JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00380R000400070008-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 5, 2006
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: June 22, 1972
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Thursday - 22 June 1972
Frank Slatinshek, Chief Counsel, House
Armed Services Committee, ca ed to say that Chairman Lucien Nedzi, Intelli-
gence Subcommittee, would like an updated briefing on Vietnam preparatory
to next week's debate on the Procurement bill. He said this debate would be
hectic, possibly involving a "date certain" amendment to end the war. He
said Nedzi would like our briefing to cover the military situation in 'Vietnam,
the political situation and the peace negotiations. I explained we were not
competent to testify on peace negotiations. He said he would at least like to
get anything we had on such things as the Podgorny visit to Hanoi, eetc. L
asked if he wanted us to cover anything else besides Vietnam and he left that
up to us. I said probably George Carver would provide the briefing.
2. lEd Braswell, Chief Counsel, Senate Armed Services
Committee, called to ask i the Director could appear Monday, 26 June 1972,
at 10:00 a. m. before the full Senate Armed Services Committee to brief on
SALT. After checking with the Director's office,. I called back to say the
Director would be there and Braswell confirmed the time and date. He also
indicated the possibi lity they might want to call the Director back to finish
up later in the week if the Monday schedule didn't permit enough time to cover
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3, f FE Division, called this
morning and informed us that Ambassador Sullivan, of State Department, is
opposed to the acceptance of Senator Case' s compromise to the Dominick 25X1
amendment on S. 3390. Sullivan's objection is based on the fact that the
amendment would still run contrary to the Nixon doctrine of encouraging
regional assistance among nations in Southeast Asia. dded that State
plans to bring this item up at the WSAG meeting this morning.
Mr. Maury contacted the Director at the White House prior to his going
into the WSAG meeting and briefed him on the reasons for our recommending the
acceptance of the Case compromise and of the pitfalls of either a lengthy
debate or a secret Senate session on the amendment. We later learned that the
Administration is in favor of holding out for striking out the entire section.
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I alked with Marshall Wright, State
Department, about the various options on the Dominick amendment and
expressed our concern about a lengthy Senate debate and/or a secret
Senate session on it. I also said that this was now more a matter for
Administration policy decision and was getting beyond the Agency's area
of interest. Wright mentioned that the matter was being discussed at
WSAG and said that they would be in touch with Senator Dominick when a
decision is made by the White House.
5. I I Cheryl Klein, in Senator Dominick's
office, called and informed us that unless the Agency could give him
adequate reasons why he should do otherwise, Senator Dominick was
definitely prepared to accept Senator Case' s compromise to his amendment
as we had discussed it but that the Senator felt it was rather useless to
insist on restricting the a lication of this section to "this Act" rather than
"an provision of law"I
and therefore there was no reason to
argue rime Services Committee jurisdiction in this instance. I made it
very clear, however, that I understood the Administration was in favor of
striking Section 515 entirely and Tom Korologos, of the White House staff,
planned to contact the Senator.
6. Met with Chairman Lucien Nedzi, Intelligence
Operations Subcommittee, House Armed Services Committee, and briefed him
on what we knew of some of the people involved in the Watergate incident and
on a security case which might eventually get public attention.
7. om Korologos, White House staff, called to
request a copy of the ranscrip o the Director's testimony before the Foreign
Relations Committee. I said the Director's policy was not to release or coordinate
his transcripts and I did not have the authority to provide one. He indicated he
would call the Director or have someone else call him.
I told Korologos that I understood Senators Case and Dominick had worked
out a compromise which would not affect nd would seem
acceptable from the Agency standpoint. Korologos said he would call Dominick
about this.
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Thursday - 22 June 1972
8. After learning the results of the WSAG
meeting from the Director, I called Tom Korologos, White House staff,
to say that apparently the question of the Administration's position on the
Dominick amendment had been referred to the highest levels for resolution
and suggested he get White House guidance before pursuing the matter further.
9? eceived a call from Mr. Robert Blum,
Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff, who told me that in connection
with the research he is doing on events in Indochina he has run into several
references to NIE 5 of December 1950 and asked if he could see a copy. I
told him that I was sorry he would have to make his request direct to the
National Security Council. We discussed also the Committee's request for
review of OSS files on Indochina. I told him that the files that have been
identified so far relate solely to papers and reports accumlated in the field.
We will be making additional effort to identify files of Headquarters OSS.
He said there is no real time press at the moment and that he would follow
my guidance when opriate number of files for his review.
Messrs. Colby and have been advised.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff, concerning the Committee
transcripts that are held by the Agency for safekeeping. Mr. Kuhl told me
that there is pertinent statistical information that is needed from time to
time and we might expect calls from members of the staff. I furnished the
information requested from the transcript of the Director's hearing of
23 March 1971 concerning the time hearings were commenced and adjourned
and members of the Committee who were present. Mr. Kuhl also advised
that the transcript of Mr. Laird's appearance before the Committee yesterday
had been received and could be picked up for our review.
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for his use.
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