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• Publication Date: March 9, 1969
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Congress for cutbacks in for- lowship for political theory:. Council Committee . on , the
eign aid and for failure' to He worked for the Rockefeller Middle East in June of '1967";
provide new 'funds for the.; Brothers Fund, Inc., as ?di while retaining. his $65,000
World Bank 'may direct leg- rector of an overall special annual salary from 'the, Ford
operations by some of our he helpful in meeting the Other appointees
tax-exempt foundations, challengesAmerica faces to
it has Other examples of potential
been pointed out in
'New York that by a not too For 10 years he was chief. conflict of interest arise from
strange happenstance the foreign policy adviser to Gov payment by foundations for'
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business.
`op aid a round-the-world trip by the
sition on Vietnam, reflecting
a We' ha''w' .sly to Look at the -.r__ of ... .. Institute nt! Curtest World t-
.pointments to see the influ- `.stable venture' and could 1only. The executive director of:'
once of \ certain foundations? be provocative to the Russians.'. the Institute, Richard Nolte,
a front for the so-called.. Economist Burns ` ,U. S. ambassador to the Unit--'.-'
"Eastern Establishment.", Dr. . . ' ed Arab Republic. His . ap-.,
Henry A. Kissinger, Mr., Nix- Arthur Burns, an economist','pointment was subject to an-',
on's top foreign :policy' advis-a; whom Mr. Nixon appointed to. proval by the Senate Foreign:
"Rockefeller's .man. -at..,* the' a trustee of the 20th Century' . Foundations have long sere
-, While?__he ? was , at Harvard, the Council on Foreign Rela- etration of foreign policy by.,
bone the Research Cou _..
Pilgrims' Society, which coor- ".secret meetings ' that have
dinates powerful British and ibeen held over the years at
,, American international finan the headquarters of the Coun
seems to me, can hardly he cials from the State Depart.'
,coincidental. As Rep. Wright ? menti CIA and the Pentagon., .
mittee: .
"Does a businessman in a
government post pose a great-
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Bundy, President of the Ford
Foundation, whosa overlords,
mense commercial: interests:
throughout the world, includ-
ing the Middle East?"
Patman observed that,,,Bun.
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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 2
Thursday - 6 March 1969
5. (Unclassified - JGO) Met with Mr. A.J. Montgomery,
Special Assistant to Senator Jack Miller, who advised that the FBIS
White Book is a very useful office tool and that the office would appreciate
receiving it on a continuing basis.
6. (Confidential - JGO) Met with Mr. Robert Michaels, House
Appropriations Committee staff, who advised that as of the moment, he
does not foresee time for scheduling a meeting of the CIA Subcommittee
for the next two weeks.
I also reviewed with Mr. Michaels the classified handling of
the transcripts of the Director's briefing of the Defense Subcommittee on
13 and 14 March. Mr. Michaels noted that the Chairman and members of
the Subcommittee will undoubtedly have questions on Vietnam and Southeast
Asia that will be generated by Secretary Laird's trip to the Far East.
7. (Internal Use Only JGO) Met with Mr. Homer McMurray,
Clerk, Office of Official Reporters to House Committees, and made the
preliminary arrangements for Agency control of the reporters' notes,
and transcripts of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee hearings for
13 and 14 March. I will meet again with Mr. McMurray prior to the
meetings to ascertain the names of the reporters and transcribers to be
used for the hearing.
8. (Confidential - JGO) Received from Miss Berniece Kalinowski,
House Armed Services Committee staff, the Agency copy of the transcript
of the Director's testimony of 5 March before the Pike Subcommittee.
9. (Internal Use Only - JGO) Received a call from Mr. Borstein,
in the office of Representative Leonard Farbstein (D. , N. Y. ) concerning
the membership of the Soviet Politbureau and other persons in the present
government of the Soviet Union. I referred Mr. Borstein to the Department
of State.
10. (Secret - JGO) Met with Mary McLaughlin, Senate Foreign
Relations Committee staff, and advised that the additional material
concerning cost of certain Soviet military programs for inclusion in the
record of the hearing of 26 February will be forwarded on Tuesday, 11 March.
Miss McLaughlin will relay this advice to Mr. Marcy but indicated that
she is certain this will be satisfactory.
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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 4
Thursday - 6 March 1969
14. (Secret - GLC) Hand carried to Mr. Edward Braswell, Staff
Director of the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Director's letter
to Senator Stennis transmitting a copy of the statement which the Director
gave before the Pike Subcommittee on the Pueblo. Braswell said he had not
devoted any time of study to the Pueblo case and added that this would be
a useful summary for him. I. had the impression from Braswell's remarks
that he feels Senator Stennis would like to avoid hearings on the Pueblo but
is under some pressure from certain of his members to schedule them. He
also has outstanding the request from Senator Fulbright that any hearings on
the Pueblo be conducted with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Braswell reviewed again his conversation with Senator Ervin on S. 782.
He indicated that he would like the Agency to be in touch with him before we
respond to the letter which Senator Ervin is sending us.
15. (Secret - GLC) During the course of a conversation with
Charles Kirbow, of the Senate Armed Services Committee staff, the subject
of the Ervin bill came up. We reviewed the membership of Senator Ervin's
Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights and Kirbow admitted that Senator
Thurmond was a member of that Subcommittee. In response to my light query
Kirbow said he thought Senator Thurmond would be sympathetic to the Agency's
position on the bill and suggested that we discuss it with James Lucier, of
Senator Strom Thurmond's (R., S. Car.) staff, in whom the Senator has great
confidence.
16. (Confidential - GLC) By way of follow up to our earlier STATSPEC
conversation, I provided Mr. Charles Kendrick, Administrative Assistant
to Senator Peter H. Dominick (R. , Colo. ) with c6pies of correspondence
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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 5
Thursday - 6 March 1969
17. (Secret - GLC) Talked with James Knowles, Research Director
of the Joint Economic Committee staff, regarding the Committee's proposed
study on the National Economy and Military Programs in the USSR. I told
Knowles that it would create problems for us in terms of workload and
security tij attempt to assist in this study and asked if the Committee was
firmly committed to this project. Knowles said that the Chairman and
Vice Chairman have indicated considerable interest in this but no commitment
has been made as yet. He suggested that we convey our problems in rather
general terms to Leon Herman, of the Library of Congress, who is handling
this. If this does not take care of the matter, he ('Knowles) will advise us
and we can discuss the matter further.
18. (Unclassified - GLC) Scott Cohen, on the staff of Senator
Charles Percy, called and asked if we would give him a "rundown" on
I I told him we would check
19. (Confidential - GLC) Kathy Nelson, on the staff of Senator
Stuart Symington, called and asked if we had a publication covering world-
wide developments which was referred to as "green sheets. " She said
that members of Senator Symington's new Foreign Relations Subcommittee
staff were interested in obtaining this information if it was available. I
told her I would check on this.
20. (Confidential -JMM) Called Dr. I INSA, and told him
highlights of the questions and answers at the Director's appearance yesterday
before the House Subcommittee on the Pueblo. He asked if they could see
our co of the transcript. After checking with the Director, I called Dr.
back to say that could come over and look at it
and make; notes.
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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Wednesday - 5 March 1969
1. (Confidential - GLC) Robert Michaels, on the staff of the House
Appropriations Committee, called and said that although the Chairman
would not be able to schedule hearings on the 1970 defense budget for awhile
he would like to proceed with the intelligence briefing which the Defense
Appropriations Subcommittee has customarily received before considering
the defense budget. Michaels suggested as possible dates next Tuesday or
Wednesday, 11 or 12 March, or Thursday, 13 March, if this would better
suit the Director. I mentioned that Wednesday is generally the National
Security Council meeting day and after checking with the Director advised
Michaels that Thursday was by far the preferable date for Mr. Helms. This
will be the usual worldwide round up briefing. Ihas been notified. 25X1A
2. called to alert us to
the fact that Jyoti Singh and other leaders of the World Assembly of Youth
are scheduled to meet with Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D. , Mass.) this
afternoon. They propose to invite Senator Kennedy to address the Worldwide
Assembly this summer. This will be the first such meeting since the National
Student Association's controversy arose. If we receive any inquiries from
Senator Kennedy's staff concerning this, should be contacted.
3. (Unclassified - GLC) In connection with the current review of
congressional offices receiving the FBIS daily reports, the following offices
were contacted and their desires regarding the continuing receipt of the daily
reports were determined:
a. Senator Robert P. Griffin (R. , Mich), continue.
b. Senator Edward J. Gurney (R., Fla.), continue
to the attention of Mr. Martin, Senate Office
Building.
c. Senator Strom Thurmond (R. , S. Car. ), continue
addressed to Room 3311, New Senate Office Building.
d. Foreign Relations Committee, continue.
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Wednesday - 5 March 1969
6. (Unclassified - CEA) Talked to Baron Shacklette, Administra-
tive Assistant to Representative Wright Patman (D. , Texas), concerning
their request for information on the Minutemen on behalf of a constituent,
I informed Shacklette that this is an organization which
operates within the United States and that the Agency has no records on
it. I suggested that he contact the FBI and the House Committee on
Internal Security.
7 . (Unclassified - CEA) At their request, returned to Nancy
Stamberger. in the office of enator William Saxbe (R., Ohio), the orginal
letter from who had written to Saxbe requesting informa-
tion on Agency employment.
8. (Unclassified - CEA) Delivered to Nancy Eklund, in the office
of Senator Ted Stevens (R., Alaska), the Agency pamphlet and the Raborn
interview together with a suggested reply for Ia constituent 25X1A
who had asked for information on the Agency.
9. (Secret - JGO) Delivered to Mr. Carl Marcy as follow up of
questioning by Senator Gore during the Director's briefing of Senat
Foreign Relations Committee of 26 February, a Memorandum titled,
"CIA Estimates of Enemy Strength in South Vietnam." Mr. Marcy advised
that he would show the paper to Senator Gore during the day and if
possible return it for insertion in the transcript.
The paper was picked up late in the day and returned to the Agency.
10. (Confidential - JGO) Met with Mr. Frank Slatinshek, Counsel,
House Armed Services Committee, at various times during the day. After
the Director's appearance, Mr. Slatinshek advised that the Chairman felt
the Director had made an impressive appearance and that his statement was
an excellent one. He will provide our copy of the transcript the first thing
in the morning and indicated that we might discuss some of the questions
further after the transcript has been reviewed.
I also briefed Mr. Slatinshek on the present estimate of Soviet
operational ICBMs on launcher.
11. (Confidential - JGO) Met with Mr. J. R. Blandford, Chief Counsel,
House Armed Services Committee, concerning the physical and security
arrangements for today's briefing of the Pike Subcommittee.
I also briefed Mr. Blandford on the number of Soviet ICBMs
on launcher.
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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 4
Tuesday - 4 March 1969
9. (Unclassified - JMM) Talked with Chairman Henderson,
Manpower and Civil Service Subcommittee, and brought him up-to-date
on our activities re the Ervin bill (S. 782). See Memo for the Record
for details.
10. (Secret - JMM) Called Robert Michaels, House Appropriations
Committee staff, following up his inquiry of yesterday to say we had been
unable to get any information regarding
He thanked me and said he would seek his
12. (Secret - JMM) General Counsel, NSA, called to
say that he thought the Pueblo he rings today had gone fairly well and he
would particularly like to see the transcript or get a copy of the Director's
prepared statement regarding our appearance tomorrow. I said we would
be glad to give him what we could.
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Mr. Houston
Mr. Goodwin
Legislative Counsel
OHN M. MAURY
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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Monday - 3 March 1969
1. (Secret - JGO) Delivered to Mr. Arthur Kuhl, Chief Clerk,
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the transcripts of the Director's
appearance on 3 February 1967 and 26 February 1969. The transcripts
were returned to the Agency late in the day for safekeeping.
2. (Internal Use Only - JGO) ~%eceived a call from Mr. Mel
Christopher, ACDA, who advised that their review of SIG Minutes does
not indicate NPT consideration by the Group. In consequence, their
response to Senator Thurmond's letter of 17 February will probably not
include reference to SIG. The Office of DD/I has been advised.
3. (Secret - JCO) Met with MVir. Robert Michaels, House Appro-
priations Committee staff, and reviewed with him the Agency correspon-
dence relating to the employment application of 25X1A
Mr. Michaels advised that no word had been
received through the Chairman's office. Should any question be raised,
he will advise.
I briefed Mr. Michaels concerning Soviet intensification of
intelligence effort against ChiComs and the South Vietnamese Communist
offensive.
4. (Secret - JGO) Met with Mr. Frank Slatinshek, Counsel, House
Armed Services Committee, in response to his request of last week and
briefed him in some detail on the progress of the French IRBM program.
Also discussed with him some of the arrangements for the Director's
appearance on Wednesday. Mr. Slatinshek noted with apparent approval
the Chairman's determination that the Director would appear in executive
session.
I also briefed Mr. Slatinshek on the Communist offensive in
South Vietnam and the Soviet intensified intelligence effort against the
Chinese Communists.
t` i U.K M. MA Legislative Counsel
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