JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL WEDNESDAY - 5 DECEMBER 1973

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00380R000400050019-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 3, 2006
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: December 5, 1973
• Content Type: NOTES

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3. (Unclassified - GLC) I OTR, called and asked if we
would explore the possibility of obtaining a Senator or staff member from
the Senate to speak to the Advanced Intelligence Seminar on the Hill on
23 January 1974. I told him we would be glad to see what we could do.
4. (Unclassified - LLM) Col. Duvall, of Representative Daniel J.
Flood's (D. , Pa.) office, called requesting a subscription to the FBIS
Daily Report on the Western Hemisphere. I told Duvall that I thought we
had recently received a written request for this from the Congressman
and later confirmed to him that the first issue would be delivered on
12 December 1973, which was completely satisfactory to him.
6. (Secret - JGO) Met with Chairman Nedzi, Special Subcommittee
on Intelligence, House Armed Services Committee, and responded to a number
of questions that he had raised. I reviewed with him Pat Gray's testimony
during his nomination hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee wherein
he inserted in the record his letter of 19 June to H. R. Haldeman concerning
the results of investigation of the burglary of the Watergate. I also gave him
an additional copy of Howard Osborn's letter of 20 June 1972 to the Acting
Director, FBI, wherein we made referencel Nedzi has
no further question on this subject.
I reviewed with him correspondence between the Director and Repre-
sentative Lee Hamilton (D. , Ind.), Chairman of the Near East and South Asia
Subcommittee, Foreign Affairs Committee, concerning the alert of American
forces during the Middle East crisis. Nedzi was in complete accord with
the position taken by the Director.
I briefed him also on the inclusion of Secret Service personnel in the
Agency's defensive driving course, the current situation in Thailand- SAT and
Air America status as of today, and the Wall Street Journal item concerning
He noted his appreciation at being kept currently informed on these
matters .
I received from Nedzi a copy of his remarks of 14 November before
the Senior Seminar at Headquarters. I again thanked him for his appearance
and for his handling of our retirement bill.
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7. (Confidential - LLM) I called Bill Jones, Government Activities
Subcommittee, House Committee on Government Operations, in follow up
of my last contact with him concerning; ',AT --id L-4-=ameri a-R.nd told him
that Air America was not certificated and responded to his question that
the sale of SAT was going forward. He did not respond to my observation
that he was maybe in a better position than I to know whether interveners
were now satisfied.
I asked Jones how he would like us to handle the letter to
Chairman Jack Brooks (D. , Texas) concerning the Agency's disposal
authority which GSA Administrator, A.rthur F. Sampson, had referred to
Mr. Colby. In light of my prior offers in this connection, Jones said he
would check with Brooks to find out what the next steps might be, i. e. ,
briefing of Brooks or of Jones, a written reply, or a possible joint meeting
with Brooks, CIA and GSA. In connection with the possible joint meeting
with GSA, Jones differed with my interpretation of Sampson's letter to
Brooks, saying that he thought the GSA was saying that the Agency had no
authority for the disposal, and I said, while the letter could be interpreted
as such, I thought the letter recognized that perhaps the CIA was in
the best position to present the legal authorities relied upon for disposal.
Mr. Warner was advised and is preparing a legal brief setting forth the
Agency's position for possible use with our oversight committees, if this
becomes necessary.
8. (Confidential - JGO) Met with William Hogan, Counsel, Special
Subcommittee on Intelligence, House Armed Services Committee, who told
me that if we had no objection he would send the transcript of the hearing on
S. 2714 on to the printers without review by the Agency. I told him we had
no objection and we appreciated his expediting the publication so that the bill
could be presented at the earliest possible moment to the full Committee.
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