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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00682R000200120154-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 2004
• Sequence Number: 154
• Publication Date: January 18, 1955
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal
Office of Legislative Counsel
Tuesday - 18 January 1955
1. Sixteen identical concurrent resolutions have been introduced in
the House to establish a Joint Committee on Intelligence Matters. The leader-
ship seems to have been taken by Cong. Zablocki (D. , Wis.) and Congress-
woman Kelly (D. , N. Y.) who introduced similar resolutions last year. The
Joint Committee is to be composed of 9 members each from the Senate and
the House. The resolution refers to the Central Intelligence Agency "and
related intelligence services". As the House requires individual bills to be
introduced rather than co-sponsorship as in the Senate, the following are the
bill numbers, the sponsors and their committee assignments: H. Con. Res.
28, Zablocki (D., Wis. ), Foreign Affairs; H. Con. Res. 29, Mrs. Kelly (D., N. Y.)
Foreign Affairs; H. Con. Res. 30, Becker (R. , N. Y.) Public Works; H. Con. Res.
31, Mrs. Buchanan (D. , Pa.) Banking and Currency; H. Con. Res. 32, Carnahan
(D. , Mo.) Foreign Affairs; H. Con. Res. 33, Davis (R. , Wis.) Appropriations;
H. Con. Res. 34, Doyle (D. , Calif.) Armed Services and Un-American Activi-
ties; H. Con. Res. 35, Gordon (D. , Ill.) Foreign Affairs; H. Con. Res. 36, Mrs.
Kee (D. , W. Va.) Veterans' Affairs; H. Con. Res. 37, Lanham (D. , Ga.)
Appropriations; H. Con. Res. 38, Norblad (R. , Ore.) Armed Services;
H. Con. Res. 39, Reuss (D. , Wis.) Banking and Currency, and Government
Operations; H. Con. Res. 40, Sheehan (R. , Ill.) Merchant Marine & Fisheries;
H. Con. Res. 41, Smith (D., Miss.) Public Works; H. Con. Res. 42, Mrs.
Sullivan (D. , Mo.) Merchant Marine & Fisheries; H. Con. Res. 43, Walter
(R., Pa.) Chairman, HCUA and Judiciary.
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3. Cong. Wainwright (R. , N. Y.) called the DCI's office to invite
him to luncheon at the Capitol on behalf of himself and Cong. Frelinghuysen
(R. , N. J.) on 19 or 20 January. The DCI did not accept, but made a tenta-
tive appointment for them to come to his office on 26 January.
4. Gong. Hillings (R. , Calif.) has introduced H. R. 278, the Political
Asylum Act of 1955. This will provide for the issuance of 1, 000 visas to
escapees from behind the Iron Curtain who have special information of value
for the United States and who agree to cooperate with the United States to
defeat the international Communist conspiracy. This legislation is identical
with H. R. 8000 which Mr. Hillings introduced last year, on which CIA gave
him some drafting assistance.
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