JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00380R000200050081-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 16, 2002
• Sequence Number: 81
• Publication Date: August 28, 1973
• Content Type: NOTES

Approved For Release 2002/01/28 : CIA-RDP75B00380R000200050081-0
JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Tuesday - 28 August 1973
1. (Unclassified - RW) George Gilbert, OMB, called and cleared
our proposed report on S. Con. Res. 23 (Joint Committee on Information
and Intelligence) for transmittal to the Congress.
2. (Secret GLC) Accompanied Dave Brandwein to a briefing of
Ed Bauser and Seymour Shwiller, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy staff,
on the Soviet MIRV and related missile programs. Brandwein reviewed the
development of the SS-16, 17, 18, and 19 systems for the staffers and
explained the data we have acquired thus far on their MIRV tests. Bauser
was obviously impressed by the caliber of Brandwein's briefing and the
highly sophisticated data which we have on these programs.
We talked about the Joe Alsop column of 15 August at some length
and I tried to explain to Bauser that we neither kept book on what information
was released of this sort nor did we have any idea who may have provided
information to Alsop. I told him I hoped that he would not press us for a
response to his 15 August letter. Bauser said he would take the matter up
with Chairman Price (with whom he had discussed it originally), but he felt
Mr. Price would want some kind of an answer.
3. (Unclassified - GLC) Bob Boyer, Staff Consultant, House Foreign
Affairs Committee, called to ask whether the CIA budget figure was still being
handled as a classified item. I reviewed with Boyer the thrust of Mr. Colby's
testimony on the hearing on this subject, i. e. , this was a matter for the
Congress to decide. I said that thus far our Subcommittee's were still
treating the Agency budget as a classified item.
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