JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74B00415R000500120079-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 2004
• Sequence Number: 79
• Publication Date: April 10, 1972
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal -? Office of Legislative Counsea. Page 2
Monday - 10 April 1972
5. Received a call from Mary Thad Drake,
in the Lakeland, Florida office of Senator Chiles (D. , Fla. ), who asked
for the nearest Agency office to Lakeland. After some questioning she
indicated that a constituent, a former Special Forces officer, was the
individual who wanted to contact the Agency "probably for employment.
After checking with OP, I told Miss Drake that our nearest
personnel recruiter is based in and would be pleased to
call the constituent and make an appropriate appointment directly with him.
Miss Drake said that the problem in this case is that the constituent does
not have a telephone. I suggested that he write our Director of Personnel
directly and gave her Mr. Fisher's name and address in Washington, D. C,
I told her also that I would send the appropriate employment brochures
and applications to Senator Chiles' Washington, D. C. office for transmittal
to Miss Drake. She was most appreciative.
6. William McAfee, INR/DDC, State Department,
called to say that David Abshire, Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional
Relations, had asked Ray Cline, Director Intelligence and Research, for
material on the Cooper bill (S. 2224) for his (Abshire's) use in talking to the
Foreign Relations Committee later this week. McAfee said he assumed we
had developed some thoughts on this and he would appreciate anything we
could pass on to them. I told him we had sent a basic position paper to
Tom Lattimer, in the White House, for Dr. Kissinger's use and had also
provided some material to Ed Braswell, on the Senate Armed Services
Committee staff, this morning. I told him I would forward copies of this
material as well as some additional comments of mine having to do with
comparison of the Cooper bill with Section 202 of the Atomic Energy Act
with the understanding that it would not be used in its present form since
this had been sent to Braswell for possible use in a floor statement by
Senator Stennis. The material was sent this afternoon.
7, Lloyd Hackler, Administrative Assistant to
Senator Lloyd Bentsen, called to say the Senator would like the briefing on the
military situation in Indochina which he mentioned to the Director at 3:00 this
afternoon. After checking with OCI I found the experts concerned were already
committed to an important meeting and called back to suggest tomorrow
morning, to which Hackler agreed.
Later in the day Hackler called back to say Senator Stennis had called
on the Pentagon on the same subject tomorrow and Bentsen assumed this
would answer his questions.
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Office of Legislative Counsel
Washington, D. C. 20505
Telephone:
10 April 1972
TO: Mr. William McAfee
Room 6635
D rtment of State
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Here is the material we talked about this
afternoon. I don't believe any of the material
in the additional comments paper is classified,
but I think it should be regarded as "sensitive"
since it goes into internal JCAE matters.
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Rest of package is the same as that given to
Ed Braswell, Chief Counsel, Senate Armed
Services Committee, 10 April 197Z.
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Additional Comments on S. 2224
In testimony given before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
it has been said that S. 2224' would, in effect, establish for the four
committees named in the bill (the House and Senate Armed Services
Committees, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee) the same arrangement which was established
for the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy under the provisions of the
Atomic Energy Act. In this context witnesses have said that this arrange-
ment has operated over the years without difficulty, therefore, there is
every reason to believe that the same arrangement will apply equally as
well with these four committees.
It should be pointed out that there are some rather major differences
in the system proposed under the Cooper bill (S. 2224) as compared to the
Atomic Energy Act. Under section 202 of the Atomic Energy Act information
is provided only to the Joint Committee. The Cooper bill provides that "any
intelligence information and any analysis thereof . . . " would be made avail-
able to any individual member of Congress and to any officer or employee of
Congress (who is designated by a member to have access to it and has the
necessary security clearances) as well as to the four committees named.
Under JCAE procedures only members of the JCAE have access to the clas-
sified information provided to the Committee. Members of the personal
staffs (including the staffs of Committee members) are precluded access
to JCAE classified material regardless of whether they possess a security
clearance. It should also be noted that the JCAE has outstanding physical
security provisions within the Committee's office space (i. e. , a secure
vault where all classified material is filed within a secure area which is
protected. by both a guard and electronic alarm system) and classified
Committee material is removed from this area only under appropriate
security safeguards.
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