JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP71B00364R000200070009-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 24, 2012
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: August 8, 1969
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL"
Friday - 8 August 1969
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1. _ After several conversations during the day,
I scheduled an informal briefing for Representative Clark MacGregor
(R. , Minn. }and Mr. Garner J. Cline, on the staff of the House Immigration Sub-
committee, for Monday at 5:30 p. m. in Room 409, Cannon Office Building
which is Mr. MacGregor's office. A c rrent situation briefing of Poland
and Czechoslovakia will be rovided b f OCI who
will be accompanied by
2, Talked to William Woodruff, on the staff of the
Senate Appropriations Committee, and told him Robert Michaels, on the
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staff of the House Appropriations Committee, had suggested that it wou
the initial request that was forwarded
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noted that he had not had a chance to talk. to Senator Russell about the
4 August letter.
3 ~ After talking t OER, I
responded to Mr. Jack Blum, Assistant Counsel, Senate Subcommittee on
Antitrust and Monopoly Legislation, _ concerning his query yesterday and
advised that the Agency does not publish a compendium of the oil companies
of the world. It was suggested that, although we were not familar with such
a publication, he might want to check with the Department of Interior.
4. Delivered to the office of Senator William
Proxmire (D. , Wis.) a letter from the Director.
5~ Delivered to Miss Dorothy Fosdick, Staff
Director, Subcommittee on National Security and International Operations,
FBI5 abstracts from Pravda of 3 and 4 August concerning the Brezhnev
doctrine.
Later in the day, Miss Judith Spahr called and requested the full
text of statements referred to in today's press by Konstantin F. I{a,tushev.
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Journal -Office of Legislative Counsel
Friday - 8 August 1969
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6. In the absence of Mr. Arthur Kuhl, Chief Clerk,
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, I met with Mrs. Mary McLaughlin,
Assistant to Mr. Carl Marcy, Staff Director, and reviewed with her the
handling of the transcript of the Director's briefing of 23 April and 23 June
during their study of this ABM testimony over the past few weeks by the
Committee members. I also received back from Mrs. McLaughlin copies
2, 4, and 5 of the Director's testimony of 23 June which was "inadvertently"
retained by the Committee. Future calls for the transcripts may be anticipated
from time to time. They may involve one or more transcripts which will be
returned to the Agency each day. Mrs. McLaughlin was once again highly
complimentary of the services provided by the Agency couriers. Mrs.
McLaughlin noted that they had been most helpful and courteous.
7. Attempted to see Larry Conrad and Marcia
MacNaughton concerning developments in the Ervin Subcommittee but both
individuals were away from their respective offices for the day.
8. (Received from Mary Miller, on the
staff of the Senate Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee, a classified
document that had been provided for Subcommittee use. A receipt was given
for the return of the document.
9. (Talked briefly with Mr. Robert Michaels,
on the staff of the House Appropriations Committee, and brought him up-to-
date on the Soviet space activities discussed with him yesterday. Mr. Michaels
was most appreciative but noted in passing that, although he is spending quite
a bit of time with the Chairman, they are so pressed with Committee work
he is not certain when the Chairman will have time to be briefed on such matters.
10. Delivered to the office of Representative
Joel T. Broyhill (R. , Va.) correspondence from the Director of Strategic
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