JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00380R000200050071-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 25, 2003
• Sequence Number: 71
• Publication Date: September 13, 1973
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Thursday - 13 September 1973
House Arm ~eervices ommit ee, and reviewed with him our proposed
comments on H. R. 8592. Slatinshek had no problem with submitting as
the Agency report the previous report filed by the Agency with the Senate
Armed Services Committee on the companion bill, S. 1935. Slatinshek
told me also that he has been unable to get with Chairman Nedzi, Intelligence
Subcommittee, even though he has been trying. At the moment he does
not know what the schedule will be for Intelligence Subcommittee hearings.
Subcommittee No. 1 (Immigration and Naturalization), House Judiciary
Committee, and reviewed with him the proposed bills for private relief
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Cline feels that
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with Chairman Eilberg and possibly with Chairman Rodino. He told me
that there are some problems with members on both the Subcommittee
and the full Committee but he is hopeful that he can avoid these problems
with the assistance of the Chairmen. He will call me during the week.
3. ( In response to his earlier request, I called
Mike Finley, Inter-American Affairs Subcommittee staff, House Foreign
Affairs Committee, and made a tentative date for briefing of Chairman
Fascell; Marian Czarnecki, Chief of Staff of the full Committee; and Finley
for Tuesday afternoon 4:00, in Chairman Fascell's office on developments
in Chile. OCI, has been advised.
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4. Talked to Dr. John Brady, House
Foreign Affairs Committee staff, concerning the Jack Anderson column
this morning. See Memorandum for the Record.
5. In the absence of Frank Slatinshek,
Chief Counsel, House Armed Services Committee, I conveyed to him through
his secretary word that we were about to brief Chairmen Rosenthal and
Hamilton, et al, of the Foreign Affairs Committee regarding the present
Greek situation.
6. of OCI, and I met
informally with Chairmen Benjamin Rosenthal, of the Subcommittee on
Europe, and Lee Hamilton, of the Subcommittee on Near East and South
Asia, of .Mouse Foreign Affairs Committee, together with minority
member Peter Frelinghuysen, and staff consultants Cliff Hackett and
Mike Van Dusen for an off-the-record discussion of the Greek situation.
I reviewed political events during the '60's culminating in the Colonels'
coup and the King's abortive counter coup, while summarized 25X1A
subsequent developments and spoke of future prospects. I took
advantage of the occasion to refute allegations of Agency complicity in
the coup of April 1967 and Agency support for the present regime. The
Committee members were complimentary and Chairman Rosenthal in
particular, who had previously expressed skepticism about the Agency
role, remarked that he thought the briefing was a very fair and informative
analysis of the present situation.
In response to his earlier question to
I talked to Dr. John Brady, House Foreign
Affairs Committee staff, and told him that Boon Tai is the Vice President
of the Shan State Progress Party which is closely identified with the
militia. I also asked Brady if he would tell Representative Wolff (D. , N. Y. )
at the first opportunity that he had raised the question of 125X1A
be glad to and will advise me of the results.
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Brady said he would
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