JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00380R000400120006-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 14, 2006
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: December 14, 1973
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Friday 14 December 1973
1. (Secret - JSW) Met this afternoon with William M. Jones, Staff
Director, Subcommittee on Government Activities, House Committee on
Government Operations, and William H. Copenhaver, of the Committee
staff, at their request to discuss the question of whether the Agency has
authority on its own to dispose of Southern Air Transport and Air America.
I showed them a classified legal opinion concluding that we do have such
authority. They also requested a number of additional items of information.
Clearly they are not convinced that we should not go to GSA- nder the
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Surplus Property Act. See Memorandum for Record.
2. (Confidential - GLC) Ted Shackley called to say it had just come
to his attention that on 12 November 1973 in executive session testimony
before the Foreign Operations and Government Information Subcommittee,
House Government Operations Committee fhat ooter, of AID, testified
Shackley wondered if
we had any information on this. I told him that we had received no advance
information on this before the hearing nor any reports on it after the fact. I
told him I could take the matter up with Herb Roback, of the Committee staff,
but I thought it best if he made a lateral inquiry on it to AID first. He agreed
and said he would be back in touch with me after talking with AID.
3. (Internal Use Only - RJK) Delivered to the offices of Senators
Barry Goldwater (R., Ariz.), Edward M. Kennedy (D., Mass.),
Henry M. Jackson (D., Wash.), Richard S. Schweiker (R., Pa.), and
Robert Taft, Jr. (R. , Ohio) FBIS items in which their names were mentioned.
4. (Internal Use Only - RJK) Left sixteen copies of the Middle
East atlas with Mike Van Dusen on the staff of the House Foreign Affairs
Committee. Also left a People's Republic of China atlas with
Martha Richardson on the staff of Representative John B. Anderson
(R., Ill.) per his request.
5. (Internal Use Only - RJK) Delivered a package to the Senate
Agriculture and Forestry Committee for Ray White.of the staff as a
follow-up to his request t
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