JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL TUESDAY - 7 JUNE 1955

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
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• Publication Date: June 7, 1955
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal
Office of Legislative Counsel
Tuesday - 7 June 1955
1. Dr. Chadwell, AD/SI, and hief, NED/SI,
informed Mr. Pforzheimer that Mr. Hamilton, of the staff of the
Joint Committee on Atomic Energy had requested the names of the
members of the Joint Atomic Energy Intelligence Committee since
its inception. It appears that this information is desired by Cong.
Holifield, a member of the Joint Committee, in his capacity as a
member of the Hoover Commission. It is believed that he desires
these names and periods of service to counter certain allegations
in the Hoover Commission report on intelligence that there has been
an unnecessary amount of change and lack of continuity in the mem-
bership of JAEIC. After talking with Mr. Kirkpatrick, I have advised
Dr. Chadwell that while we are reluctant to release the names of
participants in intelligence estimates, we can at least make available
to Mr. Hamilton the numbers of persons involved since JAEIC was
initiated and the length of duty of each member; and if necessary
names may be supplied.
2. The Director, accompanied by Col. White4
of the Logistics Office, and Mr. Pforzheimer appeared before the
Real Estate and Military Construction Subcommittee of the Senate
Armed Services Committee in support of the CIA building authoriza-
tion contained in Title IV of S. 1765. Subcommittee Chairman Stennis
and Sen. Case (R. , S.Dak.) were present. SenaV ,Case questioned
the Director at length regarding the problem of dispersal, giving it
as his opinion that District sites and the Winkler property were too
far in, although the Langley site might be acceptable. The Senator
also pressed the possibility of a small headquarters building in
Washington with a second installation for the bulk of our people con-
siderably further out. The Director gave his opinion as to the lack
of feasibility of such a division for CIA. Senator Case also stated
that in his opinion, while the hydrogen bomb was a possibility that
might occur, the District congestion problem was one which was
already present and which would be made considerably more diffi-
cult by the construction of a CIA building, particulait the Winkler
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tract. Both Senators appeared to be sympathetic to the possibility
of financing the building from prior year funds, but felt that they
should clear the matter with the Appropriations Committees, and
asked us to supply appropriate language for this purpose. Mr.
Edward T. Braswell, Jr. sat in as the staff representative until
late in the meeting when Mr. Darden also arrived. I mentioned
again to the latter the fact that
As a result of this meeting, I would suggest
that e irec or personally see Chairman Russell and Senator
Saltonstall to give them our views on the building location because
Senator Case will make a strong fight to impose his views on its
location. Legislative Counsel will prepare appropriate language
for the use of prior year funds and will also take up with the Bureau
of the Budget the possibility of having to restore language to authorize
the extension of the George Washington Parkway. Col. White will
have the Logistics Office prepare a paper to meet Senator Case's
point that authorization for the construction should probably run to
the Administrator of General Services rather than the DCI.
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