JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL MONDAY - 29 NOVEMBER 1971

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74B00415R000500020024-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 22, 2005
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: November 29, 1971
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Monday - 29 November 1971
1. Called George Murphy, Joint Committee
on Atomic Energy staff, and arranged to brief him and other members of
the Committee staff, on the latest ChiCom nuclear test at 3 p.m. tomorrow
afternoon.
2. Mr. Keith Hall, Legislative Assistant to
Representative Albert H. Quie (R., Minn.), called to ask how they could
get a message to an Air America helicopter pilot in Vietnam whose folks
haven't heard from him in several months. I suggested to Hall that they
call the Washington office of Air America directly.
3. I I Frank Slatinshek, Assistant Chief
Counsel, house Armed Services Committee, called to say that
Representative O. C. Fisher, of the Intelligence Subcommittee, planned
talking to a ladies organization in San Antonio about CIA and would like
some material. I said we would be glad to provide some.
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5. Called Ed Braswell, Chief Counsel, Senate
Armed Services Committee, who said he thought it would be an excellent
idea for the Director to thank Senator Stennis for his support during last
week's debate on the intelligence situation.
Mr. Braswell said he was still concerned over the legal authority
under which the Director carried out his "two hat" responsibilities over the
Agency and the community. He indicated that this authority might come
under further attack in the Senate and he and Senator Stennis wanted to be
prepared to debate the issue from a strictly legal standpoint. I pointed out
the broad provisions of the National Security Act, but Braswell noted that
nowhere did the Act authorize the establishment of a United States Intelligence
Board or prescribe the Director's authority as Chairman of the Board. He
noted too that there were no Executive Orders covering this ground, and
in the absence of any specific documentary authority the whole system was
subject to legal attack. He asked whether we had anybody in the Agency who
could prepare a legal analysis of the Director's authority. I said we would
be glad to have a go at it. He said he might also query the Attorney General
in this connection.
Referring to followup questions from the Director's appearance before
the full Committee on 23 November, Braswell said I should go ahead and
make arrangements to brief Senators Tower and Dominick privately on the
internal situation in China. When I asked about followup questions which
Senator Stennis said he planned to submit following the Director's appearance,
Braswell said these were questions he had prepared and were of no urgency.
I said in that case we would forget about them until we heard from him further.
6. Called Phillip Trimble, Senate Foreign
Relations Committee staff, and arranged for him to visit Headquarters at
2:30 p. m. on Wednesday, 1 December, for a briefing on the ChiCom strategic
weapons program by Mr. Duckett.
7.1 1 Called Jean Garnett, Secretary to
Representative Lucien Nedzi, to make a date with Mr. Nedzi to follow up
on some matters we had discussed previously. She said Mr. Nedzi would
be tied up most of the day on the floor and I agreed to call again tomorrow.
8. Delivered to the offices of Senators
Alan Cranston (D., Calif.), Lee Metcalf (D., Mont.), Russell B. Long
(D. , La. ), Mike Mansfield (D. , Mont. ), and J. W. Fulbright (D. , Ark. )
FBIS items in which their names were mentioned.
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9. Delivered a suggested reply for a constituent,
I a student, to Senator Richard S. Schweiker (R. , Pa. ).
10. Accompanied OCI,
to the office of Representative John Murphy (D. , N. Y.) for a briefing on the
situation in Panama for the Congressman in his capacity as Chairman of
the Panama Canal Subcommittee, House Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Committee, and for three staff members of the Subcommittee, Messrs. Jim
Larocca, Bernard Tannenbaum, and Carl Perian. No problems developed
and Representative Murphy said briefing was the best intelligence
briefing he had ever heard on Panama, including those he had received from
ambassadors, in the nine years he has been closely following the situation in
Panama. The briefing was conducted on a classified and off-the-record
basis.
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