JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74B00415R000300130016-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 7, 2002
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: January 21, 1972
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 3
Friday - 21 January 1972
10. (Internal Use Only - LLM) Mr. Jim Wilkinson, Office of
Management and Budget, called and asked when they could expect our
views on Department of State's proposed report on S. Res. 192, a bill
"To create a Select Committee... to oversee activities of the Central
Intelligence Agency" inasmuch as the Department of Defense would like
to review our comments in connection with drawing up theirs. I told him
that I thought we would have our report to the Office of Management and
Budget on Wednesday and he said that would be fine.
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Wednesday - 19 January 1972
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1. (Confidential - GLC) Made arrangements for
and myself to meet with Bill Woodruff, Senate Appropriations committee
staff, informally Monday morning at 10 a. m. to obtain from Woodruff
views which he says he has with regard to budget aspects of the changes
in the intelligence community structure.
Woodruff also asked if we could have someone come up to change
a safe combination on one of their safes and see if we could open a safe
which they believe is jammed. A member of the Security office and I
will take care of this tomorrow morning.
2. (Confidential - GLC) George Murphy, Joint Committee on Atomic
Energy staff, called regarding an article in today's Washington Daily News
having to do with a desire on the part of the French to obtain from the British
nuclear data which the British have received from the U. S. According to
the article this can be accomplished only if certain changes are made in
the provisions of the Atomic Energy Act on this subject. Murphy said the
Committee was writing a letter to the Atomic Energy Commission on this
today, but asked if we had heard anything about this. I told him I would
look into it and be back in touch with him tomorrow.
3. (Confidential - GLC) C. B. Morrison, on the staff of Senator
Allen J. Ellender, called late this afternoon and asked "How many civilians
are there in the Soviet Defense Ministry? " He added that he was pulling
together comparative figures between the Soviet Union and the U. S. I
placed this request with of DDI. He said Mr. Bruce Clarke
feels he can get this information for us tomorrow morning.
4. (Confidential - GLC) Talked with Mr. Frank Nelson, ISA, DOD,
about the Agency's position with respect to the application of the Symington
Cambodian amendment and the exclusion from that amendment of Agency
costs not involved with assistance related programs in Cambodia. Mr. Nelson
seemed to appreciate this, but said he would like to establish a contact with
our operating people dealing with Cambodia to determine what, if any, costs 25X1A
should be included in the reports on expenditures under the ceiling of the
Symington Cambodian amendment. I advised
of this conversation and suggested that he have.. omeone from ITZ get in
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Monday - 17 January 1972
4. (Secret - GLC) Met with William Woodruff, Counsel, Senate
Appropriations Committee, and brought him up-to-date on briefing items
from 22 December 1971 through 13 January 1972.
Woodruff informed me that Pete Bonner (retired Marine Corps
Colonel) is now working on the Committee staff and in a short time will
replace Mr. Ed Hartung as Senator Milton Young's Minority Counsel on
the staff. Bonner has worked closely with Woodruff and others over the
years and recently served a short stint as a special assistant to Mr. Rady
Johnson, Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs
Woodruff commented at lunch that he thought the arrangements made
for the handling of the Agency's budget in response to Senator Stennis'
desires would turn out to be a mistake, at least as far as funds for Laos
were concerned. He added that instead of getting Stennis off the hook for
Agency expenditures there he would now be saddled with the authorization
for the war in Laos under the Defense bill with a subsequent transfer of
funds to the Agency.
I briefed Woodruff on our meeting earlier with Ralph Preston, House
Appropriations Committee staff, on the subject of liquidation funds for the
Radios. Woodruff said Ralph Preston had called him about this earlier.
Mr. Mahon's position does not appear to have changed Woodruff's vievt25X1A
on the subject, however.
5. (Confidential - GLC) J I FE
Division, called to say he had ta- eClct. witty 5 a e Department representatives
who indicated that State is taking essentially the same position on the
Symington Cambodia amendment in the Foreign Aid bill as we have taken
here in the Agency (i. e. , that Senator Symington intended that the language
of his Laotian and Cambodian amendments be interpreted consistently and
that, therefore, he did not intend to include in the Cambodian ceiling the
cost of running the Embassy or th I subsequently 25X1A
passed this information on to Stuart French, of ISA, who recommended
that I also mention this to Mr. Frank Nelson, of ISA.
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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Monday - 10 January 1972
1. (Internal Use Only - JMM) Called Dan Carrison, in the office
of Senator Strom Thurmond (R. , S. C. ), to say that the case of an Agency
staffer in whom the Senator was personally interested had been reviewed
and the individual's pe rformance had been found satisfactory, removing
him from the bottom five percent category.
2. (Confidential - JMM) Met with Russ Blandford and Frank
Slatinshek, House Armed Services Committee staff, whom I provided with
copies of material on the "reorganization" of the intelligence community.
They expressed considerable irritation over the fact that this material
was over two months old, but I explained that despite diligent efforts we
had just obtained permission to share it with them.
Mr. Slatinshek said he was impatiently awaiting material on
revisions of the espionage laws which he had discussed with us last
week, and which he needed in order to prepare for early hearings which
Chairman Nedzi was planning in connection with the handling of classified
information. When I pointed out that some of this material was unfinished
staff work in White House custody which we lacked authority to release,
Messrs. Blandford and Slatinshek expressed considerable irritation and
insisted that if they couldn't get it officially they must have it unofficially
"or else, " I said I would see what we could do. They said they were
trying to be helpful to the Executive agencies in coping with the security
problems typified by the Ellsberg and more recently Jack Anderson
publications and found the run around they were getting from the Defense
Department inexcusable and expected something better from the Agency.
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