JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL FRIDAY - 5 MAY 1972

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00380R000400070043-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 17, 2006
• Sequence Number: 43
• Publication Date: May 5, 1972
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Friday - 5 May 1972
1. (Confidential - GLC) Attended a meeting at the State Department
of legislative liaison officers of various agencies on the dissemination of
information and personnel reduction provisions of the State Authorization
bill (S. 3526). See Memorandum for the Record.
2. (Confidential - GLC) George Murphy, Joint Committee on Atomic
Energy staff, called and asked for our assistance in preparing some graphical
material for Representative Chet Holifield (D., Calif.). I told Murphy we were
beset with considerable high priority work, but we would see what we could do
to be of assistance to Mr. Holifield.
3. (Confidential - JGO) Met with Mr. William Hogan, House Armed
Services Committee staff, who told me that Mr. Slatinshek, Assistant Chief
Counsel of the Committee staff, had suggested that he call Jack Maury to
finalize the briefing for the Nedzi Intelligence Subcommittee, Tuesday
morning, 9 May 1972, at 10:00 in Room 2216 Rayburn House Office Building.
I outlined for Mr. Hogan the general format of the prepared notes that Mr. Maury
would be working from. Mr. Hogan recommended that at a very minimum
a disclaimer be used early in the presentation if we are not going to cover
questions of classification and declassification under the Executive Order and
weaknesses in the Espionage Act in our main presentation. It was Mr. Hogan's
advice that if we would not touch this directly ourselves that the Chairman
might well interrupt and suggest that these are the areas of concern to the
Committee. Mr. Hogan noted that the Chairman has been rather forceful on
these points with each person who has appeared before the Committee. I
thanked him for the advice. He told me also that the usual Committee reporter
would be used and agreed that we should control the transcript in our normal
fashion. He noted that particularly for executive session the Chairman desires
a record of the proceedings before the Committee.
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STAT 4. (Unclassified - LLM) DCS, called to report that he
had been asked by a contact in the Library of Congress to identify the laws
supporting current congressional committee oversight of the Agency. I
recommended that he avoid any detailed discussion and simply refer to the
Legislative Reorganization Act and the fact that the Agency's enabling legis-
lation has for some time been within the jurisdiction of the Armed Services
Committees of both Houses. I suggested that if his contact wanted further
information concerning this matter, the staffs of the Armed Services Com-
mittees be contacted, and if he wanted information on other laws affecting the
STAT Agency, that Associate General Counsel, be contacted.
5. (Unclassified - LLM) Called William Shaw, Research Director,
House Internal Security Committee, and told him that we did not have any
unclassified compilation concerning political kidnappings but that he might
want to contact the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee for a report put out
under Senator Dodd's auspices in 1964 to serve as a case example.
6. (Confidential - JGO) In response to his call I met with Representative
Richard H. Ichord (D. , Mo.) and scheduled a meeting for Monday to brief him
on the various Warren Commission documents requested in his letter of 21 March.
Representative Ichord noted that he had delayed quite a bit in setting up the
meeting but he has been pressed on other matters. ICI Staff, STAT
has been advised. See Journal of 10 and 11 April 1972.
7. (Secret - JGO) In response to her call met with Miss Dorothy
Fosdick, Staff Director, Subcommittee on National Security and International
Operations, and briefed her on various Soviet naval units operating in Cuban
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keeping with our understanding with the Soviet Union, I told Miss Fosdick that
this question is one that she would have to refer to the Department of State.
As usual the meeting was most cordial and friendly.
8. (Internal Use Only - JGO) Representative Frank Bow (R. , Ohio)
was away from the city during the afternoon. I am to call his office on Monday
to arrange a time for meeting after his return.
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staff, visited Headquarters for meeting with Messrs. Colby, Briggs,
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9. (Secret - JGO) Mr. Ralph Preston, House Appropriations Committee
on the Agency budget for FY 1973, See Mr. Briggs'
Memorandum for the Record.
Met with Preston late in the day and in response to his request during
this morning's briefing, arranged a meeting for Carl Duckett, DDS&T, to
provide a followup briefing on Agency R&D on Monday, 15 May, at 10:00 a. m.
I also briefed Mr. Preston on thel
deployment.
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10. (Secret - JGO) Received the transcripts for the briefing by
Messrs. Carver and Maury of the full House Armed Services Committee of
4 May. A copy has been furnished to Mr. Carver for editing before return to the
Committee.
11. (Confidential - JMM) Accompanied the Director, and Messrs. Tweedy
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Senate Appropriations Committee on the intelligence community budget. See
Memo for Record.
/JOHN M. MAURY
4egislative Counsel
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