JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73B00296R000200010111-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 2, 2003
• Sequence Number: 111
• Publication Date: August 12, 1971
• Content Type: NOTES

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T I A L
JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Thursday - 12 August 1971
I. Michael Van Dusen, Staff Assistant to
Representative Lee Hamilton's (D. , Ind,) Near East Subcommittee of
the House Foreign Affairs Committee, called to say that he was preparing
a letter on Mr. Hamilton's instructions asking that the Agency provide
a witness for Subcommittee hearings on the Middle East. I advised
Van Dusen of our past practice of appearing only before the full Committee
as requested by Chairman Morgan. He said they were not necessarily
asking that the Director appear so long as they had a qualified Agency
representative. I replied again that any testimony given on the Hill was
normally given by the Director but if he had a letter which he wished to
send us, we would pick it up when it was ready. He said be would give
u s a call.
2. I queried Ed Braswell, on the staff of
the Senate Armed Services Committee, about the Committee's proposed
release of the testimony of Secretary Laird and Ambassadors Johnson
and Godley on Laos. Braswell said that the release of a sanitized version
of the testimony had been contemplated from the outset. He said the
State Department felt that Ambassador Johnson's testimony would help
to offset the impact of the Moose/Lowenstein report of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee. He added that this would be the only open testimony
which the Armed Services Committee would want to use.
Braswell asked me if the Director had received a request to
appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Senator
Cooper's bill (S. 2224). I told him he had not. Braswell had seen the
Congressional Record item stating that the Foreign Relations Committee
would want hearings after the recess and we agreed to share any
information we might acquire about the witnesses who would appear.
3.1 I Had several conversations with
Mrs. Parker, on the staff of Senator Fong (R. , Hawaii), about the interest
25X1A of the in meeting with Agency repre-
sentatives next Monday. See Memo for Record.
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