JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 22, 2006
• Sequence Number: 85
• Publication Date: July 7, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Monday - 7 July 1975
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In response to her call, advised Lath
Wagner, in the office of Senator Bob Packwood, that
application was turned down because we had no opening for her, Ms. Wagner
thanked me for the information.
15. 1 1 Called Jack Marsh, Counsellor to the
,President, regarding his call on Thursday about Chairman George Mahon`s,,
25X1A House Appropriations Committee, concern over the appointment of
the weekend and wanted to try to get in touch with Mahon to explain the
situation to him but I wanted to be sure this didn't cross any of his channels.
Marsh said he had no problems with my contacting Mahon in fact he encouraged.
me to do so.
I also talked to Bob Wolthuis, of the White House staff, who had received
25X1A the call from Mahon and told him I.was going to try to get throe h to Mahon
to explain the circumstances surrounding the appointment of Ilas special
counsel.
16. I I Called Charles Meissner, of the -Senate
Foreign R a ' on Multinational Corporations sta , an
25X1A arranged, per his request, fora meeting here at Headquarters for. Meissner
with Meissner said that
John B. Henry, of the Subcommittee staff, would accompany him. The
meeting is Monday, 14 July at 10:30 a. m. Meissner wishes to discuss petroleum
and U. S. foreign policy in the Middle East.
25X1A 17. I 1 Discussed with Clark McFadden, General
Counsel, Senate Armed Services Committee, the appointment- of
25X1A 1 as special counsel.
18. I I Called Robert Bor, Counsel., House
Agriculture Committee to find out which room our sugar briefing scheduled
for July 9 would be held. He told me that he had decided on room 1301 in.
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17. I Received a call from Jack Marsh,
Counsellor to the President for Legislative Affairs, who said that
Representative George H. Mahon (D., Tex.) had contacted the White House
and expressed opposition to the Agency's appointment of as
special counsel. Marsh was interested in my reaction to Mahon's attitude
and asked whether anyone had alerted the White House on this matter in
advance. I gave Marsh my rationale for Mr. Mahon's position, which is
based on pressure I believe he is receiving from certain members of the
Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, and I advised him that the matter of
a special counsel had been discussed in advance with Philip Buchen, Counsel
to the President, an had talked with Buchen this morning
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ection o.f~ and Buchen had indicated he thought
was a good choice. Marsh thanked me for this information. He said this
was probably a matter that would receive the attention of the President.
18. I Mr. Duckett called to advise me of the
contact made with him by General Don Johnson, Director, Defense Nuclear
Agency, concerning Duckett's testimony before Senator William Pr.oxE1B
(D. , Wis.) Appropriations Subcommittee regarding the Soyuz /Apollo flight.
General Johnson told Duckett that he was in agreement With Thick
statement as released by Senator Proxmire and that he
intends to contact George Lowe, Deputy Director of NASA about the danger
of proceeding with the flight while the present Soviet spacecraft is in orbit.
Mr. Duckett merely wanted to alert me to these facts.
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Subcommittee on Multinational ' Corporations, for i.n. o' rmat on on political
couneciion witn a request they had received from the Senate Foreign R
payments in Korea by Brown said that the responsi3l51
State official wanted to know what in ormation the Agency possessed and said
he had been told by Agency officials that they would not respond without a
written request from State. In response to my question, Brown said the
Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations' request
was limited to State information and on that basis, I- recommended that State's
response be limited to that request, explaining that we had met with the
Subcommittee staff on this subject; that as a matter of policy, we prefer to
deal directly with the requester and the Subcommittee is aware that U. S.
corporations are outside of our general charter and any substantial information
we have incidentally collected is referred to the appropriate departments or
agencies. Brown agreed with mir oach and felt that the State official
w
as being too assertive_ ~nthe.Korean desk, also advised.
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Wednesday - 2 July 1975
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15. Called Clark McFadden, General Counsel
,
Senate Armed Services Committee, regarding Senator Dewey Bartlett's trip
to Somalia and raised with McFadden the possibility of our briefing Bartlett
before he departed. McFadden said the Senator was leaving at 1:00 p. m. this
afternoon, that the material we had given him (McFadden) which in turn had
been made available to the Senator, plus the briefings he had received from
DIA, McFadden thought would give the Senator all he needed.
16. I I Met with Representative Clarence
Brown (R., Ohio) and we discussed his interest in pursuing the question of
Capitol Hill as a target for foreign intelligence services. He agreed with
me that this was outside our domain and he will contact Director Clarence
Kelley, FBI, on this matter.
Commission, to inquire about the Commission's position on the numerous
bills introduced to require Federal employees to file financial statements with
the Comptroller General. She referred me to Tom Moyer, Office of General
Counsel, CSC.
18. Delivered to Sandy Gilbert, on the
staff of the house Defense Subcommittee of Appropriations, in the absence
of Charles Snodgrass, the final follow up items from the Director's appearance
before the Subcommittee on 17 and 22 April 1975 and also a package of answers
to questions which Snodgrass had given to Mr. lams, Comptroller.
Carolyn Smith, on the staff of the
called to request subscriptions to
the Middle East, Western Europe, and Eastern Europe FBIS Daily Reports
for Steven Bryen, of the Committee staff. I called FBIS and made the
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Mr. Warner Mr. Lehman Mr. Thuermer
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