JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL FRIDAY - 22 DECEMBER 1972

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 17, 2005
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• Publication Date: December 22, 1972
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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Friday - 22 December 1972
House Appropriations Committee, to say that the Director had left town
for the holidays without signing a letter informing the Chairman of our
planned construction of a garage at Headquarters. I asked Preston if he
felt a letter was really necessary. He said he did, adding that the letter
need not request permission to go ahead with the construction but it should
inform the Committee, or at least the Chairman, of our plans. He said it
need not be signed by the Director, I could sign it myself if I wished. He
did feel however that the letter should explain not only the necessity for
the construction, but also how it was to be funded.
Appropriations Committee staff, and gave him several items ofbio-
graphic background on Mr. James Schlesinger. Mr. Preston told me
that his best guess would be that Representative Robert Sikes (D. , Fla. )
would be returning to the city about 3 January. He told me also that
Representative George Mahon (D. , Texas) intends to put his remarks
about Mr. Helms in the Congressional Record on 3 January.
3. I IMet with Robert Blum, Research
Assistant, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and gave him a suggested
wording to describe the security deletions from the OSS documents furnished
him earlier in the week. I also gave him a fresh reproduction to replace
an item that was illegible in the original package. Mr. Blum expects to go
to the printers with his material later in the day.
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Friday - 22 December 1972
and et with Dr. John
Brady, House Foreign Affairs Committee staff, and gave him a
general overview of the narcotics picture and governmental attitudes
concerning Latin America. Dr. Brady will be travelling with members
of the House Foreign Affairs Committee to Europe and Latin America
leaving the first week of January.
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5. Together wit ARC OG, 25X1
PDI, met with Dr. John ra y_: anc o er Boyer,
House ore;jgn Affairs Committee staff, and gave them our final comments
on the Committee report of a staff survey team, "The U. S. Heron
Problem and Southeast Asia. "
6. I Spoke to Paul Downing, Congressional
Research Service, i rary of ongress, about his earlier inquiry about
security clearances for members of Senator Lee Metcalf Is (D. Mont. )
staff for the purpose of reviewing documents on the Mid-East oil situation.
I advised Mr. Downing that such requests should be made through the
Senate Interior and Insular Affairs Committee and that Mr. Bill Van Ness,
Chief Counsel of that Committee, has been handling these matters for
Senator Jackson.
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