JOURNAL-OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74B00415R000300220001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 8, 2006
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 20, 1972
• Content Type: NOTES

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5, Called Ed Braswell, Chief Counsel, Senate
Armed Services Committee, and alerted him to the Jack Anderston story
coming out tomorrow about Agency involvement with ITT in Chile. I also
told him that the stories about AID funds were misleading. He asked where
the funds with which we were reimbursing AID for these medical services
were coming from. I said they were Agency funds for FY 1972, but in
FY 1973 they would come from Defense.
25X1 6. Talked to Ed Braswell regarding the
Committee schedule, He said Senator Symington was pushing for a "follow up
session on Laos" but he (Braswell) "wanted to keep CIA out of it. "
Braswell said he didn't see how they could schedule the Director to
testify on the Agency budget before the CIA Subcommittee this week.
Braswell said it was uncertain when theywould have a confirmation
hearing on General Walters' nomination but it was just possible they could
work it out Thursday. Otherwise he said it would have to go over until
after the recess (30 March to 4 April).
25X1 7. At the request of CI 25X1A
Staff, delivered a sealed envelope to the office of Cecil resson, Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee staff.
25X1 8. Met with Ralph Preston, Staff Assistant,
House Appropriations Committee, and received back from him the draft copy
of the intelligence community program budget. I told Preston that the book is
being updated and a later version would be furnished as soon as available.
OPPB, has been advised and the book returned to her.
reston told me that the security field investigation and review by
FBI has been completed on Mrs. Lynn Quinney his new secretary. The
Chairman does not desire any further clearances however since Preston does
not expect to expose her to any compartmented information. Preston also
noted that Messrs. Murphy, Gerrity and Smith will continue to work with him
from time to time on compartmented material.
9. Received a call from Mr. Gil LeKander, 25X1A
Administrative Assistant to Representative Frank T. Bow (R. , Ohio), LOAM
concerning an industrial engineer,
Ohio An aintment for a personnel interview was made with
o r 1:30 p.m. Friday.
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15. Ed Braswell, Chief Counsel, Senate Armed
Services Committee, called to et us know he has given DOD a deadline of this
Friday for submission of an alternative arrangement for the funding Qf t
irregulars in Laos. Braswell also said he wanted a position from us as to
whether we favored payment by DOD or State. See Memorandum for the Record.
16. George Murphy, Joint Committee on Atomic
Energy staff, called about a story which appeared in the Washington Daily News
on 17 March indicating that evidence existed concerning Israeli atomic arms. 25X1A
Murphy asked for our comments on the accuracy of this article.
Murphy mentioned the F_ I again. He expressed a desire
for any information we might give him about this case because of the
interest in the sale of gaseous defusion technology abroad and its interest in
the International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA).
17. Received a call from Colonel Dick Wood,
in the Pentagon, asking if the Director had given a briefing on the Hill last
Friday. I told him he had not and this satisfied his inquiry.
18. Called Dale de Haan, Counsel, Senate Subcommittee on
Refugees and Escapees, and expressed concern about the inaccuracies about
the column by Tad Szulc in the New York Times of 19 March which reported
Senator Kennedy's statements about the classified GAO report on the AID
health program in Laos. See Memorandum for the Record.
JOHN M.
Legislative Counsel
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