JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL WEDNESDAY - 18 OCTOBER 1972

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Wednesday - 18 October 197Z
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6. GLC) Mr. Robert Mosbacher, Senator Howard Baker's
(R., Tenn.) staff,. spoke to the Advanced Intelligence Seminar at the Old
Senate Office Building. Mosbacher was introduced by Mr. Maury who spoke
briefly about the importance of good relations with the Congress. Mosbacher
reviewed two case histories which he felt were good examples of both good
and poor organization between the Executive Branch and the Congress concerning
major legislation. The good example was the excellent coordination between
the White House, the Pentagon, and the State Department on the Azores /Bahrein
legislation and the poor example was the confusion and misunderstanding
between Senator Jackson's staff and the White House on the Jackson amendment
on SALT. Mr. Mosbacher then fielded questions from the class.
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7. I I- GLC) Left with J. Sourwine, Chief Counsel, Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee,
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8.1 ~ GLC) Met with David Martin, Senate Internal
Security Subcommittee staff, to try to get a better understanding of his
wishes concerning a map of Communist insurgency in North Burma. I
will be in touch with OCI analysts on this.
Martin also brought up several other items including a question as
to whether the document by JPRS on "Political Parties in Africa" was, in
the opinion of our people, still timely; a request for statements by Soviets
Yakubovskiy and Grechko on Soviet military strategy and doctrine; and a
question as to whether the document entitled "Soviet Spies in the Shadow of
the U. S. " was still timely. I'told Martin I would check on these and be
back in touch with him.
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Subcommittee staff, asked if there was any word yet o
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he had a lot of interesting information. I said I would c..ec on his availability
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11. 1 - JMM) Met with Senator Stuart Symington in response
to his earlier call to the Director saying he and several colleagues were
planning a trip to Eastern Europe and would like briefings
Symington told me a number of senators were attending a
meeting in Bonn in the latter part of November after which several- -Symington,
Jackson, Bentsen, Schweiker, Cannon, Hollings and Stevens--plan to peel off
and visit Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Bulgaria and Y slavia. Symington saX1
he always found briefings u very useful and hoped
the group could get such brie ings
made. He said the itinerary was not firm but would be available shortly
through the Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff. He said his group
plans to arrive in Bonn about 18 November.
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Associate Chief "ounsel, Richard Schultz, had registered the Committee's
interest in the case with us while Mr. Horner was overseas.
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13. LLM) Called Laura, in the office of Re resen-
STATSPEC tative George Ma Hon (D., Tex. ), and she asked that the Book
STATSPEC requested by Chairman Mahon for Texas Tech University be sent to the
school's library at Lubbock, Texas 79409. has been advised.
25X1 14. LLM) Called Miss Peck, in the office of
Representative John Dent (D. , Pa.), concernin their interest in a status
25X1A report on the application of I I retired. She
explained that they follow all of their constituent cases very closely and
that as a general policy they would like to have a final report on all
25X1A referrals. I has been advised.
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Soviet aide irc Laos defects to U.S.
By Reuter
Vientiane, Laos
A Soviet Embassy official who disappeared
Sept. 10 has defected to the United States by
means of a carefully planned car crash,
according to usually reliable sources.
Yevgeni Sorokine, who is listed as an
interpreter at the Soviet Embassy in the
Laotian capital, disappeared the night an
embassy car he had been driving crashed
into trees on the road to the airport.
The United States has since announced in
Washington that a request by Mr. Sorokine
for political asylum was being considered.
The sources said Laotian police who rushed
to the crash scene did not find any indication
that Mr. Sorokine was injured.
Passersby earlier had seen a white man in
civilian clothes arrive in a taxi near the badly
damaged vehicle, pick up another white man,
and speed about 200 yards to the br.nk of the
Mekong River on the Laos-Thailand border.
Mr. Sorokine left his wife Tatiana and their
child at a Soviet Embassy film showing,
obstensibly on his way to another film
showing at a French compound on the airport
road, the sources said.
They, added that on hearing of . the car
crash, Soviet officials searched all Vientiane
hospitals for Mr. Sorokine. But by then he had
crossed the Mekong into Thailand and ar-
rived at the U.S. Air Force base at Udon
reportedly as planned by American agents.
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Friday - 29 September 1972
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5. - JGO) In response to his call, I met with
Mr. Art Kuhl, Chief Clerk, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who
showed me a letter to Chairman Fulbright dated 25 September from the
Director of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs concerning the
burning of 26 tons of opium at Chiang Mai, Thailand in March of this year.
Mr. Kuhl asked if it could be possible for him and Carl Marcy, of the
Committee staff, to see the Central Intelligence Agency reports referenced
by the Director, BNDD, on a completely informal nonattributable basis.
has been advised.
6. - JGO) Talked to Mr. Richard Davis, in the
office of Representative Earl Landgrebe (R. , Ind, ), and told him we have
no additional information to that already provided by Mr. John Broger,
Director of the Office of Information for the Armed Forces concerning
Ser,ey N. Kurdakov. Mr. Davis told me that he doubts that Mr. Landgrebe
will take any further action as far as introducing a private bill for
Mr. Kurdakov. See Journal of 22 September. No further action is required.
25X1 7, LLM) Dr. Joseph Thach, House Internal Security
Committee staff, called to determine if the Agency would have any problem
if the Committee hearing on certain legislation contained excerpts from the
STATSPEC I Jane Fonda's statements over Radio Hanoi. Based on
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STATSPEC Counsel, Don Sanders, that we had no problem with the use of the material,
.. of reasons we strongly felt that
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STATSPEC Mr. Sanders said he would review
the hearing (which must be printed by Monday) in light of our conversation.
(See Memorandum for the Record.)
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Tuesday - 26 September 1972
4. JGO) Met with Mr. James Wilson, House Science and
Astronautics Committee. Mr. Wilson has not talked to Chairman Teague
since his return to the office but noted that Chairman Teague had been very
displeased by the treatment afforded the delegation on their visit to Moscow.
I briefed Mr. Wilson on the Soviet Soyuz and "J" vehicle cancellations.
5. I I JGO) In response to her request of yesterday,
delivered to Claudia aHoover, in the office of Representative Omar Burleson
(D. ," Texas), materials on the Agency for transmittal to a constituent.
6. I I - JGO) Met with Mr. Norman Cornish., Deputy Staff
Director, Subcommittee on Foreign Operations and Government Information,
as a followup to the Director's letter of 14 August relating to the Committee's
request for information concerning Agency contracts for public relations and
similar activities. I told Cornish that since our response we had identified
some $9, 000 in personnel recruitment advertising that had been placed
through a New York advertising firm at the current rates appearing in
Standard Rates and Data Guide. Cornish responded that this is not the type
of information. of contracts that the Committee was seeking. No further
action is indicated. Mr. Colby, Ex. Dir. , has been advised.
7. JGO) Returned Mr. John Pearson's, OMB, call
concerning A. . bill for the relief of Richard Krzyzanowski.
Mr. Krzyzanowski was employed by the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
and the Polish delegation to the U. N. and is married to a U. S. citizen. The
bill was sponsored by Representative Joshua Eilberg (D. , Pa. ). I told
Pearson that the Agency had no contact with Mr. Krzyzanowski and no comment
on the legislation.
8. GLC) Since this was the first opportunity we have had
to brief Ed raswe 1, Senate Armed Services Committee staff, I got together
with him today and briefed him on all current intelligence items of interest
to him since 8 September.
Braswell and I chatted briefly about the possibility of any action on
the Cooper bill (S. 2224) and it is his belief that unless Senator Cooper tries
to tack his bill on some House-passed legislation (which he thinks is unlikely)
the issue is dead for this Congress.
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Calloway had no details on what had transpired in the conference, but said that .
in giving his proxy to Senator Ervin, Senator McClellan had specified that in
no circumstances would he agree to the Ervin amendment to the House bill
extending the life of the Civil Rights Commission unless CIA was granted a
complete exemption.
1. I I- JMM) Talked to Jim Calloway, Senate Government
Operations Committee staff, about the conference yesterday on the Ervin bill.
2. JMM) John Pearson, OMB, called to ask if the
Agency had any in?eres in a private bill to expedite the naturalization of one
Richard Krzyzanowski. .1 told him I was not aware of the case but would
check and advise.
3, - JGO) Received a call from Mr. Robert Blum,
Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff, concerning the Chairman's request
and the Director's response relating to release of OSS documents concerning
activities in Indochina. What the Committee would like to do (and it has been
discussed rather extensively) is to publish certain of the documents that he
has reviewed for the use of all scholars rather than to write a summary
paper. I told him that we certainly would prefer that he write a summary
paper since the release of the particular documents could well be the opening
wedge for release of all OSS files. He agreed that the Committee understands
that we are not in a position to set up a historical section for the release
of documents but would hope that by publishing these particular documents
it would eliminate questions on the subject since the material would be
available to interested persons. It was agreed that as a first step he will
come by and designate the documents that he feels would be most helpful
for Committee reproduction. An appointment was made for 10:00 tomorrow
morning, Wednesday, 27 September, for him to visit Headquarters.
Messrs. Colby and I have been advised.
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Friday - 22 September 1972
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2bXl 6. I F JGO) In response to a telephone request from
Mr. Bruce er z e, ministrative Assistant to Representative William
Bray (R. , Ind. ), I met with Mr. Richard Davis, in the office of Representative
25X1 C Earl Landgrebe (R. , Ind. ), concerning onel In brief,
Davis told me that Representatives Landgrebe and Albert Quie (R. , Minn. ),
both active members of the House Prayer Group, have been requested to
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by members of the Pentagon Prayer Group, who apparently
have assisted in bringing Kurdakov to Washington L- J Davis asked
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Mr. Davis does not think that any action will be taken in the ouse prior to
the elections but at such time as legislation is introduced, it will be introduced
.jointly in the House and the Senate. A Senate bill will be introduced by
25X1A Senator Jennings Randolph (D. , W. Va. ). has been
advised.
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2;TSPEC 11. I I- LLM) Met with Dr. Joseph Thach, House
Internal Security Committee staff, and gave him thel on Andy Stapp
STATSPEC dated May. 1971, which he had requested (,see Journal of 8 September). Also,
I informed Thach that the advertised frequencies
to carry the American Servicemen's Union broadcasts by Radio Hanoi were
their standard international frequencies.
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12. LLM) Sam Goldberg, in the office of
Senator Charles Mathias (R. , Md. ), called to alert us that the Nobles, a
husband and wife writing team (see Journal of 12 July 1972), had been turned
down in their request to review OSS records and that they were going to
make an additional request based upon the fact that they have been allowed
to review classified information by other departments and agencies under
the historical research provision of the new Executive Order on classification.
Goldberg said he wanted nothing special from us but that if there was any
administrative wrinkle that would facilitate the settlement of this issue, he
would appreciate the information if it was appropriate.
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NJLegislative Counsel
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Wednesday - 20 September 1972
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3. I I- RW) Judy Smith, Executive Secretary to Repre-
sentative William V. Alexander (D. , Ark. ), called to request an employment
interview for a constituent who will be moving this weekend to Florida for a
couple of months. He is
Donna, in Personnel, is having the recruiter or t at
area call to make arrangements for the interview. Miss Smith
4, JGO) Responded to a call from Kathy, in
Representative Bob Wilson's (R, , Calif.) office, concerning the availability
of a plaque of the CIA seal for Representative Wilson. I told her that we
have none but that we would make a note of the request in the event of future
availability.
I- JGO) In response to a request from
I made several checks during the day of various Senate and House
Committee staffs concerning the possible appearance of Alexander Vol in
but was unable to identify where he might be appearing, is
rechecking his source for further information.
6. JGO) Received a request from Dorothy Fosdick,
Senate National Security and International Operations Subcommittee staff, for
a name check on Mr. Yuriy V. Solton, Chief, Washington Bureau of the Soviet
TV and Radio, and Mr. Aleksandr N. Druzhinin, who was identified as an
observer of the Soviet TV and Radio.
7. JGO) Met with Mr. Art Kuhl, Chief Clerk, Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, and gave him
In general conversation, Kuhl told me that Mr. Jerome Levinson,
the new staffman who will be handling the ITT hearings, is now on board but
no further Committee action is expected until after the 1st of the year.
WH Division, has been advised.
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Laotian Foreign Minisirv the
same day he was flo?an out of
the country. They dropped
their standard gambit in such
cases, which was to charge
that the defector had ab-
sconded with the embassy
petty cash fund and should be
treated as a common crimi-
nal. Either they placed little
reliance in the Laotian police,
or they knew he was out of
the country when they report-
ed his *absence.
Soviet EHi]bassy e
By I)ONAl,ll R. MORRIS
A'ocl News Analyst
Evgeniy Sorokine, 21, an
employe of the GRU Reziden-
tura in the Soviet Embassy in
Vientiane, Laos, has defected
to the United States.
According to AP and UPI
reports, Sorokine and his wife
Tatiana were posted to Laos
in 1971, where he was as-
signed duties as driver and
French interpreter for Col.
Vladimir P. Grelchanine.
Gretchanine was listed as a
Soviet military attache. In the
early 1960s, Gretchanine was
posted to Washington, and
was expelled in the course of
a quid pro quo reprisal for
several U.S. diplomats ex-
pelled from Moscow at the
time..
ON SEPT. 10 Sorokine's car
was found crashed into a tree
hallway bettvc'en the Soviet
Embassy and Vientiane Air-
port. That evening he cc-
quested political asllum at
the U.S. Embassy, and the
following day he was flown
out of Laos, probably on a
chartered Air America flight,
Sorokine is now reported to
he in the United States. Ta-
nana Sorokine remains in
Vientiane.
These are the bare outlines
of a story that will not be ex-
panded OIL - by official U.S.
sources, at. least for some
time to' come. Several con-
clusions, however, may be
drawn.
Sorokine was an employe
of the Soviet military in-
telligence service. the GRU;
he was not attached to the
KGB. All personnel attached
to the Soviet military attache
office are employes or offi-
cers of the GRU. and never
of the KGB. Gretchanine is,
and ahyays was, a GRU offi-
cer.
SOROl(tNF, WAS, most
likely, not an officer, but an
employes whose Buries we"e
exactly as given; driver-inter-
preter to Col. Gretchanine,
whose rank indicates he was
prnhahly the (=RU Residenl
- the officer in command of
the GRU Rezidentura.
Although nor an agent, han-
dler, Sorokine will he no-
netheless valuable. He will he
able to provide a complete
breakdown of the GRU Rezi-
denture, including those offi-
Post analysis
cers under other covers out-
side of the Military Attache
Office. Ile will undoubtedly be
able to icientify a goodly pro-
portion of the KGB Rezi-
dentua as well. His duties
would a`so have enabled him
to identify a number of GRU
agents, developmental cases
and spotting leads as well.
Several aspects of the story
hint that Sorokine may be.
something of a handling prob-
lem. More titan twenty offi-
cers of tae Soviet intelligence
services have defected to
Western countries. It is the
art of a deeply rnaladjusted
man, a misfit in his own
society ~%ho is, by cutting off
his entire past. life with no
hope of return, in effect, tak-
ing what. may be the only al-
ternative to suicide open to
h i no . For complex psy-
chological reasons, defection
almost never occurs before
middle age, and Sorokine, at
24, is quite possibly the
youngest GRU defector to
reach the West.
THE CIA Is to be com-
mended for the speed with
which Sorokine was evac-
uated; even in Laos such op-
erations pose administrative
problems, especia:h? with a
sudden walk-in. Over the
years, they have tern able to
count on such a defection ev-
ery 18 months or so. to imple-
ment the knowledge gained
from their independent pene-
tralions of the Snvet services.
Sorokine, in fa.', may he
astonished in `r:, that his
hosts know titorr about, the
GRU than he does. It has
happened before,
THE CRASHED car In-
dicates further agitation and
a spur-of-the-moment deci-
sion. Under no circumstances
would this be some form of
window-dressing to mislead
the Soviets; the CIA eschews
such James Bondish dramat-
ics.
Sorokine's desertion of his
wife may be still further evi-
tlence of disturbance: had the
defection been planned in ad-
vance with CIA assistance
she could easily have been
evacuated as well. But sev-
eral detections have been
triggered by the urge to es-
cap(I an in possible marital
situation.)
The Soviets re farted Ilia
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10. I I- JGO) Met with David Martin, Senate Internal
Security Subcommittee staff, who apologized for the shortness of time for
review of General Walt's statement prior to his appearance yesterday. He
gave me two copies of the present report for our review and any corrections
25X1A we care to suggest prior to printing. I thank qd Martin for the Committee's
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11. - JGO) Received a call from Mr. George Armstrong,
Research Assistant to Representative John Ashbrook (R. , Ohio), senior
Republican on the House Internal Security Committee, who called to insure
that a request for the Soviet defector reported in the press for appearance
before the Internal Security Committeeat such time as he might be available.
I told Armstrong that Dick Shultz, of the Committee staff, called last evening
and we have noted his request.
12. I I- JGO) Received a call from J. Sourwine, Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee staff, concerning the reported-GRU defector_
in Southeast Asia. In brief, I told Sourwine that we had received a request
last evening from the House Internal Security Committee.
has been advised.
13. 11MM) In the absence of Representative William
Hungate, I met with his Legislative Assistant Marion Ross to whom I explained
our problems with the Ervin bill rider to the Civil Rights Commission bill on
which. Mr. Hungate is a conferee. Miss Ross said she could not speak for
Mr. Hungate but said she would take the matter up with him in the near future.
I left with her some explanatory material.
14. - JMM) In the absence of Senate Minority Leader
Hugh Scott, I briefed William Hildenbrand his Administrative Assistant, on
our problems with the Ervin bill rider to the Civil Rights Commission bill, on
which Senator Scott is a Senate conferee, and left with Hildenbrand some
explanatory material.
15. JMM) Miss Pratt, in the office of Representative
Emanuel Celler, called to set up an appointment for me to meet with Mr. Celler
on Tuesday, 19 September 1972 at 4:00 p.m.
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operations Committee staff, and told him that the Director would be very
pleased that the exemption he had requested from the advisory committee bill,
S. 3529, was routinely adopted on the Senate floor yesterday and asked if he had
received, any reaction from the House side. I told him we thought the House
conferees would be sympathetic to our position and would contact them if
either he or Jim Calloway think it would help. Gunn later reported that
Senator John McClellan (D. , Ark.) adamantly supported the Agency's exemption
and that the House conferees were favorably disposed to it. Gunn said that the
conference committee could move rapidly on the bill and that while he did not
expect any challenge to our exemption, he would notify us if any problems
developed. Under the circumstances, he saw no useful purpose in our
approaching the House conferees directly, and I said we would defer to their
judgment.
15. 1 - LLM) Called Dick Schultz, House Internal Securit-r
Committee staff, and based upon the advice of told
him the Agency was in no way associated with the Van Pelts or Meshon. I
said we assumed he has checked with the FBI also. (See Journal of 7 September.
Mr. Schultz said that the name of the institute has also been referred to as
Mershon rather than Meshon. Moreover, he said the Van Pelt's are under the
impression that the institute was somehow involved with CIA and Schultz said
he would just tell them that this sim 1
this with
of contac ing e
Mr. Schultz called with reference to a Star item on a KGB defector in
Laos and.said that the Committee would like to have an opportunity to interview
the individual when and if he could be made available. I said I knew nothing
about the case, explained the conditions that applied and said we.would note
his interest. Schultz said he was following up this request with a letter for
the record, although I said this was not necessary.
was advised.
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5. I I - JGO) Met with Mr. Garner J. Cline, Counsel,
Immigration and Naturalization Subcommittee, House Judiciary Committee.
In brief, Cline advised that as Counsel he would be forced to recommetd
disapproval of any bill no matter how sponsored that would grant credit toward
the five-year residence requirement for citizenship. In part he noted that
he has three requests on his desk for assistance in similar bills. One, would
be to allow the granting of citizenship to allow participation on the American
Olympic team. With the present Committee procedures of all cases going
before the full Committee he does.not see how any such bill could be
authorized by the Subcommittee. Mr. Warner, OGC, and
Africa Division, have been advised.
6. I I- JGO) Met with Mr. Ralph Preston, House
Appropriations Committee staff, who told me that he will try to schedule
a visit to the Agency and possible luncheon with and
Proctor at the earliest possible date. He will not know until the first of
the week whether he will be able to do it during the coming week. Preston
told me that he does not see how he can schedule any further hearings on
the community budget. He feels that he will have to take the information
he has in hand and go to markup without further hearings
7. GLC) J. Sourwine, Chief Counsel, Senate Internal
Security ,Subcommittee, called with reference to the testimony of Alfred
McCoy before Senator Proxmire's Foreign Operations Subcommittee, Appro-
priations Committee. Sourwine was aware of the allegations McCoy is making
in his testimony today and said if there was anything the Subcommittee could
do that would be helpful either to the Agency, to the Subcommittee, or both
in setting the record straight on this subject, he would be happy to cooperate
with us. In this connection he mentioned the study which is being conducted
by the Subcommittee's task force which is being headed by General Lou Walt
and presently traveling around the world looking into the drug problem.
Sourwine also noted Jack Anderson had mentioned there were eight CIA
reports on this subject which might or might not be accurate. He said if
these reports or any other information could be made public through the
task force they would be happy to cooperate. I told Sourwine I would look
into this.
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xnaiyst, House internal Security Committee, and told him that we did not believe
we could lift the control dissemination "Official Use Only" marking from the
Report on prisoners of war statements. I told him this policy was
based, on a number of factors, including the possibility that the statements were
made under duress and the desire to save the families of the men any unnecessary
anguish. Thach then asked if this would hold true in the case of Michael Branch
who, according to Thach, was a "defector" and whose statements had been widely
exploited by the October 1969 Moratorium and the Daily Worker. I told Thach that
I would check and be back in touch.
General Counsel, USIA, in connection with the apparently inadvertent release
for the public record of testimony given in executive session by USIA witnesses
before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on USIA authorization legislation.
Mr. Kopp said that GPO will not be making a public printing of the hearing and
that he has alerted all executive agencies to treat the copies they have accordingly
and that the House Committee will be suppressing their supply also. In response
to my question, he said he did not know of any testimony directly impacting on
the Agency's interests, but he did identify the testimony of Michael Pistor,
Assistant Director, Near East and North Africa, and Kempton Jenkins, Assis-
tant Director, Soviet Union and East Euro ing the most sensitive from
their viewpoint. I talked to to call this development to
her attention and asked if she would assure that the DDP area divisions most
probably affected were alerted, which she said she would do.
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