JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL TUESDAY - 5 JANUARY 1954

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00682R000200100118-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 4, 2004
• Sequence Number: 118
• Publication Date: January 5, 1954
• Content Type: NOTES

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Office of Legislative Counsel
Tuesday - 5 January 1954
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2. Congressmen Taber, WVigglesworth and Scrivner have all accepted
the Director's invitation to lunch here at 1:00 on Monday 11 January. It is
suggested that the CIA representatives at the luncheon should be Mr. Dulles,
Gen. Cabell, Col. White, Mr. Pforzheimer and Mr. Saunders, and that no
formalized briefing be prepared. However, certain suggested topics of con-
versation will be noted in a separate memorandum for the Director.
3. Congressman Judd has returned from h's trip to the Far East,
and inquiry should be made as to whether a formal, riefing should be laid
on for him.
4. The Director stated on 28 December that in view of Legislative
Counsel's debriefing of Sen. Watkins and memorandum of conversation of
that meeting no further debriefing of Sen. Watkins will be necessary.
5. Legislative Counsel should contact Julius Cahn, Counsel of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and debrief him on his recent trip to
Latin America.
6. Congressman Sidney Yates (D. , Ill. ), a member of the House
Appropriations Committee, called me in connection with the application for
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I told the Congressman that we would be glad to inter-
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grades, and in fact were trying to cut back in some instances. The Congress-
man expressed surprise that CIS. should receive a cutback, but opined that
"this administration probably didn't have much use for intelligence. " I told
the Congressman that this was not the case, but that we had merely reached
a peak of expansion with no necessity for increasing and a necessity in the
interest of orderly management to cut back certain places were we felt it
was advisable.
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9. I attended a meeting with the Alien Affairs Officer, Mr.
gration Service in their reports to Congress, and also discussed th
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