JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL WEDNESDAY 29 JUNE 55

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00682R000200120069-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 1, 2012
• Sequence Number: 69
• Publication Date: June 29, 1955
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal
Office of Legislative Counsel
Wednesday - 29 June 55
1. The Hoover Commission report on Intelligence Activities has
been referred to the Committee on Government Operations in both houses.
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4. Mr. Wallace Parks, Counsel to a subcommittee on Govern-
ment information, called to ask whether we could give him some
guidance regarding who is being considered for a
staff position, has for many years been secretary to
Mr.
Parks was particularly interested in flexibility and amen-
ability to supervision in view of her long association with the military.
After checking with Mr. Reynolds, Director of Personnel, I informed
Mr. Parks that in our opinion was an extremely high class
employee, that we had unfortunately not been able to place her because
of her grade, but that we had a very high opinion of her abilities.
Mr. Parks indicated that in the scope of the Committee's juris-
diction they would probably want to consider what information intelligence,
including CIA, could make (if not public) at least available to Congressional
Committees. He said this was a matter of considerable interest to
Sen. Wiley, with whom he had discussed the subject, as well as Sen.
Mansfield and others; that he was a member of an intelligence reserve
unit and had himself prepared a paper on the general subject. He
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stated that he was considering circularizing agencies such as the FBI,
CIA, the Defense Department and the Department of State, asking for
them to clear members of the Committee staff for access to necessary
information. I pointed out that if CIA were to conduct such a clearance
it would violate our basic prohibition against internal security matters,
and that we did not investigate Congressional personnel. He stated that
of course we would have to take some steps in connection with any
request from the Chairman to accredit a member of his staff for contact
with this Agency,
5. I have returned to the Defense Subcommittee of the House
Appropriations Committee our corrected transcript of the Director's
testimony on the subject of the CIA building.
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