JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00380R000400090005-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 17, 2006
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: December 4, 1973
• Content Type: NOTES

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NRO REVIEW COMPLETED"""'
Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Tuesday - 4 December 1973
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9. (Secret - JMM) Talked to NRO, and explained
Chairman John McClellan, Senate Appropriations Committee, was reluctant
to take any action regarding Senator Proxmire's advocacy of publicizing
NRO funding. I said in view of this I thought there was little we could do
with regard to Proxmire. said that NRO is also very much concerned
about a forthcoming article on the subject in the Congressional Quarterl
and asked whether we planned any action on this or whether 4- --I-- A4 r? oft
should try to see what it could do to forestall its publication. I said I wasn't
sure anything could be done, but I r m nded Air Force stand down
until we had a chance to reconnoiter agreed noting Air Force had
no particular connections or ideas o ow o go about dealing with the problem.
10. (Secret - JMM) In the absence of Senator Henry M. Jackson,
talked with Dorothy Fosdick about the problem of interceding with Congressional
Quarterly to try to dissuade them from publishing NRO information. She was
not optimistic but said she would take the matter up with the Senator at the
first opportunity.
11. (Secret - JMM) Reviewed with Jim Woolsey, Senate Armed Services
Committee staff, the problem of NRO information being published in the
Congressional Quarterly. He said he would look into it but had no ideas and
agreed it would be counterproductive to try interceding unless we were quite
sure of our ground. Woolsey did volunteer the information that Senators
Stennis and Proxmire and Mr Plummer (Under Secretarv-desiynate of the a.Air Force) were meeting Friday to try to work out problems regarding
Plummer's confirmation.
12. (Unclassified - JMM) Chairman Lucien Nedzi, Intelligence Subcom-
mittee, House Armed Services Committee, called to say he had an. inquiry
regarding a memo dated 19 June 1972 placed into the record of Patrick Gray's
confirmation hearings as Director of the FBI indicating that the Agency had no
knowledge of any connection with I told Nedzi that as of 19 June 1972
we had severed our relations wit immediately upon word of his 25X1
involvement in the Watergate, but would ook into the matter regarding the
memo and give him a.n answer.
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Journal - Off ice of Legislative Counsel
Tuesday - 4 December 1973
of IC Staff, and John Maury and OLC, met
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with Chairman John McClellan and Senator Milton Young, Senate Appropriations
Committee, to discuss certain aspects of the intelligence community budget.25x1
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of the intelligence budget. See Memo for Record.
15. Met with Jack Ticer, Senate Armed Services
Committee staff, and gave him four copies of the Middle East Atlas. During
lunch later, Ticer mentioned that another man (whom he didn't identify) is
being seriously considered for Jim Woolsey's position and he expects a
decision will be reached very shortly. In answer to my question, Ticer said
he had no knowledge of any plans which Ed Braswell may have for retiring.
16. Talked briefly with Guy McConnell, Senate
Appropriations Committee staff, about our discussions concerning the applicability
of recent amendments to the Federal Property and Public Buildings Acts which
would require the Agency to budget for annual payments to GSA for Standard
Level Use Charges. McConnell said he didn't know much about the subject but
thought that if this statute was supposed to have uniform applicability he could
see no valid reason why the Agency should be excluded. He agreed, however,
it was a proper m4eeer fbr discussion between the Agency and OMB.
CRC, 7/17/2003
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