JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: October 20, 1971
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal -Office of Legislative Counsel Page 4
Wednesday - 20 Oe~ober 1971
13. (Secret -GLC) James Woolsey, Armed Services Committee staff,
called to report that yesterday Senators Stennis and Symington discussed the
scope of the Symington amendment with respect to U, S. embassy and Agency
station costs. .Symington has agreed that these costs should not be included .
in the ceiling imposed by his amendment but told Stennis he wanted to know as
a matter of his awn information what these costs were. Woolsey asked that
we give. him a paper today on the cost of Agency expenditures in Laos other
than paramilitary operations. He said Ed Braswell was obtaining cost figures
on the embassy from the State Department.
Later in the day, after conferring with General Counsel and OPPB on
figures provided by FE Division, I gave Braswell a blind memo stating the
amount of the Agency budget (excluding paramilitary costs) for Laos for FY
1972. On advice from John Clarke I told Braswell that he should not assume
this figure would remain the same in subsequent years. I told him that, if
Senator Stennis wants all Agency paramilitary expenditures for Laos terminated
we will have to make some adjustments in our Laos budget and it was possible
that our figure for non-paramilitary expenditures in Laos for FY 1973 could
be increased by one and a half times the FY 1972 figure. Braswell said he
understood. I also told him the figure I had given him should be treated as a
C7A 5ubcammittee matter and again he said he understood.
Mr. Braswell mentioned in passing that it looked like the House Com-
mittee was going to accept the Symington amendment as it passed the Senate.
I expressed grave concern about this and told him that independently of our
efforts Fred Buzhardt, DOD, had come up with similar language changes in
'the amendment and he (Braswell) could expect to hear from Buzhardt on this.
Braswell commented that time had just about run out. He said this would
probably all be settled by the conferees tomorrow.
In a later conversation on this subject, Frank Slatinshek, House Armeci
Services Committee staff, said the House conferees have not reached a decision
on the amendment and the issue will not, be settled in the Conference tomorrow. .
14, (Secret - GLC) Talked to Bill Woodruff, Senate Appropriations
Committee staff, about a time far Mr. Duckett to brief him on a sensitive
overhead reconnaissance program. Woodruff said that since his work has
accelerated considerably he has decided to put this over until a later date.
He said he would be back in touch with us on it.
DOS review(s) completed. ~ ~,~~~
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MEMORANDUM
SUBJECT: FY ,1972.-.CIA ,Budget for Laos
20 October 19.71
The Fiscal Year 1972 Central Intelligence Agency
budget for Laos, excluding paramilitary operations, is
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SUBJ: ;~Y~ !'~~...~.~.+.~A~~}D~iE~ IN MILITARY PROCUREMENT
,~.UTFiCRIZATIC)N LAW ACT
REF: STATE 2t~9~11
1. SYMI~JGTON Ah1ENDMENT (SECTION 5O5) IN MILITARY PROCUREf~ENT
AUT~-IaRIZATION ACT SIGNED t~Y PRESIDENT. NOVEf~,3ER 17 t~AY POSE
SOME PROBLEMS OF IdHICH WE WISH YOU TO BE AWARE.
2. FOLL.OWiNG IS TNTERAGENCY INTERPRETATION OF SYMiNGTON
AMENDMENT IN THE LIGHT OF ITS LEGISLATIVE HISTORY INCLUDING
THE .STATEMENT OF MANAGERS CREFTEL) . CEILING SHO~iLD BE
Cp~ySIDERED TO. INC-LODE ALL ASSISTANCE~RELATED ACTIVITIES
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I LAOSo AS IS SHOWN? BY PARA TW0 OF''THE STATEMENT OF
,NAGERS (PARA 2 REFTEL?, T1~E CONFEREES HAD IN MIND
,SICALL.Y THOSE PROGRAMS FOR LAOS DISCUSSED BEFORE THE SEPYATE
MED SEkt1ICES COh~MITTEE (SASC) ON JULY 22, - 1971. NAMELY LAO
SF (uCLS 221.2 MIt.LION), AID (DOES 5f~.6 MILLION SEE PARR 3
LOW? , AND C.[A PAfrAtY+II~ITARY PROGRAi" THE COSTS 25X1A
' TN1:rSE PROGRAMS ADDED APPRQXIMATEt.Y TO DOES 346.8 MILLION,
{EREBY LEAD?NCa TO THE DOLv 35;~ MILLION CEILING WHICH
NGRES5 UNDEftSTOQD WAS 1~G~UIUALENT TO PROGRAMMED FY~72"
:P;r.NDITURES ANG WOULD THEREFGRE NOT REQUIRE PhOGRAM CUTS,
NFERENCE REPOrtT SPECIFICALLY EXCLUCED FROM CEILING INTER
.IA, ?NORMAL?? EMAASSY COSTS CSEE PARA 12, REFTEL) WHICH SASC -
AFF iriEM3ER SAID WAS WORirED TO EXCLUDE ALSO USIA EXPENSES '-
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tD CIA INTELLIGEtiCE ,PR~CRAMS uJHICH ARE NOT__ASS.LSTAPJCE ~~"
LAT~FD, WE AL 5(7 SELI;~.G'E~THAT AJrC TO SOUTH t,+IETNAMESE FORCES
~ CtPERATIONS AGAINST SAi'dCTL'ARIES .AND TRAIL IN LAOS ARE NOT
SSISTANCE?-RELATED ACTIVITIES Ind L~1flS" qND HENCE NOT TO BE
!ELUDED UPJDER THE ?CELLIPdG ~~ COMr3.AT .t1I-R OPERATIONS BY US
LS_TA.RY_ ~;ORC~S.__IN.~L.AOS__GA~V_,__WE,,.EFLI~,41~,,_.f3E__CON,~TR.UED_Tn .,
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25X1 C~''-..--I~E~-.1L~r~~..__.N_~7.R_I I~PER~_T,IO_NS, -STATE Mr. NT OF
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NAG ER S At. SO INDICATES C PARA 9 REF
T;/L.~, THAT QUARTERL Y
t'O1.1TIP!G SHOULD BE OF EXPENDITURES FOR ONLY THOSE PROGRAMS
DEFZ .THE CEILING
4v?Zr THEREFORE CONSIDER THAT EXPENDITURES FOR THE FOLLOi~IING
OGRAMS SHOULD BE INCLUDED Iii YQUR REPORTING REQUIREMENTS
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TLE II ; REG tONAL FUNDS EARMARKED FOR EXPENDITURES IN OR FOR
()'S (E.G o NAM NC UM) . RE FIRST CATEGORY, WE ARE ASSUMINC3
~.:tIB~JECT TO FINAL CONGRESSIONAL ACTION ON AID APPROPRIATION)
1972 PROCrRA~~i OF DOES 47.3 MILLION SINCE AID INFQRMED CQNGRESS
I3~+EpUENT TO CONGRESSIONAL PRESENTATION .THAT THE D()LS 506
LLIC)N INCLUDED FOR LAOS WAS REDUCED BY DOES 3.3 MILLION FOR
S:TS SHIFTED TO OTHER pGENCIESm
' I7flD: LAO MASF; DOD OVERHEAD COSTS CDEPCHIEF AND #'ROJECT
~4), l~s FORCES AIR ACT IVJ.TIES IN LAOS OTHER THAN THOSE
U.M;~~R,pTED iN .PARA 2. (STATE MAY RAISE WITH- SASC
~STBII.ITY OF' EXCLUDING 'F'ROM CEit.ING CERTAIN RIR ACTIVITIES
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