JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73B00296R000300260066-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 30, 2006
• Sequence Number: 66
• Publication Date: July 30, 1971
• Content Type: NOTES

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15. Received another call from Mr, Wymberley
Coerr, IN a_e epartment, about an Agency position on S. X224 and
S. 188?. I told Coerr that we were still in the process of developing a position
and I had no idea at this point as to what decision the Administration would
make as to who should be the spokesman for the Executive Bran~:h on these
bills. Coerr seemed reluctant to develop a State position tuntil the Agency
provided guidance. I urged that, in view of the complexity of this situation,
he develop a State position on the legislation and then we would get together.
I also suggested that he discuss the matter with Mr. Harrison S}rmmes, Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations, State Departm~,nt, with whom
we have had general conversations about a number of pending bills.
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I talked with Mr. Eugene Krizck, and
su sequently with Mr. Harrison Symmes, of the State Department, about
information on congressional travel. (I was specifically interested in
anything State had on the upcoming travel of Senator Dole.) Krizelc and
Symmes advised me of their strict policy against providing docuxazentation
on congressional travel outside the State Department because of f.he sensitivities
of certain Members, but Symmes offered to set up a reading file in the office
of the Executive Secretary, Walter Weiss, which someone from our office was
welcomed to come over and read on a periodic basis. I told 5ym,nes this would
be very helpful.
Mr. Symmes advised me that John Marks, in the office of ~~enator
Clifford Case (R. , N. J..), has advised State Department of his in#:ention to
travel to Southeast Asia during the summer congressional recess and has
indicated an interest in talking with Agency representatives while there.
Symmes was interested in our reaction to this. I told him my ow~i feeling
was that we would provide such information as the Ambassador wished us
to by way of background briefing as a member of the country team, but that
we would not provide special Agency briefings nor would we brief Marks on
Agency operations in the area. I made clear, however, that this was not an
Agency reaction and that the matter would have to be taken up wits the Director
before I could respond officially.
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White House in Bud Krogh's office regarding a response to the request from
Senators Muskie and Ribicoff for the Director and other Administration
officials to testify on Southeast Asian officials implicated in the drug traffic.
1t was agreed that an Administration witness would agree to appE:ar but not
to reveal raw and unconfirmed intelligence on the subject and the .t, since the
problem was of primary concern to the State Department, a Department
officer, probably Marshall Green, should be the Administration's spokesman.
See White House Memorandum for the Record.
Following the meeting, John Lehman, of Dr. Kissinger's staff, approved
a draft response for the Director to send Senators Muskie and Ribicoff, indicating
that the Agency was supporting responsible Government departments on this
problem and they would be communicating with the Senators separately.
9. 2 attended a meeting in the
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5. I ~ Mr, Egil (Bud) Krogh, of the W~ute 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 Laird and Attorney General Mitchell, to testify
on the co~m- pTici~y 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 replyin7 to the
request (o.f 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 far the Administration and what line
they should take.
After discussing the above with the Director,
I called Mr. Liddy to say that we .felt it important: that a
State Department representative be present since the matter o.f identifying
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be of State Department concern. He thanked me for the call and said he would
consider it.
8. ~ ~ Bill Burke, in the district office of
Representative Robert A. Roe, called to say a constituent of Mr. Roe's,
Anthony Iuvone, was missing on a vessel, "The Elizabeth" belonga.ng to the
Iuvone family which had disappeared without a trace last April en route from
Ft? 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 resixlts, Iuvone's
brother Benjamin 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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