JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL THURSDAY - 8 JULY 1971

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 23, 2004
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• Publication Date: July 8, 1971
• Content Type: NOTES

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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Thursday - 8 July 1971
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Legislative Assistant to Senator Charles McC.Mathias
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concerning Senator Cooper's bill (S. 2224) which would amend the National
Security Act to require the Agency to keep the Congress informed with
regard to intelligence information collected by the Agency and the Agency's
analysis of this information. Senator Mathias supported Senator Cooper
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reactions to this bill which I made clear were strictly my personal feelings
which should not be interpreted as Agency views. See Memorandum for the
Record.
3. Walked with Colgate Prentice, in State
Department, and relayed to him the substance of my conversation with
Mr. Ralph Burr, of OMB, on the Church and Badillo bills (S. 1887 and
H. R. 8371). Prentice agreed not to push a State Department response on
this and to develop some arguments against the legislation which could be
submitted to Burr per his suggestion. Prentice also referred to the bills
introduced by Senators Cooper, Case, and McGovern yesterday and we
agreed that perhaps the whole package should be the basis of a discussion
by the Legislative Interdepartmental Group.
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said he was with e Committee for Constitutional Integrity and wanted
to know the Agency's views concerning the McGovern bill (apparently
S. 2231 - which would require a single line item in the budget and an
appropriations act for the Agency). He expressed himself as a staunch
supporter of the necessity for Agency secrecy, indicated that he had
been in the cryptographic field, and that he was opposed to the efforts
of congressmen who were trying to undermine the constitutional authority
of the President to conduct foreign affairs. I told him that I would have
no comment on the proposed legislation and that, as he well knew, the
Executive Branch has a specific process for coordinating the views of
departments and agencies on proposed legislation. I terminated the
conversation by offering to send him a copy of the Agency brochure to
answer some of the questions he had raised and he appeared to be
genuinely appreciative. Mr. Goodwin has been advised.
obtained his concurrence to our revision of OMB's substitute language
for our report to Chairman Hebert on H. R. 3578, Temporary National
Security Commission. Burr ultimately deferred to our judgment to
confine our comments to the Agency's interests and responsibilities
(Burr tends to take an extremely broad view of the Agency's authorities
and responsibilities under the National Security Act).
25X1 6.1 Called Maynard Toll, in the office of
Senator Edmund Muskie, to say I had not had an opportunity to discuss with
25X1A the Director the Senator's request for an Agency-sponsored study,
but hoped to do so shortly. Toll said the Senator was quite impatient and
said we could expect him to "make some nasty public noises" on the subject
if he did not receive a satisfactory reply by Monday.
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7. Met with Bill Woodruff, Counsel, Senate
Appropria i ee, and briefed him on several current intelligence
items including ChiCom MIG-19 production, latest information on the "Back-
fire" bomber, the Soyuz 11 problem, the nuclear test on 30 June, and the
tions Committee staff, and firmed up arrangements for the Director's meeting
with Chairman Mahon tomorrow morning and our budget hearing next Tuesday,
13 July. Both meetings will be held in Room H-140 of the Capitol at 10 a. m.
No transcript will be taken at either of these sessions.
10. In a telephone conversation I explained to
Senator John Stennis that the Director wished me to consult him about two
problems, one involving a request from Senator Proxmire for the Director's
appearance before an open session of the Joint Economic Committee, and one
involving a request from Senator Muskie for an Agency- sponsored 0 study.
Senator Stennis said he would call me later to fix a date for a meeting but in
the meantime wanted to tell me he was concerned about Senator Cooper's bill
to make CIA information available to the Senate as a whole, and wanted to
speak against this bill, and at the same time pay tribute to the Agency. He
asked that we prepare material suitable for this purpose to be available
early next week.
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11. Discussed with Ed Braswell and John Ticer,
Senate Armed Services Committee staff, Senator Stennis' request for material
for a speech regarding the Agency. I said I would try to provide material
on the reasons for the Agency and the importance of protecting its security,
but would defer to Braswell for portions dealing with the Cooper bill.
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