JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00380R000400070031-1
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• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 12, 2006
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: May 23, 1972
• Content Type: NOTES

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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Tuesday - 23 May 1972
1. (Secret - JGO) Messrs. I
met with Mr. Ralph Preston, House Appropriations Committee staft, to update
the material previously given to him concerning the Director's briefing
outline of the community budget which is scheduled for I June. Mr. Preston
will continue to try to schedule a separate briefing for the Agency budget but he
is not hopeful at this time that time will be available between 1 June and final.
markup of the Defense Appropriation bill. Seel Memorandum for 25X1
the Record.
I met later in the day with Mr. Preston and gave him copy #20 of the
1973 Agency budget book together with an explanation of the 1972 program
changes.
2. (Confidential - JMM) Chris Sylvester, Administrative Assistant
to Senator. Milton Young, called to say that he had discussed with the Senator
our problem with the amendment to the Foreign Relations Authorization Act
(S. 3526) calling for a ten percent cut in the overseas personnel of certain
agencies, and that Senator Young would be glad to support either a motion
to strike the amendment or, if this failed, an exemption for CIA.
3. (Secret - JMM) George Carver and I briefed the Intelligence
Operations Subcommittee of House Armed Services. Mr. Carver covered
the Indochina situation in detail and I reported on recent developments regarding
Soviet missiles, Soviet military assistance to Egypt, and the Soviet leadership
situation and Chinese missile tests. See Memorandum for the Record.
4. (Secret - JMM) Met with Richard Perle and Dorothy Fosdick,
on the staff of the Subcommittee on National Security and International
Operations, whom. I briefed on recent developments in Indochina and the Soviet
leadership situation. Mr. Perle said he had not had an opportunity to discuss
with Senator Jackson our conversation yesterday regarding an amendment to
the Foreign Relations Authorization Act (S. 3526), but would do so at the first
opportunity.
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8. (Confidential - GLC) Talked with both Charles Ablard, General
Counsel, USIA, and Marshall Wright, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
for Congressional Relations, and urged that another meeting be called (similar
to the one which Wright originally called to deal with the personnel cut and
dissimination of information provision of S. 3526) to reassess the situation and
determine how successful representatives of the various agencies involved have
been in contacting members of their acquaintance to gain support for the
Administration's position on these provisions. Ablard commented if we were
to accomplish anything he thought we would have to make an all-out move on
the 10 percent cut provision on the floor of the Senate since Representative
Wayne Hays (D., Ohio) (who will be a vital participant in any conference on
this bill) fully supports the personnel cut as reported by the Foreign Relations
Committee. Wright said he would be happy to call another meeting as I
suggested but said he would contact Tom Korologos, of the White House, to
see if he would be willing to chair the session.
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9. (Confidential - GLC) Frank Slatinshek, Chief Counsel, House
Armed Services Committee, called at approximately 11:20 a. m. and said
Chairman Nedzi would like to have a briefing at 3:00 p.m. this afternoon
for himself and members of the Intelligence Subcommittee on the latest
world situation. After checking with the Director, I told him Mr. Carver
and Mr. Maury would meet with the Subcommittee as Nedzi requested.
10. (Secret - GLC) Hand-carried to Bill Woodruff, Counsel, Senate
Appropriations Committee, a memorandum from I having to 25X1
do with personnel in the intelligence community. I also left with him copies
of a picture which had been requested by Senator Ellender. Woodruff said
they were most grateful for our assistance.
11. (Confidential - GLC) Called and advised George Murphy, Joint
Committee on Atomic Energy staff, the Director was available for the briefing
on 13 June and said we would wait to hear further from him confirming this
date.
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14. (Confidential - GLC) Contacted Barbarba Bingley, in the office
of Representative Gilbert Gude (R., Md.) in response to a question the
Congressman had posed about the number of persons with convulsive disorders
who are now employed by the Agency. I told her that while we did not keep
a detailed accurate record of the cases of this type, the Chief of our medical
staff had advised me there were at least six such cases he could think of
offhand and probably an additional five to six that did not come to
mind immediately. Miss Bingley asked if I knew how many of these people
had the condition when they were employed by the Agency. I told her I
had no information on this but would assume that probably as many as half
of these people had been employed in past years when we had taken on some
applicants with a history of convulsive disorders.
JOHN M. MAURY
Legislative Counsel
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