JOURNAL- OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00380R000200090011-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2006
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: December 19, 1973
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 4
Wednesday - 19 December 1973
10. (Confidential - JGO) Met with Mike Finley, House Foreign Affairs
Committee staff, and received from him a copy of a letter dated 13 December
25X1A from Senator John Tunney to Acting Secretary of State Rush concerning
Fascell would like to ascertain whether the Agency has any objection to the
suggested prisoner exchange or any other comments on the matter that we
25X1A would care to provide for his benefit.
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25X1A
11. (Confidential - JGO) Received a call from Dorothy Fosdick,
Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations staff, who said Senator
Henry Jackson would appreciate a briefing during the day on the ChiCom
leadership, strategic and general political situation and Sino/Soviet relations.
She noted he would also be interested in whatever information we might have
on the cancellation of the Heath visit to China.
12. ( Confidential - JGO) Received a call from John Brady, House
Foreign Affairs Committee staff, alerting us to the statements made on the
floor yesterday by Representative Lester Wolff concerning Shan States
opium offers. I met with Brady later in the day and delivered back to him
certain documents he had loaned for NARCOG review.
13. (Confidential - JGO) Met with Frank Slatinshek, Chief Counsel,
House Armed Services Committee, and reviewed with him the correspondence
file relating to Chairman Jack Brooks', House Government Operations_Com-
mittee, questioning of Chairman Sampson, GSA, concerning Agency authority
for disposal of Federal property. I also gave Slatinshek a copy of the
OGC classified legal memo on this subject. His original reaction was this may
well be an area in which the Committee can help by providing positive legislation
in the package that will be under consideration next year to avoid such questions
in the future. I also discussed with him the possibility of an amendment to the
National Security Act to include criminal sanctions for unauthorized disclosure
of sources and methods information. Slatinshek said that although the policy of
the Committee has generally been against inclusion of criminal sanctions that in
this instance he feels the Committee may be willing to consider such a provision.
I briefed Slatinshek on a number of current intelligence items. See
Memo for Record.
Finley told me that Representative Dante
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