JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL FRIDAY - 9 JUNE 1972

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• Publication Date: June 9, 1972
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Friday - 9 June 1972
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1. Talked to Ralph Preston, House Appropriations
Committee sta . , who to. me that he would be unable to make the appointment
for Tuesday to visit Headquarters for a briefing on a sensitive readout system.
At the Chairman's direction he and Paul Wilson will be meeting with representa-
tives of OMB to draft a "continuing resolution. " Messrs. Proctor, DDI,
Steininger, ADD/S&T, Briggs, OPPB, and 0 IC, have been advised.
2_1 1 Dorothy Fosdick, Staff Director, Subcommittee on
National Security and International Operations, called first thing this morning
from Senator Jackson's office to ask about the New York Times story quoting
Secretary"Laird as saying the Soviets are testing an MIRV. I said I would
check and let her know what we had.
3. Had a number of discussions with Ed Braswell and
Jim Woolsey, of the Senate Armed Services Committee staff, who had heard
Secretary Laird's testimony and confirmed the general accuracy of the New York
Times version of what Laird said. I explained to them that our evidence did
not support the press version of Laird's remarks.
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office, called in behalf of a constituent, I I who is an
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will be calling for an appointment.
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5.. In the absence of Rady Johnson, Assistant
to the Secretary of Defense (Legislative Affairs), I talked to Don Flo T
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in Defense, who is concerned with the funding
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said Johnson and Tom Korologos, of the White House, were handling the
problem with Stennis.
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6. Discussed with Ed Braswell and Jim Woolsey, of the
Senate Armed Services Committee staff, our concern about provisions of the
Foreign Assistance Act which would transfer jurisdiction over military assistance
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I said we assume the Committee would have to look out for itself on
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Braswell and Woolsey said Stennis had his hands full with other issues
such as the Mansfield amendment and in any event would find it difficult to fight
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frankly 1 1. I said we'd see if we could come up with an
unclassified statement which could serve the purpose. Braswell said what was
needed was an "impact statement" which would emphasize the serious consequences
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7. Called Tom Korologos, in the White House, regarding
the problems with the Foreign Assistance Act mentioned above. He said he
and was trying to get Stennis to assume responsibility for provisions regarding
I explained Stennis' problem as I understood it and asked
Korologos whether we shouldn't try to get someone else to take up the fight such
as Milton Young, Howard Baker, or Jake Javits.. Korologos said we shouldn't
do anything until we hear from them because they were starting a big meeting
on the whole thing in the White House.
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(R. , Ky.) o xce, ca . e o say the Senator was interested in any comments on the
New York Times story quoting Laird on Soviet MIRV tests. I said we didn't know
what the Secretary had said, but on the basis of intelligence estimates available
it appeared that the press story was garbled and that the Defense Department
would be the people to straighten it out.
25X1 9. I I Called Dorothy Fosdick, in Senator Jackson's office,
to say that we had :no evidence supporting some of the points made in a
New York Times story attributed to testimony by Secretary Laird. I speculated
the story was the result of a garble and suggested the people to straighten it
out was the Defense Department since they knew what the Secretary had said
and we didn't.
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