JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73B00296R000100040004-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 20, 2006
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• Publication Date: December 14, 1971
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Tuesday - 14 December 1971
6. 1 j In the absence of Senator Milton Young,
I talked to Mr. Chris Sylvester of the Senator's staff, and said that we had
been in touch with ho had been recommended to us by
the Senator, and arrangements een made for his entry on duty on or
about 7 February.
I I Met with Mr. Ralph Preston, House Appropriations
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Committee staff, who told me that if the House closes up shop early enough
this week, he will try to schedule a time to review the classified documents
held by the Committee with me to return those no longer needed for retention
in the Committee. As soon as this exercise is completed, a new safe will
be delivered to his office.
I briefed him on the current situation in Indochina and India/Pakistan.
8. In response to his request, I met with
Mr. Garner J. Cline, Counsel, Immigration and Naturalization Subcommittee,
House Judiciary Committee. Mr. Cline needed advice on security procedures
to be followed in assisting the International Commission on Emigration and
Migration with regard to security clearances for individuals moving into the
would States to ricn countries. In
Western Hemisphere and from the United
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I told Mr. Cline that these matters Department of State and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
9. I I Talked to Mr. Arthur Kuhl, Senate Foreign
Relations Committee staff, who told me that as a follow on to our earlier
conversations, he had talked to Seth Tillman, of the Committee staff, who
is heading up the "Pentagon Papers Group" and that he is perfectly agreeable
to continue the established procedures on handling of classified transcripts
of Committee briefings which are held by the Agency for safekeeping. The
transcripts will be forwarded when requested at the beginning of the day to
S. 116, the main Committee room, and will be reviewed in that room with
the transcripts being picked up at the close of business each day. Mr. Kuhl
also mentioned, in passing, that Senator Symington has not given any further
clarification on the itinerary he intends to follow.
10. Received a call from Mr. George Murphy,
Deputy Director, Joint om on Atomic Energy, who requested a briefing
on the Soviet orbital satellite surveillance system. Several members of the
Joint Committee have become interested as a result of this morning's Post item
concerning a recent Soviet test of the system. After checking with Mr. Dave
Brandwein, FMSAC, the meeting was scheduled for 10:30 a.m., Thursday,
16 December.
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Tuesday - 14 December 1971
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11. I I Received a call from Mr. Fabian
Kwiatek, Assistant Legal Advisor for Claims, Department of State, who
told me that he had reviewed the file and is ready to meet with Mr. Thad
Murray, Executive Assistant to Senator Spong (D. , Va. ), whenever it
would be convenient to this office and Mr. Murray. After talking to
Mr. Murray, the meeting was scheduled for 10:00 a. m. , Friday, 17 December
in Senator Spong's office. Mr. Houston, General Counsel, has been advised.
See Journal of 10 December 1971.
12. ater in the day, I met with Mr. Ralph Preston,
House-Appropriations Committee staff, who told me that the Chairman had25X1A
signed the Agency budget letter and had forwarded it to the Chairman of the X1A
Senate Committee. He said that the item
letter with a statement to the effect that it is to be included in the next
supplemental. I thanked Mr. Preston for the advice.
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Monday - 13 December 1971
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5. (Internal Use Only - JGO) Met with Mr. Al Westphal, Staff
Consultant, House Foreign Affairs Committee, who told me that he does
not expect the conferees to meet on S. 18, the Radios bill, until after the
Congress comes back in January. He told me also that he had talked to
the Appropriations Committee people on Friday and that the Radios will
be included in the continuing resolution that is being drafted today.
6. (Internal Use Only - JGO) Left with Judy Morrison, Senate
Foreign Relations Committee staff, for Pat Holt, of the Committee staff,
an unclassified blind memorandum concerning that he STATINTL
requested last week.
7. (Internal Use Only - JGO) Talked to Mr. Drury Blair,
Immigration and Naturalization Subcommittee staff, Senate JudiciarySTATINTL
Committee, who told me that with Senator Eastland, Chairman, away
from the city, there wil mppti-nprs of the Immigration
Subcommittee this year
ill be scheduled for the first meeting of the Subcommittee
next year.
8. (Inte rnal Use Only - JGO) Met with Mr. Art Kuhl and Miss Mil rae
Jensen, Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff, who gave me Senator
Symington' s (D. , Mo.) latest itinerary from their notes of conversation with
the Senator this afternoon. The Senator will be departing the city on
Wednesday, 15 December. He will arrive in Honolulu 16 December on
PAA #1. He will arrive Tokyo, PAA #1, at 5:05 p. m. on the 19th. From
there he will travel to Seoul, Korea. He will use military aircraft to
Okinawa, Taiwan, and Bangkok with a possible military side trip from
Bangkok to Cambodia and he may go to Saigon. He will travel commercial
from Bangkok to New Dehli arriving probably 1 January. He will arrive
in Israel probably 5 January. He will travel by military in one day, possibly
8 January, to Turkey and Greece. He will travel commercial to Rome the
9th, Vienna about the 12th, Frankfurt on the 13th, returning to the States
through Brussels arriving home 16 or 17 January.
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10. (Internal Use Only - JGO) Talked to Mr. Ernest Kerley,
Assistant Legal Advisor, Department of State, and later with Mr. Fabian
Kwiatek, Assistant Legal Advisor for Claims, concerning a request to
this Agency from Senator Spong (D. , Va.) for information concerning the
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11. (Unclassified - JGO) Met with Mr. Ralph Preston, Hou se
Appropriations Committee staff, and learned that the conferees on the
supple riations bill disagreed on the Senate amendment to
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Tuesday - 7 December 1971
10. Art Kuhl, Senate Foreign Relations
Committee staff, said he was accompanying Senator Stuart Symington
on a Far Eastern trip beginning about 15 December and wanted to make
sure his (Kuh1's) clearances were in order. I assured him they were,
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11. I IDelivered to Mr. Ralph Preston, Staff Assistant25X1A
House Appropriations Committee, a letter for Chairman Mahon from the
Mr. Preston told me that the Appropriations Committee conferees are
meeting this afternoon on the supplemental appropriation. The question of
meeting of the appropriation conferees on the military appropriation bill is
still up in the air. He said the Chairman plans to take the foreign aid appro-
priation bill to the floor of the House tomorrow under a rule waiving points
of order. He noted that since the Chairman and principal Committee members
will be on the floor there will be little time for any conference meetings. He
told me also that no new continuing resolution is in the works to extend
expenditure authority beyond the 8 December termination date of the present
resolution. Mr. Preston told me there should be no difficulty with the Senate
amendment to the supplemental which providesi or RFE/RL. 25X1
12. I I Met with Mr. Richard Barton, Staff
Assistant, House Post Office and Civil Service Committee, who told me
that although the full Committee is scheduled to meet on 16 December, the
meeting may well be cancelled in the interim due to a lack of quorum.
He told me that the letter from Chairman Hebert concerning H. R. 11150
has been duplicated and will be placed at each Member's position the morning
of the hearing. I thanked him for his consideration.
13. I I Met with Al Westphal, Staff Consultant,
House Foreign Affairs Committee, who told me that the conferees are
stalemated on the foreign aid bill due to Senator Mansfield's (D. , Mont. )
position concerning the end-the-war amendment. He also told me that
the House had appointed conferees on S. 18, the Radios bill, but that he saw
no hope at this time of the conferees meeting on S. 18 prior to conclusion of
the conference on the foreign aid bill.
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