JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2006
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: August 15, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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Pr. iday -- 15 August 1975
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19. LIAISON Guy McConne].]., Senate
Appropriations Committee staff, advised me that their Committee had
received a letter from the Department of Justice requesting copies of
transcripts of testimony by Mr. Helms before the Committee on the subject
of the presidential election in Chile in 1970. McConnell said he will propose
to Chairman McClellan a reply indicating that Helms never appeared before
McClellan on that category. I told McConnell we would also check our
records on this.
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he would contact Gus Wise, of t e White House staff, in Colorado and ask
him to telephone Richard Perle, on the staff of the Senate Government
25X1 Operations Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, to advise him he
has all the information on the issue of diversion of electronic circuitry which
25X1 Perle asked us about and he will fill hire. in onithis when he returns from
Colorado next week.
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LIAISON Made arrangements with
to interview I Iwhose
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information was passed to us by John Allen, in the office of Representative
Robert L. F. Sikes (D. , I'la. ). I also advised Allen that we propose to contact
the assumption he would want to make =ware of this.
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arner Mr. Thuermer
EA/DDO
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GEORGE L. CARY
Legislative Counsel
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response to his request, left free copies of the USSR Agriculture Atlas for
John Baize, House Agriculture Committee staff.
?10. CONSTITUENT Spoke with Herschel 25X1
Kolinor, on the staff of Representative Charles H. Diggs, Jr. (D., Mich. ),
concerning a letter from a constituent, wl-jo5X1
had written a letter to the Congressman with a copy to the Director of
Personnel. After discussing the content of the letter with her, we agreed that:
since it was for information only and mach no requirement of the Agency that
no response would be expected from us.
11. I IFOIA Fred Wood, in the office
of Representative Paul E. T songas (D. , Mass. ), called inquiring as to
the status of the Freedom of Information request o
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12,. FOIA Jerry Mellady, in the office 25X1
of Representative William J. Green D. , Pa.), called inquiring as to the
status of a Freedom of Information request from who is 25X1
now residing in Florida. After checking with the IRS office, I called Mel.la I
back and informed him that a final Agency reply was being see
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Y3; LIAISON Les Janka, NSC staff, called. to
say he was clearing the Director's letter to Chairman John Sparkman, Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, on Mayaguez with the understanding that the first
contact with the Committee on this would be a meeting between the Director
and Chairman Sparkman. I told him it was our intention to do that, as the
letter indicated, but, of course, we could not control the possibility that
Sparkman would have other thoughts about it. In any event, we will keep the
NSC staff informed as this situation develops. Janka also asked for, and I
agreed to provide him, copies of the Post Mortem on the Mayaguez incident
as well. as the pertinent Situation Reports on that incident.
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9. I I Charles Snodgrass, I-louse Appropriations
Defense Subcommittee staff called and we briefly reviewed the discussion
between he and yesterday. Snodgrass said that the
decision at this is tentative at best and he would like to get
together wit In early September following the Far East trip.
10. I I Received a call from. Peter Poole,
in the office of Senator Charles Percy (R., Ill. ). He said they were
interested in any reports out of the People's Republic of China on
the. congressional delegation's visit there. He indicated. that for some
reason they have not been receiving thcIreports and they were
particularly interested in any Chinese comment on the Senator's recent
visit there. I told him I would check on this and someone would be
back in touch.
11. I I Talked with Les Janka, NSC staff,
about the material we had pulled together which was responsive to the
Sparkman/Fascell/GAO inquiries regarding the Mayaguez incident. We
discussed possible responses to Chairman Sparkman and Janka suggested
that in effect we send an interim reply in view of the highly sensitive
security classification of the post mortem and Sit-Reps which were involved.
We could then offer to either brief the Committee in executive session or
sit down with the Chairman and discuss the matter further with him. A
reply along the lines suggested by Janka has been drafted and. sent to the
Director.
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12.1 In response to his earlier call, I contacted
Ralph Preston, House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee staff, to tell. him
we had checked our files on Agency briefings of their Subcommittee on.and
found there were in fact two briefings in which there were transcripts an one
in which there was no transcript in which.I:J" as mentioned. I identified, the
transcripts as being briefings on 2 and 3 March 1971 and 3 February 1972 and the
other one, for which there was no transcript, was 1 June 1972. Preston said 25x1
since the request and the Chairman's interim answer clearly relate only to
transcripts, he was not interested in any others. He also indicated and I agreed
that in view of the sensitivity of the material involved- in some of these briefings
that he intended to provide the Department of Justice with only those pages of the
transcriptE that dealt with testimony0 He asked if we would Xerox copies
of those pages and send them to him on Thursday. I said I would do so. He
pointed out that the Chairman's interim answer to the Justice Department does
not make a commitment to provide this material but does indicate that the
Chairman will raise this matter with the Subcommittee when the Congress returns
from recess in September.
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