JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Publication Date: December 23, 1970
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Wednesday - 23 December 1970
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1.1 1 FE Division, called concerning
a contact made with him by Jim Pont, Deputy Director East Asia and
Pacific Affairs, ISA, DOD, concerning ISA's response to an inquiry from
Senator Fulbright about incursions in South Laos. ISA had planned to
include in their response a suggestion that Fulbright contact the Director
if he wished an intelligence briefing on this area, but had objected25X1A
to this and I agreed with his position. II was interested, however, in
providing Pont with the date of the Director's appearance before the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee. I advised II that the Director briefed25X1A
the Committee on 28 October 1969 and was present at Ambassador Unger's
appearance on 17 November 1969, but did not participate.
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State Department officials: Colgate Prentice, Deputy Assistant for
Congressional Relations; Stanley Futterman, East Asian and Pacific
Affairs; and Thomas Pickering, Deputy Director for Bureau of Politico-
Military Affairs. The meeting was at their request to discuss possible
congressional action on the so-called Fulbri ht amendment to the Defense
,Appropriations Act. We discussed several possible provisions w
might come out of the House-Senate conference on the bill. While no
conclusions were reached, it appeared the State Department representatives
appreciated the Agency's position with regard to some of these alternatives.
It was agreed that we would keep in touch regarding subsequent developments
on the bill.
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Monday. - 21 December 1970
6. I IIn response to a request from John
Warner for Mr. Houston, I talked to Ralph Preston, House Appropriations
Committee staff, about the press reports concerning agreements between
Senator J. Fulbright (D. , Ark. ), Senator Michael Mansfield (D., Mont. )
and others with Chairman George Mahon of House Appropriations Committee.
In brief, Mr. Preston told me it is the Chairman's position that the Senate
should take the Defense Appropriations Bill, conference report to the floor
of the Senate and vote the measure as has been done in the House. It
would appear that no compromising agreements have been reached between
the objectors in the Senate and Mr. Mahon.
7. I (Talked to Bill Cook, House Armed
Services Committee staff, regarding the possibility of contacting some
of the House "objectors" to head off any possible problems when our
retirement legislation reaches the floor. Cook advised against any action
on our part, remarking that Acting Chairman Philip Philbin had told the
Committee staff that he alone would handle the problem of the objectors.
I mentioned to Cook that the Time article on Cienfuegos was mis-
leading in a number of important respects and I would be glad to brief
any of the Committee on the details if they were interested. He said he
saw no need for this at the moment.
8.1 Met with Ralph Preston, Staff Assistant, House
Appropriations ommi 7 ee, whom I brought up to date on recent information
regarding Communist tactics in Vietnam, radar installations in Egypt,
political developments in Poland, and Soviet naval activities in Cuba.
Mr. Preston had no new information on the status of the conference
report on the Defense Appropriations bill, but argued that it would be a
great mistake at this stage to delete the language which had been added to
the so-called "Fulbright amendment" a Mr. Mahon's suggestion, since to
do so at this time would lend weight to the restrictive interpretation of the
Fulbright amendment.
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et with Bill Woodruff, Counsel, Senate
Appropriations ommi ee, whom I briefed on recent information
regarding Communist tactics in Vietnam, radar installations in Egypt,
political developments in Poland, and Soviet naval activities in Cuba.
Woodruff said that things were so confused now over the Appropriations
bill that there was no telling what if anything would finally emerge e fore
the end of the session.
10. I IMet with Representative John O. Marsh
in response to his letter recommending
as a candidate for Agency recruitment, According to Marsh,
I told Marsh I would look into the matter.
11.1 On instructions from the Director, met
with Representative Paul Rogers (D. , Fla.) to try to clean up a problem
which Rogers apparently had with the Agency. Actually this was the result
of a remark of his that was misunderstood. See Memo for Record.
At the same time, I asked Rogers if there were any matters on
which we could be of assistance and he asked about reports of Soviet naval
activities in Cienfuegos. I ran down the latest information on the subject
explaining that the version presented in the current issue of Time con-
siderably exaggerated the seriousness of the situation.
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and I explained it's purpose.
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transcript of Colonel V to s es imony before the House Armed
Services Committee in support of our retirement bill on 17 December.
We corrected several errors and ambiguities in the transcript and
added one clarifying statement.
I also left with Mr. Slatinshek's secretary a message regarding
our latest information on Soviet negotiations with Singapore.
1. and I reviewed the
2.1 I Briefed William Woodruff, Counsel, Senate
Appropriations Committee, on recent information regarding Soviet
missiles.
3. In response to his call of
16 December and after checking with the Office of Personnel, talked
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25X1A Fellowship Program, and informed him that the Agency had no record
on other than she was an applicant for the CT program
25X1A in 1965. I toldl that if Senator McClellan is interested in
25X1A application to the Agency, she should be advised to suggest
the Senator contact the Agency directly. He said this would cause no
problem and based on our earlier discussion he had in effect already
told her this.
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4.1 1 Met with Bill Woodruff, Senate Appropriations
Committee staff, and brought him up to date on several current intelligence
items including Cienfuegos, recent evaluation of Soviet MRV shots, the
missile site in China, and the Blowup of the ICBM program.
Woodruff said that with the present situation in the Congress he
thought it very doubtful that we would be able to make the trip to Europe
after the first of the year.
Woodruff mentioned that the House amendment to the Fulbright
amendment of the Defense Appropriations bill will probably cause consider-
able problems in the Senate and could even result in the bills going back
to conference again.
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1. I Ralph Preston, Staff Assistant, House
Appropriations Committee, called to say that in the Senate-House
conference on Saturday it appeared that they might be willing to
accept an amendment to the Fulbright amendment which would involve
adding to the existing language the following;
but nothing herein will be construed to prohibit
support of free world or local forces in actions designed
to promote the safe and orderly withdrawal or disengage-
ment of U. S. forces from the war in Indochina. "
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I told Preston that this language, which was almost identical to that
proposed by the Agency, would go far toward solving our problems
and I hoped he would pull hard to get it accepted.
Later I discussed the above with Bill Woodruff, Counsel, Senate
Appropriations Committee, who agreed also to work for acceptance of
the above language, although he said the last few words should be changed
from " the war in Indochina" to "combat activities in Southeast Asia. "
2. I I Received an inquiry from Dorothy Fosdick,
Staff Director of Senator Jackson's Subcommittee on National Security
and International Operations, asking if we had any information on one
I Iwho had recently called
on the Senator. After checking with BR and SB, I informed Miss Fosdick
that the individual she had inquired about was "possibly dirty. "
3.1 1 Delivered to the offic nators
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in which--their names were mentioned.
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Friday - 11 December 1970
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1, Delivered to Ralph Preston, House Appropriations
Committee staff, ra . anguage for the Appropriations bill relating to
the 'ulbright Amendment, prepared by Mr. Houston in response to Chairman
Mahon's request. Mr. Preston was quite pleased with this response.
2. I I Met with Frank Slatinshek, Acting Chief
Counsel, House Armed Services Committee, and delivered additional
material for his use in preparing for the Committee hearing on the Agency
retirement bill next Wednesday. Mr. Slatinshek told me that notice has
been sent out to the Committee members concerning the Director's
appearance on the retirement bill next Wednesday morning. In response,
I told Mr. Slatinshek that the Director's schedule is such during the
coming week that it is my understanding that Colonel White will be the
Agency's principal witness.
3. I I Mr. J. Sourwine, Chief Counsel,
4. Yesterday, Howard Paster in the office
of Representative Lester Wolff (D, N. Y. ), called to request that we check
our records for any possible derogatory information on an Afghanistani
national who wishes to serve with the Congressman as a Congressional
Intern sponsored by the Asia Foundation. Wolff serves on the Near East
Subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Paster said he was
25X1A also checking with State and the FBI. Today, based on RID and an area
division check, I advised Paster that we had no identifiable derogatory in-
formation on an
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12. Met with Mr. Pat Holt, Senate Foreign
Relations , in connection with the request that the
Director appear before the Committee in connection with the
matter. See Memo for Record.
13.1 1 Met with Ralph Preston, Staff Assistant,
House Appropriations Committee, whom I briefed on recent developments
regarding Soviet ICBM deployment, Soviet air and naval activity in
Egypt, Soviet submarines in Cuban waters, ChiCom strategic missile
developments and the Cambodian situation.
Mr. Preston said he had just come from a meeting between
Secretary Laird and Chairman Mahon in which the Chairman asked
Laird why Defense had not objected to the Fulbright amendment in
their reclama to the Defense Appropriations bill. Laird said he had
not wanted to formally object but he toug is amendment should be
deleted since it apparently caused some problems for CIA. Preston
told me that Mahon agreed that the Fulbright amendment was undesirable
and would probably oppose it in conference, but Preston thought it would
be well for the Director to let the Chairman know .firsthand about our
problem with this amendment. I passed this suggestion on to the
Director.
was much interested in the case of the attempted defection from the Soviet
trawler of a Lithuanian seaman whom.. the Coast Guard had refused to.accept.
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14. Met with Al Westphal, House Foreign
Affairs Committee staff, in response to his request. He said the Committee
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Friday - 4 December 1970
4. I I Met with Mr. Ralph Preston, House
Appropriations Committee staff, who gave me a copy of the Defense
Appropriations bill reported yesterday by the Senate Appropriations
Committee. Mr. Preston told me that he has discussed the Senate
amendments restricting the use of funds in Southeast Asia with the
Chairman. Mr. Preston does not know when to expect determination
by the Chairman whether he will recommend that the House accept the
Senate amendments or reject them and go to conference on the bill.
I briefed Mr. Preston on the TU-95 flights to Cuba; Cienfuegos;
and Soviet naval facilities at Sollum and Mersa Matruh.
5. Met with Mr. Frank Slatinshek, Acting Chief
Counsel, House Armed Services Committee. I brought him up to date
on the Senate handling of the Agency retirement bill. As an aside
Mr. Slatinshek noted that the Defense De artment briefing of the full
Committee yesterday afternoon on bombing, and Cuba was not
a very satisfactory one. Many of the members had already departed and
other incidents apparently marred the continuity of the briefing leaving
those present less than satisfied with the briefing.
I briefed Mr. Slatinshek on a Chinese missile site.
6. I (Richard Perle, on the staff of Senator
Jackson's Subcommittee on National Security and International Operations,
called to ask if we had any details on possible plans to reopen the Suez
Canal, which had been referred to in recent press stories. After checking
with OCI, I called Perle back and briefly explained the
facts as we understood them.
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to-r- hairman Mahon on the House side, and this morning Preston called
to say he had received an advanced copy of the bill which would be
formally sent to the House this afternoon and it did indeed contain a
provision identical to the so-called Fulbright amendment. Preston is
concerned that this language could properly be interpreted as applying to
certain going programs in Southeast Asia. He feels that before deciding
on how to handle this bill on the House side Chairman Mahon will want to
assure himself of exactly what the effects are, and for this reason may
want to discuss the problem personally with the Director. Preston hopes
to take the matter up with Mahon before the end of the week and will let
us know the results.
is to be incorporated in the Senate version of the Defense Procurement
bill Preston feels that this would pose some very serious problems
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2. I I Last evening discussed with Ralph
Preston, Staff Assistant, House Appropriations Committee, the problem
posed by the fact that apparently the language of the Fulbright am_awlala t_
3. I IEd Braswell, Chief of Staff, Senate
Armed Services Committee, called to say that he was hard pressed for
time and would have difficulty in finding time to prepare a Committee
report on our retirement legislation. He asked if we could do a draft
for his use, which I agreed to undertake, with the deadline of Friday
afternoon, 4 December.
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