JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL MONDAY - 28 FEBRUARY 1972

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00380R000400060036-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 9, 2005
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: February 28, 1972
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Monday - 28 February 1972
1. (Confidential - GLC) Talked with Representative Albert Quie
(R. , Minn.) about our interest in having the conferees on S. 2515, who
are meeting this afternoon, insert in the conference report on this bill
a statement which would indicate that it is not the intention of the Congress
in enacting this legislation to subordinate the discretionary authority or
judgment which department heads may have by statute in cases involving
the national security. Mr. Quie said that Representative John Erlenborn
(R. , Ill.) was the principal member handling this legislation and that
Tom Hart (with whom we have been dealing) is the principal staff member.
Mr. Quie said he would do everything he could to support us on this however.
2. (Secret - GLC) Hand-carried to Bill Woodruff, Counsel, Senate
Appropriations Committee, figures which he had requested on funds and
personnel in the intelligence community in Fiscal Year 1973.
Mr. Woodruff returned to me the answer which we had prepared
to Senator Case's two questions on Soviet ICBMs with instructions that
we handle this response with the Senator personally. See Memo for Record.
I alerted Mr. Woodruff to the action which we were taking this
morning in attempting to have appropriate language inserted in the conference
report on the equal employment opportunity legislation (S. 2515). Woodruff
could see no problem with this.
3. (Confidential - JMM) Messrs. Tweedy,
and I lunched at house with Ralph Preston, Staff Assistant,
House Appropriations Committee, and discussed plans for the Director's
upcoming appearances before the Mahon Committee with regard to
community matters. I is preparing a Memo for the Record.
I gave Preston a copy of a letter to Mr. Helms from Representative
Joe Evins (D., Tenn. ), containing several complaints about the Agency,
and asked Preston's advice for responding. Preston said he would show
it to Chairman Mahon and let us know.
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4. (Confidential - JMM) Senator Stuart Symington (D., Mo.) called
in response to my earlier call to him for a date to meet and discuss his
query to the Director regarding an article about the Agency in the March
"Earth" magazine. I told Symington I would like to come see him at his
convenience, but he said this was not necessary, that Senator Harold Hughes
(D., Iowa) was the one who was particularly interested in the matter and I
should see him. I told Symington we would be glad to do so, but would like
him to know the article in question was full of nonsense. Symington asked
that I let him know the results after I talk to Senator Hughes, who had been
speaking of "investigating" the charges against the Agency contained in the
article.
6. (Unclassified - JMM) John Goldsmith, Senate Armed Services
Committee staff, called regarding a story in today's New York Times on
the DDCI nomination. See Memo for the Record.
7. (Unclassified - JMM) Ed Braswell, Chief Counsel, Senate Armed
Services Committee, called to ask the salary of the DDCI, which we explained
was $40, 000.
8. (Confidential - JGO) I talked to several different members of the
staff of the House Foreign Affairs Committee about the Jack Anderson column
on Sunday of a report being prepared by Representative Lester Wolff (D. , N. Y. )
concerning dope in Thailand. The staff has no knowledge of such a report
but will advise us should they learn differently. No further action is
contemplated at this time.
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9. (Secret - JMM) John Lehman, on the White House staff, called
to ask if the Agency was appearing this week before the Nedzi Subcommittee
regarding the Hebert/Arends bill (H. R. 9853) on security of classified
information. I said we were not, in view of our policy against appearing
in open session. Lehman was glad to hear this. He asked my views about
trying to delay hearings on this subject until next month so that the
Administration's position could be clarified and further work completed in
the NSSM 13 exercise. I said one argument against delay was the possibility
that the Moorhead Subcommittee would pick up the ball and run with it, and
I thought we were better off dealing with Nedzi. Lehman said this was a
consideration which hadn't occurred to them, and maybe they had better
take another look. He asked how we were getting along with Nedzi and I
said there were no major problems at this stage. This seemed to surprise
him.
11. (Confidential - JGO) Talked to Mr. Bruce Clarke, OSR, who told
me he had a good meeting with Mr. Fred Wikner, assistant to Dr. John S.
Foster, Director of Defense Research & Engineering, Department of Defense,
and relayed to him the information provided in the meeting with Mr., Frank
Slatinshek, Assistant Chief Counsel, House Armed Services Committee,
concerning differences in the information provided by the Director and
Dr. Foster on Soviet R&D. Mr. Clarke will brief Mr. Slatinshek on the
meeting. 0 1' 41 i.-.,
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13. (Internal Use Only - LLM) In followup of the decision to go the
legislative history route on S. 2515, Equal Employment Opportunities Enforce-
ment Act, met separately with key staffers representing the principal
Senators and Representatives on the conference committee and they all
endorsed the insertion of the essence of our suggested statement in the
conference report:
"In providing the statutory basis for such appeal or court access,
it is not the intent of the Committee to subordinate any discretionary
authority or final judgment now reposed in agency heads by, or
under, statute for national security reasons in the interests of the
United States. "
(The underscored words of art from the 102(c) authority were added to make
perfectly clear that the Agency was contemplated in this boiled down version
of our suggested statement.) Involved in this determination were: from the
House Committee on Education and Labor, Chief Clerk, Donald Baker;
Director of the Labor Subcommittee, Robert Vagley; Chief Consultant, Tom
Hart, and from the Senate Education and Public Welfare Committee, Counsel,
Gerald Feder; Associate Counsel, Donald Elisburg, and Minority Staff General
Counsel, Eugene Mittelman, representing respectively Representatives Carl
Perkins (D., Ky.) and John Dent (D., Pa.) and Senators Harrison Williams
(D. , N. J.) and Jacob Javits (R. , N. Y. ).
Separately, Representative Albert Quie (R. , Minn. ), Ranking Minority
Member of the full Committee, told he would support our position 25X1
and Representative John Erlenborn (R., Ill.), Ranking Minority Member of
the Subcommittee, told me we could count on his full support.
The advice and approval of Mr. Warner was obtained on the language
above and Mr. Fisher was advised of the agreement on the language for
whatever action is necessary to keep the Civil Service Commission apprised
of these developments.
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14. Mrs. Sutherland, in the office of
Senator Abraham Ribicoff (D. , Conn. ), called and asked for a copy of
the China Atlas. I told her someone would drop it by.
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