JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL MONDAY - 31 JANUARY 1972

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00380R000400060056-5
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• Original Classification: C
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 9, 2005
• Sequence Number: 56
• Publication Date: January 31, 1972
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Monday - 31 January 1972
1. (Internal Use Only - PLC) Met with Diana Dillion, in the office
of Representative Edward P. Boland (D., Mass.), and discussed with her
the blind memorandum prepared to answer inquiries resulting from the
article in Parade magazine alleging CIA assassinations in Vietnam.
Miss Didion appreciated our efforts and stated she would paraphrase
freely from the memorandum and not attribute any comments directly
to the CIA.
2. (Internal Use Only - PLC) Met with Mr. Phil Argento, in the
office of Senator John V. Tunney (D., Calif.), and discussed a proposed
reply to a letter from a constituent who commented on an article appearing
in a Eureka, California, newspaper. The article reported that CIA, FBI,
and Treasury were conducting an investigation of the bombs placed in safety
deposit boxes of several banks in the U. S. The constituent was seriously
concerned that the Agency was engaging in internal security matters. I
assured Mr. Argento that the Agency was in no way associated with the
investigation and he stated he will reply to the constituent accordingly.
4. (Internal Use Only - JGO) Talked to Mr. Ralph Preston, House
Appropriations Committee staff, who told me that Representative Tom Bevill
(D. , Ala.) has been assigned to the full Committee as a new member but no
assignment has been made to replace Representative Andrews on the Defense
Subcommittee. Mr. Preston does not know whether to expect an assignment
to fill Representative Andrews spot before our meeting with the Committee
on Thursday.
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5. (Internal Use Only - JGO) Received a call from Mr. Kirby Gean,
Division of Intelligence, Atomic Energy Commission, who told me that during
the visit of the Intelligence Subcommittee of House Armed Services Committee
to AEC on Friday, Chairman Nedzi and Mr. Frank Slatinshek, of the
Committee staff, requested a listing of the USIB Committees in which AEC
participated. Mr. Gean wanted to insure that furnishing such a list to the
Committee would not interfere with any bench marks established by the DCI
in his dealings with the Committee. Messrs. Bronson Tweedy and
NIPE, have been advised.
7. (Confidential - JGO) Received a call from Mr. John Lehman,
of the White House staff, concerning the status of the Agency report on
S. Res. 192, a resolution "To create a Select Committee on the Coordination
of the United States Activities Abroad to oversee activities of the Central
Intelligence Agency. " I told him our report, which was a strong objection
to the resolution, was at the Office of Management and Budget. In response
to his question I told him we had had the benefit of State Department's views
at the time our report was forwarded. He did not appear to be interested
in the detail of our report but only that it was a strong objection and had been
forwarded to OMB.
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10. (Unclassified - SMG) Debbie Wilkes, in the office of
Senator Edmund Muskie (D. , Maine), called and asked that an employ-
ment brochure be sent directly to a constituent,
I ffice of Personnel was
11. (Internal Use Only - RJK) Delivered to the offices of
Representative Charles C. Diggs, Jr. (D., Mich.) and Senator
J. W. Fulbright (D., Ark.) FBIS items in which their names were
mentioned.
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