JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00380R000100080070-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 10, 2001
• Sequence Number: 70
• Publication Date: July 19, 1973
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 2
Thursday - 19 July 1973
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5. (Internal Use Only - JGO) Met briefly with Mike Van Dusen,
Near East and South Asia Subcommittee, House Foreign Affairs Committee,
who told me that Chairman Hamilton has been in hearings all afternoon and
has not yet read General Walters' letter concerning
. He will speak to
Hamilton about it in the morning and may call to arrange a briefing.
6. (Confidential - JGO) Met with Jim Gehrig, Senate Aeronautical
and Space Sciences Committee staff, and completed the necessary security
documentation in debriefing prior to his pending trip to the Soviet Union.
By present schedule he will be departing the city tomorrow with Senator
James Abourezk (D., S. Dak. ). I also gave him a defensive briefing.
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7. (Confidential - JGO) John Clarke and , IC Staff, and
I met with Ralph Preston, House Appropriations Committee staff, and discussed
with him the draft considerations for response to Chairman McClellan's, Senate
Appropriations Committee, request for a letter outlining the Agency's position
on setting forth the intelligence community budget for FY-74 in the Committee
report together with possible dollar totals for the seven major intelligence
components. In brief Preston advised that although there is minimal pressure
in the House for release of such information, Chairman Mahon is very firm in
his position that such information should not be set forth in committee reports.
At the most, he might accede to a statement concerning the overall community
budget but even then he would feel all that would be accomplished would be
moving the pressure line back to demands for revelation of the individual
agency budget totals. See John Clarke's Memorandum for the Record.
8. (Confidential - JGO) Met briefly with William Hogan, Counsel,
Intelligence Subcommittee, House Armed Services Committee, and discussed
with him Volume III of documentation provided by CIA concerning Watergate.
Hogan recommended that the Volume be delivered directly to Chairman Nedzi
so that we might have the benefits of his comments and questions firsthand.
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