JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00380R000400140022-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 15, 2006
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: September 17, 1973
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 3
Monday - 17 September 1973
7. (Secret - JGO) Met with Ralph Preston, House Appropriations
Committee staff, and left with him the Director's letter of 16 Sr-,11~ er
to Chairman Mahon concernin
I briefed Preston orally on the use of the funds. He had no questions.
25X1 Preston told me that Representative Dan Flood (D. , Pa.) has
asked him to inquire about recent news reports relating to small-scale
invasions of Haiti. He is interested in the participants and some detail
on these activities. Preston noted that Representative Flood maintains
a current active interest in Caribbean and Latin American Affairs.
I WH Division, has been advised.
reviewed with Preston our previous discussions concerning Chairman
Mahon's very strong objections to transportation of foreign-made vehicles
and asked if there had been any change in the Committee position, Chairman
Mahon is still firm in his position. He noted, however, that Representative
John Slack (D. , W. Va.) has been chairing the State, Justice, Commerce,
and the Judiciary Subcommittee and possibly some modification had been
worked out with that Committee. He suggested that I talk directly to
Jay Howe, of the Subcommittee staff. su DDM&S, has been
advised.
I briefed Preston on the Italian seizure of Strela missiles near 25X1
Rome, and the Soviet supply of Scud tactical missiles to Egypt.
8. (Confidential - JGO) Met with Chairman Lucien Nedzi, Intelligence
Subcommittee, House Armed Services Committee, who agreed to meet with
the Senior Seminar on Wednesday, 14 November, 9:30 to 10:30 a. m. at
Headquarters.1 OTR, has been advised.
I also closed out a previous diGrii.Ginn ixrWn T\To.a-;
As a final item I reviewed with him briefly the Andrew Hamilton
article "The CIA's Dirty Tricks Under Fire--At Last" which was entered
in the Congressional Record by Representative Badillo (D. , N. Y.) on
6 September. I pointed out to him Hamilton's disclaimer that he had "had
a limited contact with CIA intelligence analysts when I served as a member
of the National Security Council staff in 1970-1971, I had no contact with the
clandestine organization or activities of the CIA. " His article was
assembled from the public record and from interviews conducted over a
period of several years. Nedzi agreed that we withhold comments on the
article at least for the present,
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