JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74B00415R000400050020-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 10, 2006
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: June 8, 1972
• Content Type: NOTES

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CONFiDENTAL
Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Thursday - 8 June 1972
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9. Yesterday met with Irish McRae, 25X1
Minority Counsel, Senate Government Operations Committee, and reviewed
with him a proposed report on S. 3529 (Federal Advisory Committees)
requesting an exemption for advisory committees dealing solely with national
security or intelligence matters. McRae said the proposed report looked
fine to him and suggested that he run it by the former General Counsel of
the Subcommittee, who is still handling the legislation, for any suggestion
he might have and let us know the outcome.
10. Yesterday met with Al Westphal, ~taff 25X1
Consultant, House Foreign Affairs Committee, and told him that our two major
problems with the Senate version of the State/USIA authorization legislation,
S. 3526, had been favorably resolved on the Senate floor (10 per cent personnel
reduction, and restriction on information dissemination), but that there were
two other provisions on which we had taken a position within the Administration
(extending the increase in civilian claim ceiling to apply to all executive agencies,
and removing the possible conflict between a request for information from the
"little Hoover Commission" and the Director's responsibilities for protecting
intelligence sources and methods). I explained to Westphal we merely wanted
to alert him to the possibility that he may hear from the Administration on these
two items. Westphal was not enthusiastic about doing anything on the increase
in claim ceiling, but thought that Representative William Mailliard (R., Calif. ),
ranking minority member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and a rear admiral,
USNR, would be a likely supporter of our position and suggested that we contact
him and Chairman Morgan after the conferees are appointed if we wish to push
our position.
11. Yesterday met with Ben Darling, in the office25X1
of Representative B. F. Sisk (D. , Calif. ) and closed out the 1 June letter to the
Director concerning a virus which would destroy the opium poppy by referring
Mr. Darling to Dr. John L. Creech of the Department of A riculture. This
manner of handling was coordinated with I Staff. 2X1
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