JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL THURSDAY - 10 FEBRUARY 1972

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 9, 2005
• Sequence Number: 48
• Publication Date: February 10, 1972
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Thursday - 10 February 1972
1. (Secret - JMM) Representative Jamie Whitten (D. , Miss.)
breakfasted with the Director, Messrs. Colby, Houston and Maury. Mr.
Whitten's main interest was in community matters rather than the inner
workings of the Agency, and this he discussed at some length with the Director.
In a later meeting with Messrs. Karamessines, Proctor and Steininger
he pursued, primarily with Mr. Proctor, questions relating to duplication,
waste and extravagance in the collection and processing of raw intelligence.
His main concern was whether we weren't spending large sums and devoting
substantial manpower to the collection of information of marginal value in
view of the necessity to cut our foreign commitments. His criticisms and
suspicions seemed focused mainly on the Defense agencies rather than CIA.
In driving back to his office, I showed Mr. Whitten copies of the
President's letter to the Director of I November 1971, and his memo to
members of the community of 5 November 1971, regarding the reorganization
of the intelligence community. Mr. Whitten commented that the measures
outlined were long overdue and highly commendable.
2. (Confidential - JMM) Talked to Ralph Preston, Staff Assistant,
House Appropriations Committee, and explained our meeting with Representative
Whitten. I told Preston Whitten had mentioned receiving information, some-
times from anonymous sources, regarding waste, duplication and bungling
within the intelligence community. I asked Preston if he could provide us
with details regarding any such cases which he thought deserved attention.
He said he would be glad to do so, but indicated that some of these complaints
were from disgruntled individuals and hardly deserved serious attention.
3. (Secret - JGO) Messrs. Maury and met with Mr. Ralph 25X1
Preston, House Appropriations Committee staff, who said that his time and
Committee efforts from now until the 22nd and 23rd of February will be
devoted to preparation for Mr. Laird's appearance. As for the meeting of
the Special Subcommittee with the Director concerning the intelligence
community, Mr. Preston feels that in all probablility it cannot be scheduled
before the week of 6 March. He apologized that until Mr. Laird has made
his appearance before the Committee, there will be no time for special
meetings with Agency representatives.
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4. (Unclassified - JAL) Received a call from Senator John.
Tunney's San Diego office asking that application forms be sent to
a constituent, 25X1
11in Office of Personnel, has been advised and will
be sending them out.
5. (Internal Use Only-RJK) Delivered to the offices of Senators
Stuart Symington (D., Mo), Frank Church (D. , Idaho), Representatives
Paul N. McCloskey, Jr. (R., Calif.), Marvin L. Esch (R., Mich. ), and
James A. Burke (D., Mass.) FBIS items in which their names were
mentioned.
7. (Confidential - GLC) George Murphy, Joint Committee on Atomic
Energy staff, inquired about the status of Senator Howard Baker's (R. , Tenn. )
query to the Director (see Journal of 4 February). I told Murphy that General
Ed Giller, of AEC, had been in touch with Senator Baker and they agreed to
get together in the near future when both have returned from trips which
they are taking.
8. (Confidential - GLC) I called to advise that :Henry
Cox, the President's advisor on the drug problem, had asked I if 25X1
he would be willing to brief a Republican caucus on the subject of the
drug situation. Osidestepped this with the suggestion that Cox
get someone from the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs for this
purpose with the understanding that would provide the BNDD 25X1
representative with some suggestions on how to cover the subject. Cox
accepted this suggestion and another which ade to the effect that 25X1
this be a bipartisan briefing.
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11. (Internal Use Only - LLM) Called Hilda Schreiber, in the
Office of Management and Budget, on the status of the CIARDS proposed
amendments which were sent to OMB in April of 1971 for clearance for
transmittal to the Congress. She said the holdup was because of the
outstanding questions on financing. She also said they were engaged in
working out a solution on similar questions with the Foreign Service
system and that what emerged would have applicability for CIARDS.
(See Memorandum for the Record of 27 January re Financing of the
Foreign Service System.) Miss Schreiber was sympathetic to our interest
in adopting the more flexible standards for eligibility for cost-of-living
adjustments which will be soon enacted for the Civil Service system, even
though the supporting rationale was not identical.
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