JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL MONDAY - 12 NOVEMBER 1973

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00380R000400040003-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 17, 2006
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• Publication Date: November 12, 1973
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Monday - 12 November 1973
1. (Confidential - JMM) Talked to Marshall Wright, Assistant
Secretary of State for Congressional Relations, regarding the White House
suggestion that State, Defense and CIA jointly brief the House-Senate conferees
on the foreign aid bill regarding the likelihood of a major North Vietnamese
offensive in the spring. Wright said that his position was that unless the
intelligence part of such a briefing came down hard on the strong likelihood
of such an offensive, it would be unwise to meet with the conferees at all.
I said I wasn't sure what our final position would be but in general we would
probably say that while extensive preparations for a possible offensive were
underway, we had no reliable information regarding North Vietnamese
intentions on either when or whether to launch such an offensive.
2. (Confidential - JMM) Talked to Jack Marsh, Assistant Secretary
of Defense (Legislative Affairs), on the above matter and he said Secretary
Schlesinger was not enthusiastic about the proposed briefing, and felt that
if any briefing were given it should be given to Senator Stennis, and let him
carry the ball rather than the conferees. I said that this would be fine
if Stennis were in good shape, but I doubted he would be able to do much
in present circumstances. I told Marsh of my conversation with Marshall
Wright of State.
3. (Unclassified - JMM) Called to Kathy Nelson, in the office of
Senator Stuart Symington, to ask if there was any deadline on our comments
on the Ben Welles article about intelligence failures in the Middle East in the
Christian Science Monitor about which the Senator had inquired. She said
an answer within a week would be satisfactory.
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