BREAKFAST BRIEFING OF FRESHMEN REPRESENTATIVES - 4 FEBRUARY 1969

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 6, 2004
• Sequence Number: 84
• Publication Date: February 4, 1969
• Content Type: MFR

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4 February 1969
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Breakfast Briefing of Freshmen Representatives -
4 February 1969
1. The following items of interest and impressions were gained on
the Capitol Hill end in facilitating outward-bound transportation of Members.
a. Representative W. C. Daniel (D., Va.) - was first to arrive
at 0715. He has been elected president of the Democrat 91st Club and
would like to emphasize some social activities for the Club. He is a golfer
and last weekend was rained out at the Golden Horseshoe at Williamsburg.
b. Representative Mario Biaggi (D., N. Y.) - many Members
appeared to have a very friendly feeling towards him and I learned that
Mr. Daniel had nominated Biaggi for the 91st Club presidency.
c. Representative Edwin I. Koch (D., N. Y.) - seemed to have
a fine sense of humor and jokingly told me that we had better not let his
supporters know that he was going to a CIA briefing.
d. Representative Gus Yatron (D., Pa.) - had been at the same
place a week ago, 28 January, because of an error in his schedule. He
assumed all the responsibility for the error and seemed to be a very friendly
and outgoing person.
2. Following the breakfast I rode back to the Hill with Biaggi and
Representative William V. Chap]2ell, Jr. (D., Fla). Both felt the meeting
was worthwhile. Biaggi expressed his own personal interest in operational
details but realizes that it is not a proper topic for such a briefing. I
referred him to Allen Dulles' "The Craft of Intelligence" and intend to send
him a copy. Biaggi was generally interested in whether Agency personnel
were permitted to express their own views as had been suggested during
the briefing. I told him I could not really make a comparison with other
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Government agencies, but that I personally felt that new ideas and approaches
were welcomed and encouraged and that this was generally true at all levels
of the Agency, from the bottom to the top. I pointed out this was especially
true in the analysis and production end, because, among a number of factors,
the caliber of professionalism needed could not otherwise thrive and that
continuous contacts with others outside the Agency through such mechanism
as the Board of National Estimates worked against tendencies of inbreeding
and rigidity. Biaggi said it was most important that an agency such as CIA
foster initiative, creativity, etc.
3. Mr. Chappell was interested in the distinction between depart-
mental and national intelligence, the arrangements for the Agency to
receive intelligence from other elements of the Federal Government and
the possible central control by the Agency of all intelligence resources in
critical situations, such as the Cuban missile crisis. My general response
to these questions was overtaken by Chappell's assertion that a high ranking
military officer was responsible for verifying the existence of missiles in
Cuba in 1962 before the U-2 as an accidental byproduct of an air scouting
mission to assess "sport hunting areas" in Cuba.
Assistant Legislative Counsel
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