JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL THURSDAY - 29 JUNE 1972

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74B00415R000400050004-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 25, 2006
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: June 29, 1972
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Thursday - 29 June 1972
1. (Secret - JGO) Met with Mr. James Wilson, House Science and
Astronautics Committee staff, and briefed him on Soviet space activities.
2. (Confidential - JGO) Met with Mr. Jack Sullivan, House Foreign
Affairs Committee staff, who told me that the Chairman would appreciate a
change in the scheduled date for the Director's appearance before the
Committee to 10:00 a. m., Thursday, 27 July. The DCI has been advised.
3. (Confidential - GLC) and I met with Frank Slatinshek,
Chief Counsel, House Armed Services Committee, and briefed him on the
situation with respect to Representative Les Aspin's statement on the floor
of the House on Tuesday regarding a letter he supposedly has sent to the
Director on the subject of CIA pilots being involved in opium traffic in Laos.
We left with Slatinshek copies of Aspin's floor statement, the Director's
response to a letter which Aspin had printed in the Congressional Record as
well as a copy of the Director's note to Representative Charles Gubser
forwarding a suggested statement for him to use in placing the Director's
letter in the Record. Slatinshek said it would have been a good idea for us to
have handled this through Chairman Lucien Nedzi, Intelligence Subcommittee,
but appreciated why we had involved Gubser in view of his past interest in the
drug problem. Slatinshek did recommend, however, that we provide Mr. Nedzi
with copies of the Aspin floor statement and the Director's letter so that he
would know what has transpired.
4. (Confidential - GLC) Called Representative Charles Gubser off the
floor of the House and gave him the note from the Director thanking him for his
cooperation and enclosing a floor statement for his use in placing in the Record
the Director's response to the Aspin letter. Mr. Gubser said the situation on the
floor was pretty hectic in view of the drive to recess tonight but he thought he
could get the floor long enough to do this.
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5. (Confidential - JGO) Received a call from Mr. Jack Sullivan,
House Foreign Affairs Committee staff, who told me the Chairman would
like to schedule Wednesday, 26 July, if that date is available on the
Director's calendar, for a briefing on verification of the SALT agreements.
I told Sullivan I would be back in touch with him tomorrow.
6. (Confidential - JGO) Talked to Mr. Arthur Kuhl, Chief Clerk,
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, concerning the amendments made by
the Committee in S. 2224, a bill to amend the National Security Act of 1947.
In effect, the amendments eliminated the provision authorizing transmission
of Agency reports and analysis to other members of Congress.
7. (Internal Use Only - GLC) Late in the day I called Representative
Charles Gubser (R. , Calif.) to tell him of the Director's plans to respond to
a letter (which we have not yet received) which Representative Les Aspin
(D., Wis.) placed in the Congressional Record referring to new evidence
indicating that CIA operated helicopters have been smuggling opium inside
Laos. I told him we had thought of including a paragraph in the letter
indicating that the Director was sending a copy of his response to Aspin to
Mr. Gubser in view of his interest in this problem, but wanted to be sure
he had no objection to our doing this. He said he had no objection whatsoever
and for us to "go right ahead. " He said furthermore he was prepared to go
much further and would either insert the letter in the Record or make a
statement on the subject or do anything we wished since he also was very
much concerned about what he referred to as "part of a conspiracy to
downgrade our American public institutions. " I thanked him very much
and told him we would keep his offer in mind and very likely be back in
touch with him.
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