JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL THRUSDAY 16 DECEMBER 1971

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73B00296R000200130001-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 28, 2001
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• Publication Date: December 16, 1971
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGIS LATIVE COUNSEL
Thursday - 16 December 1971
1, (Secret - JGO) Accompanied Mr, Dave Brandv~Tein, FMSAC,
to a meeting with Mr. George Murphy, Deputy Director, anal Colonel
Seymour S chwiller, Technical Consultant, .Joint Committee: on Atomic
Ener~v. __concerning the Soviet orbital satellite surveillance system. The
meeting was friendly and low key, There are no followups,
2. (Secret - JGO) Received a call from Miss Mary McLaughlin,
Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff, who requested the Committee
transcripts of 2 May 1961 and 6 March 1962 for delivery to the Committee
tomorrow for review by the "Pentagon Group, " Miss McLaughlin
reiterated that the transcripts will be retained in the main Committee
room, S, 116, and can be picked up at the close of business.
3, (Confidential - JGO} After checking the record of Agency
briefings for 1961-62, I called Miss Mary McLaughlin, Senate Foreign
Relations Committee staff, and asked if she had checked the dates she
had requested earlier in the afternoon, She had not, I told her that these
were before there was an agreed Agency procedure for retention of
transcripts, We had seen the transcripts at the time but our file notation
for the 2 May 1961 transcript indicated that the original was retained by the
Committee, I pointed out that these transcripts related to testimony concerning
Cuba and the second, Francis Gary Powers, and asked if these topics were
now to be included in the area of review by the "Pentagon pe:ople."
Miss McLaughlin thanked me very much for the call and cancelled the request.
4. (Confidential - GLC) I checked with Mr. C. B. 1VIorrison, on the
staff of Senator Allen J. Ellender (D. , La. ), who informed me that the Senator
is still planning to make his trip to Antarctica and confirmed that his return
itinerary will include stops in Bill
Woodruff, Counsel, Senate Appropriations Committee staff, has suggested
that our people make themselves known to Senator Ellender and offer to brief
h:im. An appropriate cable is being prepared.
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