JOURNAL- OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74B00415R000300080015-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 15, 2002
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: January 31, 1972
• Content Type: NOTES

Approved For Release 2002/05102 ,-f2gQ B8Q{~1IR000300080015-1
JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE. COUNSEL
Monday -:31 January 1972
1. (Internal Use Only - PLC) Met with Diana Dillion, in the office
of Representative Edward P. Boland (D., Mass.), and discussed with her
the blind memorandum prepared to answer inquiries resulting from the
article in Parade magazine alleging CIA assassinations in Vietnam.
Miss Dil1lion appreciated our efforts and stated she would paraphrase
freely from the memorandum and not attribute any comments directly
to the CIA.
2. (Internal Use Only - PLC) Met with Mr. Phil Argento, in the
office of Senator John V. Tunney (D., Calif.), and discussed a proposed
reply to a letter from a constituent who commented on an article appearing
in a Eureka, California, newspaper. The article reported that CIA, FBI,
and Treasury were conducting .n investigation of the bombs placed in safety
deposit boxes of several banks in the U. S. The constituent was seriously
concerned that the Agency was engaging in internal security matters. I
assured Mr. Argento that the Agency was in no way associated with the
investigation and he stated he will reply to the constituent accordingly.
3. (Unclassified - RW) Miss Meloney, in the office of Representative
Dominick Daniels (D.. . J.), called to request an employment interview
This was arranged for 10 a. m. tomorrow with
Personnel.
4. (Internal Use Only - JGO) Talked to Mr. Ralph Preston, House
Appropriations Committee staff, who told me that Representative Tom Bevill
(D. , Ala.) has been assigned to the full Committee as a new member but no
assignment has been made to replace Representative Andrews on the Defense
Subcommittee. Mr. Preston does not know whether to expect an assignment
to fill Representative Andrews spot before our meeting with the Committee
on Thursday.
Approved For Release 2 2S A d EMl 00415R000300080015-1
 Approved For Release 20 ? 05~~ IA-RDPi74B00415R000300080015-1
Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Monday - 31 January 1972
NIPE, have been advised. 25 1A
5. (Internal Use Only - JGO) Received a call from Mr. Kirby Gean,
Division of Intelligence, Atomic Energy Commission, who told me that during
the visit of the Intelligence Subcommittee of House Armed Services Committee
to AEC on Friday, Chairman Nedzi and Mr. Frank Slatinshek, of the
Committee staff, requested a listing of the USIB Committees in which AEC
participated. Mr. Gean wanted to insure that furnishing such a list to the 25X1A
Committee would not interfere with ny bench marks established by the DCI
in his dealings with the Committee.
6. (Internal Use Only - JGO) Received a call from
0
Page 2
OPPB, who told me that a followon request has been received from
Mr. Eugene Wilhelm, House Approppriations Committee staff, for an
Agency junior officer for detail to the Committee on a reimbursable basis
for two to three months with the Transportation Subcommittee. This would
be the same "career expansion detail" that was worked out between OPPB and
the Committee.
7. (Confidential - JGO) Received a call from Mr. John Lehman,
of the White House staff, concerning the status of the Agency report on
S. Res. 192, a resolution "To create a Select Committee on the Coordination
of the United States Activities Abroad to oversee activities of the Central
Intelligence Agency. " I told him our report, which was a strong objection
to the resolution, was.at the Office of Management and Budget. In response
to his question I told him we had had the benefit of State Department's views
at the time our report was forwarded. He did not appear to be interested
in the detail of our report but only that it was a strong objection and had been
forwarded to OMB.
8. (Unclassified - LLM) John Woods, in the office of Senator Joseph
Montoya (D. , N. Mex. ), called on behalf of a former applicant and asked that
the case be reactivated. As a matter of fact, Larry Utterback had made a
similar request to the Director of Personnel on 15 January and the case was
reactivated. Woods was advised and he said nothing further was.needed but
would appreciate a notation in the file of Senator Montoya's interest.
9. (Confidential - LLM) Jack Norpel, Internal Security Subcommittee
staff, Senate Judiciary Committee, called to let us know that Paul Weyrich,
in the office of Senator Gordon Allott (R. , Colo. ), had asked Norpel for the
information the Subcommittee might have on an individual who is causing
problems for the Senator in Denver. Norpel thought we would be interested25X1A
since there was a claim that was formerly employed by the25X1A
Agency but that Weyrich did not want to contact the Agency.
Office of Security, was advised.
Approved For Release
B00415R000300080015-1
~Ql I ~ - 6`~,
 Approved For Release 2002/05/618/. OIA-13 P74B00415R000300080015-1
Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Tuesday - 25 January 1972
Page 3
9. (Secret - JGO) Met with Mr. Homer McMurray, Clerk, Official
Reporters to House Committees, and arranged for the secure handling of the
transcripts of the Director's scheduled meeting with the Defense Appropria-
tions Subcommittee on 3 February. Mr. McMurray will schedule the
transcription of the reporter's tapes for a single room if at all possible.
Mr. McMurray was somewhat concerned about his present inability to
handle material requiring Q clearance of his reporters and transcribers on
a current basis due to a shortage of transcribers who hold Q clearance. I
told him that our hearing would not involve restricted data.
10. (Internal Use Only - JGO) I met with Mr. Gerard Schiappa,
Administrative Assistant to Representative Louis Wyman (R. , N. H. ), and
discussed with him the correspondence from Mr. Eugene Lankalis concerning
aircraft hijackers. I told Mr. Schiappa that the Agency is precluded from
internal security activities by the National Security Act of 1947; responsibility
for safety measures concerning hijack of aircraft is vested in FAA and that
the Agency would not be party to the type of program outlined in Mr. Lankalis'
correspondence. Mr. Schiappa told me that the office would respond to
Mr. Lankalis advising him that the correspondence had been forwarded to the
appropriate Federal agency for their consideration. Mr. Schiappa told me
that there had been some confusion in Representative Cleveland's (R. , N. H. )
office about the meeting Mr. M r entioned to brief Representatives
Cleveland and Wyman on the case. I told him that our 25X1A
conversation had been with Mrs. Jackson in Representative Cleveland's
absence. He said he would check back with Mrs. Jackson.
11. (Confidential - JGO) Met with Mr. Drury Blair, Senate Immigra-
tion and Naturalization Subcommittee staff, who told me that S. 885, a bill
for the relief of is on the agenda for the next meeting of
the Subcommittee. The Subcommittee was originally scheduled to meet th4~X1A
afternoon. That meeting has been cancelled and the Chairman has not yet25X1A
set the date for the next meeting. I also discussed the case of
briefly with him along the lines suggested by Mr.
ivision. Mr. Blair appreciated the guidance. Mr. Blair Intends to
discuss the case with Cornelius Leary, the senior legislative man at
Immigration Service. He will keep me advised if anything further of interest
to the Agency arises in this case.
Approved For Release 2002/05/08 : CIA-RDP74B00415R000300080015-1
 Approved For Release 2002/05/08 : CIA-RDP74B00415R000300080015-1
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Office of Legislative Counsel
-D- C 90.50.5
Wa
Telephone:
19 January 1972
TO: Mr. Sint Thorndike
Office of the Secretary of the Senate
ID. C.20510
Washingt9p
Per your request, attached are
two sets of brochures on the Central
Intelligence Agency and two sets of
application forms.
72-1.I
72-12
FORM 1533 OBSOLETE
6.68 PREVIOUS
EDITIONS
25X1
Approved For Release 2002/05/08 : CIA-RDP74B00415R000300080015-1
 Approved For Relea
Vu I ?/ 'mI4l"1'CP74B00415R000300080015-1
Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel page 3
Wednesday - 19 January 1972
7. (Unclassified -- RJK) Attended a news conference given by
Senator Stuart Symington (D., Mo.), in which he reported on his 13 nation
trip. The news conference was not well attended and there were no
items of special concern to the Agency.
8. (Confidential - LLM) Colonel Bernhard Ettenson, Chief,
Air Force Congressional Inquiry Division, called to transfer back to
CIA action responsibility I had transferred to him on an inquiry from
Senator Barry Goldwater (R. , Ariz.) (see Journal of 27 December 1971).
Ettenson explained that the individual who was subject to the inquiry was
under the operational control of the Agency and not the Air Force during
the time in question and referred me to Colonel Heston Cole, Deputy
Director for Operations, OSI, if I wished to confirm this fact. Ettenson
was friendly throughout and agreed he would do nothing with Goldwater's
office until we had a chance to review the matter.
9. (Internal Use Only - LLM) Called Jim Wilkinson, Office of
Management and Budget, concerning their request for Agency comments
on H. R. 9853 on an expedite basis and learned that they were soliciting
comments from agencies for the use of David Young, National Security
Council staff, who is formulating the Administration's position on H. R. 9853,
which establishes a Commission on the Classification and Protection of
Information, as well as on two others, H. R. 10277 and S. 2965. In response
to my query, Wilkinson said that it was likely that the eventual position
would be that any problem could be resolved by revision of Executive 25X1A
Order 10501 and that legislation was not necessary.
Legislative Counsel
25X1A I
25X1A
cc:
ER O/DDCI Ex/Dir
Mr. Houston
Mr. 1 uermer Mr. Clarke DDI
DDS DDS&T OPPB EA/DDP
item 9 - Security
Approved For ReleaA / ) i/IAP74B00415R000300080015-1
 Approved For Release 2002/05/08 : CIA-RDP74B00 15R000300080015-1
fir L) I-
JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Wednesday - 19 January 1972
1. (Confidential - GLC) Made arrangements for Mr. John Clarke
and myself to meet with Bill Woodruff, Senate Appropriations Committee
staff, informally Monday morning at 10 a. m. to obtain from Woodruff
views which he says he has with regard to budget aspects of the changes
in the intelligence community structure.
Woodruff also asked if we could have someone come up to change
a safe combination on one of their safes and see if we could open a safe
which they believe is jammed. A member of the Security office and I
will take care of this tomorrow morning.
2. (Confidential - GLC) George Murphy, Joint Committee on Atomic
Energy staff, called regarding an article in today's Washington Daily News
having to do with a desire on the part of the French to obtain from the British
nuclear data which the British have received from the U. S. According to
the article this can be accomplished only if certain changes are made in
the provisions of the Atomic Energy Act on this subject. Murphy said the
Committee was writing a letter to the Atomic Energy Commission on this
today, but asked if we had heard anything about this. I told him I would
look into it and be back in touch with him tomorrow.
3. (Confidential - GLC) C. B. Morrison, on the staff of Senator
Allen J. Ellender, called late this afternoon and asked "How many civilians
are there in the Soviet Defense Ministry? " He added that he was pulling
together comparative figures between the Soviet Union and the U. S. I
25X1A placed this request with of DDI. He said Mr. Bruce Clarke
feels he can get this information for us tomorrow morning.
4. (Confidential - GLC) Talked with Mr. Frank Nelson, ISA, DOD,
about the Agency's position with respect to the application of the Symington
Cambodian amendment and the exclusion from that amendment of Agency
costs not involved with assistance related programs in Cambodia. Mr. Nelson
seemed to appreciate this, but said he would like to establish a contact with
our operating people dealing with Cambodia to determine what, if any, costs
should be included in the reports on expenditures under the ceiling of the
Symington Cambodian amendment. I advised I VNO/FE, 25X1A
of this conversation and suggested that he have someone from FE get in
touch with Nepepon. n '~ g
A roved For Release 2 p 004158000300080015-1
 Approved For Release ?: 9I?~-?R~1 4?00415R000300080015-1
Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel page 4
Monday - 17 January 1972
25X1
STATINTL
10. (Internal Use Only - PLC) ci T 'INTL
was
called concerning the inquiry from Representative is .z s office referring
to the immigration processing for citizenship of Mr.
been received on Thursday, January 13, and the report (no pertinent'
114u
information) went out on Friday, the next day. Miss Luty, in the office of
Representative Sisk (D. , Calif. ), was called and advised accordingly.
(See Journal, 14 January 1972. )
11. (Internal Use Only - SMG) Mr. Lee Paden, Legislative
Assistant to Senator Henry Bellmon (R. , Okla. ), called and asked for
a copy of the "People's Republic of China" atlas for the Senator's use.
Mr. Paden mentioned that he had seen a copy of the atlas and praised
the high quality of the cartography. I told Mr. Paden that someone
would be by tomorrow to deliver the atlas, and he thanked us for our
assistance.
12. (Internal Use Only - LLM) Called Lisa Gerard, Office of
Management and Budget, in an attempt to determine the Administration's
position on H. R. 9853, 'Commission on the Classification and Protection
of Information, " and she advised me subsequently that Mr. David Young,
National Security Council staff was handling this bill and similarS1FM9NTL
lation and that we should get our advice from him.
Legislative Counsel
STATINTL
cc:
ER O/nnr.r
I I Mr. How
Mr. Thuermer Mr. Clarke DDI
STATINTL DDS DDS&T OPPB EA/DDP
Item 4 - FE
ecuri y
INTERNAL USE ONLY
7
Approved For Release 2002/05/08 : CIA-RDP74B00415R000300080015-1
 Approved For Release 2002/05/08 : CIA-RDP74B00415R000300080015-1
Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Wednesday - 12 January 1972
Page 2
4. (Internal Use Only - JGO) Received a call from Mr. George
Berdes, House Foreign Affairs Committee staff, who asked that I stop by
his office next time I'm on the Hill. He would like to discuss a subject
of some interest to us. I told him I would try to get by during the day
tomorrow.
5. (Confidential - JGO) In response to his call, I met with 25X1A
Mr. Drury Blair, Senate Immigration and Naturalization Subcommittee gp~JA
staff, who asked if we could provide a biographic sketch on aF 1A
a Chilean citizen who is the subject of a rivate bill.
(Secret - JGO) Met with Mr. John R. Blandford, Chief Counsel,
House Armed Services Committee, and briefed him on the new type Soviet
silos, Soviet naval exercises in the Mediterranean, Soviet military deliveries
and Osa-class guided missile patrol boats to Cuba, Cosmos 470, ChiCom
nuclear test and ChiCom deployment of aircraft on the Sino-Indian border in
Tibet.
7. (Secret - JGO) Met with Mr. Frank Slatinshek, Assistant Chief
Counsel, House Armed Services Committee, and delivered to him a copy of
the "Scarbeck opinion" and the book Not in the Public Interest for inclusion
with the other materials furnished yesterday in the meeting with Messrs. Maury
and Houston. I briefed Mr. Slatinshek on the following items: Soviet naval
exercises in the Mediterranean, Soviet military deliveries and Osa-class
guided missile patrol boats to Cuba, Cosmos 470, ChiCom nuclear test and
ChiCom deployment of aircraft on the Sino-Indian border in Tibet.
8. (Unclassified - JMM) Received a call from Andy Sommer, AEC,
who wanted to know if we could tell him anything about our experiences with the
Nedzi Subcommittee. I told him what I thought Nedzi was interested in s24A
as community relationships were concerned and this seemed to satisfy him.
cc:
ER O/DDCI Ex/Dir
Mr. Houston
Mr. Thuermer DDI DDS DDS&T
Mr. Clarke EA/DDP OPPB
Item 3 - Personnel
JOHN M. MAURY
Legislative Counsel
Approved For Release 2002/05/08.ETA-RD'74B00415R000300080015-1