JOURNAL- OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74B00415R000200230036-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 3, 2006
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: January 21, 1972
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 2
Friday - 21 January 1972
5. Met with Mr. Ralph Preston, House Appropriations
Committee staff, and reviewed the status of legislation concerning protection
of the rights of Federal employees pending before the House Post Office and
Civil Service Committee. Mr. Preston will check Chairman Mahon's office
and try to expedite the proposed letter from Mahon to Chairman Dulski, House
Post Office and Civil Service Committee, concerning complete exemption for
the Agency from this legislation. The Committee will be engaged fully in
scheduled hearings during the coming week. Mr. Preston will not be able to
audit the classified material held by the Committee until the schedule lets up.
Delivery of a new safe for Committee use will also be delayed until Mr. Preston
is ready for it.
6. Received a call from Miss Bernice
Kalinowski, House Armed Services Committee staff, who asked if we
could provide a duplicate notebook of background materials on classification
of information and the Espionage Act for use by Mr. Blandford, Chief Counsel
of the Committee, on Monday.
7.1 1 Met with Mr. Frank Slatinshek, Assistant Chief
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Counsel, House Armed Services Committee, and briefed him on the Soviet
8.1 In response to his call earlier in the
week, met with Mr. Marvin Liebstone, in the office of Representative Robert
Giaimo (D. , Conn. ). Mr. Liebstone gave me a copy of a letter dated 25X1
17 January to Representative Giaimo from Peter Heller of Philadelphia.
After discussion Mr. Liebstone said he would file the letter without response.
The letter is apparently the first of a new series in the scores of letters
about the Agency written to members of Congress over the past three to
four years. OS, has been advised. 25X1
9. I I I made a return call to Mrs. Hope,.
in the office o epresen-a-ive William Scott (R. , Va. ), to advise her that
a statement from the Agency refuting the recent stories alleging Agency
political assassinations in Vietnam might be issued shortly. Mrs. Hope
stated that she had already responded to the constituent that raised the concern
and she did not wish to pursue the matter further. Mrs. Hope would
appreciate a copy of any refuting statement that might be released.
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