JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL TUESDAY - 11 DECEMBER 1973

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00380R000400050015-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 14, 2006
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: December 11, 1973
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Tuesday - 11 December 1973
2. (Confidential - GLC) Briefed Ed Braswell, Chief Counsel, Senate
Armed Services Committee, on the status of negotiations for the sale o SAT.
I told Braswell that the settlement date was 31 December. I told him we
anticipated some negative press play on this but felt we were going to be
criticized no matter how we handled it. Braswell said he .thought t-he only
basis on w}iich we might be vulnerable was the question of the lack of com-
petitive bidding.
Briefed Braswell on information we had received from D. C. police
sources regarding inquiries that have been made of them on the handling of
civil rights demonstrations and other similar situations in the metropolitan
Washington area and especially any relationship which the Agency had to these.
I told Braswell that we had provided assistance to the D. C. police as we had
to other U. S. organizations. At that point in time, but following the criticizm
which had been levied against the Agency (as Braswell knew), Mr. Schlesinger
liad terminated this kind of support and we felt this story was now old hat
although various members of the press might still try to get some rnilage
out of it. I also briefed Braswell on the involvement of some of our people
in i:his assistance.
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