JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP77M00144R000300090032-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 22, 2006
• Sequence Number: 32
• Publication Date: October 15, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Wednesday - 15 October 1975
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BRIEFING Accompanied
OCI, to a briefing of Representative John Murphy
(D., N. Y.) in connection with his trip to Korea as head of a congressional.
delegation to participate in South Korean Veterans Day. A number of
personal staff sat in on the briefing including: Larry O'Brien and
Carl Perian. Following his visit to Korea, Mr. Murphy will travel to
Indochina in connection with his House Committee on. Merchant Marine
& Fisheries responsibilities on development of the Nation's Continental
Shelf. In late November, following his return, he said he would like
to get together with us and share his observations. Today's briefing
lasted for about two hours and was very well received with the
Congressman being an old Korean hand and asking a number of questions.
Unclassified biographical material and maps were provided and.. we gave
the Congressman, for his use only, a classified OER unattributable report
on the state of the economy in Korea. Mr. Murphy will. be addressing the
Korean General Assembly and the university in Seoul. He will meet
with representatives of the State Department and other agencies in
preparation for the speeches.
9. I I LIAISON Left for Ed Braswell.,
Chief Counsel, Senate Armed Services Committee, two blind memos
on the legislative intent that the details of congressional briefings under
Section 662 of the Foreign Assistance Act on Presidential Findings are to
be provided orally pursuant to national security interests. This is a
follow-up of an earlier conversation I had with Braswell concerning the
amount of detail that. is placed in the record during these briefings.
10. I I LIAISON Met with J. Sourwine,
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Chief Counsel, Subcommittee on Internal Security,
yrirC'Cre, to indicate that we would be providing a report to the Senate
Select Committee on our dealings with formerly of his 25X1A
staff, who had put us in touch with an informant of the Subcommittee who
in turn provided information for use in the protection of Mr. Helm s and
an Agency facility. Sourwine appreciated our interest in making
Senator James Eastland (D., Miss.) and hi-iself aware of this before 25X1A
the event and he said he had no problems as long as the name of the,
informant was not disclosed and I told .Am it would not be.
D/OS, has been advised.
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