ADDENDUM TO JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 3, 2003
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: July 31, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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Addendum to Journal ?- Office of Legislative Counsel Page 3
Thursday - 31 July 1975
Called Russ Rourke, in the office of
John O. Marsh, Counsellor to the President,
to see if he had gotten any
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Rourke said the edback from the orHilliginal on strtheatestatus
try to get the bill. before the
Senate on unanimous consent but Senator Thomas Eagle-ton had objected
to this and they were now faced with the question of some alternative means
of bringing the issue before the Senate. He pointed out if the Senate does not..
act in time for the House Rules Committee to meet this evening, there will
be no' chance of getting action on the House floor tomorrow.
I told Rourke that Representative William Broomfield had asked us-
for a letter from the., Director stating, insofar as possible in an unclassified
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I read Rourke a draft: of.
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our letter to Broomfield and said I would like to know if there was any
White House objection. I also said we could probably send a similar letter
to the Senate if that was desired. (Rourke advised me later. that the matter
of the Broomfield letter had been discussed with Jack Marsh and General.
Scowcroft and they were in favor of such a letter. They also agreed, however,
that we should not engage in any extensive lobbying except in consultation with
the White House.)
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8.. Charles Snodgrass, staff of the House
Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, called to advise me that a number of
members of the Subcommittee will be travelling to the Far East during the
August recess and will be accompanied by three members of'the full Coxnxnittec
who are not on the Defense Subcommittee. The group will include Reprosenta.tiv
Joseph Addabbo (D.', N. Y. ), John J. Flynt (D. , Ga. ), Robert N. Giaimo
(D. , Cann. ), Jack Edwards (R., Ala. ), J. Kenneth Robinson (R. , Va. ),
Elford Cederberg (R., Mich.), Lawrence Coughlin (R., Pa.), Clarence
Miller (R. , Ohio) and George Shipley (D., Ill. ) - - the latter three are not:
members of the Subcommittee. He said they v~ould be visiting Korea, Japan,
Taipei, Hong Kong, Okinawa, Guam and Honolulu. A number of congressional
wives will make the trip along with Snodgrass, George Seymour (of DOD) as
escort officer) and a number of military personnel. He said the members had
not expressed any interest in getting with our people except to get a briefing in
Snodgrass said he would like to talk
to our wherever possible, however, and he also asked if we
could provide the group with background in:ormation on the important personalit
in the countries they wil.. be visiting.
After conferring vith the Director, t told Snodgrass it tiro u:l.d. he best: if
the gr. ou.p asks DOD for the consulate brief:.:ig on China which I Iwot ~l~1
happy to supplement as aapropriate. Snodgrass said this sounded alright with
h im but he would check it with Ralph Preston, of the Subcommittee staff..
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Called Stuart Statler, Minority
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Chief Counsel, Senate Government Operations Permanent Subcommittee
on Investigation, and advised him that we would not be able to make the
briefing scheduled for 0930 today because additional information on the
Soviet grain situation may change and offered to provide the briefing jointly
with Howard Feldman, also of the Subcommittee staff, on 1 August. Statler
objected saying that Senator Charles H. Percy (R., 111,) needed the
information before today's vote scheduled for 1355 hours. I. explained that
we are dealing with which simply requires an
interpretation and it is not likely that we can do this today. He said the matter
was urgent and he would like to have George Gary call him later this morning..
8. Accompanied OCr,.
an OSR, to a briefing of Representati
Paul Findley (R., Ill.) which lasted approximately 40 minutes. Congressman
Findley will be visiting Korea, Japan and China. His interests in China were,
the following: Sino Soviet border, possibility of seeing the Chinese
Agriculture Minister, Formosa problem, Diego Garcia, and existence of any
current major problem between Peking and Washington. On Korea, he was
interested in the state of political repression in Seoul and what chance he had of
seeing President Park. Re Japan, his concern was Japan's attitude towards
the mutual defense treaty with the U.S., particularly the attitudes of the
opposition parties.
It was more of a question and answer session than a briefing. He
seemed to be pleased on what he got from us. On parting, I expressed
the hope that he would share some of his observations after his trip with
us. He said he would.
9. Spoke with Rick Gureghian, in the office of
Representative Gerry E. Studds (D., Mass. ),who had called late yesterday
afternoon to ask whether the Agency was going to make a public statement
on reports that American mercenaries were being trained at Quantico. Marine
Base to fight in Rhodesia. I had conferred with Angus Thuermer, Assistant
to the Director, and Executive Assistant to the DDO, and explained
to Gureghian that the Agency had a policy of not responding to press allegations
regardless of their content. He seemed satin led wits -this answer.
cc:
O/DDCI 21A /GEORGE L.. CAR;'
Ex. Sec. DDI DDA DDS&T Legislative Counsel
Mr. Warner Mr. Thuermer
Mr. Lehman IC Staff EA/D;7O Compt
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