JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL THURSDAY - 15 JULY 1954

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00682R000200110086-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 28, 2003
• Sequence Number: 86
• Publication Date: July 15, 1954
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal
Office of Legislative Counsel
Thursday - 15 July 19 54
1. Immediately upon conclusion of this morning's meeting of the
House Committee on Post Office .& Civil Service, Chairman Rees called me
to say that they had taken care of inserting in the bill the two items requested
by CIA -- exemption from the Performance Rating Act and deletion of Section
9 of P. L. 110. The Chairman asked that I inform Mr. Dulles of this action
which grew out of his luncheon meeting with the DCI. As soon as we have
reviewed the language which the Committee has inserted and the bill has
passed the House, I will recommend that the DCI thank Chairman Rees per-
sonally. I will also draw the attention of Chairman Carlson to the inclusion
of this language so that the Senate Committee retains it when the bill goes
to the Senate.
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2. In connection with the immigration problems of
Col. Edwards said that it would be preferable if I could arrange for the
AEC to proffer I Isecurity file rather than to have CIA request
it. Therefore, I have talked with Mr. Trapnell, who will ask General Nichols,
the AEC General Manager, to make the necessary arrangements to have AEC
security invite CIA to review the file.
3. Mr. Trapnell, who handles legislative matters for AEC, remarking
about the current Congressional controversy of public vs. private power which
in turn arose out of the action of having a private utility company contract to
refurnish TVA with power furnished to AEC, stated that the AEC should have
"stuck to our own knitting and our own business". By getting involved in such
a matter, Trapnell felt that the AEC had "now lost our virginity and a lot of
friends" on Capitol Hill, and that this had tended to impair their rather favored
position with the Congress. This is an example of how even a Joint Congressional
Committee can fail to protect an agency as the current controversy is being
reviewed by the Monopoly Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
4. Attention is called to the introduction by Chairman Hoffman, of
the House Committee on Government Operations, of H. R. 9736 to establish
uniform weight allowances governing transportation at Government expense
of property of Government employees. This is the administration bill on the
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subject. Our comments on this bill have been requested by the Bureau of the
Budget, and I have requested the Chief of Logistics, DDP/Admin. , and OGC
for comments with coordination through DD/A. A companion bill has been
introduced into the Senate by Sen. Schoeppel.
5. Senator Mundt has introduced S. 3695, which provides for a full
field investigation by the FBI of employees of Congressional Committees. I
have requested comments on this bill from the Director of Security as the
full field investigation envisaged by the bill may well include a check of CIA
information and its possible inclusion in the FBI report. In all probability
no action on this bill will take place in the current session due to the shortage
of time.
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