JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL THURSDAY - 27 APRIL 1972

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74B00415R000200100051-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 12, 2006
• Sequence Number: 51
• Publication Date: April 27, 1972
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 3
Thursday - 27 April 1972
8. (Confidential - JMM) Accompanied George Carver, SAVA, who
briefed Senator Charles Percy and Scott Cohen, of his staff, on the military
situation in Vietnam. The Senator was particularly interested in talk of a
"Dunkirk" situation which might confront the remaining U. S. troops in South
Vietnam, the military threat to Saigon, the role of the South Vietnamese air
force, and the overall military prospects of the war.
9. (Confidential - JMM) Met with Bill Woodruff, Counsel, Senate
Appropriations Committee, and discussed the above-mentioned amendments
to the Foreign Relations Authorization Act (S. 3526). He shares the view of
other Hill contacts with whom we have discussed the matter that getting any
exemption for CIA to the restrictions on dissemination of overseas information
is virtually out of the question in the Senate. He rather favored my suggestion
that we may try to cope with the situation by getting the House Foreign Affairs
Committee to introduce a "clean bill" covering much the same ground as the
Church amendment in the Senate, but with language acceptable to the Agency.
10. (Confidential - JMM) Called Frank Slatinshek, Assistant Chief
Counsel, House Armed Services Committee, regarding a request from
Chairman Moorhead, Foreign Operations and Government Information Subcom-
mittee, House Government Operations Committee, for Agency witnesses to
appear on 5 May to testify on security and classification problems. Slatinshek's
off-the-cuff comment was (a) we cannot avoid appearing, (b) it would be helpful
to buy time so that Chairman Nedzi and our oversight Subcommittee could cover
this problem with us first, and (c) when we do appear before Moorhead we should
not push for executive session, since an appearance in open session would
provide justification for refusing to answer any detailed questions.
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