JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Publication Date: May 13, 1975
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(D. , New York) who is interested in the well--being of
I called I VNO, he said he had no further information and
suggested that I call the State Department Vietnam Task Force
(632-9800). I subsequently talked to Mr. Kopf of the Task Force.
He had no information but took what identifying data I had and said it
would be included in their computer listing. The home and office
telephone numbers of I Iwere given, to be immediately
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notified if any information is received. I then called
and advised him accordingly. I told him that we would continue to
check in our channels and I would advise him immediately if we developed
any information.
Met with Jack Brady, T3o?se International
s a , an provided him the 30 April letter o e
Director from Representative Lester `Wolff (D. , N. Y.) concerning CIA's
I also provided Brady an update on the situation. in Laos along the
lines of the article appearing in today's NID.
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OCI, to an executive session briefing of the Subcommittee
on Investigations, I- tern` ionn1 RF1ai-inila C.n~~~mif:te on the Indian
Ocean. See Memorandum for the Record.
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10. ccompanied OCI, to a
briefing of Senator Alan Cranston (D.., Calif.) a William E.
Jackson, on India. Senator Cranston agreed that he would not make
attribution to the Agency and, of course, would recognize the classified
aspects of the briefing. Senator Cranston took a number of notes., His
essential point was that the United States should tilt towards India since it
is one of the major democracies in the world. I I explained that while
there are those in the government who would like closer relations with. the
United States, there is also an underlying antipathy with the top level,
(See Memorandum for the Record. )
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Mr. Abernathy, in the office of Representative
Stephen Neal, called and said the owners of the I~~a~agu.ez were constituents
of Neal's and they (the owners) were anxious to know if the ship was involved
in any intelligence activity. (He mentioned that Reynolds Tobacco Company
owned the Sea Land Corporation.) I told him I had heard that there was no
intelligence activity involved, but I would double check and. be back in touch
with him.
Later I called Abernathy and advised him the information about the ship
being involved in intelligence activity came .from. TASS. I said we have no
indication whatever to this effect, adding that the ship was carrying some
noncombative military goods going to Thailand. Abernathy asked if he could
use this information for a press release and when. I expressed reservations,
said he would do whatever we wanted. I said I would check and see if anyone
has issued a release on this and let him know.
Again, later in the day, I called Abernathy, and in his absence spoke
with Bob Shephard and asked him to tell Abernathy that Ron Nessen, White
House Press Secretary has issued a flat denial of intelligence involvement.
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Jack Brady, T-Tonse International. Relation
called and asked if someone cou. c stop by to see him today
He is particularly interested in knowing where Vang Pao iis..
would be at the briefing of the Hamilton Subcommittee
fill him in on Laos. I did tell Brady,
however, that Vang Pao was still in Laos--at least as of this morning.
I told Brady I had planned to get in touch with either him or Marian
Czarnecki, of the staff, about the session this afternoon with the Hamilton
Subcommittee. I said I understood Hamilton had given the Subcommitee the
word about discussing CIA testimony outside of the briefing. I said I know it is
difficult to control the members but we simply cannot: provide intelligence briefings
unless the confidentiality of the information can be assured. Brady said there
are just one or two members who are problems in this regard but they would . STAT
make the point that divulging any of the information received in the briefing wool
prejudice everything.
Later Brady called and said he had passed to Wolff our message denying
the allegation Wolff had referred to his in his letter and he seems to be happy.
Brady said he made no mention of a written reply. I told Brady that someone.
from our Office would be by to ick up the original letter.
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`j- I Louise O'Brien, Up-use International
ZL~lafinng rn,,?,,;~~PP {- ff called and requested the names and titles
of the men who will be doing the briefing tomorrow of the Subcommittee
on Investigations. I supplied Ms. O'Brien with the information..
10. I I Barbara Bowserman, OMB, called
and said she had a package for Mr. Cary and would like one of our
couriers to pick it up. Arrangements were made for the package to
be picked up at 0900 hours tomorrow .
ll. I Dropped by to see Pat Holt, Senate
Foreign RTEions Committee staff, to provide some personnel figures
for the use only of Chairman John Sparkman (D., Ala.) on an if and
when needed basis. He was tied up all afternoon on the South Vietnamese
refugee aid bill.
12. I I Bill Jones, INR/State, called
with respec o our ear ier conversation on the proposed legislation
on unauthorized disclosure of intelligence sources and methods
indicating that Mr. Hyland had agreed with Mr. Malmborg that the timing
of the proposal was not propitious. Jones thus suggested that we concentrate
on making our own suggestions to State's proposed response to OMB on this
matter directly- with Malmborg.
Subcommittee on Internal Security called concerning a photo of Senator ands
Mrs. George McGovern, (D. , S. Dak.) in a jeep with Fidel Castro in Cuba,
which appeared in today's Washington Post. According to Tarabochia, his
sources tentatively identified the woman sitting between Castro and Mrs,
McGovern as a Cuban intelligence-type, first name "Alina or. Elena". He
asked e information and call him back. DDO is checking..
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3. I I Called Dorothy Fosdick, Professional
Staff Director, Subcommittee on Investigations, Senate Government Operations
Committee, and explained the reasons why Mr. Duckett-, DDS&T, could not
be available for the briefing that she had requested. the other day but that
DDS&T, would be made available to update her on the Soviet
hardware situation. The briefing for Ms. Fosdick and Richard Perle, of
the Subcommittee staff, is scheduled for 10:30 a, m.. , Monday, l2 May.
Ms. Fosdick said it would not be necessary to go into the Soviet Okian 75 naval
exercise but she did stress that they wanted to see the latest photographic
estimates, new developments that they had heard about and otherwise would.
like to have the type of briefing that Mr. Duckett has provided in the past:,.
DDS&T, has been advised.
`k? Mike Van Dusen,
called and I confirmed the briefing Of the Subcomrnitf:c
on Investigations for 2:00 p. m. on 13 May on the situation in the Indian. Ocean.
Van Dusen was very considerate of our concern with security of the briefing
but said it would be difficult to limit it simply to Chairman Lee Hamilton
(D., Ind.) and the Ranking Minority Member, Pierre du Pont (R. , Del. )
but assured me that the Chairman would make it abundantly clear to invited
members of the Subcommittee and other Chairmen of the full Committee of his
commitment to us with respect to honoring our security understanding,
Van Dusen said that as a result of the leakage out of Is, NIO/SEA,
briefing of 16 April, the Chairman had written a strongly worded letter of
admonition to all members of the Subcommittee and that 7 or 8 of them replied
endorsing his views. I told Van Dusen that it is our feeling that the greatest
service would be to share our knowledge with all members of the Subcommittee
but that we must count upon them to be able to exercise the discipline concerning
security upon which our continuing cooperation is dependent. Van Dusen
agreed that it was up to them to assure that their house was'in order.
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in the office o Representative John Ashbrook (R. , Ohio), who asked me to
stop by to see him on Monday about a matter which he did not want to
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Met briefly with Tom ,Smeeton,
Minority staff, Hougp, and provided him
with an Agency publication entitled "Cuba: The Revolution. Matures"
(110 0090/75). Smeeton had asked for some background information on Cuba
in connection with hearings the Committee will hold shortly on the subject.
of re-opening trade with Cuba.
Later in the day he called to ask for an organizational chart of the
Agency and the Community to assist him in briefing Representative William S.
Broomfield, ranking minority member of the Committee.
2. I Delivered an advanced copy of the Director's
speech before the Commonwealth Club of California to: Frank Slatinshek,
Chief Counsel, House Armed Services Committee; Ralph Preston, Staff.
Assistant, House Appropriations Committee; Ed Braswell, Chief Counsel and
Staff Director, Senate Armed Services Committee; and Guy McConnell,
Professional Staff Member, Senate Appropriations Committee.
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Committee staff,
of the Director's
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who raised questions as to the Agency's mail intercept
Called Sandy Gilbert, House Appropriations
and gave her the page numbers to the 6 May 1975 transcript:
testimony before the Defense Subcommittee of the Committee.
4? iscussed with Bruce Wood, in the office of
Represen ative John N. Erlenborn (R. , Ill.) a suggested reply to a constituent:
Senate Judiciary u committee on Internal Security, a copy of the article
on CIA which appeared in the May 1975 issue of Penthouse magazine.
6. I I Left with Susan, in the office of Senator
Dewey F. Bartlett (R. , Okla. ), their copies of the publication, Kilbrittain
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publisher. She said this would suffice and doubted that they would need anything
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7. Delivered to the office of Representative
Richard L. Ottinger (D. , N. Y. ) 's letter to him dated 7 May 1.975
concerning the FOI request of a constituent,
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8. Carl Blake, in the office of Representative
Donald Riigic, . , d and said that the material I had sent to
him out of the Representative's file satisfied Mr. Riegle and asked if
we would set up a briefing for the Representative on. Egypt, Israel and. Jordan
in connection with a trip he intends to make there during the May break.
Mr. OCI, will do the briefing which was set for Thursday,
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us to the ipencLi-nPr y n rew Hamilton, of the House Budget Committee,
with Mr. OSR, which has as its purpose the obtaining
of information in connection with Hamilton's Budget Committee assignment-.
I advised I, that any requests for information
by Hamilton relating to the Agency should be referred. to this office.
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for Tuesday, 13 May at 2:00 p. m. for the Subcommittee on Investigations,
chaired by Representative Lee Hamilton (D., Ind. ). We discussed the security
problem we recently experienced and the possibility to avert this by having
only Chairman Hamilton and the Ranking Minority Member, Representative
Pierre du Pont (R., Del. ), briefed. Van Dusen said. he would check with
the Chairman and be back in touch.
11.I ill Hogan, Counsel, House Armed. Services.
Comm.itte , eCLIXEM 1-0gaZUT11g=M'amAdams alle_gations'in IZa-rper's Magazine
and the criticism of Chairman Lucien Nedzi (D. , Mich.). Hogan wante
us. to check on what we had provided the Subcommittee on Intelligence,
House Armed Services Committee,on this subject. Later, I advised Hogan,
that while we had been prepared to provide such a briefing, apparently
Frank Slatinshek, Chief Counsel of the Committee, would not arrange
his schedule and that of Mr. Nedzi to accommodate such a briefing. Instead,
I suggested to close the loop we would be happy to provide a paper on
the subject. This satisfied Hogan.
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17. 1 1 Spoke with Bill Jones, INR/State
Department concerning H. R. 1311 (prohibiting Government officials
from soliciting funds from private citizens to influence elections abroad)
and concurred in State's no objection comment. Jones assured me that
the State response would not contain the gratuitous comments which had
troubled us in State's views report to the 93rd Congress on similar
legislation.
18. I IFrank Slatinshek, Chief Counsel,
House Arme ervices committee, called to learn if there was any truth
to the Jack Anderson article in the paper today that the Soviets had conducted
a military exercise which had as its theme a first strike on the United
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I OCI, and I met with Slatinshek later in the day and
Hepworr.n explained the kernel of truth involved in the article and the
abundance of inaccurate information and conjecture that flowed therefrom.
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19. , D /LOG, called to report:
that GSA had come through the back door to establish contact with. the
Agency in response to Representative James Hanley's (D. , N. Y.) 22 April
1975 letter to GSA Administrator Arthur Sampson. I reviewed my
session earlier in the day with Mr. Hanley and of my suggestion to Mr.
Duckett, DDS&T, that Sampson be briefed which should handle the matter,.
20. Delivered to the offices of Senator
John Sparkman (D., Ala.) and Representative Carl Albert (D., Okla.)
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items in which their names were mentioned.
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2L Delivered to Sandy Gilbert, Defense
Subcommittee staff, House Appropriations Committee, for Charles Snodgrass,
an advanced copy of the Director's statement for the up-coming briefing before
the Subcommittee.
22. Spoke with. Jane Walters, Congressional
Research Service, Library of Congress, who asked if I could give her the
name of Ambassador Richard Helms' attorney. I suggested that since Mr.
Helms now works for the State Department that she contact them and she
said she would.
Tom Smeeton, Minority Staff,
called. He said the Committee would be
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holding hearings shortly on the possibility of lifting Cuban trade restrictions.
One of the considerations involved in this, he said, is the question of
possible violations of human rights in Cuba. He asked for any assistance
the Age Apord dl#orbReR A@ 2 04 /i O'FgECIAgWR77*00141tk0ODWONW24-told him I