holiday next week, I told Mr, VanDusen I could see as
reason why we wouldn't be able to change but I would relay the request and
be back in touch with him in the morning, OCI, has been
advised.
Post Office and Civil Service Committee, reported the draft Committee
-bill on invasion of privacy of Federal employees to the full Committee with
the exemption for the intelligence community intact. It is anticipated that
there will be further discussion of the exemption before the full Committee to
require at least reporting to the Congress of similar type cases handled
within the intelligence community framework.
7? Met with Miss Fran Christy, Hoax se
Immigration an Naturalization Subcommittee, and gave her a biographic 25X1 B
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