JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00380R000400130002-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 12, 2006
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: December 19, 1973
• Content Type: NOTES

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Wednesday - 19 December 1973
10. (Confidential - JGO) Met with Mike Finley, House Foreign Affairs
Committee staff, and received from him a copy of a letter dated 13 December
from Senator John Tunney to Acting Secretary of State Rush concerning
a prisoner in Cuba. Finley told me that Representative Dante
Fascell would like to ascertain whether the Agency has any objection to the
suggested prisoner exchange or any other comments on the matter that we
would care to provide for his benefit. =was formerly associated with
the Agency.
11. (Confidential - JGO) Received a call from Dorothy Fosdick,
Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations staff, who said Senator
Henry Jackson would appreciate a briefing during the day on the ChiCom
leadership, strategic and general political situation and Sino/Soviet relations.
She noted he would also be interested in whatever information we might have
on the cancellation of the Heath visit to China.
12. ( Confidential - JGO) Received a call from John Brady, House
Foreign Affairs Committee staff, alerting us to the statements made on the
floor yesterday by Representative Lester-Wolff concerning Shan States
opium offers. I met with Brady later in the day and delivered back to him
certain documents he had loaned for NARCOG review.
13. (Confidential - JGO) Met with Frank Slatinshek, Chief Counsel,
House Armed Services Committee, and reviewed with him the correspondence
file relating to Chairman Jack Brooks', House Government Operations Com-
mittee, questioning of Chairman Sampson, GSA, concerning Agency authority
for disposal of Federal property. I also gave Slatinshek a copy of the
OGC classified legal memo on this subject. His original reaction was this may
well be an area in which the Committee can help by providing positive legislation
in the package that will be under consideration next year to avoid such questions
in the future. I also discussed with him the possibility of an amendment to the
National Security Act to include criminal sanctions for unauthorized disclosure
of sources and methods information. Slatinshek said that although the policy of
the Committee has generally been against inclusion of criminal sanctions that in
this instance he .feels the Committee may be willing to consider such a provision.
I briefed Slatinshek on a number of current intelligence items. See
Memo for Record.
CRC, 7/14/2003
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7. (Confidential - JMM) Lunched with Senator Symington whom I
briefed in de4ail on our several meetings with Senator Baker over the past
couple of weeks in connection with his speculations regarding Agency involve-
ment in Watergate. The Senator seemed to accept and support the Agency's
firm denials of such involvement and asked that we keep him fully up-to-date.
In the course of our conversation he confided that Senator Stennis'
recovery was distressingly slow.
Recalling the abortive attempt in 1970 to organize under FBI Director
Hoover a Domestic Intelligence Organization, Symington remarked that the
Agency was very fortunate that this effort never got off the ground and that the
lesson to be drawn was that henceforth, if the Agency was ever asked to do
anything that appeared improper we should insist that the request be put in
writing.
8. (Confidential - JMM) Met with Ed Braswell, Chief Counsel, Senate
Armed Services Committee, and reviewed the problem of getting tighter
espionage laws to protect sensitive intelligence information. Braswell noted
that consideration of such a bill would raise a jurisdictional question but he
agreed that if it were presented in the form of an amendment to the Agency
Act, and was addressed specifically to. the protection of "intelligence sources
and methods" the Armed Services Committee should be in a position to assert
primary jurisdiction.
9. (Internal Use Only - RJK) Paul Haygood, Administrative
Assistant to Senator Bennett Johnston (D. , La. ), called and said that the
Senator would be traveling to several countries in the Middle East during
the. Christmas recess. Haygood was interested in finding out for the Senator
whether there was any personal risk involved in this area at this time. He
recalled that prior to another Middle East trip which had to be canceled
the Senator had been advised by our people about security in the area.
After checking wit returned Mr. Haygood's 25X1
call and told him that the Peace Conference this weekend will probably be a
critical period and the situation could tip in either direction. We suggested
that the Senator wait until the middle of next week and check with us at which
time we will be in a better position to advise him. Haygood said the Senator
will be going to North a on 26 December but that the Senator or he
(Haygood) will cal Wednesday, 26 December.25X1
CRC, 7/17/2003
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