JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00380R000100050139-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 4, 2004
• Sequence Number: 139
• Publication Date: January 22, 1973
• Content Type: NOTES

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I IRS/DDI, called regarding a
request he had received from State Department. State is interested in
showing an Agencyhandbook on to a member (unnamed)
of the staff of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa at a meeting
this afternoon. I suggested that tell State that it is our practice not
to display intelligence ,documents to congressional staff members and we
would prefer that it not be done in this instance. I noted that this merely
wouldwhetthe appetite of the staffer for a copy of the document and possibly
result in his mentioning it to some of his congressional staff colleagues.
5. I I Picked up from Jack Norpel, Senate Internal
Security Subcommittee 'sta.f , an item of interest t 01
6. I I James Calloway, Senate Appropriations
Committee staff, called me late in the day to say Chairman McClellan
suggested 10:30 a. m. Friday, 26 January as a time for the Director to
meet with him and indicated the Senator would prefer to make this a private
meeting between the Director and himself.
7. 1 George Murphy, Joint Committee on
Atomic Energy staff, called regarding an article in the Washington Post
of 19 January reporting a talk in Peking between Chou En-lai and Takeo
Kimura, of Japan, where Chou En-lai suggested that Japan needs "the
American nuclear umbrella" for the time being to protect it against the
STATSPECSoviet Union. Murphy wanted the com lete text of this speech if it was
STATSPEC available. After checking with I advised Murphy's
office that the story of this meeting was
STATSPE ut there had been no text released which was not unusual in
this type informal speech.
8. Delivered to Pete Murphy, H_ouse Ap rp opriations
Committee staff, a blind memorandum commenting on the Soviet aerospace
newsletter concerning MIG-25.
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* Soviet land forces have been bolstered by the production of two new tanks
and improved conventional artillery shells, bombs and missile and rocket warheads.
Laird took the opportunity to warn the Congress that it is "premature" to discuss
"the profound and lasting shift" in the Soviet Union's basic attitudes and approach.
toward the, West. "Detente without adequate defense is delusion, " he said.
Laird. emphasized that while the era of negotiations is well upon, us with. the SALT
and Berlin agreements and with.the? European. Security. Conference preparatory talks and
the Mutual and Balanced. Force Reductions (MBFR) initial talks soon to. begin, the U. S.
can not ignore:
* the large,. highly capable and improving Warsaw Pact.forces? in Europe.
* The rapid and sustained. Soviet arms expansion and.qualitative improvement in
recent years.
* The worldwide expansion of Soviet maritime forces and activity.
* the growing. Soviet military presence and involvement in: areas adjacent to
NATO such as the, Middle East and the Indian,-Ocean.
"The simple fact isthat .the Soviet military build-up, conventional as well as nuclear,
continues with vigorous momentum."
FOXBAT SUCCESSOR DEVELOPED
The,Soviet Q nion has a arena develoed a supersonic successor he MIG 23
FOXBATfighter aircraft,, a. plane which may pose a new challenge to the U. S. fighter
aircraft technology.
The new aircraft, not yet in production. des g.rla e ,thor, -25,, is in the same seed
range as the?FOXBAT but has a longer range and greater maneuverability dud diver ty
of fighter operations. In, addition.. it carries more sophisticated weapons systems
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