JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL MONDAY - 31 AUGUST 1953

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00682R000200090080-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 29, 2002
• Sequence Number: 80
• Publication Date: August 31, 1953
• Content Type: NOTES

Approved For Releape 2002/06
TP91-00682R000090080-6
REME
Journal
Office of Legislative Counsel
Monday - 31 August 1953
1. Mr. Brobeck, of the staff of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy,
called to state that the Committee had by-passed Casablanca and arrived
at Sidi Solomi, Morocco. They had filed alternate flight plans, one through
Cano and one through Monrovia.
2. I called Mr. Sprankle, Chief Clerk of the House Appropriations
Committee, to see if there was any assistance I could give him prior to
his departure on 3 September for Europe and the Middle East. He stated
that they were going primarily to look into MSA and Agricultural matters,
with some State and Military, but that he did not propose to look at any
CIA matters unless they chance to be in an area where they were looking
at the overall U. S. picture. He inquired whether I would be in Europe
at all and if so whether our paths would cross. I told him that I did not
contemplate presently being abroad.
3. I informed Mr. Sprankle that after discussions with the Bureau of
the Budget CIA had determined that it might be necessary to expand its
personnel ceiling by a figure somewhat less than 1, 000.
4. Mr. Schroeder, of the staff of the Senate Immigration Subcommittee,
called to state that Senator Watkins and a new staff member, Mr. Robert R.
Burton, were planning to be in Berlin on or about 10-11 October and wished
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