JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL WEDNESDAY - 16 MARCH 55

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00682R000200120131-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 1, 2012
• Sequence Number: 131
• Publication Date: March 16, 1955
• Content Type: NOTES

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Office of Legislative Counsel
Wednesday - 16 March 55
1. Cong. James P. Richards of South Carolina, Chairman
of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will be the guest at the Director's
luncheon on 21 March. The DDCI, the Acting DD /I, DD /S, and DD /P have
been invited. In 1954 Mr. Richards introduced H. Con. Res. 216, to
establish a 10-member Joint Committee on Central Intelligence, but he
has not reintroduced any such bill in the present Congress. He has also
just introduced H. R. 4941, to revise the Foreign Service Act, and has
just concluded lengthy hearings on this subject. The Chairman also made
an extended trip last fall, emphasizing the Far East and Southern Asia.
2. Mr. Ashcraft expressed concern regarding the CIA provisions
in S. 750 along the same lines as those expressed by Mr. Monagan of G-2.
(See item No. 1 in Journal of 15 March). Mr. Ashcraft underlined the
additional thought that these sections might render it difficult for the
also been in touch with Mr. Ashcraft on this subject. It was pointed out
to Mr. Ashcraft that the subsection which was causing him the greatest
concern was merely a re-enactment of the present statute which had been
law since 1950 and that we did not believe that the additional subsection
which was being added would in any way add to his burden. Subsequently
Mr. Monagan called me to state that he had heard that our Mr. Ashcraft
was concerned about the bill, but I assured him that Mr. Ashcraft's fears
had been allayed. Mr. Ashcraft subsequently told me that Mr. Alberti
had pointed out that when this section had been included in the Internal
Security Act of 1950 it had been the most innocuous section in a highly
controversial omnibus bill which had been vetoed by the President. Now,
however, it was a smaller bill which might draw more attention and un-
favorable comment. Mr. Ashcraft assured Mr. Alberti that all efforts
would be taken to keep the hearing as quiet as possible. It should also be
noted that the Counsel of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee which
had opposed the new section of the bill no longer held that position, which
might make for easier sleding.
in administering NSCID No. 7. Mr. Alberti of ONI had
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