JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00380R000100110053-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 2003
• Sequence Number: 53
• Publication Date: November 5, 1973
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal -, Office of Legislative Counsel Page 2
Monday - 5 November 1973
25X1 3. II- GLC) Hand-carried to Senator Stuart Symington, Acting
Chairman, Senate Armed Services Committee, Mr. Colby's letter of today's
date transmitting Dick Helms' response to recent allegations in the press
and elsewhere concerning his memorandum of 28 June 1972 to General Walters
on the subject of the Watergate affair. Senator Symington was very upset
over the fact that we were providing identical information to Chairman Nedzi,
Special Subcommittee on Intelligence, House Armed Services Committee.
He called in Jim Woolsey, General Counsel for the Committee, and discussed
the matter at some length. The Senator's tentative conclusion toward the
close of the day was to release to the press only the Helms memorandum of
25X1A 28 June 1972 with the names of Shackley and deleted. (Details are
covered in my Memorandum for the Record note above. )
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4.1 1 JGO) Met with Chairman Lucien Nedzi, Special Sub-
committee on Intelligence, House Armed Services Committee, and delivered
to him the Director's letter concerning Ambassador Helms' response to
inquiries by Nedzi and Acting Chairman Stuart Symington, Senate Armed
Services Committee, relating to the 28 June 1972 memorandum. It was
Nedzi's feeling after reading the letter and Helms' response that the content
confirmed his own feelings about the 28 June memorandum. He indicated
it would probably be best to let the matter die as is. However, this position
could well be conditioned by whatever pressure Symington feels he has for
release of the materials. Nedzi indicated he would be willing to join Symington
in a release if such seemed indicated. He intends for the present, however,
to do nothing further.
I also discussed with him his scheduled meeting with the Senior Seminar
at Headquarters on Wednesday, 14 November from 9 to 10:30 a. m. He intends
to address the group for 20 minutes or so and go into open discussion with them.
Per his earlier request to Maury I gave Nedzi a copy of the 30 October
article by Patrick Sloyan entitled "Cox's Evidence Indicates Helms Lied in
Coverup. "
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