JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL THURSDAY - 9 NOVEMBER 1972

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 15, 2006
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: November 9, 1972
• Content Type: NOTES

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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Thursday - 9 November 1972
1? GLC) Had lunch with Bill Woodruff, Counsel, Senate
Appropriations ommittee, today. He told me that he and Senator McClellan
plan to leave 18 or 19 November on a trip to Honolulu, Korea, and Japan. 25x1
Woodruff said he had been very much impressed b the briefing
fro some years ago 0
structure and thought Senator McClellan won nave imi ar brie tin g.
I told him I would also look into the possibilities I told
Woodruff we had been interested in getting Senator McClellan out to Headquarters
for a briefing and wondered if he would be in town long enough to come out to 25X1
the Agency before their departure on this trip. Woodruff said he was not yet
certain of the Senator's plans between now and then but expected to find out
something in the next day or two and said he would let me know. 1 told him
we were interested in getting some other members, such as Senators Stennis,
Pastore and Thurmond, out for briefings during the adjournment and he said
he doubted that many of them (with the exeption of Senator Stennis) would be
in town before the first of the year.
Woodruff said he was quite certain he would not be able to make the
briefing tomorrow and I told him we would have him out with Ed Braswell,
Senate Armed Services Committee staff, at a later date, perhaps next week.
I talked with Woodruff about the provisions in the conference report
on the State, Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill prohibiting
the payment of transportation expenses from overseas positions to the U. S.
and asked him about relief for those persons who had purchased foreign made
automobiles prior to the issuance of the conference report. Woodruff said
this had been a matter of concern to the House (Appropriations) Committee
and we should take it up with Ralph Preston, House Appropriations Committee
staff. He added that he thought we should follow the procedures of the State
Department in this regard since their situation most closely resembled ours.
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2. - GLC) Picked up from the office of Dorothy Fosdick,
Staff Director, Senate Subcommittee on National Security and International
Operations staff, the text of some material which Senator Jackson has asked
us to translate. This was forwarded t J O /DDI. They would
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like to have the translations by next Tuesday.
I also obtained access to the itinerary for Senator Jackson's overseas
travel and have made this available to DDP, wh x1
is preparing a cable for the stations concerned.
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3. - GLC) Made arrangements fo of OCI,
and I to meet with Charles Stevenson, Research Assistant to Senator Harold E.
Hughes (D. , Iowa) tomorrow at 3 p. m. 25x1
4.1 Accompanie
who met with Senator Hubert Humphrey and Mr. John
ar o the i rary of Congress staff, for discussion preparatory to a trip
to the Soviet Union by Senators Humphrey and Henry Bellmon. The Senators
will be accompanied by Mr. Hardt who is coordinating their briefings. As a
member of the Agriculture and Joint Economic Committees, Senator Humphrey
was particularly interested in the Soviet agricultural situation in general and
the Soviet/U. S. wheat transaction in particular. He asked a number of questions
about the Agency's record in forecasting the Soviet grain crisis, and the
immediate and long-term prospects for Soviet agriculture. He explained he
was not looking for "crooks" in the U. S who might have taken advantage of
the situation, but that the Agriculture Subcommittee needed to understand what
had happened, and what might lie ahead, in order to draft sensible legislation
in the next session regarding wheat quotas, etc. The Senator asked a number
of questions about what Soviet officials he should see and what questions he
should raise with them, to which we promised to furnish written suggestions
to Mr. Hardt. The Senator also asked questions about the Soviet leadership
and the Soviet defense effort which were responded to b
In closing, he promised to make available to us the results o
his trip, which, he said, might include a stop in Poland and possibly some 25x1
other Eastern European countries.
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5. JMM) Cliff Hackett, House Foreign Affairs
Committee staff, called to suggest anew date of the afternoon of Tuesday,
14 November for our briefing of Representative Donald Fraser on the CPSU.
He said he hoped other members might be present.
6. - JGO) Met with Mr. Ralph Preston, Staff Assistant
House Appropriations ommittee, and reviewed with him Appropriations
Committee instructions that have been written into the conference report
on the State, Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations concerning
payment of transportation of foreign made vehicles and furniture. In brief,
Mr. Preston told me that the Department of Defense had violated a written
directive from Chairman Mahon and in defense of their action had claimed
in part that civilian agencies were not subject to the same instructions.
As a result the Chairman inserted the language in the State, Judiciary,
and Related Agencies Appropriation bill with the unanimous consent of
all conferees. In Mr. Preston's judgment the Chairman intends a final
cut-off date of 31 December 1972 and does not feel that there should be any
exceptions. I Ihas been advised.
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