JOURNAL-OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 24, 2006
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• Publication Date: April 12, 1972
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Wednesday - 12 April 1972
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In the absence of Ed Braswell, left with
Jack Ticer, General Counsel, Senate Armed Services Committee, a copy of
my memo covering some of the highlights of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee hearings on the Cooper bill (S. 2224), where Pete Scoville and 25X1
Chet Cooper testified.
ER O/DDCI
Mr. Houston
DDI DDS DDS & T EA/DDP OPPB
I Legislative Counsel
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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Monday - 10 April 1972
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William McAfee, INR/DDC, State Department,
called to say that David Abshire, Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional
Relations, had asked Ray Cline, Director Intelligence and Research, for
material on the Cooper bill (S. 2224) for his (Abshire's) use in talking to the
Foreign Relations Committee later this week. McAfee said he assumed we
had developed some thoughts on this and he would appreciate anything we
could pass on to them. I told him we had sent a basic position paper to
Tom Lattimer, in the White House, for Dr. Kissinger's use and had also
provided some material to Ed Braswell, on the Senate Armed Services
Committee staff, this morning. I told him I would forward copies of this
material as well as some additional comments of mine having to do with
comparison of the Cooper bill with Section 202 of the Atomic Energy Act
with the understanding that it would not be used in its present form since
this had been sent to Braswell for possible use in a floor statement by
Senator Stennis. The material was sent this afternoon.
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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Monday - 10 April 1972
1. I I Delivered a letter from General
Walters to Chairman Stennis to d Braswell, Chief Counsel, Senate Armed
Services Committee, enclosing the responses to questions raised by
Senators Strom Thurmond (R. , S. C.) and Harold Hughes (D. , Iowa) during
General Walters' confirmation hearing on Friday.
I also gave Mr. Braswell a paper from Jack Maury concerning
S. 2224, the Cooper bill. Mr. Braswell glanced through both General
Walters' questions and answers and Mr. Maury's paper while I was with
him and said that it looked as if he would have to do a little more studying 25X1C
on S. 2224.
Accompanied the Intelligence Production
Course members to a meeting with Mr. James Woolsey, of the Senate
Armed Services Committee, who talked to them at some length -about problems
facing the Congress and particular problems for the Agency as he saw them.
Considerable length of time was spent in discussion on the provisions of
Senator Cooper's (R. , Ky.) bill (S. 2224) and the class members seemed to
appreciate Mr. Woolsey's remarks.
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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Friday - 7 April 1972
Met with Senator Symington (D, , Mo.) as a
followup to his complaints to the Director during theSArmed Services
Subcommittee session on 5 April about duplication of intelligence activities
in the Middle East. It turned out Symington had confused some MAG and
communications activities with intelligence operations, and after a
40-minute talk he seemed fairly satisfied. During our conversation he
complained that too many burdens were being imposed on the Agency, such
as economic reporting, paramilitary operations, covering the narcotics
traffic, etc.
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Friday - 7 April 1972
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Senate Armed Services Committee staff, regarding General Walters'
nomination. She told me that the Senate did not call the executive
calendar on Friday.
7. I I Ed Braswell, Chief Counsel, Senate
Armed Services Committee, called to ask that we provide him with the
information for use in a possible speech by Senator Stennis (D. , Miss. )
in oppossition to the Cooper bill (S. 2224) which would require that 25X1C
intelligence material be made freely available to the Congress.
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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Thursday - 6 April 1972
1. Accompanied General Walters to the
confirmation hearing before an open session of the Senate Armed Services
Committee. Only Chairman Stennis and Senators Margaret Chase Smith
and Barry Goldwater were present, and no sensitive or controversial
matters arose. However, Senators Strom Thurmond and Harold Hughes
submitted, in absentia, questions to be answered in writing for the record.
2. Met with Ed Braswell and Jim Woolsey, Senate
Armed Services Committee staff, and briefed them on recent developments
regarding Soviet SLBMs and the SS-11 ICBM.
5e I I Talked to Mr. John Ticer, Senate Armed _
Services Committee stall, w Ho confirmed that the Committee had approved
General Walters' nomination and said that it might go to the floor as early
as tomorrow if no opposition developed.
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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Wednesday - 5 April 1972
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By way of followup I advised John Goldsmith,
gna e Armed Services Committee staff, that Mr. McCone definitely does not
plan to appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the subject
of the Cooper bill to provide for the dissemination of intelligence information
to the Congress.
25X1 I uIn view of Representative Robert Steele's
(R. , onn. availability to a ress the Intelligence Production Course at
2 p.m. on Monday, 10 April, I arranged with Jim Woolsey, Senate Armed
25X1A Services Committee staff, to change his talk to this group to 3:15 p.m.
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Wednesday - 5 April 1972
3. Received a call from Mr. Ralph
Preston, House Appropriations Committee staff, from his home. He
expressed his apologies that he will be unable to attend the briefing
arranged for this morning for himself and Mr. Woodruff, Senate Appropriations
Committee staff. He has a very sore throat and by doctor's suggestion will
be spending the day at home. Mr. Preston said that he will reschedule for
one day next week when he gets back in the office. I thanked him for the call.
Mr. Briggs, OPPB, has been advised.
talked to Ruby Hamblen, Senate Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee
staff, and arranged for the loan of two easels for use in the Director's
briefing of Senate Armed Services Committee this afternoon.
At the request of Mr. Colby' s office,
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Tuesday - 4 April 1972
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5. I I Called John Lehman, of Dr. Kissinger's
staff, to see what the White House attitude was on the Ervin inquiry. Lehman
said that Fred Fielding and John Deane, of the White House staff, were handling
this and he would have Fielding call me. Lehman recalled that the question
of executive agreements had come up previously in connection with the Cooper
bill which the community representatives, in the LIG meeting, had strongly
opposed. He said he understood that the State Department was preparing a
reply to Senator Ervin in behalf of all executive agencies, and asked whether
I agreed on this solution. I said not unless I knew what State was going to say.
Lehn'han said he would send us a draft and we could rewrite it as we saw fit. He
said if therewere any differences after that with the agencies, we should meet
with John Deane. He added that the White House was particularly concerned to
protect any intelligence agreements from congressional probing. I asked him
if this meant he would invoke executive privilege if this is necessary. He said yes.
Lehman then brought up the question of the Cooper bill on making
intelligence information available to Congress. I suggested he review the
transcript of the hearings with Pete Scoville and Chet Cooper last week. In
response to his question I said I thought the bill would be reported out by
Foreign Relations but possibly held up by Armed Services which also had a
slice of it. I added I thought it might run into opposition in the House. Lehman
asked what they should be doing and I suggested some discreet lobbying,
emphasizing the importance of keeping intelligence material from becoming the
subject of political controversy. He said Kissinger had seen Stennis last week
and hoped to keep in closer touch with Stennis in the future. He said he would 25X1C
try to get Kissinger to raise this question with Stennis at the first opportunity.
8. Spoke with Martin Wolf, Press Secretary
to Senator Mike Gravel (D. , Alaska), who asked that we continue to send the
Senator the FBIS Daily Reports until further notice. Arrangements were made
with FBIS to initiate subscriptions for the area books concerned.
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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Tuesday - 4 April 1972
Committee staff, called regarding articles in the New York Post on 29 March
and the Chicago Sun-Times on 28 March stating that Mr. John McCone was
supporting the Cooper bill which provided for dissemination of intelligence
information to the Congress. Goldsmith was interested in any information
we had on the basis of these two articles. I called him back later and told
him we knew of no basis for these statements except the possibility that
someone had seen Mr. McCone's name on the list of possible witnesses
favorable to this legislation, but we had no information as to whether or not
Mr. McCone would, in fact, testify.
John Goldsmith, Senate Armed Services
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