JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74B00415R000100110057-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 21, 2006
• Sequence Number: 57
• Publication Date: March 22, 1972
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 3
Wednesday - 22 March 1972
7. (Internal Use Only - JGO) Talked to Miss Dora McCracken, House
Foreign Affairs Committee staff, who checked the prepared statement used
by USAID Deputy Director Maurice J. Williams in testimony before the full
Committee yesterday. The statement prepared for Mr. Williams' use to
rebut the New York Times report of Senator Kennedy's (D. , Mass.) charges
was not contained therein. The transcript of the hearing is not available
and will not be available for some time due to a backlog of reporting.
FE Division, has been advised.
8. (Confidential - JMM) Last night Dave Abshire, Assistant Secretary
of State for Congressional Relations, called to say that Assistant Secretary
of State for Inter-American Affairs, Charles Meyer, had information that
Representative Dante Fascell (D. , Fla.) felt he was in a "difficult position"
as a result of the revelations regarding ITT, CIA, and Chile, and was
considering taking up the subject in open hearings of his Subcommittee on
Inter-American Affairs of the Foreign Affairs Committee. Abshire said if
this happened he was afraid the Department "couldn't be much help. " I said
I was afraid we couldn't be much help either since we didn't appear in open
hearings and, moreover, even if we did, the first questions would concern
who made the policy decisions. I told Abshire that I'd take the matter up with
the Director and let him know the results.
9. (Unclassified - JMM) During the above conversation, Mr. Abshire
said that Senator Henry Bellmon (R. , Okla.) wondered if the Director would
be willing to talk to a small breakfast group of a half dozen Senators. I told
Abshire I would raise the matter with the Director but we might also consider
inviting them out to Headquarters for breakfast.
10. (Internal Use Only - JMM) This afternoon Mr. Abshire called to
say that when Secretary Rogers appeared before the Foreign Relations CoM_p-Vjttee_.
today, Senator Church had referred to information he claimed he had from
CIA that the Chinese Communists were much put out over the alleged unseemingly
conduct of Ambassador Watson. After checking throughout the Agency and
conferring with the Director, I called Abshire to assure him that the Agency
had no such information and certainly no responsible Agency officer made such
an allegation. I urged Abshire to relay this to appropriate members of the
Committee.
I also told Abshire that I informed the Director of the possibility that
Representative Fascell would conduct hearings on the Chile affair but we plan to
take no immediate action until we saw how things developed.
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