JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL TUESDAY - 18 JANUARY 1972

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• Publication Date: January 18, 1972
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Journal - Office of Legislative'Counsel Page 2
Tuesday - 18 January 1972
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3. Met with Chairman Lucien Nedzi, Intelligence
Subcommittee, and Assistant Chief Counsel Frank Slatinshek, House Armed
Services Committee, whom I briefed, in response to the Chairman's request,
on the recent coup in Ghana, explaining: why the Agency could not have been
expected to learn of it. sufficiently in advance to warn the White House prior
.to Mrs. Nixon's visit. This led to a lengthy discussion of the problems of
predicting coups in various areas particularly in a number of unstable
countries in. Africa,"Latin America, and the Middle East.
Mr. Nedzi inquired about the "Rehnquist report" and I explained that
a draft was now being , circulated by the White House for comment by Executive
agencies, and we hoped it would be out by the end of the month.
Mr. Nedzi said he would like to have an early session of his Subcom-
mittee for a general intelligence briefing and a discussion of the reorganization
of the intelligence community. On the latter point, Slatinshek noted that the
White House documents on the subject assigning to the DDCI major responsibility
for the Agency's plans, programs and day-to-day operations were counter to
the statements made by the Director and me that the Director would remain
in full control of the Agency despite his new responsibilities in community
matters. I responded that it was too soon tq say exactly what functions the
Director might delegate to his Deputy, but I thought there was no doubt he
would remain in charge of CIA in all major respects.
Mr. Nedzi said he would also like to have his Subcommittee hear the
Director on the matter of the security and classification of Government
documents, preferably in open session. I said such a request would create
very serious problems for us. Messrs. Nedzi and Slatinshek argued that
many aspects of this problem, and also the reorganization of the community,
might be discussed in open session and such discussion could do much to
ease public and political concern about these two important matters. I urged
that. before any formal proposals were made along these lines the Chairman
discuss the matter personally with the Director, and suggested an early
meeting for this purpose to which the Chairman agreed.
4.1 1 In the absence of Representative H. R. Gross,
I met with Julian Morrison of his, staff in response to Mr. Gross' letter to the
Director of 22 December inquiring about press stories that Soviet intelligence
agents recently.PNG'cl from Belgium and the U. K. had been assigned to UNESCO.
I said we kept close tabs on these individual s and the story was completely
unfounded.
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