JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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May 30, 1972
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Approved For Release 2001931,17 : sc!A-RDA74 00415R000300040002-9 Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 2 Tuesday - 30 May 1972 5. (Confidential - JMM) Called John Lehman, White House staff, and explained our problem with Representative Charles Rangel's request for some classified intelligence reports on foreign narcotic traffic. Lehman approved the points made in a proposed letter to Rangel in which we explained our reasons for not providing the reports, but offering an oral briefing and an unclassified study instead. 6. (Confidential - PLC) Left with the secretary of Mr. Al Tarabochia, Senate Internal Security Subcommittee staff, prints made from undeveloped film which had been taken by Venceremos Brigade in Cuba. Mr. Tarabochia's secretary was told that she would be given prints from the remainder of the film as soon as it is developed. 7. (Confidential - LLM) Called Joseph Thach, Research Analyst, House Internal Secugity Committee and told him that we could not dis- tinguish the case of from statements by other prisoners of war, and for this reason, we could not lift the dissemination control that applies to his statements in Thach then asked if he could develop the theme content of these statements without identifying the prisoner of war through selective quotations, and I said I would check. Subsequently, advised that ISA objects to such use, and arrangements were made for Thach to call Admiral Epes, ISA, and to get us out of the middle. Thach was very understanding of our position as was Robert Horner, Chief Investigator of the Committee, with whom I also talked. (See Journal of 26 May 1972) 25X1A 8. (Internal Use Only - LLM) Called Ray McRae, Minority Counsel, Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations, Committee on Government Operations, and discussed the prospects of advisory committee legislation in the Senate before the Congress adjourns. McRae seemed to be sympathetic to the problems that the legislation may cause the Agency. He will check with Senator Metcalf (D., Mont.) on whether he intends to push S. 3529 and let us know the outcome. McRae was unaware of the reasons for dropping from S. 3529 the exemption for national security or intelligence, which appeared in Metcalf's earlier bill, S. 1637, but speculated that probably it was a matter of inattention and was optimistic about our chances for restoring it. He said that Senator Metcalf and Senator Percy, who was not on the Subcommittee, were most interested in the legislation. McRae said that he would like to discuss this further when he got more information. W?'~1g, ~iL CRC 0 /11/2004 Approved For Release 20054'/ ?7 dkkbP 4B00415R00030004~d0 9 Approved For Release 2004/0,3L1 -, CIIAj RDP74BOO415R000300040002-9 Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 2 Tuesday - 16 May 1972 5. (Unclassified - SMG) In response to her earlier inquiry, called Carol Chance, in the office of Representative Donald Fraser (D. , Minn.), and told her that the House Foreign Affairs Committee has a copy of the China Atlas for the use of Committee members and that they are reserving it for Mr. Fraser. Miss Chance said she appreciated our assistance. 6. (Unclassified - GLC) Picked up from Susan McMahon, Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff, a letter for the Director from Chairman Fulb right. 7. (Secret - GLC) Left with Bill Woodruff, Counsel, Senate Appropriations Committee, an unclassified paper describing the termination account which had been set up for Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. This was in response to Woodruff's request last Friday. Woodruff explained his interest in this stemmed from Howland Sargeant's desire to free a portion of this money to cover partial liquidation expenses which have been incurred by both RFE and RL. He said arrangements had been made with Jim Frye, OMB, for them to send a letter to Chairmen Mahon and Ellender explaining their intention to release $1. 2 million from the termination account to the Radios at this time, and the Chairmen will indicate their agreement with this. Woodruff also mentioned he had been very pleased with the way the entire intelligence community budget hearings had gone. He said Dr. Hall had done a good job and Lou Tordella had given a very good presentation. See Memorandum for the Record. Briefed Woodruff on a number of current intelligence items including development of various naval forces, the North Vietnamese military offensives, Soviet vessels in Cuba, Soviet communication system developments, and problems in Moscow afro relations. 8. (Unclassified - GLC) Upon learning after the close of business that the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee sent the Nkrumah studies to GPO for printing today, I contacted GPO and arranged for the Agency to "ride the jacket" for 200 copies of this study which is entitled "Communist. Global Subversion and American Security, Volume I, The Attempted Communist Subversion of Africa Through Nkrumah's Ghana. " Ralph Hutto, of the Subcommittee staff, said we could also get some copies from them if necessary. S Ci E Approved For Release 2004/03/17 : CIA-RDP74B00415R000300040002-9 Approved For Release 2004/03/17 : CIA-RDP74B00415R000300040002-9 Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 2 Tuesday - 9 May 1972 5. (Confidential - GLC) Provided George Murphy, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy staff, some graphical material for Representative Chet Holifield (D., Calif.) in response to the Congressman's request. 6. (Unclassified - GLC) Left with Representative Lester Wolff's (D., N. Y. office another copy of the FBIS Bangkok press story on the "Thai Connection" which they had asked for. 7. (Unclassified - GLC) Left with Diana Meyer, in the office of Representative James A. Burke (D., Mass.), Mr. Maury's letter to the Congressman responding to a constituent letter from Mr. James Mulroy. 8. (Confidential - GLC) Made arrangements with Sam Goldberg, Legislative 4ssistant to Senator Charles McC. Mathias (R., Md. ), to take from the DDS' staff, up to give him some advice on a storage problem. Goldberg said they were interested in getting a briefing on the situation in Korea and wondered if it would be best to go to the State Department or get the briefing from us. I suggested he get a briefing from State first and then if he felt there was anything we could fill in to let us know. 25X1A Goldberg mentioned that during a brief assignment on the staff of the Subcommittee on National Security and International Operations he was given a top secret clearance through the Department of Defense and wondered if they would suffice for our purposes. I told him that in general it would. 25X1A 9. (Secret - JGO) I DDS&T, accom anied b p y met with Chairman Clement J. Zablocki (D. , Wis. ), Representatives Vernon Thomson (R. , Wis.) and Ogden Reid (D. , N. Y ) and staff b . , mem ers George Berdes, John Sullivan, and Everett Bierman, House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on National Security Policy and Scientific Developments, and gave them a short briefing on current status of Soviet strate is stren h. The briefing updated the information previously provided b concerning Soviet ICBMs, submarines an,,I, SLBMs, bombers and naval vessels, defensive missiles and Soviet vessels in Cuban waters. The expected attendance of the full Subcommittee was frustrated by a roll call on the floor five minutes before the meeting was due to start and the gallery demonstrations that took place during the afternoon in the House chamber. There are no followups from today's briefing. 25X1A SECRET Approved For Release 2004/03/17 : CIA-RDP74B00415R000300040002-9 Approved For Release 2004/03 17 CIA- P74B00415R000300040002-9 Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 2 Friday - 5 May 1972 4. (Unclassified - LLM) DCS, called to report that he25X1A had been asked by a contact in the Library of Congress to identify the laws supporting current congressional committee oversight of the Agency. I recommended that he avoid any detailed discussion and simply refer to the Legislative Reorganization Act and the fact that the Agency's enabling legis- lation has for some time been within the jurisdiction of the Armed Services Committees of both Houses. I suggested that if his contact wanted further information concerning this matter, the staffs of the Armed Services Com- mittees be contacted, and if he wanted information on other laws affecting the Agency, that lAssociate General Counsel, be contacted. 5. (Unclassified - LLM) Called William Shaw, Research Director, House Internal Security Committee, and told him that we did not have any unclassified compilation concerning political kidnappings but that he might want to contact the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee for a report put out under Senator Dodd's auspices in 1964 to serve as a case example. 6. (Confidential - JGO) In response to his call I met with Representative Richard H. Ichord (D. , Mo.) and scheduled a meeting for Monday to brief him on the various Warren Commission documents requested in his letter of 21 March. Representative Ichord noted that he had delayed quite a bit in setting up the meeting but he has been pressed on other matters. CI Staff, has been advised. See Journal of 10 and 11 April 1972. 25X1A 7. (Secret - JGO) In response to her call met with Miss Dorothy Fosdick, Staff Director, Subcommittee on National Security and International Operations, and briefed her on various Soviet naval units operating in Cuban waters including the G-class diesel-powered ballistic missile submarine. In response to her question whether the presence of the G-class submarine is in keeping with our understanding with the Soviet Union, I told Miss Fosdick that this question is one.that she would have to refer to the Department of State. As usual the meeting was most cordial and friendly. 8. (Internal Use Only - JGO) Representative Frank Bow (R., Ohio) was away from the city during the afternoon. I am to call his office on Monday to arrange a time for meeting after his return. SECRET Approved For Release 2004/03/17 : CIA-RDP74B00415R000300040002-9 Approved For Release 200 4B00415R000300040002-9 FIAL Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 4 Monday - 1 May 1972 . 15. (Unclassified - JMM) Met with Representative Barry Goldwater, Jr., in response to his request for a general nonsensitive briefing on the Agency. Since the briefing dealt with no operational matters, I offered no objection to the inclusion of a couple members of his staff. His questions concerned particularly the relation of the Agency with other members of the community, the problems of coordination and duplication, and our general assessment of the effectiveness of the RIS. 16. (Confidential - JMM) Ed Braswell, Chief Counsel, Senate Armed Services Committee, called to say that Chairman Stennis was "much disillusioned" about the military briefings he was getting regarding Vietnam and was wondering how he could get a more objective picture of the situation there. Braswell said he had suggested that he might want a briefing from CIA, but Stennis had not immediately followed up on this. Braswell said before pursuing the matter further he wanted our views and wondered whether it might be more helpful to show him our situation reports. I said I thought the Chairman could get a better perspective by an oral briefing by SA VA, but Braswell said he would like some additional backup material for the 25X1A Chairman's possible use in seeking an exemption for CIA to a 10% cut in official overseas U. S. personnel, whic provided. 25X1A After discussing the matter with the Director, I called Braswell back to say we suggested that I provide the Chairman with a general briefing on the military situation in Vietnam. Braswell will let us know what the Chairman would like. 17. (Confidential - JMM) Met with Frank Slatinshek, House Armed Services Committee staff, who said the full Committee would like a briefing from the Agency in the next two or three days on the situation in Vietnam. He said several members such as Representative Leggett, had been increasingly skeptical of the information they were getting from Defense briefers, including Admiral Moorer who had been providing them with briefings on Vietnam in the past few days. We discussed the pros and cons of whether such a briefing should be provided by the Director or and Slatinshek thoughtIwould probably be acceptable. I said I would take the matter up with the Director and let him know the results. He cautioned that because of the controversy in the Committee, and critical attitude toward the Pentagon, things might get a little strained on this subject. Slatinshek said he had already been briefed by the Navy on a recent 25X1A sensitive item regarding Soviet naval activity in Cuba. 4 Approved For Release 20 bP74B00415R000300040002-9