JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL FRIDAY -16 JUNE 1972

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 15, 2005
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• Publication Date: June 16, 1972
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Friday - 16 June 1972
1. The Director advised that Senator Jackson
(D. , Wash.) had indeed contacted him about having the Agency brief himself,
Senator Allott (R. , Colo. ), and William Van Ness, of the Enterior Committee
staff, on the Middle East oil situation. The Director said he told Jackson that
Jim Critchfield, Special Assistant to the DDP, would be the man to do this but
he instructed us to keep this "tamped down" until Mr. Critchfield was ready.
2, I Called Al Westphal, on the staff of the House
Foreign Affairs Committee. I told him that the Director, as well as the rest
of us here, was most appreciative of his efforts on our behalf in having the
House conferees insert language into the Study Commission provisions of the
State/USIA Authorization which would protect the Agency's prerogatives.
3. OGC, accompanied
by OLC, met with representatives of the District of Columbia
Tax Office at the request of Mr. George Mannina, Administrative Aide to
Representative Gilbert Gude (R. , Md. ). The purpose of the meeting was an
informal review of the appeal of-- I a former Agency employee, 25X1
for assessment of D. C. income tax for a two-year period during his employment
by the Agency I During the time Agency representatives
were in attendance at the meeting, the meeting was most cordial and friendly
with a single request to for information concerning the nature
of I I assignment (PCS) No further actionp?X1
is indicated.
5. Talked to Ralph Preston, House Appropriations
Committee staff, who told me it would not be possible for him to meet with
IC, and myself. He will try the first thing Monday to figure a
time during the day.
He will not be able until the first of the week to reschedule the visit
to Headquarters for briefings by Drs. Steininger, ADDS&T, and Proctor, DDI.
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