JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74B00415R000300210044-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 19, 2006
• Sequence Number: 44
• Publication Date: April 4, 1972
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 2
Tuesday - 4 April 1972
5? I I Called John Lehman, of Dr. Kissinger's
staff, to see what the White House attitude was on the Ervin inquiry. Lehman
said that Fred Fielding and John Deane, of the White House staff, were handling
this and he would have Fielding call me. Lehmai recalled that the question
of executive agreements had come up previously in connection with the Cooper
bill which the community representatives, in the LIG meeting, had strongly
opposed. He said he understood that the State Department was preparing a
reply to Senator Ervin in behalf of all executive agencies, and asked whether
I agreed on this solution. I said not unless I knew what State was going to say.
Lehman said he would send us a draft and we could rewrite it as we saw fit. He
said if there were any differences after that with the agencies, we should meet
with John Deane. He added that the White House was particularly concerned to
protect any intelligence agreements from congressional probing. I asked him
if this meant he would invoke executive privilege if this is necessary. He said yes.
Lehman then brought up the question of the Cooper bill on making
intelligence information available to Congress. I suggested he review the
transcript of the hearings with Pete Scoville and Chet Cooper last week. In
response to his question I said I thought the bill would be reported out by
Foreign Relations but possibly held up by Armed Services which also had a
slice of it. I added I thought it might run into opposition in the House. Lehman
asked what they should be doing and I suggested some discreet lobbying,
emphasizing the importance of keeping intelligence material from becoming the
subject of political controversy. He said Kissinger had seen Stennis last week
and hoped to keep in closer touch with Stennis in the future. He said he would
try to get Kissinger to raise this question with Stennis at the first opportunity.
Laos Desk, AID, who expressed an interest in meeting with us to go over
testimony before the Senate Foreign tions Committee concerningi
Later in the day, however, he canceled
his request saying that Mr. Levine of his office had gotten the necessary
information from DDP.
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to Margie Kreppel, on the staff of Representative Lee Hamilton (D. , Ind. ),
for her to use in responding to a constituent's inquiry.
to Senator Mike Gravel (D. , Alaska), who asked that we continue to send the i r
Senator the FBIS Daily Reports until further notice. Arrangements were made
with FBIS to initiate subscriptions for the area books concerned.
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