OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP77M00144R000500080094-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 1, 2004
• Sequence Number: 94
• Publication Date: May 28, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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CONFIDENTIAL
JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLA'FIVE COUNSEL
Wednesday - 28 May 1975
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1. Received a call from George Gilbert,
OMB, giving us clearance to forward to the House Committee on Armed
Services our report on H. R. 1531, the Holtzman bill to prohibit the use
of appropriated funds by the Rockefeller Commission.
2. In the absence of
received a call from I on the staff of Representative Don Young
(R.. Alas.). who inquired as to -,r,`.lether or not a constituent could receive
3. I I In follow up of Senator Charles Percy's
(R. , Ill,) call to the Director on Saturday, called Chuck Meissner, Senate
Foreign Relations Committee staff, and tentatively scheduled a briefing
#or the Senator, Meissner and Scott Cohen, of the Senator's staff,
for 2 June at 2:00 p. m.
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a call was placed to Mcissner to see if.we could come up with another tirne.
4. Called J. Bryan Atwood, in the office
of Senator Thomas F. Eagleton (D. , Mo. ), and arranged for a briefing 25X1A
for the Senator on land_ thE__Ph;l?~ninfls_ _end Korea and other possible
"hot spots" in Asia on 29 May at 10:30 a. m. OCI, has been
alerted. It was agreed that the briefing would be for background only and
would not be attributed to the Agency. Senator Eaglcton is preparing
himself for his participation in the "dialogue" next week in the Senate
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5. Spoke to Brady Williamson, in the office
of Senator rc c .,7r . , owa , about the scheduled briefing of the
Senator on South Africa. Williamson said this would be basic education
for the Senator who has been given the chairmanship of the Africa Subcommittee
of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Hearings before the Subcommittee
are planned in late June to cover the countries of South Africa, Rhodesia,
Mozambique and Angola. Paul. Walsh, ADDI, has been alerted and he will
identify the briefers.
6. Talked to Ms. Cooper, of the Subcommittee
on Government Information and Privacy, I-louse 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.
8.1 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 on Spain 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, per.haps'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 onft~[ndochina. 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. I-Ie 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 speak and listen as the spirit: moves their.
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