JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
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• Publication Date: June 22, 1972
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Thursday - 22 June 1972
1, I Frank Slatinshek, Chief Counsel, House
Armed Services Committee, called to say that Chairman Lucien Nedzi, Intelli-
gence Subcommittee, would like an updated briefing on Vietnam preparatory
to next week's debate on the Procurement bill. He said this debate would be
hectic, possibly involving a "date certain" amendment to end the war. He
said Nedzi would like our briefing to cover the military situation in Vietnam,
the political situation and the peace negotiations. I explained we were not
competent to testify on peace negotiations. He said he would at least like to
get anything we had on such things as the Podgorny visit to Hanoi, etc. L.
asked if he wanted us to cover anything else besides Vietnam and he left that
up to us. I said probably George Carver would provide the briefing.
2. I Ed Braswell, Chief Counsel, Senate Armed Services
Committee, called to ask if the Director could appear Monday, 26 June 1972,
at 10:00 a. m. before the full Senate Armed Services Committee to brief on
SALT. After checking with the Director's office,. I called back to say the
Director would be there and Braswell confirmed the time and date. He also
indicated the possibi lity they might want to call the Director back to finish
up later in the week if the Monday schedule didn't permit enough time to cover
the whole subject.
3. of FE Division, called this
morning and informed us that Ambassador Sullivan, of State Department, is
opposed to the acceptance of Senator Case's compromise to the Dominick
amendment on S. 3390. Sullivan's objection is based on the fact that the
amendment would still run contrary to the Nixon doctrine of encouraging
regional assistance among nations in Southeast Asia. Dadded that State
plans to bring this item up at the WSAG meeting this morning.
Mr. Maury contacted the Director at the White House prior to his going
into the WSAG meeting and briefed him on the reasons for our recommending the
acceptance of the Case compromise and of the pitfalls of either a lengthy
debate or a secret Senate session on the amendment. We later learned that the
Administration is in favor of holding out for striking out the entire section.
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Tuesday - 20 June 1972
LD. I _J In response to his earlier call and based
upon the advice of I called Jim Cromwell, Administrative
Assistant to Representative Jack Kemp (R. , N. Y. ), who is interested in
recent statements by North Vietnamese leaders quoting U. S. domestic dissent
on the prisoner of war problem for -use-by by Mr. Kemp on the House floor
tomorrow. I told Cromwell there were no such recent statements on North
Vietnamese media but referred him to the Department of State explaining
that such statements may normally be made by North Vietnamese representatives
at Paris at press conferences. I also suggested he contact Dr. Thach,
House Internal Security Committee staff, who has done research in a related
area in connection with hearings by that Committee. 25X1A
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Legislative Counsel
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Wednesday - 14 June 1972
6. Hand-carried to Bill Woodruff, Counsel, Senate
Appropriations ommi ee, a Reserve withdrawal letter dated 12 June 1972.
I also provided him with figures given us by the Cover Staff on the
number of I alerted Woodruff to the fact
there was also a proprietary I I and told him I could provide furtheeM
information on this as necessary. This material was provided at Woodruff's
request in connection with Senator Proxmire's interest in CIA use of .0
Woodruff said he would alert Senator Ellender on this subject.
7. In response to a call from John Goldsmith, Senate
Armed Services Committee staff, Messrs. Maury and Cary briefed Ed Braswell
and Jim Woolsey, of the Committee staff, in connection with press reports
alleging the U. S. was conducting commando raids into North Vietnam. The
staff members said they propose to make no comment on these reports.
8. I Picked up from the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
copy number 10 of the Director's prepared statement for his briefing on
13 June 1972.
9. Called Mr. Bill Ashworth, Senate Foreign
Relations Committee staff, and told him that the Director would include an
update briefing on Soviet strategic weapons on Tuesday, 20 June. I also told
Mr. Ashworth that Mr. Maury had arranged for-Mr. Ashworth to be briefed-
personally here at Headquarters at 3:00 p.m. tomorrow. (Mr. Bruce Clarke
will conduct the briefing.) We are checking on Mr. Ashworth's clearances.
10. r. William J. Van Ness, Chief Counsel,
Senate Interior Committee, called to say that Senator Henry M. Jackson would
be having some meetings with Agency representatives regarding Middle East oil.
He said he would be sitting in on these meetings and wanted to know if his top
secret clearance would be sufficient. I said I knew nothing of such meetings and
would have to check. I said that if such meetings did take place, however, I was
sure that top secret clearance would be sufficient. I told him someone would
be in touch with him on this.
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Bill Ashworth, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to say the Director would
be glad to appear before the Committee in executive session to discuss verification
only on Tuesday, 20 June at 10:00 a. m. Ashworth said this would be fine but he
hoped the Director might also bring the Committee up-to-date on recent develop-
ments regarding Soviet strategic weapons.
Director.
I said I would raise this with the
Ashworth said he was handling the SALT matter for the Committee staff
aryl would like to get himself briefed on matters regarding the Soviet strategic
picture prior to the hearing and wondered if there was someone in the Agency
he could talk to for this purpose. I said I would let him know.
Committee staff, visited Headquarters and met with Mr. Harry Little, Deputy
for Information Processing, ISD, and Mr. O'Neill as a followup to Chairman
Fulbright's letter of 16 May requesting access to OSS files on Indochina. See
Memorandum for the Record.
and Jim Woolsey, Senate Armed Services Committee staff, and talked with them
about getting a floor manager for an amendment to strike section 515 of the
Foreign Assistance Authorization bill (S. 3390) now pending on the Senate floor.
This section would preclude the use of U. S. funds for financing military
operations by third country nationals in Laos, North Vietnam, and Thailand.
The staffers indicated Senator Stennis was too overloaded to take this on and
suggested we look elsewhere for help on this.
We subsequently talked with Senator Peter Dominick (R., Colo.) who,
although also overly committed in handling legislation on the floor, agreed to
introduce an amendment to strike section 515 on the condition we would get
Senators Cannon and Byrd (of Virginia) to work with him in handling this on
the floor. Messrs. Charles Kendrick and Jim Robb, of the Senator's staff,
will be handling this for him and we agreed to provide them with a package of
material on the legislation tomorrow morning.
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Monday - 12 June 1972
6. Met with Mr. Ralph Preston, House Appropriations
Committee staff, who told me that he is hopeful that he will be able to work
out a time to visit the Agency for briefings by Drs. Steininger and Proctor
late in the week or early next week.
I briefed Mr. Preston on the current situation resulting from the
bombing of North Vietnam.
7. I IIn accordance with Committee rules, I delivered
to George Murphy, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy staff, an advance
copy of the Director's prepared statement for his briefing of the Committee
tomorrow. I also made final arrangements with Murphy for the Director's
appearance.
8. Talked with Bill Woodruff, Counsel, Senate Appro' i
priations Committee, who suggested that we provide the Committee for its
files information on the number of
Woodruff felt it would be useful for the Committee to be in a position of having
this information in connection with Senator Proxmire's concern about the use
s pulling these
figures together.
9. Delivered a China Atlas to Jim Williams, 25X1
on the staff of Representative Ray Roberts (D., Tex. ), per his request.
11. (Secret - JMM) Attended a meeting of the Legislative Inter-
departmental Group at the White House regarding SALT. See Memo for
Record.
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