JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL TUESDAY - 20 NOVEMBER 1973

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 14, 2006
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: November 20, 1973
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal -Office of Legislative Counsel Page 2
Tuesday - 20 November 1973
4. (Confidential -GLC) Met with Guy McConnell Senate A ropria-
tions Committee staff, and gave him a paper prepared b OPPB,
on the status of the cuts imposed by the House Appropriations Committee to
the Agency's budget. I told McConnell again that the subject of how to handle
the for salary increases was still up in the air but we were relying
on him and Ralph Preston, House Appropriations Committee staff, to work
this out. I said we would be happy to discuss it further any time he wished.
He said the Senate Committee would probably focus on this issue next week.
I briefed McConnell on the inquiry we had received from Mark Bender,
Congressional Quarterly, for our views on three questions he posed regarding
the Agency's relationships with the Congress and the impact of such things
as the Bay of Pigs, ITT /Chile, and the Watergate. I told McConnell that
Bill Colby preferred not to have us speak to Bender for the record on this
subject, but I provided McConnell with some material we had prepared which
he might want to use in any future conversations he might have with Bender
on the subject.
Spoke briefly with McConnell about the matter of the Renegotiation
Board's interest in some of the surplus profits of the sale q~?S,8?Z?r McConnell
said he thought if we could legally retain these funds and turn them back
into the Agency Reserve account he thought we should do so.
5. (Secret -GLC) Met with George Mur h Joint Committee on
Atomic Energy staff, and gave him the new
Murphy reviewed the role he has played for Senator Baker and Senator
Symington in the Andrew St. George issue. In response to some needling
from me, he assured me that he was responding to directions from these
two Senators on Watergate issues but was not coming up with any recommenda-
tions on his own. 25X1
6. (Confidential -GLC
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