JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 18, 2006
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• Publication Date: July 27, 1972
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Thursday - 27 July 1972
(Legislative Affairs), called to ask if we were briefing Fulbright on the dike
problem. I said it was scheduled for this afternoon and he could tell Laird we
were taking care of it.
was "undebatable" and they were taking no position on it
vis-a-vis the Armed Services Committee.
I asked Johnson what they were doing about the Symington amendment
(Laos ceiling). He said Fred Buzhardt, Defense General Counsel, was trying
to work out some compromise language they hoped we could all live with. I
said I thought this might create problems and we much preferred a major
effort to knock out the whole thing in conference. Johnson said this would be
preferable, but he wasn't sure it was feasible. I said, nevertheless, I thought
we ought to pull out all the stops, and go the compromise language route, only
as a last resort.
2. Briefed Dorothy Fosdick and Richard Perle,
National Security and International Operations Subcommittee staff, on Soviet
withdrawal from Egypt, Cuban foreign policy, Soviet missile tests, Soviet
ship construction, and Soviet fighter aircraft deployment to the Far East.
Johnson said Defense had decided that the Nelson amendment regarding
contacted me this morning and told me about his letter of 25 July to the Chairman
of the House Foreign Affairs Committee requesting a congressional investigation
into charges that the Central Intelligence Agency and the State Department
have been actively involved in illegal narcotics traffic from Southeast Asia. See
Memorandum for the Record.
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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Tuesday - 25 July 1972
2. (Confidential - JGO) Received a call from Mr. Frank Slatinshek,
Chief Counsel, House Armed Services Committee, who told me that Senator
Jackson (D. , Wash.) had posed a number of questions to Secretary Laird in
his appearance before Senate Armed Services yesterday. The same questions
may well be asked of the Director in his appearance tomorrow before House
Armed Services. Mr. Slatinshek will make a copy of them available for him
early in the morning.
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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Monday - 24 July 1972
of Official Reporters to House Committees, and finalized the arrangements
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for the secure handling of the transcript of the Director's briefing of the
House Foreign Affairs Committee which is scheduled for Thursday, 27 July.
Mr. Gimelli will amend the Committee request to indicate that an original
only of the transcript will be prepared by their office.
7? Talked to Mr. Charles Andrews, of
Columbia eporting, and arranged with him for the secure handling of the
transcript of the Director's briefing of House Armed Services Committee
on Wednesday, 26 July. At this time Mr. Andrews is not certain what the
transcribing situation will be on Wednesday. He will do is best to turn out
the transcript the same day.
8. Met with Mr. William Shattuck, Counsel,
House Judiciary Committee, as a followon to the earlier discussion with
him on H. R. 14875, a bill for the relief o Mr. Shat cl'
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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Thursday - 6 July 1972
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1. Captain Edward Dauchess, in the office
of the Secretary of Defense, called about the letter dated 12 June 1972
which Isent to
Senator Jackson on the subject of competition from Air America. Dauchess
said they feel the letter relates to matters of primary interest to the Agency
and said they would like to pass action on it to the Agency. After talking with
I contacted Dorothy Fosdick, on the staff of Senator Jackson's
Subcommittee on National Security and International Operations, and asked
her to have the proper person in the Senator's office transfer action on this
item from DOD to ourselves. I told Miss Fosdick that when we had had an
opportunity to look into the questions raised by Oletter, we would
then be back in touch with her. STATOTHR
2. Talked with Mr. James Halmo, State
Department Congressional Relations staff, about the LIG meeting scheduled
for tomorrow morning. Halmo has LDXd to us a memorandum from
Marshall Wright containing an agenda for tomorrow's meeting. This agenda
deals with the foreign assistance legislation, war powers amendments, and
executive agreements. 25X1A
called to bring us up-to- date on the status of requests we
had received through the office of Representative Thomas Downing (D. , Va.)
to permit certain Virginia authorities to dump certain types of sewage on
property Humphries reported there have been a number
of discussions with various persons at all levels in the Virginia hierachy,
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5 July 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Conversation with Ed Braswell, Chief Counsel, Senate
Armed Services Committee, re Laos Ceiling for
Fiscal Year 1973
1. Today Mr. Maury and I talked with Ed Braswell and asked him 5X1
about Committee action on the Laos ceiling. Braswell said the Committee
done in order to avoid a floor fight with Senator Symington who would not
accept the figure without debating it on the floor.
2. Braswell said had mentioned to him that there was some
slippage in the but Braswell is irritated with DOD for not
giving him any of the details on this. He emphasized he had no quarrel
with the Agency on this. Later on he mentioned that DOD had indicated to
the Committee staff,on a confidential basis, that a figure of =would be 25X1
quite acceptable.
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was fairly obvious that DOD representatives have passed on to the Committee
the substance of conversations between the Agency and themselves. These
discussions have resulted in the conclusion that the progra1n5X1
will not reach the 36 battalion level contemplated for FY 1973 and will
probably not o be and 24 battalions, thus cutting the programmed cost
by approximately one-third
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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Wednesday - 5 July 1972
1. Received a call from
who asked if we could determine from the Senate Armed bervice'-s-75-mmircee
whether the Administration had agreed to accept a ceiling for
Laos in the Defense Procurement Authorization bill. It is impression
that Fred Buzhardt, General Counsel,`DOD, had given this indication to Ed
Braswell, Chief Counsel, Senate Armed Services Committee.
2. Mr. Maury and I talked with Ed Braswell, Chief
Counsel, Senate Armed Services Committee, and asked him about Committee
action on the Laos ceiling. Braswell said the Committee has completed its
markup on the bill and has settled on a ceiling of for expenditures in
Laos including funds for AID. See Memorandum for the Record. 25X1
Braswell also brought up the subject of the Cooper bill (S. 2224) and
expressed concern about this legislation even though he had prepared a letter
for Senator Stennis which would block action by the Senate without the agree-
ment of the Armed Services Committee. Braswell asked for our suggestions
as to how the Chairman might oppose this legislation and we gave him some
of our thoughts on the subject. See Memorandum for the Record.
Braswell mentioned the draft report which I had left with him on the
McClellan bill (S. 3529). I assured him this was nothing of a controversial
nature and said we had gone ahead with our submission of the draft letter to
OMB for clearance. He said this was fine.
3. John Goldsmith, Senate Armed Services
Committee staff, called regarding the Hersh story alleging Agency involvement
in "Rainmaking" in the New York Times of 3 July. He said we could expect
questions on this matter. See Memorandum for the Record.
Goldsmith said we would probably be unhappy over the fact they had
cut the ceiling in Laos from about to 25X1
4. Picked up from the Joint Committee on Atomic
Energy the transcript of the Director's briefing of the Committee on 13 June.
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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Monday - 3 July 1972
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in touch with their office concerning any testimony the Director may have
given on the Agency's quick response capability in connection with the SALT
agreements. I suggested that refer OSP to Bruce Clarke, D/OSR,
who has been with the Director at his congressional briefings on SALT
verification.
Committee on the testimony of John Ingersoll, Director, Bureau of Narcotics
and Dangerous Drugs, Department of Justice, before Senator Spong's
Subcommittee on 27 June and learned that Ingersoll did not modify his briefing
statement to say that since 1971 the Agency had been given an expanded
mandate in the illicit drug field. See Journal of 26 June. his information5X1A
has been passed on to F- T 25X1A
formerly on the staff of the House Subcommittee on Foreign Operations and
Government Information, Government Operations Committee and now Assistant
uglier expressed concern about
a contact that had been made with his company by someone from the Agency
and asked me to look into it. After checking this out with 0 I called hi X1
back and assured him this was a relatively routine contact as far as we were
concerned, but said if this caused any problems with the company we were
more than willing to cancel any future appointments. See Memorandum for
the Record.
.t-lbia .i ivision, Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs), called to a ert
had
written to Senator enry Jac.Kson c aiming that despite its high charges for
helicopter service in Laos Air America is receiving preferential treatment
from Government a encies because of its "governmental status. !" Lorfano
LDXd a cop of letter to us for our information and it has been passed
on to for his information and action.
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