JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00380R000400070062-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 17, 2006
• Sequence Number: 62
• Publication Date: April 10, 1972
• Content Type: NOTES

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Monday - 10 April 1972
1. (Internal Use Only - JGO) Delivered a letter from General
Walters to Chairman Stennis to Ed Braswell, Chief Counsel, Senate Armed
Services Committee, enclosing the responses to questions raised by
Senators Strom Thurmond (R., S. C.) and Harold Hughes (D., Iowa) during
General Walters' confirmation hearing on Friday.
I also gave Mr. Braswell a paper from Jack Maury concerning
S. 2224, the Cooper bill. Mr. Braswell glanced through both General
Walters' questions and answers and Mr. Maury's paper while I was with
him and said that it looked as if he would have to do a little more studying
on S. 2224.
3. (Secret - JGO) Met briefly with Representative Richard. Ichord
(D. , Mo.) concerning his request to the Archivist of the United States for
certain Warren Commission documents. I told him that the documents
cannot be released at this time but that we would be pleased to review them
with him. He will call me when he has had a chance to check his calendar
and set up a time for meeting.
4. (Unclassified - GLC) Accompanied the Intelligence Production
Course members to a meeting with Mr. James Woolsey, of the Senate
Armed Services Committee, who talked to them at some length about problems
facing the Congress and particular problems for the Agency as he saw them.
Considerable length of time was spent in discussion on the provisions of
Senator Cooper's (R. , Ky.) bill (S. 2224) and the class members seemed to
appreciate Mr. Woolsey's remarks.
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6. (Confidential - GLC) William McAfee, INR/DDC, State Department,
called to say that David Abshire, Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional
Relations, had asked Ray Cline, Director Intelligence and Research, for
material on the Cooper bill (S. 2224) for his (Abshire's) use in talking to the
Foreign Relations Committee later this week. McAfee said he assumed we
had developed some thoughts on this and he would appreciate anything we
could pass on to them. I told him we had sent a ba sic position paper to
Tom Lattimer, in the White House, for Dr. Kissinger's use and had also
provided some material to Ed Braswell, on the Senate Armed Services
Committee staff, this morning. I told him I would forward copies of this
material as well as some additional comments of mine having to do with
comparison of the Cooper bill with Section 202 of the Atomic Energy Act
with the understanding that it would not be used in its present form. since
this had been sent to Braswell for possible use in a floor statement by
Senator Stennis. The material was sent this afternoon.
7. (Confidential - JMM) Lloyd Hackler, Administrative Assistant to
Senator Lloyd Bentsen, called to say the Senator would like the briefing on the
military situation in Indochina which he mentioned to the Director at 3:00 this
afternoon. After checking with OCI I found the experts concerned were already
committed to an important meeting and called back to suggest tomorrow
morning, to which Hackler agreed.
Later in the day Hackler called back to say Senator Stennis had called
on the Pentagon on the same subject tomorrow and Bentsen assumed this
would answer his questions.
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(Unclassified - JMM) Called R. Burnett Thompson, Administrative
Assistant to Representative G. William Whitehurst, to say that we had no
record of receiving a letter .from
but that we had asked our Office of Logistics to get in touch
with I Iregarding his desire to interest the Agency in some technical
equipment he has developed.
I also told Mr. Thompson that we would send Mr. Whitehurst some
application forms for one of his constituents who had written to him about
Agency employment.
JOHN M. MAURY
Legislative Counsel
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