JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP77M00144R000500120015-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 19, 2003
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: August 12, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Tuesday - 12 August 1975
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9. I I Charles Snodgrass, House Appropriations
Defense Su committee staff, called and we briefly reviewed the discussion
between he and yesterday. Snodgrass said that the
decision at this point is tentative at best and he would like to get
together with in early September following the Far East trip.
10. Received a call from Peter Poole,
in the office of Senator Charles Percy (R. , Ill. ). He said they were
interested in any reports out of the People's Republic of China on
the congressional delegation's visit there.
!reason they have not been receiving the II reports and they were
particularly interested in any Chinese comment on the Senator's recent
visit there. I told him I would check this and someone would be
back in touch.
11.1 Talked with Les Janka, NSC staff,
about the material we had pulled together which was responsive to the
Sparkman!Fascell/GAO inquiries regarding the .Ma uez incident. We
discussed possible responses to Chairman Sparkman and Janka suggested
that in effect we serd an interim reply in view of the highly sensitive
security classification of the post mortem and SitReps which were involved.
We could then. offer to either brief the Committee in executive session or
it down with the Chairman and discuss the matter further with him. A
reply along the lines suggested by Janka has been drafted and sent to the
Director.
12. uIn response to his earlier call, I contacted
Ralph Pres on_, House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee staff, to tell. him
we had checked our files on Agency briefings of their Subcommittee on. Chile and
found there were in fact two _briefings in which there were transcripts and one
in which there was no transcript in which Chile was mentioned. I identified the
transcripts as being briefings on 2 and 3 March 1971 and 3 February 1972 and the
other one, for which there was no transcript, was 1 June 1972. Preston said
since the request and the Chairman's interim. answer clearly relate only to
transcripts, he was not interested in any others. He also indicated and I agreed
that in view of the sensitivity of the material involved. in some of these: briefings
that he intended to provide the Department of Justice with only those pages of the
transcripts that dealt with testimony on Chile. He asked if we would Xerox copies
of those pages and send there to him on Thursday. I said I would do so. He
pointed out that the Chairman's interim answer to the Justice Department does
not make a commitment to provide this material but does indicate that the
Chairman will raise this matter with the Subcommittee when the Congress returns
from recess in September.
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