JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74B00415R000100040042-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 2, 2006
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: March 31, 1972
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Friday - 31 March 1972
Met with Mr. Frank Slatinshek, Assistant Chief
Counsel, House Armed Services Committee, and briefed him on the
Yugoslavian smallpox epidemic and SS-11 Mod 3 testing.
Mr. Slatinshek told me that the DIA briefing Wednesday afternoon
had gone quite well. In brief, the meeting covered recent intelligence
coverage with slides illustrating the points covered.
An open date for next week was made to meet with Mr. Slatinshek to
outline both the format and content for the Agency meeting with the
Subcommittee that will be scheduled after the recess.
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YUGOSLAVIA: The smallpox epidemic is worse
than Belgrade is admitting publicly, and the.Yugo-
slavs privately are seeking speedy.medical assist-
ance.
The official in charge of combating the epi-
demic told the US ambassador on 28 March that there
were around 200 cases in Serbia and its provinces
of Kosovo and Voivodina, almost twice the incidence
admitted by the press. There were 15 deaths re-
ported as of yesterday, including five in Belgrade
alone.
An estimated 20 to. 30 percent of the locally
produced vaccine may be ineffective. The Yugoslavs
are requesting assistance totaling 20 million doses
of vaccine from the US, USSR, major West European
countries, and the World Health Organization. Three
million doses of vaccine, related equipment, and six
specialists from the US will arrive in Yugoslavia
by Friday.
The epidemic is localized for now in the gen-
eral area of Serbia, but Yugoslav experts fear a
second outbreak will spill over into new areas in
the next few days. Such an outbreak could outpace
immunization efforts by the other republics.
The epidemic may be spreading abroad. A Yugo-
slav worker in Hanover, West Germany, has been hos-
pitalized with smallpox, and the Bulgarians have
closed their border with Yugoslavia and are claim-
ing that Albania, too, is infected. Other neighbor-
ing countries may close their borders shortly.
(CONFIDENTIAL)
30 Mar 72
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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Monday - 27 March 1972
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IMet with Frank Slatinshek, Acting Chief Counsel,
House Armed Services Committee, whom I briefed on the latest development
regarding SS-11 tests.
In response to Slatinshek's question about Agency involvement in the
Chilean elections, I said that I didn't know the details but was under the
impression that some of the recent press stories had considerably distorted
and exaggerated the facts. Slatinshek didn't seem to think we would have
any trouble with this problem so far as the Armed Services Committee was
concerned.
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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Friday - 24 March 1972
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In response to his call of yesterday, I called
Eric Freedman, on the staff of Representative Charles B. Rangel (D., N.Y.),
and told him that,while we did not vouch for the accuracy of all the information
in the Moose/Lowenstein report of April 1971, he could find answers to some
of the questions he had raised about activities in Long Tieng. I told him that
anything further they might desire on this should be the basis of a request either
to Chairman Hebert or to Mr. Frank Slatinshek, House Armed Services
Committee staff. (Slatinshek had previously agreed with this response to
Freedman's inquiry.)
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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Thursday - 23 March 1972
Counsel, House Armed Services Committee, and delivered to him the
Director's letter to the Chairman forwarding certain information on the
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Met with Mr. Frank Slatinshek, Acting Chief
Soviet navy for inclusion in the Committee records. This closes out for
the moment the various actions that resulted from the letter of 7 March
from Representative Aspin (D. , Wis. ) to the Director.
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