JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Publication Date: March 28, 1969
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Friday - 28 March 1969
2, I Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional
Relations i iam . atom a old me today that his office has not been
called upon to take any action on the Hill regarding the Ervin bill, although
there is some concern in the Department about the problems which it would
create.
3. Met with Senator Stuart Symington in response
to his query about a gency budget. The Senator explained he wanted to
say something to refute the recent seriously exaggerated public statements
on the subject. I pointed out the problems this would cause and the Senator
agreed to defer any action until he had a chance to raise the matter with the
Director at a future formal meeting of the Agency Subcommittees. See
Memo for Record for details.
4. I I Called Representative John Monagan
(D., Conn.') in Waterbury, Connecticut, at the request of his Administrative
Assistant, Joe Donahue, concerning an individual representing himself as an
Agency employee. Mr. Monagan said he knew ersonall25X1
was sure we would not employ him, but felt that he should check anyway. Later,
as agreed with the Congressman and based on the advice of I 25X1
advised Joe Donahue that was not our employee, but we knew of him
through similar misrepresentations by him and past contacts with us. Donahue
received this in good humor saying that he, too, had known for somr-25X1
time and that if he was one of our employees the Congressman would indeed
lose his high esteem for the Agency. I told him I had gotten the same impression
from Mr. Monagan.
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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Monday - 24 March 1969
1. 1 Accompanied Messrs. Hicks and Reynolds
to brief the Bomber Defense Subcommittee of the Senate Armed Services
Committee. Committee members present were Senator John Stennis (D., Miss.),
Senator Margaret Chase Smith (R. , Maine), Senator Peter Dominick (R.Colo. ),
Senator George Murphy (R., Calif.'), Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D., Hawaii).
Senator Stennis commented "best briefing on the subject we have had'. (See
Memorandum for the Record.)
3. In connection with my inquiry to him concerning
the request rom the stall o the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy for a
publication on the Moscow A.BM system, Mr. Andy Summers of AEC advised
that they were handling this directly with the Joint Committee.
4. William Woodruff, on the staff of the Senate
$gpropriations ommi ee, asked if I would look into certain security aspects
of a dictating machine which he is interested in using for classified material.
I am checking with the Office of Security on this.
5. I I Mary Rita Robbins, on the staff of the
Senate Space Committee, called and asked if we could locate the text of a
Moscow broadcast allegedly made on March 19 which contained a threat on
the part of the Soviets to use atomic weapons against the Chinese. I told her
I would check on this and be in touch with her.
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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Thursday - 20 March 1969
1. I I Mr. James Jordan, in the office of
Senator Howard Baker I1enn.), called to see if we could get him
a copy of the story filed about 14 or 15 March by TASS on the President's
ABM decision as soon as possible. Advised Mr. Jordan this item is in
the FBIS Soviet Union Daily Report of 17 March, and that Senator Percy's
office and the Senate Special Subcommittee on Internal Security receive
copies of this Report. He said he would check with them and let us know
if he was not able to find a copy.
2. I Received a call from the office of Senator
Charles Gvouezr~ . , L. j uesting 10 copies each of the CIA pamphlet,.
and the professional and clerical brochures to be sent to the attention of
"Cris" which they will use in answering general inquiries about the Agency.
3. land I met with Senator Birch
Bayh (D., Ind.) in connection with the Ervin bill, S. 782. See Memo for
the Record.
4, I land I met with Bill Woodruff,
Senate Aro riations Committee staff, who filled us in on the background
regarding Senator Russell's health. We also raised the Ervin bill problem
and Woodruff said he was confident Russell would indeed take up the matter
directly with Senator Ervin, although he had not done so to date.
,, I I Delivered to Senator Ervin's office the
Director's letter renewing nis request to appear in executive session
re S. 782.
6. I (Delivered the Director's "get well"
letter to Senator JohSherman ooper's office.
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Friday - 14 March 1969
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4.1 I Delivered copies of the transcript
of the Director's briefing Thursday to the House Appropriations
Committee for use during the day and received them back for safekeeping
by the Agency. Arrangements were made to relay requests of Committee
members for review of the Thursday and Friday testimony of the DCI
to I There is some indication that Mr. Sikes and possibly'
another member might desire to review the transcripts on Saturday or
Sunday.
5. Hand carried to Bill Woodruff, on the staff of
the Senate Appropriations Cornmit pe, a list of the problems which would
be created for the Agency by S. 782. Woodruff said this was just what he
needed for the preparation of a memorandum to Senator Russell on the
subject in anticipation of the Director's meeting with the Senator on Monday.
Woodruff said he had heard nothing from NSA about the bill this year and
wondered if they still had problems with it. I assured him that NSA was
as concerned about the bill as we were but in view of their consideration
on the Pueblo matter, had probably been unable to pursue the S. 782 problem
as much as they would like.
In my presence, Woodruff placed a call tol Compt ?'1
NSA, and asked for NSA's position on the bill. Shortly erea er, 05X1A
Legal Counsel, NSA, called and confirmed what I had said to
Woodruff to the effect that NSA is opposed to the bill and desires a flat
exemption from it.
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who is presently in the United
States and whom Horn would like to approach to join the faculty of American
University if she is politically all right. I told Horn the Agency is unable to
furnish such information to non-Governmental a encies and suggested he
7. Spoke with Mr. Robert Hull, Depart-
ment of State, to obtain information on the agreement of the Department to
certain recommendations of the Comptroller General's concerning the
interrelationship between statutory overseas medical benefits and medical
insurance. Mr. Hull said he would be back in touch when he had further
information.
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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Thursday - 13 March 1969
1. I (Kathy Nelson, in the office of Senator
Stuart Symington (D., Mo.), called to say that the Senator's Foreign Relations
Subcommittee staff members had decided that they had no real need for the 25X6
Agency publication which she had discussed with me previously.
3. I I Colonel Everett Harper, on the staff of the
Senate Preparedness Subcommittee, called and asked if someone (not
necessarily the Director) would come up on Monday, the 17th, at 9:00 a. m.
to brief the ad hoc Subcommittee on Research and Development on Soviet
research and development capabilities and trends in the weapons and
defensive fields. This Subcommittee is one of several groups appointed by
Senator Stennis in an effort to involve more members of the full Committee
in Committee business. The Subcommittee is composed of Senators McIntyre
(Chairman), Stephen Young, Harry Byrd, Murphy, and Brooke. This Sub-
committee is trying to get up-to-date in the research and development field
prior to and in anticipation of the military posture hearings. I told Colonel
Harper that I would check on this and contact him as soon as possible.
4. I I Bill Woodruff, Senate Appropriations
Committee staff, called to ask me if we had set a firm date for the Director's
meeting with Senator Russell. I indicated that it had been set for 11:00 a. m.
on Monday. Woodruff said Senator Russell had called him and said that the
Director had asked to see him and wondered if Woodruff knew what it was
about. Woodruff speculated that it was in connection with the Ervin bill, S. 782.
Woodruff is reviewing both the bill and the floor debate in the Senate in 1967.
I promised to have a brief paper for him available tomorrow.
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Wednesday - 12 March 1969
3. I I Talked with Mr. Bob Michaels, House
Appropriations Committee staff, about Representative Richard McCarthy
(D., N. Y.) who contacted the Director today and asked to have our people
talk with him on the subject of the involvement of foreign countries in
chemical and biological warfare. Michaels knows little about McCarthy
except that he had on his own initiative requested a briefing from the Army
on this subject and such a briefing was subsequently given (according to a
Washington Post article of 5 March 1969) to three senators and 18 representa-
tives. It appears that McCarthy is attempting to eliminate any military
program which, in his opinion, is not absolutely justified.
I and I met with Mr. William 25X1A
Woodruff, -Senate Appropriations Committee staff, and reviewed with himl~eXlA
data on Agency research grants which had been prepared pursuant to Bureau
of the Budget Bulletin 69-8. Woodruff appeared completely satisfied with his
review of this material and responses to his questions. Woodruff
made notes on the number of contracts by general categories and the cost
of programs by categories (without mentioning specific projects). He said
he would transmit this information to Senator Russell in a Top Secret
memorandum with a suggestion that he (Woodruff) meet with Senator Mansfield
advising him that he had reviewed the material and had reached the judgment
that none of this information could be included in the Democratic Policy
Committee's study on this subject because of the sensitive nature of the
projects themselves.
Advised Woodruff that the Director wished to meet with Senator
Russell on Monday to discuss with him the matter of his response to
Senator Ervin regarding the question of his appearance before the Ervin
Subcommittee on S. 782. Woodruff said he thought this was a good idea
and merely asked that we provide him (Woodruff) with a one-page statement
of our specific objection to specific sections of the bill without referring
to any meeting with the Director. Woodruff will give this to Senator Russell
on Saturday as an aide-memoire on a subject of concern to the Agency.
5. Contacted Mr. Proctor Jones, on the staff
of Senator Richard Russell (D., Ga.), and asked if the Senator could see
the Director sometime during the day on Monday, 17 March. Jones tentatively
suggested that the Director meet with the Senator in the latter's office at
11:00 a. m. on that day. Mr. Jones will confirm this with uq later.
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Tuesday - 11 March 1969
8. I I In the absence of Homer McMurray,
Clerk, Official Reporters to House Committees, met with Mr. Charles C.
Dudley, who advised that he and Mr. Joseph Gimelli will be the reporters
and Mrs. Phyllis V. Morgan and Allene G. Johnson the transcribers for
the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee hearings on Thursday and Friday,
13 and 14 March. Security clearances on the above are being verified.
9. I I In response to his call of yesterday,
talked to NIP. ruce er ec~lAd trative Assistant to Representative
William Bray (R., Ind.), and advised that the Agency has no record of an
employment application or other contact by A check 25X1A
with our recruiting office indicated that he had not been tested at Indiana
University with regard to Agency employment. Mr. Merkle advised that
no further checks would be necessary unless he is able to gain additional
information from their Indianapolis office.
10 . I I Met with Mr. Robert Michaels, House
Appropriations Committee staff, and reviewed the tentative agenda of
topics for the Defense Subcommittee briefing on Thursday and confirmed
the arrangements for security procedures used at the hearing.
11. I IBill Woodruff, Senate Appropriations Committee
staff, and I met with Bob McCoy, Administrative Assistant to Senator Karl
Mundt, at McCoy's request. He said now that the F-111 issue is over,
Mundt is concentrating his attention on the subject of student uprisings and
is particularly interested in the possibility of the involvement of an interna-
tional conspiracy in these situations. McCoy asked if the Agency had any
information on this. I told him that any information which we would have on
student uprisings in foreign. areas would be passed to the FBI in view of its
possible relationship to similar cases in the U. S. McCoy mentioned at this
point that Senator Mundt had an appointment to meet with FBI officials on this
subject on Monday. He said either DeLoach or Mr. Hoover himself would be
seeing the Senator. McCoy went on to say if we had any information on the
subject which we felt Mundt should know about he would appreciate our making
it available to him. He also mentioned a specific instance where someone
involved in student unrest in the New York City area was known to have cashed
a check which was drawn on a bank in Communist China. He was particularly
interested in knowing whether we had any information about this. I said I
would look into these areas and be in touch with 4im.
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Tuesday - 11 March 1969
5. Told Robert Michaels, Staff Assistant,
House Appropriations Committee, that our Personnel Office had interviewed
and that we had provided dth application forms for submission.
Michaels said he would pass this word on to the Chairman.
Michaels advised that members of the Subcommittee on Military
Construction had been invited to it in, but not ask questions, at the 13 March
Agency briefing of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. He reaffirmed
his opinion that the session will last most of the day on the 13th and we should
also keep the morning of the 14th open in case it runs over. He said he was sure
the Subcommittee would want a briefing in considerable depth as in the past.
6. I I Talked by phone with Chairman David N.
Henderson, Subcommittee on Manpower and Civil Service, House Post Office
and Civil Service Committee, regarding the Ervin bill (S. 782) and told him
of the letters the Director had received from Ervin. Henderson, among other
things, suggested we should promptly bring the situation to the attention of
Senator Russell. See Memo for the Record.
7, I I At his request met with Bill Woodruff, Senate
Appropriations Committee staff. Woodruff showed me an informal memorandum
which Senator Mansfield has sent to Senator Russell regarding the Agency's
listing of research grants in compliance with BOB Bulletin 69-8. In his memo
Mansfield expressed complete agreement with the Agency's submission of this
material to the CIA Subcommittee in view of its sensitivity. Mansfield has
requested, however, that a member of the Subcommittee staff review the
material and make a determination as to whether any of it might be included
in the overall report being prepared by the Democratic Policy Committee.
Woodruff asked if .I would have someone make this material available to him
tomorrow so he might conduct such a review. He will then speak to Senator
Mansfield. Arrangements have been made for OPPB, and me1A
see Woodruff at 2:00 P. M. tomorrow.
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Tuesday - 11 March 1969
1 1 I Jay Sourwine, Staff Director, Senate Sub-
committee~fen~T~ri~ called and asked for any available information
on I I told Sourwine I would
check and be back in touch with him. Sourwine said the Subcommittee plans 25X1A
to subpoena who is presently traveling in the United States.
Received a call from Miss Helen Boyle,25
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Personal Secretary to Chairman George H. Mahon (D. , Texas),' who advised
that I Ia constituent, is in town although she had not yet
received notification that her processing for Agency employment has been
completed. Helen described her as a nice young girl from Lubbock, Texas.
After checking with the Office of Personnel, advised Miss Boyle that the
processing has not been completed, but that everything appeared at this time
to be in order for EOD later in the month. I also s.dviSed 'that a close check
was being made to see whether an earlier date for EOD is possible.
4.1 I Received a call from Bill Woodruff,
Senate A propriations Committee staff, on behalf of Senator Russell, requesting
verification of a news article by Ralph de Toledano, dateline 25 February,
from a West Coast paper concerning the 8 January 1969 Soviet=Cuba nuclear
and scientific agreement. A brief outline of the background and current status
of the agreement with comment on other information contained in the news item,
which was furnished by OCI and OSI, was hand-carried to Mr. Woodruff for
Senator Russell's use on the floor. Also furnished was a copy of a 15 February
column by Mr. de Toledano on this same subject published in the Indianapolis,
Indiana News. Mr. Woodruff advised later in the day that the material furnished
was what was wanted and was appreciated by Senator Russell.
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Monday - 10 March 1969
10. 1 I Talked with Ed Braswell, Staff Director,
Senate Armed Services Committee, about the pending nomination of
General Cushman and the timing of Committee hearings on the nomination.
I told him it was my understanding that the General would be leaving Vietnam
on or about 25 March and was scheduled to assume his duties as DDCI around
15 April. Braswell said he assumed the Chairman would want General
Cushman to appear before the Committee, but said there was no urgency on25X1A
this. It can be arranged sometime between 26 March and 15 April.
members should be forced to focus on Agency problems since they have
asserted legislative oversight jurisdiction over CIA.
12. Talked with William Woodruff, Senate Appropriations
Committee staff, about Senator Ervin's response to the Director's letter to
Senator Ervin on S. 782. Woodruff offered little encouragement, but said he
thought it essential that the Director see Senator Ervin again this year in an
attempt to reconcile our problems over the bill. If this fails .( as he expects
it will), he feels that the Director should then meet privately with Senator
Russell and spell out to him the Agency's problems with this bill. Woodruff
said that senators are most reluctant to interfere with the business of another
senator in his committee capacity, but he recognized that our Subcommittee
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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Friday - 7 March 1969
1.1 1 Mourine Dantzic, Senate Armed Services
Committee staff, called an as ed if we could provide the Committee with
75 copies of a background on General Cushman, whose nomination as DDCI
was received today. I later talked with Charles Kirbow, of the Committee
staff, who agreed that this information should be obtained from the Marine
Corps.
Talked with Ed Hartung, Minority Counsa5X1A
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Senate Appro_pritions Comrriittee, about the status of the application of
qualifications and experience, we could not offer her a position above grade
GS-5 (GS-6 if she will go overseas). Positions in grades GS-7 and GS-9
are filled by selections of qualified secretaries already in the Agency. I 25X1
told him I would check further on this, however, and be in touch with him.
4. I I Mrs. Gwen Lewis, in the office of
Senator Len B. Jordan (R., Idaho) called and asked if we would arrange
a personnel inr=~ or ho is interested in Agenc'25X1A
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and is highly recommended by Mrs. Lewis.
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