JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 21, 2006
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: May 10, 1972
• Content Type: NOTES

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Wednesday - 10 May 1972
5. (Confidential - JGO) Talked to Frank Slatinshek, Acting Chief
Counsel, House Armed Services Committee, who told me he had received
a call from a representative of the Library of Congress who complained he
had been attempting to establish liaison with the CIA without success.
Slatinshek said they needed a rundown on the laws applying to the CIA,
changes in the law, appropriations authorizations and so forth. He said
he referred them directly to this office and we could expect a call from
them.
He also said it is necessary that the transcript of Agency briefings
or meetings with the Committee be returned to the Committee as soon as
received from the reporters. After they have served their purpose to the
Committee they can then be returned to the Agency for safekeeping. He
said he was embarrassed this morning by not having the transcript of the
briefing on Vietnam of 4 May which he thought had been returned to them.
I assured Slatinshek it would not happen again. I told him the transcript
of yesterday's briefing of the Nedzi Intelligence Subcommittee has been
completed and I would get it to him first thing in the morning, which he
said would be satisfactory.
6. (Unclassified - JMM) Charles Ablard, USIA, called to say he
was sending over material for a possible floor speech in the Senate opposing
the Church amendment on information dissemination (S. 3526).
7. (Unclassified - JMM) Talked to Representative William Dickinson
and related an anecdote the Director had told the House Armed Services
Committee concerning a conversation between John McCloy and Soviet
Foreign Minister Kuznetsov in which Dickinson was interested.
8. (Unclassified - LLM) Mrs. Minor, on the Senate Foreign Relations,
Committee staff, called and said that the Committee needed two copies of the
China Atlas by tomorrow. After explaining that our supply has been depleted,
but that if the Committee really needed one tomorrow I would see what we
could do, Mrs. Minor said that this would not be necessary as the atlas was
for a private individual who will be travelling to China.
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Monday. - 8 May 1972
4. (Secret - JMM) Accompanied Mr. Colby I ho
briefed the Intelligence Operations Subcommittee of Senate Appropriations
Committee on the Agency budget. See Memo for Record.
5. (Unclassified - GLC) Left with Art Kuhl, Senate Foreign Relations
Committee staff, a copy of the NCNA wire photo from Peking of the Mansfield-
Scott delegation and their Chinese hosts and picked up from Kuhl six copies of
the Moose/Lowenstein report on "Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia: January 1972.
A copy of the report has been sent to FE Division.
6. (Unclassified - GLC) In response to his request I left two copies
of the China Atlas with Mr. Sam Scott, Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
staff.
7. (Secret - GLC) At his request I dropped by to see Ed Braswell,
Chief Counsel, Senate Armed Services Committee. He said the Chairman
was not satisfied with the intelligence information he has been receiving from
DOD and wanted Braswell to make arrangements for Jim Woolsey and himself
to get more detailed information from the Agency. See Memorandum for the
Record.
8. (Unclassified - GLC) In Mr. Maury's absence I returned a call
to him from Charles Ablard, USIA. Ablard said he had talked with Tom .
Korologos, White House staff, about strategy in handling the dissemination
of information provision of the State Authorization bill (S. 3526) and Dave
Abshire, Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations, is to set
up a meeting to be attended by himself, Ablard and Mr. Maury with Senator
Baker to see if the Senator would be willing to offer an amendment to correct
the USIA /CIA problems with this section. Ablard will be back in touch with
us when a date has been set for the meeting.
9. (Confidential - GLC) In a chance meeting with him on the Hill,
Bill Jordan, Senate Appropriations Committee staff, asked me whether the
Agency had any "foreign assistance resources. " It developed Jordan is pulling
together information on the Fulbright amendment to the Defense Appropriations
Act for F is cal 1972 and he wanted to be sure he had checked with us. Jordan
said he would hope that we would give him the answer that any information from
the Agency on this was classified and could not be made available. I told him
I would check on this and be back in touch with him.
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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Thursday - 4 May 1972
1. (Confidential - GLC) In response to a call from Marshall Wright,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations, I brought
him up-to-date on what we were doing on the personnel reduction section
and the dissemination of information sections of the State Authorization bill
(S. 3526). Mr. Abshire is calling a meeting of legislative liaison officers
in his office tomorrow morning at 10:00 to go over these sections and we will
attend.
2. (Unclassified - GLC) Left with Representative Lester Wolff Is
(D. , N. Y.) office a FBIS item in which the Senator' s name was mentioned.
3. (Unclassified - GLC) Left with Mary McLaughlin, of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee staff, two FBIS items, one mentioning Senator
Fulbright (D. , Ark.) and the other mentioning several other members of the
Committee.
4. (Confidential - GLC) Talked briefly with Art Kuhl, of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee staff. I mentioned that we had provided the offices
of Mansfield (D., Mont.) and Scott (R., Pa.) with copies of the Peking wire
photo of the Senators' delegation and officials of the People's Republic of China.
Kuhl expressed interest in this photograph and asked if we could provide him with
a copy. I told him we would be glad to.
5. (Unclassified - GLC) Sam Scott, on the staff of the Senate Internal
Security Subcommittee, called and asked if we could provide the Subcommittee
with two copies of the China Atlas. I told him these were getting in very short
supply but I could get two copies for him.
6. (Confidential - GLC) Checked with Jane McMullan, of the Senate
Appropriation Committee staff, and the custodian of the Senate to make
arrangements for us to have access to the Senate Appropriations Committee
room regarding tomorrow morning so that we could set up for the Director's
briefing.
7. (Confidential - JGO) Talked to Mr. Ralph Preston, House Appropriations
Committee staff, and confirmed the meeting for 10:00 a. m. Friday, 5 May, at
Headquarters for briefing on the Agency budget. Mr. Briggs, OPPB, has been
advised.
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