OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL WEDNESDAY - 24 NOVEMBER 1971

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• Publication Date: November 24, 1971
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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Wednesday - 24 November 1971
1. Dorothy Fosdick, Staff Director, Subcom-
mittee on d~ia curiCy a3=. nternational Operations, called to ask if
there was a n w or m ti n on the India/Pakistan situation. After
talking with OCI, I called her back and brought her
up-to-date regarding the Indian admission of tanks intruding into the
Jessore area.
2. Phillip Trimble, Senate Foreign
Relations Committee stall, ca Jed to say that today's Alsop article about
Chinese missiles had created considerable interest and he would like to
come to Headquarters on Monday, 29 November, for a briefing on the
subject. After conferring with Mr. Duckett, who said he would be
prepared to give the briefing if the Director approved, I called back
to tell Mr. Trimble that we could not give him an answer until Monday.
3. I I Attended a meeting of the Legislative
Interdepartmental rou'p at t e See Memo for Record.
4. George Murphy, Joint Committee on Atomic
Energy staff, called o say Captain Edward Bauser, Executive Director of
the Committee, would like us to give the JCAE staff a briefing on the recent
ChiCom nuclear tests some time next week. I told Murphy I would check
on this and be back in touch with him on Monday.
I alerted Murphy to the fact that next week I would provide him with
a copy of the advance conclusions of the NIE 13-8-71 on "Communist China's
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5. I advised Mr. DDS staff, that
I had talked with Mr. Jo n Ticer, Senate Armed Services Committee staff,
about the followu information General Westmoreland had offered the
Committee oni hen the General appeared before 25X1A
the Committee to testify on (The Committee 25X1A
has asked DOD to review the transcript of this hearing in order to sanitize
it for possible publication.) Mr. said he would notify 25X1A
I so he could advise his DOD contacts of this so he could be sure
that General Westmoreland's response is deleted as part of the security
review. Our classified followup paper will be given to the Committee staff
for their purposes if needed.
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4. I I Pamela Mann, in the office of
Represents ive Lawrence Willi-ams (R. , Pa. ), called on behalf of a
high school teacher and eight political science students who wanted to
tour the CIA building. She appeared to completely appreciate that we
could not accommodate public tours and in response to my offer to
provide her with material on the Agency for the group, she said she
would check with the teacher and let us know the outcome.
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6. ied the Director, Messrs. Duckett,
Bruce Clarke, in a briefing of the full
Senate Armed ourvices omml ee. emo or Record.
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the President for Congressional Relations and told him of the discussion
at this morning's session of the Senate Armed Services Committee regarding
the new arrangements in the intelligence community.
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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Wednesday - 17 November 1971
1. I (Called Representative Lucien Nedzi to
say that vra our conversation yesterday in which he had stated his
surprise at some of the information revealed in Newsweek, I thought it
would be useful if he could spare the time to meet with Mr. Duckett and
get a briefing on some of the subjects touched on in the article. Nedzi
said he appreciated this, but his surprise had been due to the fact
that Newsweek had so much information rather than the fact that it
revealed =information that he himself was unaware of. Rather than a
private briefing by Mr. Duckett, Nedzi said he hoped to arrange an early
meeting where all members of the Subcommittee could get the benefit of
the briefing.
I said we were working on a chart which might show more clearly
the differences between the old and new arrangements within the
He said this would be appre:ciated, but he now thought he had the big picture
clear in his mind. What he now wanted were the specific details. I said
these hadn't been worked out but we would provide them as soon as possible.
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checking with OCI, I called John Goldsmith, Senate Armed Services Com-
mittee staff, and explained the current situation in Bangkok.
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Committee, called to say the Committee briefing would be at 10:00 a. m, on
Tuesday, 23 November. He said the Chairman did not want to advertise a
discussion of the announcement regarding the intelligence community, and the
Director should not volunteer a briefing on this subject, but should be thoroughly
prepared for a number of questions.
Mr. Braswell said the Chairman had decided not to raise with the Attorney
General the question of the legality of the changes within the community but
Braswell was sure questions would come up on this and he wanted any help we
could give him. He noted the National Security Council was a statutory creature and
therefore it was only logical that someone woul as ther the new arrange-
ments in the community complied with the provisions and purposes of the
statute which set up the NSC. I said we would do the best we could on this and
I agreed to come over and talk personally with Braswell at 2:30 this afternoon
regarding details.
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Senate App ions Uommittee, and told him of Ed Braswell's concern
about the legal authority for the changes in the intelligence community.
Woodruff said he thought this represented no problem at all--that the
President could "do anything he wants to" with the machinery of the
National Se curity Council and the CIA.
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