JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL MONDAY - 17 JANUARY 1972

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 9, 2005
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• Publication Date: January 17, 1972
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Monday - 17 January 1972
1. (Secret - GLC) Ed Braswell, Chief Counsel, Senate Armed
Services Committee, called to say he had talked to Chairman Stennis on
Friday night and the Chairman said he would like to schedule the Director's
world wrapup briefing of the full Armed Services Committee on Thursday,
27 January. Braswell said the Chairman felt the Director should plan to
spend both morning and afternoon with the Committee.
In response to my question as to whether the Chairman wanted any
coverage of the intelligence community changes in this session, Braswell
said the Chairman wanted this billed strictly as a world wrapup briefing
without any advance reference to discussion of the community changes.
He added, however, that it was quite likely the subject could come up
during this meeting and went on to say that if it did this might make an
additional session on the subject unnecessary.
After assuring that this time was satisfactory with the Director,
I confirmed the briefing date with Braswell.
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4. (Secret - GLC) Met with William Woodruff, Counsel, Senate
Appropriations Committee, and brought him up-to-date on briefing items
from 22 December 1971 through 13 January 1972.
Woodruff informed me that Pete Bonner (retired Marine Corps
Colonel) is now working on the Committee staff and in a short time will
replace Mr. Ed Hartung as Senator Milton Young's Minority Counsel on
the staff. Bonner has worked closely with Woodruff and others over the
years and recently served a short stint as a special assistant to Mr. Rady
Johnson. Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs.
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6. (Confidential - JMM) Discussed with Carl Marcy, Chief of
Staff, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Chairman Fulbright's request
for access to National Estimates on Indochina. See Memo for Record.
8. (Unclassified - JGO) Received a call from Norman Leibstone,
in the office of Representative Robert N. Giaimo, who said he had a letter
from a constituent that he would like to discuss if I would stop by on my
next trip to the Hill. I thanked him for the call and told him I would be
by tomorrow.
9. (Confidential - JGO) Received a call from Frank Slatinshek,
Assistant Chief Counsel, House Armed Services Committee, who told me
he had just talked to Chairman Lucien Nedzi, Intelligence Subcommittee,
who is somewhat concerned about the coup in Ghana. Nedzi would like to
know to what extent the intelligence community was aware of the coup planning
and noted that "we let Mrs. Nixon go down there. " I thanked Slatinshek for
the call and told him we would brief him on the Ghana coup tomorrow.
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11. (Internal Use Only - SMG) Mr. Lee Paden, Legislative
Assistant to Senator Henry Bellmon (R. , Okla. ), called and asked for
a copy of the "People's Republic of China" atlas for the Senator's use.
Mr. Paden mentioned that he had seen a copy of the atlas and praised
the high quality of the cartography. I told Mr. Paden that someone
would be by tomorrow to deliver the atlas, and he thanked us for our
assistance.
12. (Internal Use Only - LLM) Called Lisa Gerard, Office of
Management and Budget, in an attempt to determine the Administration's
position on H. R. 9853, "Commission on the Classification and Protection
of Information," and she advised me subsequently that Mr. David Young,
National Security Council staff, was handling this bill and similar legis-
lation and that we should get our advice from him.
JOHN
Legislative Counsel
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