JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL MONDAY - 1 MARCH 1971

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• Publication Date: March 1, 1971
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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Monday - 1 March 1971
1. RCR) Mrs. Wentz, in the office of Represen-
tative Robert Hoe . , N. J. ), called to request brochures and appli-
cation forms be sent to a constituent,
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2. - RCR) Mrs. McDonough, in the office of
Representative William B. Widnall (R. , N. J. ), called and requested the
Agency's address to be forwarded to a constituent, TATINTL
New Jersey, who is interested in Agency
employment. I gave her the address and asked if she would like us to
forward the forms tol She said that would be fine and
, Office of Personnel, was so advised.
3. JGO) Talked with Mr. Homer McMurray,
Clerk, Official Reporters to House Committees, who advised that a
single room will be utilized for transcribing notes for the Director's
meeting for the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee on 2 and
3 March. The reporters: Robert Coulter Cochran, and Anton Papick, Jr. ;
and the transcribers: Mary Jane Donock, and Dorothy Miller Tyndall
all hold DOD Top Secret clearances.
4. - JGO) Met with Mr. Ralph Preston, House
Appropriations Committee staff, and confirmed the arrangements for
the Director's briefing on 2 and 3 March. Mr. Preston has no prepared
questions for the Chairman's use.
5. I IJGO) Met with Mr. Robert Nicholas, House
Appropriations ommi ee staff, and reviewed with him the questions he
has prepared for use by Representative Robert Sikes (D. , Fla.) during
the Director's briefing referred to above. Mr. Nicholas expressed his
appreciation for the Agency's assistance in reviewing the questions.
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6. I I- JGO) Met with Mrs. Mary McLaughlin,
Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff, and received from her a
copy of an excerpt of a letter to the Committee Chairman outlining
the unnamed Senator's area of interest in Agency and U. S. Government
activities in Laos for coverage by the DCI in his briefing of Senate
Foreign Relations Committee which is tentatively scheduled for 11 March
1971.
7. - JGO) Met with Mr. John Martini,
Chief Counsel and Staff Director, House Post Office and Civil Service
Committee, and invited him to come out to Headquarters on Monday,
5 April for briefing on Agency personnel matters and luncheon. Mr. Martini
noted that there are several matters coming before the Committee during
the coming year of interest to the Agency and it is his belief that a
meeting at this time is most appropriate. See Memorandum for the
Record.
8. JGO) At the request of Mr. Robert Nicholas,
House Appropriations Committee staff, I met with Mr. George Allen, a
new member of Representative Robert Sikes' (D, , Fla,) personal staff,
who is busily engaged in drafting questions for the Chairman's use in the
various Committee briefings scheduled for the House Appropriations
Committee over the coming weeks. Mr. Allen had intimated to
Mr. Nicholas that he had several questions for Mr. Sikes' use during
the Director's briefing. After reviewing several pages of questions
prepared so far, I believe I was able to dissuade him from forwarding
any of them for Mr. Sikes' use during the Director's briefing. The
basic thrust of the questions relate to the failure of the Son Tay mission,
the preparations for that mission and similar missions, and changes in
DIA and Military Department procedures in coordinating information and
intelligence activities within the Department of Defense. In a word, I
advised Mr. Sikes that the Son Tay mission was planned and directed by
the military.
9. I I- JGO) Late in the day I received a call from
Mr. Ralph Preston, House Appropriations Committee staff, who told
:me that Mr. Donald Richbourg, of the Committee staff, would also be
attending the Director's briefing tomorrow and Wednesday. Mr. Preston
told me that Mr. Richbourg holds a current Top Secret clearance.
Office of Security has been advised.
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10. I GLC) Met with Senator Lowell Weicker (R., Conn.)
has a followup to a request the Senator had made through the State Department
for a briefing on a sensitive Agency case. Following the briefing I advised
Mr. Harry Symmes, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (Congressional
Relations), of our meeting with the Senator. See Memorandum for the
Record.
11. - GLC) Mr. Steve Vossmeyer, on the staff of
Senator Thomas F. Eagleton (D., Mo. ), called and said the Senator would
like to have an Agency briefing on Southeast Asia some time after 11 o'clock
on Friday. I told Vossmeyer this was something I would have to take up
with the Director and indicated that he and his principal briefing officers
were tied up most of this week with hearings on the Hill. Vossmeyer said
if this couldn't be arranged on Friday perhaps it could be done some time
next week. I said I would be back in touch with him.
12. 1 __J - GLC) Talked with James Gehrig, Staff
Director, Senate Space Committee, about Chairman Anderson's request
that we give Senator Curtis a full briefing on the Soviet space program.
I told Gehrig Mr. Duckett could do this Friday or Wednesday afternoon
or Saturday morning, in that order of preference. Gehrig said he would
check this with Senator Curtis and be back in touch with us.
13. JMM) Met with Chairman John Stennis, Senate
Armed Services Committee, on two occasions during which I discussed
problems created by the request of the Foreign Relations Committee for
the Director to cover Agency-supported operations in Laos during an early
appearance before that Committee. (See Memo for Record) I mentioned to
Stennis Senator Dominick's interest in the long-term intelligence outlook
from the standpoint of U. S. manpower requirements and the pending
Selective Service legislation. Stennis recognized difficulties in the Agency's
trying to handle this, and agreed with my proposal that I sit down with
Senator Dominick and try to point these difficulties out to him.
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14. JMM) Met with Senator Peter Dominick and said
the Director had told me of his telephone call expressing the hope the
Director could provide some information on long-term world develop-
ments that might affect U. S. manpower requirements. I pointed out the
difficulties in providing a strictly intelligence response to such a question,
noting that so much would have to depend on the U. S. reaction to enemy
moves, U. S. strategic thinking, etc. , none of which fell within our
province. Dominick said he appreciated these difficulties, and then
proceeded to list a number of other questions on which he said ..he hoped
the Director might comment, including:
a. Possibility that our vital sea lanes, such as the
Panama Canal, Gibraltar and the Bering Sea might be
closed by military or political developments;
b. Prospects for China after Mao;
c. Significance of Soviet-Japanese plan for joint
development of Siberian resources;
d. Possibility of mutually agreed force reductions
in Europe and consequences of Soviet violation of a force
reduction agreement;
e. Possibility that Chile, supported by Bolivia and
Peru, may disrupt the OAS; and
f. Whether Agency agrees with Kissinger that every
day of interdiction of trails in Laos would delay for another
week enemy capabilities to mount a major offensive.
15. MM) Informed Ed Braswell, Chief Counsel and
Staff Director of the Senate Armed Services Committee, of my conversation
with Chairman Stennis. Braswell confided that the Chairman was increasingly
skeptical of information he had been receiving about Southeast Asia from
certain high Government officials, and he speculated that members of the
Foreign Relations Committee share this feeling, and this might explain
their turning to the Agency for a briefing on certain sensitive matters in
Southeast Asia, going beyond the Agency's own role there. Braswell
agreed with Stennis' view that the problem of how the Agency should
respond in these circumstances could be resolved only by the White House.
Briefed Mr. Braswell on recent information regarding Soviet
anti-missile activity.
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16. 1 1 - JMM) Met with Bill Woodruff, Counsel, Senate
Appropriations Committee, to whom I mentioned our problem with the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Woodruff expressed concern that
Chairman Ellender might be unfavorably disposed to certain of the
Agency's operations in Southeast Asia, and hence be of no help to the
Agency in this situation.
Woodruff said Ellender had given no indication of a desire for
an early Agency briefing.
I briefed Woodruff on recent information regarding Soviet anti-
missile activity.
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