SESSION WITH REPRESENTATIVE PAUL MCCLOSKEY (R., CALIF.), 25 APRIL 1975

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• Publication Date: May 7, 1975
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OLC 75-0986
7 May 1975
SUBJECT: Session with Representative Paul McCloskey (R., Calif.),
25 April 1975
1. Representative Paul McCloskey (R. , Calif.) called and
asked if I could possibly arrange for his more thorough review of the
1967 SNIE on Vietnam. This I did later in the day and in the process
met Mr. Sam Adams who was also in. the office. See Memoran Ti
for the Record for details on Sam Adams.
2. Upon finishing the review of the SNIE, Mr. McCloskey
commented that the order of battle figures were much different than
those provided him by the military when he visited Vietnam and he
was glad that the President would have received the correct figures.
He was somewhat concerned that we did not quantify the other
Communist organization figures relating this back to the possibility
of command influence on intelligence judgments. I told him that the
words used in the Estimate were carefully honed words of art which
had a definite and significant meaning, much as legal language. He
repeated his interest as already covered in the memo of 24 April,
and made several notes of the figures and said that he knows he was
"lied to by the military" in Vietnam and said he had copies of notes of
what was told him and gestured to three boxes of notes on the couch in
his office. He is obviously very upset about this.
3. He again made clear that he has absolutely thgreatest
respect for intelligence, an mexely wants to assure that the President
gets the unvarnished truth and in reviewing the SNIE he really had no gieat
problem with our "professional" organization. ae made a number of
notes from the Estimate and offered to let me review them at the
conclusion. I said that would not be necessary but that I would want
his assurances that he would not share those notes with anyone, which
I felt was dependent upon resolution of the declassification/sanitization
request we had received from him on the Estimate. He assured me no
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one else would see his notes except for his secretary, Ms. Julie
Pineau, who previously worked for Dr. Kissinger, and in whom
he has. the greatest faith. He wrote on his notes that no. one is to
see them and that they are not to be released without first checking
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