JOURNAL--OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL, WEDNESDAY-31 OCTOBER 1973

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Wednesday - 31 October 1973
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5. Met with Guy McConnell, Senate Appropriations 25X1
Committee staff, and brought him up-to-date on a number of current intel-
ligence items, including a particularly sensitive item relating to
See Memorandum for the Record.
Later in the day McConnell advised me that he had briefed Senators
McClellan, Pastore, Hruska, and Young on the sensitive item.
I also talked to McConnell about a provision of the Economy Act
(section 686 of Title 31) authorizing the transfer of funds from certain
specified agencies to obtain materials by contract. McConnell had no
knowledge of this section nor the reasons why only the specified departments
and agencies were given this authority.
6. Left with Jack Ticer, Senate Armed Services
Committee staff, a copy of "Costing the Soviet Defense Effort: Estimating
Procurement Costs of Naval Ships and Boats" for use of the Committee staff.
I also picked up an excerpt of the language proposed by Jim Woolsey,
of the Committee staff, for inclusion in Senator Nelson's resolution to
establish a Joint Committee on Domestic Intelligence Activities. This language
would exempt the Agency from the provisions of the resolution both with
respect to "surveillance activities" conducted outside the United States and
"lawful surveillance activities" conducted within the United States under
certain specified circumstances.
Later in the day I phoned Woolsey and suggested that the term
"surveillance activities" might be misleading and we would suggest that
the term "investigations" be substituted for it in the resolution. I also
told him we thought it would be a mistake to include the substantive language
which Senator Stennis has incorporated into his bill (S. 2597) because it has
not been finally agreed upon and would establish the precedent for the
inclusion of matters of substance pertaining to the Agency in legislation which
is outside the jurisdiction of the Armed Services Committee. I told Woolsey
we would be back in touch with him again after we had reviewed this languageSTAT
more thoroughly. Woolsey said he thought our points were well taken.
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 his son, Prince Juan Carlos, who in 1969
was officially proclaimed King-designate,
effective upon the death or disability of
El Caudillo.
There the matter rested until Franco's
granddaughter stirred up the dynastic
pot all over again. When her betrothal
was announced, the shy, 34-year-old
Juan Carlos registered a mild protest be-
cause the marriage seemed likely to cast
doubt on his status. His fiery wife, Prin-
cess Sophia of Greece, protested more
vigorously, and his father, Don Juan,
flew into a rage. But there was nothing
any of them could do to block the mar-
riage. As the ceremony neared, more
slights were in store for Juan Carlos.
Franco's household began to refer to Al-
fonso as "His Royal Highness, the
Prince," a title that should have been re- I
served for Juan Carlos. And the father !
of the groom presented Franco with the
Order of the Golden Fleece, an honor
that only Don Juan as head of the House ?,
of Borb6n is supposed to bestow.
Tact: Eventually, the regime papered
over these snubs to Juan Carlos: It
ordered that Don Alfonso no longer
be accorded the offending title, and
Franco himself tactfully decided not to
wear the emblem of the Golden Fleece
to the wedding. Alfonso's entourage also
took pains to deny that the bridegroom
had any dynastic ambitions. "It was in-
evitable that people would think this
way," said one of Alfonso's friend's'. "But
I assure you that Alfonso hits no designs
on the throne."
That may well be so. But Franco him-
g
fonso. For by restoring the senior branch the 23-year-old Ovemey was shot fatally
of the Borb6n family to its place in the by a plant guard, and eight other people
sun, El Caudillo was providing himself were injured.
with another conceivable successor, just Inevitably, a cry went up from the
in case Juan Carlos gets too many in- ranks of the far left. But France's liberal
dependent ideas. Already, in fact, some press and even the government TV
foreign diplomats in Spain were refer- network as well decried the killing. The
ring to Alfonso as "the king in the hole." security guard who had shot Overney
was promptly indicted for murder, but
FRANCE: that failed to cool off the situation. By
Maoists at Work
All told, there are probably no more
than a few thousand active Maoists in
France. Yet on a mild, sunny Saturday
early this month more than 60,000 left-
ists and their sympathizers marched
through Paris to mourn a young French
Maoist killed in a clash at a Renault au-
tonmobile plant. As the demonstrators
wound their way to P6re-Lachaise Cem-'
etery to attend the funeral of Ren6-
Pierre Overney, they roared out the In-
ternationale, chanted anti-government
slogans and railed against big business
audits "hired gangs." It was the biggest
show of strength by F
~
A . F. P.-rleto,I I
Solidarity: Geismar left center) leads pallbearers at Overney's funeral
from the far left abruptly fizzled out.
The trouble began in late February
when Overney, a Maoist militant who had
been dismissed from the Paris Renault
plant for distributing revolutionary litera-
ture, led a demonstration at the plant to
protest the firing of Maoist workers. Not
satisfied with picketing outside the plant
grounds, Overney and his cohorts-armed
with iron bars and wooden clubs-sou
ht
the day of the funeral, the New Left
was able to mount the biggest march
staged by any French political group in
nearly four years. With Trotskyites, an-
archists and Maoists all marching togeth-
er, it seemed that the fragmented left
had finally put it all togethex?.
But then the alliance crumbled. Mis-
interpreting the funeral rally as a sign
of blanket support, "commandos" from a
Maois.~, underground movement called
the New Popular Resistance last week
kidnaped a minor Renault executive.
Charging that the executive, Robert,No-
grette, 63, a deputy chief of personnel,
had hired the guard who killed Overney
NN Rd?2~'5Y~8.>t22tilCIA4Rfi W5?6038i 8003fb8011D0Ut:9With next year's
since the student uprisen o ay 968 man ed the release of five Maoists ar- legislative elections in mind, French
that helped push Charles de Gaulle into rested after the shooting. They also in- Communist Party leader Georges M -r-
country's first political kidnaping since
1965, and Premier Georges Pompidou
denounced the crime as "an unspeak-
able act worthy of a country of savages."
But what the kidnapers had not planned
on was the reaction of the extreme left.
Except for the most militant Maoists,
every left-wing group registered its con-
demnation. Even Alain Geismar t i .
best-known leader .D= it
France, reportedly told the kidnapers
he disapproved of their act. Faced with
such massive reproofs and the threat of
severe punishment by the government,
the kidnapers backed down. Late last
week, disguised as a blind man, No-
grette was released unharmed.
Outcry: That, for the moment, seemed
to defuse the latest challenge from the
far left. And it left the Maoists with a
black eye. Among militant ? extremists,
there were charges that the kidnapers
had deliberately sought to destroy the
budding reunification of the New Left.
"The Maoist underground," fumed a
member of another faction, "is complete-
ly indifferent to the feelings of the left.
It deliberately seeks to separate the men
from the boys. Its leaders knew that the
kidnaping would provoke an outcry, but
they didn't care. They are romantics of
the worst kind." And the French Com-
munist Party, which regards the Maoists
as its most dangerous enemies, pointed
out (as it did in May of 1968) that the
terrorists were playing into the hands of
the government by allowing it to pose
retirement, and it left many_ Frenchmen sisted that Renault rehire six other chais declared at a rally in Strashourcy:
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mar, the idol of Maoist stu- obliged, like my comrades, to
dents, was sentenced today to make commotion to force you
two years in prison for illegal to throw me out."
political activity. The court let Mr. Geismar
Dressed in a vivid red shirt, leave the room and the sentenc-
the 31-year-old science. teacher mg went off without incident
in the ornate Palace of Justice
`was given the maximum pen- on the Ile de la Citd.
,alty in what was widely inter- The streets of the nearby
preted as a warning that the Latin Quarter were quiet, al-
authorities would deal harshly though disorders had been
with rioters and bombers dur- feared if Mr. Geismar was
Ing the present academic year. given a severe sentence. Mr.
Mr. Geismar was charged Geismar was found guilty to-
with continuing the activities day, as he was In October, of
of the pro-Peking Maoist-Pro? having incited students earlier
letarian Left Movement. The this year to stage Latin Quarter
radical group was declared riots in which numbers of po-
illegnl by the Pompidou Gov- licemen were hurt.
ernment earlier this year in a It was reported late in the
crackdown on what are called evening that several fire bombs
les gauchistes. were hurled by about 100
Last month a lesser court young supporters of Mr. Geis-
sentenced Mr. Geismar to 18 mar at the Palace of Justice
months in jail for inciting stu- at Aix-en-Provence, In southern
dents earlier this year to stage France. The demonstrators
NEW YORK TIMES
25 November 1970
daJ of French Maoist Students
S, ntenced to-2 Years in Prison
denunciation of the court and
By ERIC PACE rasped out an unusual threat.
9irclal to The New York Tlmes ' If you want to force me to
PARIS, Nov. 24-Alain Geis- stay here," he said, "I shall be
riots in which numbers of shouted "Free Geismar!"
policemen were hurt. That . A series of student riots last
conviction Is being appealed. 1spring spurred the crackdown
Tonight Mr. Geismar was on radicals. It was impelled,
fined $1,800 in addition to the partly by public uproar over
prison sentence. There was no the property damage that
Immediate word as to whether young Maoists and anarchists
he would. appeal it as well. did to university buildings.
Mr. Geismar was sentenced It was prompted also by
by a, special state security memories of the student-im-
court set up by President polled wave of strikes and
Charles de Gaulle to crack riots that almost toppled the
down on right-wing subversion. de Gaulle government in 1968.
`He told the court before the Mr. Geismar was one of the
sentencing: "You are only main leaders, of the 1968 un-
puppets of the antechamber of
xhe white terror." rest, and he had become the
gauchistes' best known activist r
Allowed to Leave
Court since Daniel Cohn Bendit, the f
In a striking departure from major leader in 1968, was ex- c
)usual procedure, Mr. Geismar Felled from France to West v
,was pert ltted to. leave the Germany.
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FRANCE : , nii? :,
GEISMAR CALIBD 'ELECTION AGENT OF AUTHORITIES'
Paris L 1HUMANITE 14 Mar 70 p 6 L
(Unattributed article.' "Geismar and His 'Maoists --Electoral Agents of the Authorities"] -
(Text) Geismar, one-of the.. leaders of the "proletarian left," yesterday announced a
renewal of agitation by his leftist groups " in the streets, in the factories, in the
homes of immigrant workers, wherever it will,mostlhinder the enemy., that is the
bourgeoisie and its allies, the permanent members of the PCF and the COT."
So, Geismar and his followers, who include Vicomte Charles-Henri de Choiseul-Praslin,
makes no bones about it. For them the Communist Party and the COT are the enemy.
All the rest is merely oratorical florishes and caution. They only care to discuss
the "bourgeoisie" to direct their blows against our party and the.COT.'
At Renault's it is the waitresses that they manhandle; on the Nanterre campus, they
tried to assassinate a COT militant; at the town hall in Meulan, they attack the clerks.
Their raids have Also been aimed'at communist militants at the Argenteuil market and
metro workers at the Billancourt and Marcel-Sembat stations. And when they use the
classical methods of provocation, arson and bombs, they are pursuing a double aim:
to harm the cause of the workers and to serve the interests of the bourgeois authorities.
What. happened, for example, at Corbeil on Thursday night before the first round'of the
cantonal elections? An incendiary device was thrown at the personnel.department's
premises at Grand Moulins de.Corbeil. A short while later the police noticed flames.
The fire was brought under control before it could assume catastrophic proportions.
Damage amounting to some 10 million old francs was caused.
On the site of the outrage, "New Popular Resistance" tracts were found; this
organization which boasts of setting fire to the Houilleres du Nord (north coal mines)
office and of sabotaging cranes at Dunkerque.... A few hours later the "proletarian
left" disseminates, under the very,noses.)of'the police, who pretend not tb notice.
a tract with the "NR P communique" concerning the city's grands moulins.
The next day, on the' eve of the election, a tract, which was anonymous this time but
whose reactionary origin is evident, uses the grands moulins outrage-to cry anarchy,
to attack our party and Its -candidate, and to appeal to people to vote for orderl
It has already been stated that in June 1968 Alain Geismar was one of the best
electoral agents of the UDR, which gained more votes from leftist exactions than from
all of Pompidou's speeches. He continues in the same vein and his friends with him.
And so the government sets itself up as "the guardian of order" on the eve of the
second round of the cantonal elections and the day after Pompidou's speech.
After the outrages at Corbeil (against grands moulins)"and Meulan (against the town.
hall), about 20 leftists were arrested yesterday. In the most spectacular manner
possible, five of them were imprisoned at Corbeil for attempted arson at grands
moulins. Three people, two. at large, have been charged with ransacking the Meulan town
hall. There have been seven other summonses and the state security bourt has taken up
these matters,
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N K, rcellin yesterday published, with a great fanfare, a communique anno;zncing
..le arrest of 20 leftist militants of revolutionary movements." The AFP cable
gLving this text is datelined 1380 hours.
At 1321 (again according to AFP), Geismar made it "own, to whomever, doubted it,
that.his -enemies were the Communist Party and the CGT. In 13 minutes, on Friday
the 13th, the connection between the minister of the police to M Geismar was
established.
NUCLEAR TEST FORCES--Paris, Mar 19 (AFP)--Ships and aircraft of the French Navy
which will assure security during France's 1970 nuclear and thermo-nuclear tests
in the'Mururoa and Fangataufa atolls area of the Pacific will take up positions
at the beginning April, it was announced today. The navy announced the cruiser,
De Grasse, and escorter, Oureguinerry, would arrive at Papeete, Tahiti, on Maras
10; the landing craft transporter, Ouragan, was expected at Hao, Tuamotu Island,
on March 22; and a flotilla, equipped with Neptune long distance reconnaissance
aircraft, based at Lann-Bihou in Britanny was moving towards the Pacific. A first
group of four aircraft left France on March 15 and a second group of three (including
Breguet Atlantics, specialising in antisubmarine defence) left on March 17.; The
forthcoming tests will follow campaigns in 1966 and 1968. It should have taken
place last year, but was postponed for financial and economic reasons. Observers
in Paris thought that this year and next some miniaturised operational thermonuclear
bomb would be tested. (Paris AFP English 1609 GMT 19 Mar 70 C) (FOR OFFICIAL
.USE ONLY)
BULGARIAN DELEGATION--Within the framework of the agreement for industrial and
economic co-operation between Bulgaria and France, the joint working group for
studying the possibilities for and industrial Joint production in the sphere of
electronics and colour TV had a session in Paris from March 9th-through March 16th.
The Bulgarian part of the group was led by engineer Serafim Popov, head of a
department, at the State Committee for Science and Technical progress,, and the
French, by Mr,Vavasseur, a deputy director of the electronics industry at the
Ministry of Industrial Development and Research. The two sides have noted with
satisfaction the results achieved from their co-operation and have found that
there exist possibilities for joint production in.electronics and-colour television,
based on mutual benefit. The representatives of the Bulgarian part of the group
visited a number of French enterprises, specializing in this sector. The session
of the joint Bulgarian-French working group on questions of co-operation,in the
engineering industry started also yesterday in Paris. (Sofia BTA International
English'- 9801 GMT 18, Mar. 70 L)
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