JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL WEDNESDAY - 11 JULY 1973

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00380R000100060082-9
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• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 5, 2004
• Sequence Number: 82
• Publication Date: July 11, 1973
• Content Type: NOTES

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SECRET
JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Wednesday - 11 July 1973
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1. I Met briefly with Senator Peter Dominick (R. , Colo. )
and gave him a blind memorandum prepared by OCI in response to the
Senator's question at yesterday's hearing about reports that Libya had loaned
$1 million for the construction of a new canal in Panama.
2. Left with Jim Woolsey, Senate Armed
Services Committee staff, Mr. Colby's letter dated 10 July concerning a
statement by him in response to a question from Senator Symington during
yesterday's hearing requesting his comments on the Lau rence Stern article
in yesterday's Washington Post. I told Woolsey that it was our feeling that
publication of the text of this letter might possibly give Stern an opportunity
for additional anti-Agency commentary but Mr. Colby would defer to
Senator Symington's judgment on this. It would be preferable if Senator
Symington would make a statement to the effect that Stern's article was
distorted and unfair since it omitted an essential part of Senator Case's
question to Mr. Helms and it was to this part of the question that Helms
appeared to be addressing himself.
Woolsey told me that a number of Senators outside of the Armed
Services Committee had requested and had been given copies of the original
transcript of Mr. Colby's confirmation hearing. For this reason he thought
it would be advisable for us to review the changes we had made in Mr. Colby's
testimony to make sure that we either limited those changes to classifications
or made it clear that a supplementary statement was being provided. We
are reviewing the transcript on this basis.
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Intelligence Operations Subcommittee of Senate Appropriations Committee to
present both the community and Agency budgets. See Memo for Record.
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