JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL TUESDAY - 8 FEBRUARY 1972

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• Publication Date: February 8, 1972
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 2
Tuesday - 8 February 1972
5. Returned to J. Sourwine, Chief Counsel, Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee, the Subcommittee copy of the transcript
(7 volumes) of the testimony of thel case. Pursuant to 25X1
my prior understanding with Sourwine, I told him we had made a copy of
this record and he might wish to so note the Subcommittee's files, I
mentioned again that to the best of my knowledge the Agency had not made
a copy of this transcript when it was loaned to us in 1954. I said Mr. Maury
had not been in touch with Senator Eastland's office since he was attending
a hearing all day today, but would probably call tomorrow to arrange an
appointment with the Senator. Sourwine said he would be circulating his
memorandum to the Subcommittee members today or tomorrow and expected
they would take the position not to release any of the testimony. I told him
I certainly hoped that would be their conclusion. Sourwine mentioned
Marquis Childs' column in today's Washington Post on the subject of the
case and commented he wondered where Childs was getting his
information.
I talked with Sourwine about the Revolutionary Action Movement
in Mexico as mentioned in the Evans /Novak column of 24 March 1971 using
information provided by WH Division in a memorandum dated 31 January 1972.
I told Sourwine it appeared that the Mexicans had made all that could be made
of this case and perhaps more, and that investigation by someone outside of
Mexico, especially an arm of the U. S. Government, might have the effect of
offending the Mexican Government and upsetting their treatment of this issue.
Sourwine seemed to appreciate this situation and said he had no desire to do
anything which would give the Mexican's the impression the Subcommittee
was interferring in internal Mexican problems. He did ask, however, if I
could find out whether the Soviet diplomats who were expelled from Mexico
returned to the Soviet Union or whether any of them might have gotten into
the United States. I told him I would check on this.
I left with Sourwine a second publication entitled "Nkrumah's Deception
of Africa" put out by the Ghana Government and said this might be useful to the
Subcommittee in deciding how to handle possible publication of the earlier item
I had given him on subversion hi Africa.
I asked Sourwine if he would return to me the several items I had given
him, including letters from Deryabin and Rastvorov to the press and several
newspaper articles on Soviet subversion. Sourwine said he would get these
back for me and I could pick them up in the next day or two. I told him I
would reexamine these items with a view toward their possible utilization
as separate items.
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