JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL THURSDAY - 30 JANUARY 1964

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP66B00403R000200210045-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 13, 2005
• Sequence Number: 45
• Publication Date: January 30, 1964
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Thursday - 30 January 1964
2. Charles Stevens, in the office of
Senator George rnat . ers, called the office of Personnel requesting
information on the "political situation" in Brazil, Chile and Peru. I
returned Stevens' call and told him that we did not ordinarily provide
this kind of information, that the best channel would be through the
Department of State adding that anything we had on the subject would be
classified and probably not useful to him. Stevens said he was preparing
material for the Senator and mentioned he had been in touch with the
State Department. I told him that if Senator Smathers desired a personal
briefing we would be glad to talk with him but otherwise I felt we were
unable to be of assistance. Stevens seemed to understand our position
in the matter.
3. In response to his request, I attempted
again to contact Representative Emilio Q. Daddario but was advised he
was out of the city for the day. We will attempt to reach him tomorrow.
4. I I Talked briefly with David Martin, in the
office of Senator Thomas J. Dodd, in an effort to accelerate Martin's
speech for the Senator on attacks on CIA. Martin said the Senator had
put him to work on a paper on the Viet Nam situation which would keep
him away from the speech for several days. I will continue to be in touch
with Martin on this.
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5.
Affairs Committee, that further follow up on
produced nothing in Agency records either in our
or in our Office of Logistics.
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7. I I Talked with Russ Blandford, House Armed
Services Committee 'staff, concerning THE WASHINGTON POST items of
28 and 29 January 1964 concerning Mr. McCone~ I asked him to 25X1
assure the Chairman that the Director was not in fact involving himself
in foreign policy matters but was performing a service for the Administration
in briefing selected European government officials on the Soviet military
posture and Soviet economy. Blandford grasped the point immediately and
said he was sure Mr. Vinson would be happy to have this information.
Mr. Blandford also indicated it was highly likely that Mr. Vinson
might wish to have a briefing from the Director some time during next week.
It was learned from other sources that when Secretary McNamara was briefing
the Vinson Committee he was queried about advance knowledge of the South
Vietnam coup and there were indications at that time that it was hoped to
have Mr. McCone discuss this subject next week.
8. Talked with Maurice Lanman (Office of
General Counsel, DOD), Ben Forman (International Affairs, OGC, DOD),
and Jim Hyde in the Bureau of the Budget on the draft legislation for the
Military Assistance Act of 1964. It was learned that in fact the wording of
certain parts of this bill were aimed at permitting military assistance to
guerrilla groups. It was also learned that in fact this bill is put on ice
until further notice and that no response is necessary to the Bureau of the
Budget as to our views at this time.
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Advised Boyd Crawford, House Foreign
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Mr. Chretien