JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL TUESDAY - 7 DECEMBER 1971

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• Publication Date: December 7, 1971
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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Tuesday - 7 December 1971
Mr. Art Lundahl, NPIC, I advised Mr. C. B. Morrison, on the staff of
Senator Allen J. Ellender (D., La. ), that the Navy recommended against
"winterizing" the Senator's personal camera for his forthcoming trip to
Antarctica. The Navy will make appropriate cameras and photographic
equipment available to him for use there. See Memorandum for the Record.
2. Hand-carried to Bill Woodruff, Counsel, Senate
Appropriations Committee, the Director's Reserve withdrawal letter dated
6 December 1971 along with a brief explanation of the withdrawals.
3. Returned to the Joint Committee on Atomic
Energy the study "Comments on Recent USSR Work on Laser-Driven
Fusion (U). "
Robert Blum, Robert Biles and Ann Hollick, of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee staff, who visited Headquarters to discuss their project analyzing
the "Pentagon Papers. " Their primary objective was obviously to gain
access to NIEs and SNIEs but we made clear that no one in the Agency could
authorize this, since the Estimates were prepared for the President and the
NSC and release outside the Executive Branch could be authorized only on
that level. As an alternative, it was agreed that they would review trans-
cripts of the Director's testimony on matters relating to Indochina, and that
we would make available to them such transcripts as were held in Agency
custody. We further agreed that, after reviewing these transcripts, they
would develop a series of specific questions relating to the intelligence input
involved in various developments and decisions during the course of the
Indochina war. Mr. Carver said he would be glad to receive any and all such
questions, but would, of course, reserve to the Agency the final decision
as to which could be answered and if so how.
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5. Senator Milton Young called to say he
wanted to repeat his ur ent request for us to find a place for an enthusiastic
applicant, who in Young's judgment was well qualified
and was certainly highly motivated. I told Senator Young that I knew we
had been trying to find a place forl but was not up-to-date on
the present status of his case and would make sure it got prompt and
sympathetic attention.
6. Called Stuart French, ISA/DOD, and
explained our problem in making the classified "special collection" of the
Penkovskiy papers available to an outsider in response to the request of
Senator Strom Thurmond. Mr. French suggested I call Colonel Cowan,
of Senator Thurmond's staff.
Called Colonel Cowan regarding the above who asked that I provide,
through DOD, a written explanation, perhaps in both classified and unclassi-
fied versions, of why we could not declassify the material.
7. fter consulting the Director and others
I called Ambassador Nolting and explained that we had no suitable vacancy
for a friend of Nolting's who is exploring Washington
job possibilities.
8. Frank Slatinshek, Assistant Chief Counsel,
House Armed Services Committee, called to inquire about the statutory
basis for Agency appropriations, and copies of the relevant laws, in behalf
of Representative Nedzi, of the Intelligence Subcommittee. The material
was promptly sent over.
9. Mr. Wymberley Coerr, Deputy Director
INR, called to try out on us a proposed letter to Chairman Fulbright commenting
on S. Res. 192 (Senator Symington's resolution which would require overseas
agencies to report all their activities to the Foreign Relations Committee).
We said we would examine his proposed text and comment tomorrow.
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10. Art Kuhl, Senate Foreign Relations
Committee staff, said he was accompanying Senator Stuart Symington
on a Far Eastern trip beginning about 15 December and wanted to make
sure his (Kuhl's) clearances were in order. I assured him they were,
11. Delivered to Mr. Ralph Preston, Staff Assistant,
(House Appropriations Committee, a letter for Chairman Mahon from the
IDirector dated 6 December concerning withdrawals from the Reserves.
After a brief review of the purpose of the withdrawals, Mr. Preston noted that
this letter relates to monies "that have already been spent. "
Mr. Preston told me that the Appropriations Committee conferees are
meeting this afternoon on the supplemental appropriation. The question of
meeting of the appropriation conferees
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still up in the air. He said the Chairman plans to take the foreign aid appro-
priation bill to the floor of the House tomorrow under a rule waiving points
of order. He noted that since the Chairman and principal Committee members
will be on the floor there will be little time for any conference meetings. He
told me also that no new continuing resolution is in the works to extend
expenditure authority beyond the 8 December termination date of the present
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12. I Met with Mr. Richard Barton, Staff
Assistant, House Post Uttice an Civil Service Committee, who told me
that although the full Committee is scheduled to meet on 16 December, the
meeting may well be cancelled in the interim due to a lack of quorum.
He told me that the letter from Chairman Hebert concerning H. R. 11150
has been duplicated and will be placed at each Member's position the morning
of the hearing. I thanked him for his consideration.
13. Met with Al Westphal, Staff Consultant,
House Foreign Affairs Committee, who told me that the conferees are
stalemated on the foreign aid bill due to Senator Mansfield's (D. , Mont. )
position concerning the end-the-war amendment. He also told me that
the House had appointed conferees on S. 18, the Radios bill, but that he saw
no hope at this time of the conferees meeting on S. 18 prior to conclusion of
the conference on the foreign aid bill.
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14. Talked to Alma Louise, Subcommittee
on Immigration an Nationality, Rouse Judiciary Committee, who told me that
the public law version of has not yet been received from
the printers. FE Division, has been advised.
15. I I Met with Mr. Jay Sourwine, Chief Counsel,
Senate Internai Security SubcoTl~mittee, and gave him a listing of certain
Soviet officials serving in Latin American and South American countries (see
Journal of 3 December).
16. In response to his request earlier in
the day delivere to Frank a .ins e , Assistant Chief Counsel, House Armed
Services Committee, a copy of the "Guide to CIA Statutes and Law. "
Mr. Slatinshek had misplaced the copy provided him earlier and was concerned
that the copy he was using was not up to date.
17.1 I Met with Representative Lucien Nedzi,
Chairman of the Intelligence, Subcommittee, House Armed Services Committee,
and gave him a copy of the "Guide to CIA Statutes and Law. " We discussed very
briefly sections 5 and 8 of the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949, as amended,
relating to transfer of funds from other Government agencies and the Agency's
permanent appropriation authorization authority. Since Chairman Nedzi was
pressed for time, I made an open appointment with him at his convenience to
discuss the deficiencies in the present espionage laws. He thanked me for
coming by and told me he would look forward to getting together on the espionage
laws.
18. Peggy Noll, in the office of Represen-
tative Fred Rooney (D. , Pa. ), called and said they are trying to get in touch
wit whom they believe is a Federal employee stationed in
I She said they had checked with State Department with
negative results. After checking with Office of Personnel, called
Legislative Counsel
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