JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74B00415R000300220011-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 2, 2006
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: March 7, 1972
• Content Type: NOTES

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SECRET
JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Tuesday - 7 March 1972
CI Staff, called to say that 25X1A
would prefer not o testily before the Senate Internal Security
u committee principally because he felt he had given the Subcommittee all
the information he had on the Soviet propaganda mechanism. II suggeste21X1A
however, that if David Martin, of the Subcommittee staff, wished to draft
some questions we could get them to o see if he felt he could pro- 25X1A
vide any additional information.
2. and I met with Messrs. Braswell, 25X1A
Goldsmith, and Woolsey, of the, Senate Armed Services Committee staff,
this morning and provided them with a statement prepared by Mr. 25X1A
in collaboration with FE Division which was responsive to Braswe s
--- 1-L-L-Luerm were o p e e y satisfied with this material and made it very
clear that they had no quarrel with us about the situation but were merely
trying to pin down the Defense Department as to why DOD could not make
payment directly. They are determined to press as far
as possible to further Chairman Stennis' position that the Agency should get
out of these programs in Laos. See Memo for the Record.
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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Tuesday - 7 March 1972
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4. Mr. Houston, General Counsel, contacted us
regarding the response which should be given by Secretary Rogers to the
Foreign Relations Committee tomorrpw if he is questioned about Chairman
Fulbright's letter to the Departrzefit requesting various studies on the Radios.
(Secretary Rogers is appearing before the Committee tomorrow in connection
with Foreign Aid legislation.) It was agreed that the Secretary should indicate
that updated material along the lines of his request has been forwarded to OMB
for review and will then be given to the Committee. If the Secretary is pressed
for a response about any Agency studies, he should indicate that he will refer the
matter to CIA. Mr. Houston is handling this with of CA Staff. 25X1A
5. In following up on a call from Assistant
Secretary of State Abshire, to Mr. Maury, I talked with his assistant,
Mr. James Halmo. Mr. Halmo said Mr. Abshire was interested in knowing
how many CIA studies had been conducted on the Radios. (Abshire wants
this information in connection with Secretary Rogers' appearance before the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee tomorrow.) I advised Halmo that our
General Counsel was preparing a suggested response for the Secretary on
this which would be passed from of CIA, to either Dick Davies 25X1A
or John Baker of the State Department. urge Mr. Halmo to plug into that
channel for guidance.
6. Talked with Mr. John Goldsmith, on the staff
of the Senate Armed Services Committee, who said that at the Committee hearing
this morning a question was put to Ambassador Sullivan, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, about the possibility of
forces in Laos being appropriated to the State Department
which would be given by the Ambassador to a member of his country team for
payment. Sullivan said this posed a new proposition which he would want to
check with his legal people and then make a response to the Committee.
(See Mr. Maury's Memo for the Record. )
25X1A
7. Called Representative James Cleveland (R. , N. H. )
and reported on the results of my trip to New Hampshire regarding the
case. He seemed well satisfied.
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