JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00380R000400140006-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 19, 2005
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: November 30, 1973
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Friday - 30 November 1973
1. (Internal Use Only - JMM) Frank Slatinshek, Chief Counsel, House
Armed Services Committee, called to inquire about speculations that the
plumber's activities were somehow the result of Agency concern over security
leaks. I told him that there had, of course, been exchanges between the White
us and the Agency over security leaks from time to time, but at no time
had the Agency had any idea of the true nature and scope of the plumber's
activities, advocated the establishment of the plumbers organization, or had
any suspicions of the plumbers illegal activities until the Watergate case
broke. I said we were briefing Chairman Nedzi in more detail this afternoon
and would be glad to have him join us, which he said he would like to do.
2. (Unclassified - JGO) Met with Everett Bierman, House Foreign
Affairs Committee staff, and received from him correspondence from
Representative Edward J. Derwinski (R. , Ill. ) enclosing a constituent
letter concerning CIA produced general reference maps. I told Bierman
that we would review the enclosure and provide the requested information.
3. (Confidential - JGO) Met with Lewis Gulick, House Foreign Affairs
Committee staff, and briefed him on terms of Soviet support to Egypt and
Syria and the economic impact of the war on Israel.
4. (Unclassified - JGO) Handcarried the Director's letter of
29 November 1973 to Chairman Hamilton, Near East and South Asia Subcommittee,
House Foreign Affairs Committee, concerning a requested briefing on the
recent alert of American military forces.
I later met briefly with Marian Czarnecki, Chief of Staff, and delivered
a copy of the Hamilton letter to him for Chairman Morgan.
5. (Internal Use Only - JGO) Received a call from
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OBGI, who advised he will be meeting with members of the staff of the Joint
Committee on Printing as a member of a Federal task force that issued a
report a year ago concerning certain functions of the Joint Committee on Printing.
He will advise us concerning the outcome of the meeting.
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6. (Secret - JGO) George Cary and I met with Chairman Lucien
Nedzi, Intelligence Subcommittee, House Armed Services Committee, and
Frank Slatinshek, Chief Counsel. As we entered, the Chairman held up this
afternoon's paper and noted the prime headline concerning CIA use of newsmen.
In brief, Nedzi advised he is not particularly interested in past problems
concerning newsmen. His primary interest is our present situation. He
has no problem with the use of newsmen as sources for intelligence information
but apparently would find some cause for concern if they were used to put out
information even if it was played into foreign press.
We reviewed with the Chairman his request for advice concerning the
President's statement in responding to questions before the Newspaper
Editor's Association "that national security matters were not matters that
should be investigated because there were some very highly sensitive
matters involved, not only in Ellsberg but also another matter so sensitive
that even Sen. Ervin and Sen. Baker have decided that they should not delve
further into them. " This question was covered in part by the conversations
with Cary and Maury relating to yesterday's Washington Star-News article
concerning the plumbers' goal to hide spying on the Soviets. The Jack .
Anderson leak of I land a sensitive projectiwere touched
lightly. He was told we were continuing to review this whole matter that we are
not satisfied that we know exactly what references the White House had in mind
or what purpose is being served by the continual release of in orn ation relating
to security leaks during the period in question.
We also closed out his earlier request for information relating to
the 5 November Aviation Week article "Soviet Poise Three-Front Global
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12. OS, called and asked about
the secure storage facilities for the Murphy Commission. DIA is interested
in this because Senator Mike Mansfield (D. , Mont.) has asked for a copy of
DIA's testimony before the Commission. I told that Thomas J. Reckford, 25X1
Staff Assistant on Intelligence, Commission on the Organization of the Government
for the Conduct of Foreign Policy, was knowledgeable about these matters but
that in the case of our transcripts, we have been assured by Reckford that they
will be securely stored uU PWTo R
13. FBIS Liaison, called to
inform us that Representative Daniel J. Flood (D., Pa.) had written to FBIS
requesting a subscription to the FBIS Daily Report, of particular interest is
WH and Panama. ill follow through.
Delivered to the offices of Repre-
sentatives Benjamin S. Rosenthal (D., N. Y.), Charles H. Wilson
(D. , Calif. ), Samuel S. Stratton (D. , N. Y. ), and Senator James A.
McClure (R., Ida.) FBIS items in which their names were mentioned.
15. Delivered to David Martin, Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee staff, FBIS material which originated with
Radio Hanoi on 30 October 1956. Martin appreciated our being able to produc
information from this obscure date.
16. Made arrangements with Susan McMal
on the staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to have the transcript
of the Director's testimony before the committee on 26 November picked up
by our courier and returned to the committee staff both yesterday, today
and on Monday, 3 December.
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