JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74B00415R000600020017-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 7, 2001
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: January 13, 1971
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Wednesday - 13 January 1971
1. (Confidential - GLC) Hand-carried to Judy Spahr, Senate
Subcommittee on National Security and International Operations, a
number of unclassified Agency maps covering the Middle East. These
are for her to transmit to Senator Jackson.
2. (Secret - JMM) and I lunched with Mr. Ed Braswell,
Chief of Staff, Senate Arme Services Committee, and Mr. John Ticer,
a new member of the staff who will work as Braswell's assistant. We
discussed the prospects regarding Committee membership, etc. , in
the new Congress, and Braswell assured us he would pass on promptly
any indications he picked up of questions we might expect at our upcoming
briefing of our Subcommittee. He commented that Chairman Stennis
continues to be concerned about the trend of events in Indochina, and
remains skeptical of the rather optimistic briefings he has been getting
from Defense representatives. He also indicated Stennis had expressed
some feeling that our strategic defense requirements were being neglected
as a result of preoccupation with local hot spots.
We brought Braswell up-to-date on certain items regarding the
Soviet manned bomber force and Soviet submarine deployment.
In response to a question from Braswell about a possible
"legislative program" we mentioned our interest in the recent "second
spouse provision" in the Civil Service Retirement Act and our interest
in resolving our situation with respect to the Federal Employees Pay Act.
Braswell saw no problem in our conforming tote new Civil ervice
provision and agreed it would be desirable to clarify our situation with
respect to the Federal Employees Pay Act.
3. (Secret - JMM) During a chat with Russ Blandford, Chief
Counsel, House Armed Services Committee, and I informed
him of recent developments regarding the Soviet manned bomber program
and submarine deployment.
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