JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74B00415R000300220035-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 2, 2006
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: January 20, 1972
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Thursday - 20 January 1972
1. After talking to of Security, I 25X1A
called Representative James Cleveland (R. , N. H. ) to say t at the woman he
had inquired about I had indeed had some contact with our
ffice but so far as we could tell from our investigation to
date we have never had any formal contractual relations with her and had
passed her on to the FBI. I suggested that he query the Bureau but
assured him we would look more closely into the case and give him a further
report in a few days.
2. Confirmed an appointment for the Director
to meet with Senator John Stennis, in the Senator's office, at 10: 00 a. m.
on Monday, 24 January 1972.
3. Met with Ed Braswell, Chief Counsel, Senate
Armed Services Committee, and gave him a paper on comparative pay-scales
of regularl forces in Laos. Also discussed the Director's upcoming
briefing. See Memo for the Record.
4. In response to their request I met with Captain
Bauser and George Murphy, of the staff of the Joint Committee on Atomic
Energy, and briefed them on the Soviet construction of a large new naval
vessel. They were completely satisfied with the briefing and said they
would like us to keep them informed of any further information on the ship.
5. In response to Bill Woodruff's, Senate
Appropriations Committee staff, request yesterday, I took
of the Security office, to Woodruff's office where he changed one of the sa e
combinations there and checked over the operation of another safe.
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Monday - 17 January 1972
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 views
on the subject, however. 25X1A
5. FL25X1 A
Division, a e to say he had talked with State 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 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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