JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL THURSDAY - 27 MAY 1971

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74B00415R000500040024-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 23, 2001
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• Publication Date: May 27, 1971
• Content Type: NOTES

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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Thursday - 27 May 1971
1. (Unclassified - DSB) Received a call from Patty Milligan, in
the office of Representative Paul Findley (R. , Ill. ), who requested a
personnel interview for After checking with Mr.
secretary, Office of Personnel, I advised Mrs. Milligan
that an appointment had been set up for 10: 30 a. m. Thursday, 10 June
1971.
2. (Confidential - JMM) Talked to Representative Robert H.
Steele (R. , Conn.) and confirmed a dinner meeting Wednesday, 2 June,
With and John Parker, Bureau of Narcotics and
Dangerous Drugs, to discuss Agency interest in the drug problem.
In response to his earlier question, I told Mr. Steele that we
had no organizational association of any kind with the KMT elements
in the triborder area in Southeast Asia.
3. (Unclassified - RW) Received a call from Miss Jean Gordon,
Administrative Assistant to Representative Charles Gubser, who said
that Mr. Gubser will put the response from Mr. Ingersoll, BNDD, re
Agency involvement in Southeast Asian drug traffic, in the Congressional
Record when Congress reconvenes Tuesday, 1 June.
4. (Internal Use Only - JGO) Received a call from Mr. Daniel
Costello, Legislative Assistant to Representative James M. Hanley
(D. , N. Y. ), who requested advice concerning a former
who has visited Representative Hanley's office in Syracuse.
where he was formerly employed, will not reemploy him
overseas because he is now a citizen. After checking with
told Mr. Costello that we would have an Agency personnel
recruiter interview Mr. in Syracuse and referenced the fact that
Representative Hanley had made an inquiry on his behalf. Mr. Costello
thanked me and told me he would let me know if their office heard any
more from Mr.
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5. (Internal Use Only - LLM) Met with Joanne Bailey, in the office
of Representative Lawrence G. Williams (R. , Pa. ), on a constituent letter
asking the Congressman to comment on the CIA involvement in heroin
traffic from Laos to Vietnam and gave her a fact sheet for her use in drafting
a suitable reply to refute the charges. Miss Bailey is new on the job and
asked for guidance on how to handle inquiries in the future concerning CIA
and I explained the "no comment" policy and that if it is helpful we would
be glad to work up suggested replies.
6. (Unclassified - LLM) Met with Mrs. Peckham, in the office of
Representative Charles Thone (R. , Neb. ), on a constituent letter implicating
CIA with the current drug problem and gave her a fact sheet for her use in
preparing a suitable reply without attribution to the Agency. She said she
wasn't sure that the constituent deserved a reply.
7. (Internal Use Only - LLM) Left with Hendrick Gideon, Senate
Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization staff, some material on the
organization of the intelligence community that he had requested (see Journal
of 25 May).
8. (Internal Use Only - LLM) In followup of his call of 21 May, met
with Al Tarabochia, Senate Internal Security Subcommittee staff, and he
pointed out several passages of special interest in the book Venceremos
Brigade , recently published by Simon & Schuster, and told me that in about
a week he would make available to us a transcript on an individual being
detained in the Virgin Islands who alleges detailed knowledge of training
of revolutionaries in Mexico and Haiti. Mr. H Division, has
been advised.
9. (Internal Use Only - LLM) Robert Hull, Department of State,
advised that Howard Mace, Deputy Director General and Director of Personnel,
will be appearing before the Hanley Subcommittee, 2 June 1971, and in his
testimony will support full exemptions for CIA, NSA, Defense, FBI and
State and, in addition, that the President be given the authority to designate
"critical-sensitive" positions to which the bill would not apply.
With respect to the HEW proposed legislation to provide for a
transfer of credit between Civil Service and Social Security, Hull said that
State would most likely defer to the views of the Civil Service Commission.
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10. (Confidential - LLM) Delivered to J. Sourwine, Chief Counsel,
25X1A Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, the testimony which had been
cleared by SB Division. Sourwine said that we could have up
to 100 copies of the printed hearings but that if we wanted a larger number
we would have to ride the jacket.
11. (Secret - GLC) At his request met with Ed Braswell, Chief
Counsel, Senate Armed Services Committee. He said Senator Stennis has
become very interested and concerned about the drug situation in Southeast
Asia and its impact on U.S. military personnel there. He said the Senator
wants him to get fully briefed on the drug problem and is particularly interested
in information which we have on the involvement of the Saigon government in
drug traffic and what, if anything, the government there is doing to cope with
the problem. Arrangements have been tentatively made for Mr. and
I to meet with Mr. Braswell on Tuesday, 1 June, at 2 p.m. to discuss t is
further.
Left with Braswell a list of consultants which he or the Committee might
want to use in getting an assessment of the situation on military RDT&E.
Braswell understands that this list is to be used without any attribution to the
Agency.
Braswell talked at some length about the problems he anticipates the
Chairman will run into when the military procurement authorization bill is
taken up on the Senate floor. I told him we were preparing some material
for Blandford and Slatinshek on this and would have a paper for him in the
next day or two.
12. (Confidential - GLC) William Woodruff, Counsel, Senate Appro-
priations Committee, called and said arrangements were now firm for our
budget session on 11 June. He said he expects the session to run from 10:00 a. m.
to 12:30 p.m. and from 2:30 p. m. until the subject is covered in the afternoon.
He is still not sure whether the Chairman will want a transcript, but said we
should procede on the assumption that he will.
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13. (Unclassified - GLC) Talked with Chris Aldrich, on the staff of
Senator Birch Bayh (D., Ind.), about a constituent inquiry from
laving to do with a Flora Lewis column about the Agency and drug
traffic in Southeast Asia. I discussed the matter with Aldrich and left with
him a copy of the BNDD letter to Senator Spong (sterilized), our background
paper on this subject, and copies of the Director's speech, and the Agency
pamphlet. Aldrich waid this would be useful in preparing a reply to this
letter.
14. (Unclassified - GLC) Left with Scott Cohen, in the office of
Senator Charles Percy (R. , Ill. ), a suggested reply for the Senator's use
in responding to a letter from on congressional oversight
of CIA.
15. (Confidential - GLC) Picked up from Dorothy Fosdick, on the
staff of the Senate Subcommittee on National Security and International
Operations, the "Bibliography of Soviet Produced Publications Containing
References to the RIS, 1964-1970" prepared by~which we had left
with her as an item for possible publication interest. Miss Fosdick thanked
us for making it available to them but said it wasn't exactly the kind of thing
they would publish. We plan to pass this document to the Senate Internal
Security Subcommittee.
JOHN M. MAURY
Legislative Counsel
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