JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73B00296R000200010112-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 2, 2003
• Sequence Number: 112
• Publication Date: August 9, 1971
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Monday - 9 August 1971
1. Met with Mr. Norman Cornish, Foreign
Operations and Government Information Subcommittee staff, and closed
out the question he had raised concerning possible currency transactions
briefed him from information provided b No papers
or written memorandum were given to Mr. Cornish.
2. I IMet with Mr. Frank Slatinshek, Assistant Chief
Counsel, House Armed Services Committee, and briefed him on the Agency
critique of the 8 August Getler article in the Washington Post. He was most
appreciative. I also briefed him on Soviet testing of the SS-9.
3, On 7 August I met with Carl Marcy, Staff
Director, Senator Foreign Relations Committee, and. discussed the security
problem involving the office of one of the Committee members, and the
travels to Southeast Asia of John Marks, on the staff of Senator Clifford
Case (R. , N.J.). See Memo for Record.
Discussing current legislation by the Senate, Marcy noted considerable
support behind several bills of concern to the Agency. He said the Cooper
bill, requiring the Agency to provide intelligence information to the congressiona
membership, had aumber of sponsors and would probably be a subject of
hearings by both the 'Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees.
Marcy spoke highly of the Agency responsiveness to the Committee,
particularly in contrast to other Government departments.
4. In the absence of Mr. David Abshire,
Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations, talked with
Mr. Colgate Prentice, of his office, to say that we were reliably informed
that John Marks, of Senator Case's staff, now traveling in Southeast Asia,
has no Senate Foreign Relations Committee credentials of any kind and his
trip is in no way sponsored or supported by them.
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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Monday - 9 August 1971
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6.1 1 Left with George Murphy, Joint Committee on
Atomic Energy staff, a FMSAC commentary on Michael Getler's column
in the Washington Post of 5 August on the subject of Communist China's
MRBM program.
7. Met with Ed Braswell, Chief Counsel, Senate
Armed Services Committee, and briefed him on the current status of the
Soviet ICBM program. Braswell asked if we would prepare for Senator
Stennis' use in a subsequent secret session on Laos a blind paper containing
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paper to cover the history behind this, their true s a us, and whether there
were any residual agreements concerning their connection with or return
Braswell also asked it we would prepare a blind paper for him covering
our use and assessment of what he described as a "mini gunship helicopter"
which he said is being used in Southeast Asia. He referred to the plane as
a U-10 which is manufactured by Fairchild and another smaller company.
According to Braswell, the Defense Department is interested in providing
this type of aircraft to the Vietnamese.
Mr. Wally Collins, of Logistics, advised us
of a query which the I
has received from Senator McClellan's Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and
Procedures, Judiciary Committee. The inquiry asked for information about
the volume and character of surveillance equipment manufactured and sold
by the company, the type of advertising for this equipment, and the classes
of individuals or organizations with whom the company deals. Since there
is no request in the current letter from McClellan for the identification of
individual recipients and since the material itself is not classified, we
suggested thati respond to the query routinely without any
reference to the Agency. Collins will keep us advised of any further develop-
ments or problems on this.
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