WHITE HOUSE MEETING OF THE LEGISLATIVE INTERDEPARTMENTAL GROUP -- 24 NOVEMBER 1971

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• Document Release Date: June 2, 2005
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: December 1, 1971
• Content Type: MFR

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SUBJECT: White House Meeting of the Legislative Interdepartmental
Group -- 24 November 1971
1. On Z4 November 1971, I attended a meeting of the Legislative
Interdepartmental Group at 1640 hours in the Situation Room in the
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The meeting was chaired by Mr. John Lehman, of Dr. Kissinger's staff,
and participants included:
National Security Council
Colonel T. C. Pinckney
Mr. Robert Hormats
Mr. James T. Hackett
State Department
Mr. David Abshire
Mr. Thomas Pickering
Mr. Alex Schnee
Mr. Anthony Faunce
Department of Defense
Lt. General George Seignious
Mr. Rady Johnson
CIEP
Mr. Lawrence Brady
AID
Mr. Matt Harvey
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Mro Robert Mantel
White House
Mr. Richard Cook
2. At the outset it was noted that State was pressing Chairman
Thomas Morgan, House Foreign Affairs Committee, for an early conference
between the House and the Senate on legislation regarding Radio Free
Europe and Radio Liberty. Mro Lehman said he would try to get the
President to sign a letter in support of a conference solution ensuring the
continuation of the Radios.
3. The remainder of the meeting was devoted to a discussion of
a number of sections of the Military Assistance bill as reported out by
the Foreign Relations Committee. It was agreed that the changes in the
bill t4 be recommended by the Administration would be assigned priorities
A, B'and C--Priority A including those amendments essential to the
Administration's program; Priority B, those amendments considered
highly important; and Priority C, amendments which were of lesser
urgency.
4. So far as matters of interest to the Agency were concerned, it
was agreed that:
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bo Section 655 (imposing a $341 million ceiling on all
the systems to Cambodia including ARVN ground operations)
was accorded Priority A. State and DOD undertook to work
together preparing talking papers to brief Chairman Morgan
in support of their request that:
(1) The ceiling not apply to ground operations
by third country troops, and
(2) That the conference language limit application
of the ceiling to AID-related matters.
t to Section 656 (establishing a ceiling
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5 At the close of the meeting I commented that the Director wanted
the group to be aware of the position he had taken with the Senate Armed
Services Committee when queried regarding the affects of changes in the
intelligence community. I said the Director had made clear to the
Committee that:
a. There was nothing in the new arrangements
requiring or authorizing him to abrogate his responsi-
bilities as head of the Central Intelligence Agency and
that he had every intention of continuing to discharge
these responsibilities as in the past.
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b. The only specific changes were the instruction
that he devote increased attention to coordinating the
community, and the requirement that he submit to OMB
a program budget for the community.
c. The new National Security Council Intelligence
Committee will fill a gap by providing the community
with guidance as to the intelligence coverage needed by
the policymakers but will have no affect on the substance
of intelligence estimates or analyses.
JOHN M. MAURY
;Legislative Counsel
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