OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74B00415R000300110004-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 12, 2004
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: April 26, 1972
• Content Type: NOTES

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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Wednesday - 26 April 1972
1. (Confidential -GLC) Mr. Coffey advised he had talked with the
people in GAO about their making several reports available to us for our
information. Especially on the strength of interest expressed by
the Agency will be getting these reports on an information basis.
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2. (Confidential -GLC) Scott Cohen, Executive Assistant to Senator
Charles H. Percy (R. , Ill. ), called to say the Senator had asked if the Agency
could give a briefing to him and Cohen tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock on the
situation in Vietnam. The Senator is particularly interested in the effectiveness
of the South Vietnamese army and air force in the current situation. Arrange-
ments were made for Messrs. Maury and ~ to meet with the Senator and
Cohen tomorrow morning at 9:15.
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Gordon Allott (R. , Colo. ), called and asked if we could provide their office
4. (Confidential -GLC) Talked with Barbara Bingley, Caseworker
for Representative Gilbert Gude (R., Md. ), who was familiar with the
personnel case on which the Congressman has made inquiry to us. I told
Miss Bingley we were currently reviewing this case a:nd I would be in touch
with Mr. Gude not later than the first of the week on it. She said this was
quite satisfactory and thanked me for my call.
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10. (C:onfidential - GLG) Jahn Goldsmith, Senate Armed Services
Committee staff, called about an insert which had been made by DOD in the
Nutter/Sullivan testimony of 7 March 1972 before the Committee. He was
particularly a xplanation as to what Project 404 was. After
checking with DC /FE, T told Goldsmith this was not our
program and i wou a es if he checked this out with the Pentagon. He
thanked me and said he would do so.
11. (Internal Use Only -PLC) p.ffice of Finance, 25X1A
called concerning a call he received from ye .ova irector Inter-
national Division, General Accounting Office .(129-6384). Mr. Stovall
stated that on occasion GAO prepares reports which involve the Agency.
He mentioned the reports on refugees in South East Asia prepared far
Senator Kennedy's Subcommittee and a report being prepared on Radio
Liberty and Radio Free Europe. He offered to provide to the Agency
copies of these and other reports for information or in draft prior to pub-
lication should the Agency so desire. Stovall's call was to the Director
of Finance and was referred to Maerker, who knows Stovall personally.
OLC, subsequently called the DDS. stated he has 25X1A
maintained the liaison with GAO on various reports concerning the Agency,
and he would handle the matter.
Yesterday, together with and 25X'4A
me vvi r. Kopp,
Deputy General Counsel, and Mr. Noah, of USIA, to. review the problems
posed by the restrictions on the preparation and dissemination of information
abroad which were favorably reported by the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee in the Foreign Relations Authorization Act of 1972. See Memo-
randum for the Record.
13. (Unclassified - LLM} In response to her earlier call, told
Mrs. Booth, in the office of Representative M. G. Snyder (R. , Ky. ), that
the personnel application of was inactive. Per her request,
I told Mrs, Booth that wes: woy ,_ e g a c~. review the file again in view of our
current personnel requirements and that`we would confirm this in a letter
to Representative Snyder and would advise of the outcorn~TATOTHR
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