JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL - 11 MARCH, 12 MARCH 1970

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP72-00337R000300010014-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 2, 2002
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: March 12, 1970
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Thursday - 12 March 1970
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1. (Secret - GLC) in the Office of Security,
alerted us to a call he had received from of
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NSA Security about NSA plans to brief Representative
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vin Price
.(D., Ill.) and Senator Thomas McIntyre (D., N. H.) at a compartmented
level in connection with funds for certain Sigint collection programs.
'recommended to that NSA's ..legislative liaison be
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in touch with this office.
2. (Secret - GLC) and I met with Mr. Robert M.
Horner, on the staff of the House Committee on Internal Security, in
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response to his expression of interest in We also talked
briefly with Mr. Donald Sanders, Chief Counsel of that Subcommittee.
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We reviewed the procedures we have been following in the past in dealing
with the congressional committees on defector cases and suggested that
they talk with a knowledgeable Agency officer about before having
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direct contact with him. (See Memo for the Record or
ails.)
3. (Secret - GLC) Hand carried to Bill Woodruff, on the staff of
the Senate Appropriations Committee, the Director's Reserve withdrawal
letter of 6 March 1970 along with a background paper explaining the
reasons for withdrawal which was prepared by OPPB and cleared by
Colonel White. Woodruff said he could foresee no problems on this with
Senator Russell.
Woodruff commented that Senator Russe.llis still in the hospital
and following his release (probably this weekend) he will be going to Georgia
for three weeks. Woodruff said he will recommend to the Chairman that
Senator Ellender call a meeting of the Appropriations CIA Subcommittee
for the purpose of receiving a briefing from the Director on Laos. Woodruff
mentioned the possibility however that this would be a briefing of Senators
Ellender and Milton Young only. Woodruff said that in the present climate
that it will be well to have the Director on the record with the Subcommittee
on Laos.
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Wednesday - 11 March 1970
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5. (Secret - JMM) Called the office of Representative Frank
Bow (R. , Ohio) and in his absence requested that he call me to arrange
a date for a briefing on (concerning which he had
queried the Director during our recent appearance before our House
Appropriations Subcommittee.)
6. (Internal Use Only - JGO) Met with Representative Clement
Zablocki (D., Wis. ) and Mr. George Berdes, Administrative Assistant
to the Representative, in response to the request of the Representative's
office in assistance in locating an unclassified film on the Katyn Forest
atrocities. Representative Zablocki advised that he has a constituent
request for the film. He also told me that he believed that a film was
made up by a commission that included among its members Represen-
tatives Ray J. Madden (D. , Ind.) and Roman Pucinski (D. , Ill. ). I told
him that I would relay this information and be back in touch.
7. (Secret - JGO) Met with Mr. Daniel Manelli, Staff Attorney,
Special Subcommittee on Investigations, House Interstate and Foreign
Commerce Committee, and returned to him the initial draft of the
sections of the Committee report on CBS news programming that make
reference to the Agency. I told Manelli that we had no suggestions,
comments, or changes in the draft. He told me that he could not put a
date on the completion of the final draft, but that he would call me so
that we might have another look-see at that time.
8. (Internal Use Only - JGO) Delivered to Miss Judy Spahr, on
the staff of the National Security and International Operations Subcommittee,
Senate Government Operations Committee,
on the Moscow Pravda ''observer'' article on the SALT talks.
report
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9. (Secret - JGO) Met with Mr. Arthur Kuhl, Chief Clerk, Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, who requested that the 28 October 1969
transcript of the Director's briefing on Laos be forwarded each day to the
Committee through the rest of the week.
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