JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 22, 2006
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: November 10, 1971
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 3
Wednesday - 10 November 1971
7. (Unclassified - LLM) In the absence of the Congressman,
met with Jim Cromwell, Administrative Assistant, and Libby Reynolds,
in the office of Representative Jack Kemp (R. , N. Y. ), concerning
Mr. Kemp's interest in visiting the Agency. It was agreed to see if we
could work out something following Thanksgiving recess, such as 30
November or 1 December, for a breakfast briefing at Headquarters for
Representative Kemp and four or five other members he might recommend
from the Republican 92nd Club,,of which he is the President.
8. (Internal Use Only - LLM) Met with Peter Lakeland, Executive
Secretary to Senator Jacob Javits (R. , N. Y. ), and he agreed to participate
in a panel before the Advanced Intelligence Seminar at Headquarters on
the morning of the 19th rather than the afternoon of the 17th of November,
subject to the Senator's approval.
In connection with the White House intelligence announcement,
Lakeland volunteered that the new arrangement seemed to make sense,
but some suspect management of intelligence estimates. Lakeland said
it would be disastrous to lose the Agency's objectivity as demonstrated
by its performance on Vietnam, the Soviet threat, and the Middle East,
and I told him that we foresaw no such impact but principally an enhance-
ment of the Director's current leadership role within the intelligence
community. STATOTH R
9. (Internal Use Only - LLM) Called Mr. Elko, Administrative
Assistant to Representative Daniel J. Flood (D. , Pa. and, for the time
being at least, closed out his inquiry on behalf o
(see Journal of 9 November).
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5. Called Chairman Lucien Nedzi, Intelligence
Subcommittee of House Armed ervices, to make him aware of Senator Stuart
Symington's speech in the Senate this morning raising a number of questions
about the recent White House announcement concerning the intelligence
community. I particularly emphasized to Mr. Nedzi that the White House
announcement involved no drastic changes in existing practices, was designed
primarily to promote efficient and better coordination within the community,
and to 'give the DCI authority to deal with the community budget. I noted
that the National Security Council Intelligence Committee chaired by Dr.
Kissinger was a requirements committee charged with establishing national
priorities for intelligence collection, rather than with running the CIA.
Mr. Nedzi suggested it might be useful if we put together a summary
of the specific changes resulting from the President's announcement, perhaps
in the form of parallel columns noting the differences between the old and
new practices within the community. I said I thought this a constructive
suggestion and we would see what we could do, including perhaps notes on
the significance of these changes.
6.1 1 Ed Braswell, Chief Counsel, Senate Armed
Services Committee, called to say he had a copy of the Symington speech
being delivered on the floor, and summarized the contents. I said we would
send right over for it. Mr. Braswell asked for any press material we had
on the subject of the White House announcement which we promptly sent over.
Later in the day, I talked again with Mr. Braswell -and said if the
Chairman thought it useful for the Director to appear before the Subcommittee
in order to explain to Senator Symington and all the others at one sitting his
understanding of the implications of the President's announcement, the Director
would be willing to do so. I also called Mr. Braswell's attention to the
wording of the announcement regarding the establishment of a National Security
Council Intelligence Committee. I noted that this Committee was concerned with
requirements for, and evaluation of, intelligence collection from the standpoint
of the consumers, and was in no way responsible for the running of the CIA or
other intelligence agencies as such. I said this point had apparently caused
some confusion in the minds of Senator Symington and others.
Mr. Braswell said he wanted the legal basis for the changes in the
intelligence community. He questioned whether they might violate the
Executive Reorganization Act, and whether they were consistent with the
National Security Act. I said we would see what we could do.
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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Wednesday - 10 November 1971
2. In response to his call yesterday, I told
Sam Goldberg, Legislative Assistant to Senator Charles McC. Mathias
(R., Md.), that the Director would welcome a breakfast visit from the
Senator. I pointed out, however, that the Director's schedule makes it
impossible to get together this week (Goldberg said the Senator had the
same problem this week). It was agreed I would call Mrs. MacArthur,
the Senator's personal secretary, next week to see if we could arrange
a suitable time for the visit.
Called Clark MacGregor, Counsel
to the President or ongressiona a ations, and made a date with him for
10:00 a. m. tomorrow to discuss our problem with Senator Case.
4. Called Eugene Cowen, Special Assistant
to the President, to ask if he had gotten much flack on the Hill regarding the
V,Khite House announcement on the intelligence community. He said he had
talked to over a dozen senators on the Foreign Aid bill since the announce-
ment, but none had raised the question of the intelligence community. Cowen
himself was not. aware of Senator Symington's speech, and I explained to
him its main points, and offered suggestions as to how they might be refuted
which Cowen appreciated.
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