CONVERSATION WITH BILL WOODRUFF, COUNSEL, SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE, RE LEGISLATION CONCERNING EXECUTIVE DINING ROOMS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00380R000100030033-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 15, 2004
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: October 25, 1972
• Content Type: MFR

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25 October 1972
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Conversation with Bill Woodruff, Counsel, Senate
Appropriations Committee, Re Legislation
Concerning Executive Dining Rooms
1. Today I talked with Bill Woodruff about the provision in the
Supplemental Appropriations bill (H. R. 17034) requiring reports to
Congress on the total amount of appropriated funds used for the support
of executive dining rooms or similar facilities during the fiscal year
ending 30 June 1973.
2. Mr. Woodruff said the stated purpose of this provision, which
was proposed by Senator Margaret Chase Smith (R., Maine), was to
determine the extent to which appropriated funds are used to support
dining facilities where the attendance is limited on the basis of grade
or rank. He said the real purpose is to determine the extent to which
appropriated funds are used to permit certain Government officials to
purchase their meals at a substantial saving over prices for comparable
service on the commercial market.
3. According to Mr. Woodruff the principal concern is with the
operation of small Secretary's dining rooms in the Pentagon with large
staffs for a very small number of people. In talking about the Agency's
executive dining room, Mr. Woodruff said he did not feel that a facility
like ours which was available to hundreds of people and which was operated
by a comparatively small staff would be a matter of concern.
4. I asked Mr. Woodruff how he anticipated Agency reports being
submitted. He said he thought they ought to be submitted to the President
of the Senate. When I queried him on the advisability of establishing a
precedent for reporting to the Congress at large on Agency funds, he agreed
this was a report that should be made to the Chairman of the Appropriations
Committee and put in his (Woodruff's) hands.
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4. I told Mr. Woodruff that we would probably want to check out
the format of our report with him before it was finalized and he said that
would be fine.
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Deputy Legislative Counsel
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