JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL MONDAY - 14 JUNE 1971

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 5, 2006
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• Publication Date: June 14, 1971
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Monday - 14 June 1971
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3. C /FE, reported on a call he 25X1
received from John Holdridge, of the White House staff. When the Administra-
tion contacted Senator Len B. Jordan (R. , Idaho) to solicit his vote on the
Hatfield/McGovern bill, the Senator expressed concern about alleged CIA
incursions into China (and also about reports of Lao irregulars cutting off
the ears of their adversaries). Since Senator Jordan appears to have predicated
his response on the vote to a reply on these points, Holdridge has asked if we
would be willing to straighten these matters out with the Senator tomorrow.
4. I I Met with Mr. Philip Trimble, Co nsu lta nt, 25X1
S enate Foreign Relations Committee, and delivered to him a letter of 14 June
enclosing a statement concerning recent Soviet ICBM developments. After
review, Mr. Trimble will attach the letter and enclosure to the inside rear
cover of the transcript of the Director's briefing of the Committee of 29 March
1971.
5. Met with Mr. John R. Blandford, Chief Counsel, 25X1
House Armed Services Committee, and discussed the Agency's proposed
response to the Chairman concerning H. R. 3578. Mr. Blandford noted that
this would be a chance, if we cared to avail ourselves of it, to put ourselves
in writing that the Agency operates under the direction of the National Security
Council and reports directly to the National Security Council and to the
President. I thanked Mr. Blandford for the observation. I brought him up
to date on a briefing of the Senate Appropriations Committee on Friday and
our recent contacts with Senate and House members concerning the "Ervin
bill. " I briefed Mr. Blandford on the following items: Soviet "J" vehicle;
the Salyut mission; a surface-to-surface missile support facility; North
Vietnamese General Tuyen Huan; and Chinese Mao-class submarines.
6.
Pat Holt, Senate Foreign Relations Commit2 W
staff, called to clear a proposed public statement for the record regarding the
Director's testimony on Brazil before the Latin America Subcommittee on
5 May. Holt proposed that the public record simply reveal that the Director
had appeared, but the substance of his testimony would be "completely deleted.
I agreed.
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