JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74B00415R000500120028-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 19, 2006
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: July 24, 1972
• Content Type: NOTES

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Monday - 24 July 1972
3. I I Met with Ed Braswell, Chief Counsel, Senate
Armed Services Committee, whom I briefed on recent developments regarding
Soviet ICBM tests, Soviet withdrawals from Egypt, SA-3 missiles in Iraq, and
fact that photos show no evidence of deliberate bombing of dikes.
Braswell showed me in strict confidence a 17 July letter to Chairman
Stennis from Senator John Sherman Cooper urging that the Armed Services
Committee take up S. 2224, the Cooper bill requiring that intelligence information
be made available to Congress through the Foreign Relations and Armed Services
Committees. In the letter Cooper argued that the experience with the Joint
Committee on Atomic Energy indicated that sensitive material could be
adequately protected, that he foresaw no problems of executive privilege,
and there was no reason why intelligence sources and methods need be exposed
by his proposal. I reminded Braswell we had sent over a good deal of material
on this subject. Braswell said Stennis planned to "discuss the bill" in the
Committee but would probably not "get around to" hearings for some time if
at all. Braswell said that at least two members of the Committee- -Symington
and Hughes--would probably actively support the bill, and that it would probably
be carried in a floor vote if reported out.
Braswell asked if we knew anything about the I case. I told him
I certainly did not and I was reasonably sure the Agency had no involvement
whatsoever. Braswell said it was an extremely troublesome matter since the
military were obviously covering something up. He said they had refused
to let Jim Woolsey, whom Stennis had sent to the field to investigate, see
any Joint Chiefs traffic on the subject.
4. I I After consulting with the Director, I called
Marshall Wright, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations,
to say that the Director would be happy to have Senator Henry Bellmon and some
of his informal group of junior Republican Senators (probably Taft, Buckley,
Fannin, Roth, and Stevens) visit Headquarters for a breakfast briefing on
Thursday, 3 August.
5. I I Met with Mr. Jack Sullivan, House
Foreign Affairs Committee staff, and reviewed with him the Director's
briefing on Thursday, 27 July. I also received from Mr. Sullivan a listing
of the staff members who may be in attendance at the briefing. I met also
with Miss Helen Mattas, of the Committee staff, and confirmed with her the
administrative arrangements for the briefing.
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12. Talked with David Martin, on the staff of
the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, and made arrangements for
and me to meet with him at 10 a. m. Wednesday for a follow-
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to the briefing given by0 DDI Narcotics Coordinator,
IIDDP/NARCOG, last week.
13. of DCI/IC, called to
say that he and met with , who had
expressed an interest in working with (this interest was expressed
to us through Captain George Seamore of the Navy Legislative Liaison
Office), advised that they were unable to identify any area of
employment interest for
called to advise that the State Department had asked him to participate in a
briefing of Representative Seymour Halpern (D. , N. Y. ) on the drug situation
next Monday. I told him I could see no objection in his participating in a
briefing with representatives of State and BNDD. He said State was also
raising the question with the White House as to whether Representative
Halpern could be given an advanced copy of the latest drug report, "World
Opium Survey. "
14. DDI Narcotics Coordinator,
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