JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL WEDNESDAY - 26 AUGUST 1970

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP72-00337R000400040015-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 6, 2006
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: August 26, 1970
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 2
Wednesday - 26 August 1970
6. (Confidential - JMM) During a lunch with Richard Capen,
Assistant to the Secretary (Legislative Affairs), DOD, and his Deputy,
Brigidier General James Lawrence:
a. We commiserated over the state of affairs in the
Senate Armed Services Committee which DOD finds quite as
frustrating to work with as we do.
e b. I explained our concern about the ]Ervin bill, with
which Capen seemed unfamiliar.
c. Capen said the Secretary was still much concerned
about POWs being held by the North Vietnamese, and Capen
wondered whether the Agency had any contacts among U. S.
businessmen or private citizens, or third nationals, who in
turn had direct or indirect contacts in Hanoi which could be
used to maintain pressure on the North Vietnamese government.
I said I was sure this problem had been thoroughly surveyed in
the past but I would be glad to ask my colleagues to take another
look.
7. (Secret - RJK) In the absence of Robert M. Horner, Chief
Investigatior,, House Internal Security Committee, left with B. R.
McConnon,. Investigator, corrected transcripts of
testimony before that Committee on 25 June 1970.
8. (Confidential - RJK) -to-or)ed by the Senate Internal St-rurity
Subcommittee 25X1
for Mr. J. G. Sourwine. 25X1
9. (Internal Use Only - RJK) Delivered to the offices of Senators
J. W. Fulbright, Mike Mansfield, and Barry Goldwater FBIS items in which
their names were mentioned. 25Xh
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JOHN M. NM UR-Y
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Mr. Houston; Mr. Goodwin
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Legislative Counsel
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