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

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• Publication Date: October 24, 1975
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October 24, 1975
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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
of OLC to see the committee's staff chief? Marian Czarnecki,
who had just returned from a junket to Poland. Czarnecki. hap
pened to he 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~t-hat.he is wasting his time." Without revealing
my Checklist connection (I saved that for later) , I asked what
bothered him... He replied that the Checklistt 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.
he trumped by Katherine Graham's minions. Czarnecki grudgingly
gave some ground on these points. When I mentioned the USSR/
Ihccian Ocean. item in today's Checklist, Czarnecki. said he did
not-think that was,of any great interest. He 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.
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
fashion to
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3 . I than clo l: down fo -the main business at hand, the brief-
ing of. I3+ -+ ~y and. ;ullivan. Both were quite knowledgeable about
Indochina and ,;eiiLheast Asia and have traveled there several
times in the pasl:. I covered all of Indochina plus Thailand in
a. little over are hour. They asked numerous questions, most of
which I could ii_eld. There were several, however, that I said
.1 would have to look into and report back on. Most were fai II r
roul:ine, but the,did wonder about the impact of the loss of STAT
I will get back to Sullivan
on the unanswered questions via telephone.
4. Both Brady and Sullivan were attentive and seemed appre-
c_i_ati_ve of my rambling narrative. Sullivan was particularly con-
genial. Ale 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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