JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74B00415R000300080002-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 15, 2002
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 24, 1972
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 2
Tuesday - 24 October 1972
2. (Confidential - JGO) Met with Mr. Herb Hoffman, House
Judiciary Committee staff, and discussed with him the current status of the
Committee handling of the codification of Title 18 of the U. S. Code "Crimes
and Criminal Procedure. " In brief, Mr. Hoffman told me that little has
been done so far by the House Committee even though a couple volumes of
hearings have already been held by the Senate Committee on Judiciary.
He expects that the Justice Department will be proposing a legislative
package some time next year that will differ from the final report of the
Commission on Codification of Criminal Law that was finalized last January.
He will be pleased to meet with Agency representatives for a briefing on
the current application of espionage-type provisions in the Code and said
that he would be pleased to review such written material as we have
available on the espionage laws and problems of the intelligence community
to prepare himself for meeting with our people. I thanked Mr. Hoffman again
for the tremendous help that he gave us on the Ervin bill. Mr. John Warner,
OGC, has been advised.
3. (Internal Use Only - JGO) Met with Mr. William Shattuck,
House Judiciary Committee staff, who told me that no report was received
from the Civil Service Commission on I a bill for the relief of 25X1A
Ito authorize submission of a claim for disability
retirement. No action was taken on the legislation. If the Agency still
desires to submit a report on this measure, he will include it in the file for
background in the event the bill is resubmitted by the sponsor in the next
Congress. He noted also that we can await the submission of a bill in the
next Congress and determine at that time whether we want to report on the
measure.
4. (Internal Use Only - JGO) Met with Mr. George Fisher,
Administrative Assistant to Representative Olin Teague (D. , Texas). In
keeping with Representative Teague's schedule over the next couple of
weeks it was agreed to hold off scheduling the planned meeting between
Representative Teague and Mr. Duckett, DDS&T, until after the elections.
See Journal of 6 October 1972. Mr. Duckett has been advised.
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5. (Confidential - JGO) Talked to Mr. Charles W. Snodgrass,
Agriculture, Environmental and Consumer Protection Subcommittee staff
of the House Appropriations Committee, concerning the itinerary for the
South American travel of Representative Jamie Whitten (D. , Miss. ) in
December. Mr. Snodgrass told me that he had been instructed by Whitten
to provide one day at each stop for "defense" matters, one day for
agriculture and one day for rest and sightseeing and asked if we could be
flexible on our meeting arrangements for the "defense" day set aside for
meeting with Agency people. I told him that normally Agency briefings
with time for questioning by the Member would not take any more than
three hours so that a full day allocation for meeting with Agency representatives
would be more than needed. In any event, this is a point that can be ironed
out after Mr. return from leave. Mr. Snodgrass will have a copy
of the draft itinerary worked out by the first of the week and will give us
a copy at that time.
6. (Internal Use Only - JGO) In response to her call, met with
Mrs. Ruth Ziebarth, in the office of Representative Philip Crane (R. , Ill.),
concerning correspondence relating to UFO's. After reviewing the matter
with her once again, Mrs. Ziebarth agreed that she will use a single line
in her response to the constituent to the effect that UFO's are not within
the mission and function of NSA, CIA, etc. No written response to the
Congressman's inquiry is necessary.
7. (Confidential - GLC) On Saturday, 21 October, Scott Cohen,
Executive Assistant to Senator Charles H. Percy (R. , Ill. ), called to say
the Senator had been in touch with him from Chicago in connection with
statements made by Representative Roman Pucinski (D., Ill.) (who is
opposing Percy for reelection to the Senate) to the effect that CIA reports
on the Soviet wheat situation had probably been leaked by the Department
of Agriculture. Percy is interested in knowing whether the Agency had
any statement to make on this. After discussing the call with Messrs.
I told Cohen
we i not want to get involved with and therefore had
no comment. Cohen replied he thought this would be the case but wanted to
check with us.
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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Thursday - 19 October 1972
1. (Confidential - GLC) Fred Ladd, State Department, called to
report on their session with Moose and Lowenstein, Senate Foreign Relations
Committee staff, this morning. He said they had no particular difficulty,
but he wanted to alert us to the position the State people took on a question
which Lowenstein and Moose proposed as to how much notice State had that
martial law would be invoked in the Philippines. State representatives said
they knew that Marcos had this as one of his alternatives (Araneta and later
Marcos made statements to this effect), but State did not know the exact date.
Lowenstein and Moose asked if they considered this a CIA failure and State
representatives said they did not. They later added that when Melchor was
here later he said he had not known in advance the date on which martial law
would be invoked.
With respect to their stop in Japan, Ladd said he thought this was
strictly a rest stop and doubted that Lowenstein and Moose would want any
briefings on Japan.
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2. (Confidential - GLC) DCS, called to say the Department
of Agriculture had been in touch wi C in connection with a response they
are making to Representative Pierre duPont (R., Del.) on the Soviet wheat
situation. Agriculture has queried DCS about the feasibility of releasing to
duPont Agency reports on the subject. I told =that the Director did not 25X1
want anyone providing this information to the Hill and I suggested to Hall that
he take this up with Paul Walsh, ADDI, who has been handling the situation.
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