JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL FRIDAY - 7 APRIL 1972

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74B00415R000200040006-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 10, 2006
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: April 7, 1972
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Friday - 7 April 1972
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9. Met with Mr. Robert Willian, Senate Finange5X1
Committee staff, and discussed with him the action the Committee would take
on H. R. 9900. Mr. Willian said they planned to report the bill out without
any changes and gave no encouragement on the possibility of amending it to
accommodate the Agency's needs. See Memorandum for the Record.
10. David Martin, Senate Internal Security 25X1
Subcommittee staff, called to advise that the Subcommittee would be going
to press very shortly with the publication of the Nkrumah documents using
a letter which they had obtained from the Department of State to support
their authenticity. He said this publication would start a new series to be
entitled "Communist Global Subversion and American Security. " This
specific document would be entitled "Attempted Communist Subversion of
Africa Through Nkrumah's Ghana. " Martin added that as soon as he finished
writing an introductory commentary he would get a jacket number from GPO
which he would pass on to us in the event our people wanted to "ride the
jacket. "
12. I 1~ Delivered the Director's reply to an
inquiry made by Senator Sam J. Ervin, Jr. (D., N. C.), Chairman of the
Subcommittee on Separation of Powers of Senate Judiciary Committee.
13. Talked to Mr. Gordon Murchie, USIA ,25X1
who told me mat e a not ye orwarded the question pertaining to Agency
control of RFE and RL set forth in the long listing received from Senate
Foreign Relations Committee. I told Mr. Murchie I would call him as soon
as we had a chance to review the questions once we have them in hand. See
Journal of 4 April 1972.
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