JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00380R000700030049-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 21, 2005
• Sequence Number: 49
• Publication Date: June 3, 1974
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal -- Office of Legislative Counsel
Monday - 3 June 1974
5. I I Talked with Clark McFadden , General
Counsel, Senate Armed Services Committee, about the Senate action today
on the Prn mire amendment (No. L? He said that the amendment was
adopted by the Senate with all the modifications proposed by Chairman Stennis
ex cept the third one permitting activities in the U. S. necessary to support
foreign intelligence responsibilities. McFadden said that Senator Proxmire
was adamant in refusing to accept the inclusion of this item and Stennis
decided not to press the issue since he felt we were sufficiently covered
in Section 5 which authorizes performance of such functions and duties
related to foreign intelligence which are specifically directed by the National
Security Council and reported to the Congress.
McFadden said that it had been agreed there would be three hours
of debate on Proxmire's other amendment No. 1369 requiring the submission
of an annual budge figure or the National Intelligence Programs. He said
it was his understanding that Proxmire proposed to assert that both Dr.
Schlesinger and Mr. Colby had indicated they had no security objection to
the disclosure of this figure. McFadden said he would appreciate any
material we could give him for use in the floor debate tomorrow. A number
of speeches and background papers were prepared for transmittal to
McFadden first thing tomorrow morning.
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Counsel, National Security Agency, called Ed Kenney, Senate Armed Services
Committee staff, who wanted to have guidance on handling the P ;@ai"
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Thurmond. I outlined our points on the public report of the National Intel-
ligence Program budget and gave him the background on the other amendments
indicating that we had sent a position paper to the Committee earlier this
morning. Kenney said we are "one happy family" but that information sent
to the Committee normally is controlled by "one man" and that if we expect
support from the Minority side we ought to be thinking of them too. I
explained that I had not appreciated that it works this way within the Committee
and in response to his request I said we could get him down a position paper
and within the next half-hour I met with him off the chamber, gave him our
position paper making it clear it was a duplicate of what had been provided
McFadden early in the morning and answered a number of his questions.
Kenney said that as far as Thurmond is concerned, he would just as soon
dispense with the Proxmire amendments this afternoon and that generally
Thurmond disagreed with Stennis, was not disposed to accept any of the
amendments on the basis that amendments to the National Security Act of
1947 should be the product of careful deliberation through the normal hearing
process and should not be appended to the Procurement Authorization bill.
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7. I I Met briefly with Ed Braswell and Clark McFadden,
Senate Armed Services Committee staff, explaining what had transpired with
Ed Kenney, of the Committee staff, and asked if they would like me to stick
around against the possibility that the Prc xmi re amends would move
this afternoon. McFadden said that the position paper we had sent down
squarely met all of the points effectively and headon and he gave me the
impression that Senator Stennis was in full agreement. He said they had all
they needed from us at this time and on that basis, said I would return to
Headquarters.
I told Braswell that Stanley Fike, Administrative Assistant to Senator
Stuart Symington (D., Mo. ), wanted to set up a meeting between Braswell,
himself, and me to discuss a personnel case I made it clear
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for Laos and asked him if he had any problem with the proposal indicating
that if he did not maybe we would have no alternative but to go ahead. Braswell
said he didn't see any problems but stressed that he had not yet had time to
speak with the Chairman about it.
ld Braswell we were in need of a decision soon on
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