JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP76M00527R000700230006-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 8, 2004
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: September 6, 1974
• Content Type: NOTES

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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
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day - 6 September 1974
1. I uInformed George Gilbert, OMB,
t the letter to Senator John C. Stennis (D. , Miss..) on S. 2597 and
S. 3767, which was sent to OMB 29 August, had been revised by Mr. Colby.
I requested that he hold up processing of the letter until we get our
revision to him. He mentioned plans to send copies of the letter to the
Department of Justice and the National Security Council.
2. I Delivered to Jack Blum, Associate
Counsel, Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations, Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, materials he had requested from I
Delivered to Norm Cornish, Deputy Staff Director, Subcommittee on
Foreign Operations, and Government Information, House Government
O ations Committee, the transcript of the Director's testimony of
August on R. 12004. Also delivered to Berniece Kalinowski, Secretary,
House Armed Services Committee, materials which had
borrowed from her earlier today.
whd wouia Monday, 9 September, and I had
scheduled an interview for him. I tried to contact who was
referred by the office of Representative David C. Treen (R., La. ), with
no luck. I told I I would call his secretary and let her know
when it was rescheduled.
3. 1 1 Received a call from
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4.1 I Called Bill Hogan, House Armed Services
Committee staff, to alert him to the information we had received about Seymour
Hersh's proposed column in the Sunday New York Times having to do with Agency
operations in Chile. I told 'Hogan that from all the indications we had received,
it seemed quite possible that Hersh had obtained his information from someone
who had access to the transcript of the Director's testimony before the Nedzi
Subcommittee on Intelligence on 22 April 1974. In view of the difficulty we
have had from Representative Michael Harrington on this subject, it appeared
quite likely he was the prime candidate. I told Hogan we were anxious to review
the transcript of that hearing and since the only copy is the one the Committee
has we wondered if.we could borrow it back to check and see just what was
said in that session. We borrowed the transcript from Hogan and returned it
to him later in the day.
5.1 I Called Guy McConnell, Senate Appropriations
Committee staff, Ed Braswell, Senate Armed Services Committee staff, and
Ralph Preston, House Appropriations Committee staff, to alert them to the
information we had received'. about a column we understood Seymour Hersh has
written for publication in the Sunday New York Times on the subject of Agency
operations in Chile. I told the staffers we had some suspicion that the source
of the information Hersh, had received was Representative Michael Harrington
but, of course, this would be difficult if not impossible to prove. I told them
I merely wanted to alert them to the fact that this article was coming out.
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