JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL FRIDAY - 9 JULY 1971

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 23, 2004
• Sequence Number: 60
• Publication Date: July 9, 1971
• Content Type: NOTES

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Friday - 9 July 1971
I? Received a call from Mr. David Alexander,
in the office o Representative 'N'ick Begich (D. , Alaska), who requested that
application forms and brochures be sent to their Fairbanks office to the attention
of Mrs. Janet Baird in response to a constituent's request. The appropriate forms
were sent out.
2. Mark Schneider called saying he was with
Senator Kennedy (D. , Mass.) and wanted a copy of the CIA Analysis of North
Vietnamese Peace Proposal which was referred to him as reported in the New
York Times this morning. I told Mr. Schneider that I was not familiar with the
subject, but was also not optimistic on satisfying his request since our products
are produced for and under the direction of the National Security Council. In
response to his question on whether the answer hinges on the security classification
of the material, I said not necessarily. He asked if we could give him our answer
this morning and I said I would try.
3. Paul Schlegel, in the office of Representative
Seymour Halpern (R., N. Y. ), called on behalf of a constituent and posed a number
of questions concerning the Agency. Schlegel agreed that our brochure should
suffice and a copy was sent to him.
4. I I Nedra Pipher, of the Senate Subcommittee
on Intergovernmental Relations, called to advise that a letter signed by Chairman
Muskie, of that Subcommittee, and Chairman Ribicoff, of the Executive
Reorganization Subcommittee, was bbing sent to the Director to invite him to
appear in executive session before a joint meeting of those Subcommittees to
testify along with Secretaries Laird and Rogers and Attorney General Mitchell on the
involvement of top Laotian, Thai and Vietnamese officials in drug traffic. She
said she wanted to make sure the Director was made aware of the invitation
before the letter is make available to the press on Sunday. It was agreed that
this was accomplished by this call and she said she would drop the letter in the
mail.
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5. I I Ed Braswell, Chief Counsel, Senate Armed
Services Committee, called regarding the article by Tad Szulc in the New
York Times discussing a document reportedly prepared by the Agency on the
latest Viet Cong peace proposal. Braswell commented that this appeared to
be a leak from an Administration source and added it was very difficult for
people on the Hill to take a stand against indiscriminate leaks of classified
information when it appears that the Administration is engaging in the same
practice. I told him we were very concerned about the article also and added
Mr. Maury was on the Hill and would be seeing Senator Stennis and him during
the course of the day. I told him Mr. Maury might have some further thoughts
on this.
6.1 Mr. John Clarke, D /PPB, called to advise he had
notified Bill Woodruff, Counsel, Senate Appropriations Committee, that a
careful review of the situation has brought us to the conclusion that if it should
become necessary to terminate Radio Liberty and Radio Free Europe the
estimated termination cost was approximately $80 million (see Mr. Clarke's
Memorandum for the Record). This is the figure that will be used in the
budget briefing of the House Appropriations Committee on 13 July.
7.1 Picked up from Bill Woodruff, Counsel, Senate
Appropriations Committee, Senator Ellender's letter to the Director (with
a similar letter to Assistant Secretary of Defense Packard) asking that
Defense and the Agency make a decision in favor of either the DOD or Agency
sensitive readout systems. This has been forwarded to the Director and copies
sent to Colonel White and Mr. Duckett.
8. Bill Shinn, a State Department intern now
working in the office of Senator Adlai Stevenson III (D., Ill), called in connection
with the bill introduced by Senator Cooper. Shinn recalled the briefing we had
given Representative Brad Morse (R., Mass.) on Africa prior to the Congress-
man's travel there and asked if the Agency did this with other members. I
told Shinn that we try to be responsive to requests of this sort whenever we
could do so. Shinn obviously was concerned with the impact of the Cooper
bill.
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9. Accompanied the Director and Messrs.
Carver and I Iwho appeared before Chairman Mahon and Representatives
Andrews and Minshall, of the House Appropriations Committee. See Memoran-
dum for the Record.
10. Met with Chairman Stennis, of the Senate Armed
Services Committee, an explained our problems with Senator Proxmire's
request for the Director's appearance in an open session of the Joint Economic
Committee to discuss the Soviet military budget and Senator Muskie's request
for a copy of a sensitive study on the Soviet ICBM program prepared for the
Stennis agreed and said he would support my recommendations that
Proxmire's request be met by our providing material to the State Department
for presentation to the Committee and that Muskie's request be met by pro-
viding the conclusion of the study in question and allowing a duly cleared staff
member to examine the backup material under our control.
Senator Stennis explained his request for a draft speech he could make
on the floor emphasizing the importance of the Agency, the necessity for
maintaining its security, and its effectiveness in serving the national interest.
He said he wanted me to prepare this speech and include any material I thought
useful, and that it was not necessary to coordinate it with members of his staff.
Agency by
11. In response to a call to the Director's office
from Senator Kennedy's office, I called Mark Schneider, of the Senator's staff.
Schneider said the Senator wanted a copy of the CIA publication quoted by Tad
Szulc in today's New York Times. I said this was an official publication for
the use of the White House, NSC, and other Executive agencies and not avail-
able for circulation outside of the Executive community. I told him that while
we could not provide the document we would be glad to brief the Senator orally
on the significance of the Viet Cong peace proposals which the document
discusses. Schneider said he had checked with Mrs. Davis, of the White House,
who said it was not an NSC publication. I said it had not been requested by
the NSC but was disseminated to NSC members and to the Executive officials.
He asked the classification and I said I was not sure but believed it was higher
than confidential. He asked if the item contained anything more than the
passages quoted Ujrthe Times. After consulting with Mr. Carver and checking
with the Director, I called Schneider back to say the portions quoted by the Times.
did not represent the full text.
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12. I I Called Maynard Toll, in the office of Senator
Edmund Muskie (D., Maine), to say we could not provide him with the full
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study mentioned in item 10 above, but would be glad for an appropriately
cleared member of the staff to review the study and to provide a sanitized
version of the conclusions for the Senator's retention. Toll said this sounded
satisfactory and he would turn the matter over to the Committee staff for
followup.
13. I I Philip Trimble, on the staff of the Muskie
Subcommittee on Arms Control, International Law and Organization, called
pursuant to the Muskie request and we agreed that he should visit the Agency
at 8:45 a. m. on Monday, 12 July, to review the study in question and obtain
a copy of the conclusion for the Subcommittee's retention.
14. Senator John C. Stennis' (D., Miss. )
secretary, Mrs. Ward, called in behalf of the Senator to let us know that
the Senator had talked to Senator Proxmire who had agreed that the Agency
provide its information on the Soviet defense budget to the State Department
for presentation to the Joint Economic Committee.
15. I I Carl Marcy, Senate Foreign Relations
Committee staff, called to request a copy of the document quoted by Tad
Szulc in today's New York Times. I explained that we would be glad to brief
him orally on the subject of the Communist's peace proposals which the
document discusses, but could not provide the document. He said he was
calling just for the sake of the record.
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