JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
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October 15, 1975
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25X1 8. BRIEFING Accompanied
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(D., N. Y.) in connection with his trip to Korea as head of a congressional
delegation to participate in South Korean Veterans Day. A number- of
personal staff sat in on the briefing including: Larry O'Brien and
Carl Perian. Following his visit to Korea, Mr. Murphy will travel to
Indochina in connection with his House Committee on Merchant Marine
& Fisheries responsibilities on development of the Nation's Continental
Shelf. In late November, following his return, he said he would like
to get together with us and share his observations. Today's briefing
lasted for about two hours and was very well received with the
Congressman being an old Korean hand and asking a number of questions.
Unclassified biographical material and maps were provided and we gave
the Congressman, for his use only, a classified OER unattributable report
on the state of the economy in Korea. Mr. Murphy will. be addressing the
Korean General Assembly and the university in Seoul. He will meet
with representatives of the State Department and other agencies in
preparation for the speeches.
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9. LIAISON Left for Ed Braswell
Chief Counsel, Senate Armed Services Committee, two blind memos
on the legislative intent that the details of congressional briefings under
Section 662 of the Foreign Assistance Act on Presidential Findings are to
be provided orally pursuant to national security interests. This is a
follow-up of an earlier conversation I had with Braswell concerning the
amount of detail that is placed in the record during these briefings.
10. LIAISON Met with J. Sourwine,
Chief Counsel, Subcommittee on Internal Security, Senate Judiciary
Committee, to indicate that we would be providing a r or __t a. the
Select Comm tt;c,6- on nti.r-dealings with Jack Norpel, formerly of his
staff, who had put us in touch with an informant of the Subcommittee who
in turn provided information for use in the protection of Mr. Helms and
an Agency facility. Sourwine appreciated our interest in making
Senator James Eastland (D., Miss.) and himself aware of this before
the event and he said he had no problems as long as the name of the
informant was not disclosed and I told .aim it would not be. Mr. Gambino,
D/OS, has been advised.
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19. LIAISON Frank Slatinshek, Chief Counsel,
House Armed Services Committee, called and said the Committee has just:
received a letter from Chairman Pike giving them a series of questions
on what reports the Agency has given. them on covert action operations.
Slatinshek said he would like eitherl or me to stop by`to see 25X1A
him and. talk to him about it.
Slatinshek said some members have expressed an interest in going
to the People's Republic of China and asked me if I knew who he could get
in touch with other than the State Department. I told Slatinshek I thought
the PRC had a liaison officer in Washington whom I thought he could talk
to and. that I would be back in touch about it.
I told Slatinshek that the SenaLr. ` r..t CommiLi&e has gotten on to
some of our documents having to do with committee briefings. It relates.
to Chile, Cuba, and a number of other topics. I told him the Director had
provided the Ssome statistics but the Committee has now come back
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and asked to look at our Journals. I told Slatinshek, as he knew, we also
write memoranda for the record on our briefing sessions; our Journal,
only indicate who accompanied the Director to the briefing, the date, the
time, and then references the Memorandum for the Record. I said I expect
that if they look at our Journal items they will then. want access to our.
memoranda, but that is where we would draw the line. These memoranda
are usually prepared in lieu of a transcript and are privileged Committee
documents in our custody. Therefore, the Select Committees would have to
direct any requests for them to the oversight committee concerned. I told
him that this is the way Guy McConnell, Senate Appropriations Subcommittee
on Defense, and Edward Braswell, Chief Counsel, Senate Armed Services
Committee, feel about them and asked Slatinshek if he agreed with this
philosophy. He said he did indeed and asked if we had gotten the same
kind of request from the House Select Committee. I told him not as such;
but they have asked about covert action. Slatinshek said the House Select
Committee asked them how many times we have reported to them and were
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