JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
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• Publication Date: August 12, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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9. Charles Snodgrass, House Appropriations
Defense Subcommittee staff, called and we briefly reviewed the discussion
between he and DIV/D, yesterday. Snodgrass said that the
decision at this point is tentative at best and he would like to get
togetherwith in early September following the Far East trip.
10. Received a call from Peter Poole,
in the office of Senator Charles Percy (R., Ill. ). He said they were
interested in any reports out of the People's Republic of China on
the congressional delegation's visit there. He indicated that for some
reason they have not been receiving the reports and they were
particularly interested in any Chinese comment on the Senator's recent
visit there. I told him I would check on this and someone would be
back in touch.
11. Talked with Les Janka, NSC staff,
about the material we had pulled together which was responsive to the
Sparkman/Fascell/ GAO inquiries regarding the Mayaguez incident, We
discussed possible responses to Chairman Sparkman and Janka suggested
that in effect we send an interim reply in view of the highly sensitive
security classification of the post mortem and SitReps which were involved.
We could then offer to either brief the Committee in executive session or
sit down with the Chairman and discuss the matter further with him. A
reply along the lines suggested by Janka has been drafted and sent to the
Director.
12. q 1 In response to his earlier call, I contacted
Ralph Preston, House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee staff, to tell, him
we had checked our files on Agency briefings of their Subcommittee on Chile and
found there were in fact two briefings in which there were transcripts and one
in which there was no transcript in which Chile was mentioned, identified the
transcripts as being briefings on 2 and 3 March 1971 and 3 Fehr y 1972 and the
other one, for which there was no transcript, was I June 1972. eston said
since the request and the Chairman's interim answer clearly relate only to
transcripts, he was not interested in any others. He also indicated and I agreed
that in view of the sensitivity of the material involved- in some of these briefings
that he intended to provide the Department of Justice with only those pages of the
transcripts that dealt with testimony on Chile. He asked if we would Xerox copies
of those pages and send them to him on Thursday. I said I would do so. Ile
pointed out that the Chairman's interim. answer to the. Justice Department does
not make a commitment to provide this material but does indicate that the
Chairman will raise this matter with the Subcommittee when the Congress returns
from recess in September.
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7. I I Contacted Guy McConnell, Senate
Appropriations Committee staff, Clark McFadden, Senate Armed Services
Committee staff, and Elly Vogtmann, of Pat Holt's staff on the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, and asked that they make notations in their
records that on this date we had contacted the Committee to indicate that
the Director had received a new Presidential finding under the Foreign
Assistance Act on which he was prepared to brief the Committees.
(Obviously, this would have to wait the Committees' return in September. }
8. 9 I Received a call from Mike McLeod,
General Co&nsei, senate Agriculture Committee, indicating an interest
in information from the Agency regarding crop report studies which the
staff must submit to the Committee upon its return in September. He
is specifically interested in a briefing on Soviet grain production. I told
of their staff, and had planned to contact him today for just such a purpose.
After conferring with Kelso, I advised McLeod that we would be available
for a briefing of himself and Henry Casso, Chief Economist, whom he
mentioned was also interested. The briefing was scheduled. for 9:00 a.m.
tomorrow.
9. Received another call from Mike
Oppenheimer, GAO, asking where things stood with respect to their
requests for information to be included in the study being prepared on. behalf
of Representative Dante Fascell's (D., Fla.) Subcommittee on International
Political and Military Affairs, of the House International Relations Commit1
having to do with the Mayaguez affair. I told Oppenheimer that we had pulled f
together considerable information on this but indicated that we were awaiting
guidance from the NSC staff as to how to proceed. In response to my question,
Oppenheimer -aid they had been in touch with the NSC staff and were advised
that they in turn were attempting to get guidance from Dr. Kissinger or
General Scowc-oft on this matter.
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10. I Called Les Janka, NSC staff, and
mentioned tho ow-up call I had received from Mike Oppenheimer, GAO,
and told him that we were getting into an awkward position on this matter.
Janka acknowledged that the matter was pending with Dr. Kissinger and said
that as I had understood there was no objection to our advising GAO that
we were awaiting NSC guidance on this matter.
11. I Informed Charles Snodgrass, House
Appropriations el ense Subcommittee staff, and Noel Daoust, H use
International Relations Committee staff, that there was a Presidential
finding to report in a timely fashion. Snodgrass said the report would
have to occur after the recess and Daoust will inform Marian Czarnecki,
Staff Director. Both Frank Slatinshek and Bill Hogan, House Armed
Services Committee staff, are on vacation and we will inform thern on
Monday.
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inquiry of Friday relating to the Director's statement of 4 August 1975 before
the House Select Committee on Intelligence. Grimmitt has said that the
State representation on the 40 Committee and the NSC Intelligence Subcommittee
appeared to be reversed. I advised Dr. Grimmitt that his observation
was completely accurate and that the Director's statement was in error.
I told Grimmitt we appreciated his bringing this to our attention.
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Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress conce
GE(Q .-RGGE L. CAR.
Legislative Counsel
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Mr. Warner EA/DDO
Mr. Thuermer Comptroller
Mr. Parmenter
IC Staff
Spoke with Dr. Richard Grim
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