JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL TUESDAY - 1 OCTOBER 1968

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 12, 2006
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: October 1, 1968
• Content Type: NOTES

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Tuesday - 1 October 1968
to him during his recent visit Murphy wanted to express his 25X1
appreciation. He also asked that drop by to see him within the next
on At)mic Energy, say that had been most helpful 25X1
George Murphy, on the staff of the Joint Committee
day or two on a matter relating to his talks 25X1
Mr. Murphy advised me that John Conway, Executive Director
of the JCAE, has accepted a position with Consolidated Edison as
Executive Assistant to the Chairman of the Board. In response to my
query Murphy speculated that "everyone else would move up one notch. "
This would mean that Captain Edward Bauser would become Executive
Director and Murphy presumably would move into Bauser's former position
as Deputy.
Accompaniedi who 25X1
briefed Representative Armistead Selden (D. , Ala. ), Chairman of the
Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs of House Foreign Affairs
Committee ir: are aration for Mr. Selden's upcoming trip to Central
America. I Iovered the present situation in Mexico, Guatemala,
Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia,
Venezuela and the Dominican Republic. Also present during the briefing
was Mr. Marian Czarnecki, of the Committee staff. The briefing went
well and Mr. Selden expressed his appreciation.
Talked with Dorothy Fosdick, in the office
of Senator Henry M. Jackson, following her call regarding 25X1
an early briefing the Senator desires on Soviet and Warsaw Pact movements
and dispositions in Eastern Europe. It appeared that the Senator was
particularly concerned about possible threats to Romania, Austria and
Yugoslavia and planned to raise this matter on the floor in connection with
the debate on the Defense Appropriation bill. I called the Acting DD/I,
Mr. Proctor, who nominated o conduct the briefing. 25X1
I then checked the matter out with the Director. The briefing will take
place tomorrow at 9:30 in the Senator's office.
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I Jay Sourwine, Chief Counsel, Senate
Special u committee on Internal Security, called to ask if we could
provide him with the identity of the person who represented the CPUSA
at the Third Preparatory Conference in Budapest. He recognized that
this is not our business, but had been unable to find out from the FBI
or State Department. I told him I would check, but could not hold out
much hope that the Agency knows if the other two don't.
t his request I met with. Mr. Geor = 'r], r
Vti :cx or tree J oint mittee on Atomic Energy. Murphy ed
con :,ver the Finney article which had appeared several days ago and
the reference to the number of ICBMs the Chinese Communists would have
by 1973-75. I informed Murphy of my earlier conversatio: with Ed Bauser,
of the Subcommittee staff, on this same article and told Murphy what I had
cold Bauser at that time - regardless of what was in the newspaper the
Joint-Committee had it :ts possess' most recent intelligence informatio
on this subject in the ,'c t x x o dated 19 September 1968. This 5X1
seemed to satisfy MuJ-p t. as it had satisfied Bauser earlier
Murphy mentioned his contacts with during his 25X1
recent trip to the international Atomic Energy Conference with members of
the Joint Committee. Murphy said he was most interested in the case
involving He added 25X1
that des- iE=sz rr~rn rvrrn z, r agencies to the e ect that the
I I no access; co Atcmal information Murphy had learned that in fact
this type of information had been available to him. Murphy said he would
appreciate being kept "fully and currently informed" on the damage assess-
ment involved in this case.
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