BRIEFING ON INDOCHINA FOR MESSRS. JACK BRADY AND JACK SULLIVAN OF THE HOUSE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE STAFF

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 8, 2001
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: October 24, 1975
• Content Type: MFR

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October 24, 1975
MEPHORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Briefing on Indochina for Messrs. Jack Brady and
Jack Sullivan of the House International Relations
Committee Staff
1. Before the briefing at 1000, I accompanied
oC C>LC to see the committee's staff chief? Marian Czarnecki,
who had just returned from a junket to Poland. Czarnecki hap-
pened to be scanning today's Checklist. We got off to an un-
happy start when he said that "you can tell whomever is turn-
ing this out that he is wasting his time." Without revealing
my Checklist connection (I saved that for later), I asked what
hottiered. h.m. He replied that the Checklist is so "sanitized"
that it is "useless;" he could "read the same things in the
Washington Post." I reminded him that the Post does not carry
sensitive items on Soviet and Chinese strategic weapons and
other pearls that we publish. I also noted that I thought that
our analytical and estimative annexes were unique and could not
,be trumped by Katherine Graham's minions. Czarnecki grudgingly
gave some ground on these points. When I mentioned the USSR/
Indian Ocean item in today's Checklist, Czarnecki said he did
not, think that was of any great interest. Ile claimed that
Brezhnev's comments would have come back on the congressional
circuit and there was no need for us to report them, too. I
wanted to disagree with him on several grounds, but decided
not to press the point since he seemed to be in a negative
mood.. He did. ask the name of the Congressman cited in the item
and I told him it was Rep. Vanik.
25X9 2. then discussed his business with Czarnecki.
When leaving, I thanked Czarnecki for his comments and said
that there would be times in some situations when we would be
able to add little to what open sources were reporting. Still,
we would do our best to make the Checklist as unique as possi-
ble. (Czarnecki has groused about the Checklist in similar
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3. 1 !iirn rtc~t clown to the main business at hand, the brief-
ing of. Iii .,-,y and ",ullivan. Both were quite knowledgeable about
Indochina and fleiil.1ieast Asia and have traveled there several
tines in. [he pa:':. I covered all of Indochina plus Thailand in
a little ever an Hour. They asked numerous questions, most of
which I cou 1rl _e ld . There were several, however, that I said
I would have to look into and report back on. Most were fairly
routine, hiii the did wonder about the impact of the loss of~
I will get back to Sul ivan
on re una-answere questions via telephone.
4. Both Brady and Sullivan were attentive and seemed appre-
ciative of my rambling narrative. Sullivan was particularly con-
genial. lie is something of an expert on Indonesia. Fortunately,
we did not delve into that subject--even though I had boned up
on it a bit.
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