JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP77M00144R000500040038-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 11, 2003
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: May 28, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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Approved For Release 2004/01/14: CIA-RDP77M00144R000500040038-5
Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Wednesday .- 28 May 1975
of Senator Dick Clark (D.,
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Spoke to Brady Williamson, in the office
Iowa), about the scheduled briefing of the
Senator on South Africa. Williamson said this would he basic education
for the Senator who has been }riven the chairmanship of the Africa Subcommittee
of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Hearings before the Subcomnriittee
are planned in late June to cover the countries of South Africa, Rhodesia,
Mozambique and Angola. Paul Walsh, ADI)I, has been alerted and he will
identify the briefers.
b.
Talked to Ms. Cooper, of the Subcommittee
on Government Information and Privacy, House Government Operations
Committee, who wanted a listing of the membership of the CIA oversight/
investigating committees, which was provided.
7. In response to his call the other day,
called Admiral Mathews, in the office of Representative: Bill Chappell
(D. , Fla. ), but he said no further action was needed from the Agency as
had been. cleared and soon would be assigned to an.
office in the Department of the Navy to encourage Navy personnel to
sponsor Vietnamese refugees.
8. Jack Sankster, in the office of Andrew
Maguire (D. , N. J. ), called in connection with the 22 May invitation to the
Director to appear at a conference o . Hain to be held in the House Caucus
Room on June 10, 1975. In response to my query, Sankster said much of
the preliminary work had been handled by volunteers, and indeed, as has been
found out to be the case in other invitations, perhaps"no, prior telephone
invitation had been made as referred to in the letter. Sankster actually
works for the Fund for New Priorities in America and is only in Mr.
Maguire's office to support this conference. Other conferences he has
worked on include one supported by Senator Hughes on Chile and one by
Senator Abourezk on Indochina. When I said the title of the conference
concentrated on foreign policy, which is out of the scope of the Director's
and the Agency's charter, Sankster minimized that possibility and said it
was just an informal discussion among a wide range of disciplines and that:
members of Congress are attending and they hope that representatives
of State, Defense, academia, labor and others would be there. He also said
that Senator Fulbright and Colonel Edward King would be there. From his
other statements, the conference appears to be whether any U. S. interests
are being served by U. S. agreements with Spain. There will be no fixed:
agenda or prepared statements, but the attendees at the conference, which
runs all day, will seak and listen as the spirit moves them'.
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