JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 2, 2002
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: May 6, 1969
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Tuesday - 6 May 1969
1. (Unclassified - CEA) Delivered to Mrs. Nelda Barrett, in the
office of e resentative James C. Corman (D. , Calif.), a suggested reply
STATOTHR to a constituent who had inquired concerning the Agency.
Mrs. Barrett said this was exactly what she had hoped to receive.
2. (Internal Use Only - CEA) Called Mr. Borstein, in the office of
Representative Leonard Farbstein (D. , N. Y. ), concerning his earlier request
for a briefing on shifts in the Politburo. I suggested that since the Department
of State had all the information available to the Agency on this subject that
Borstein request a briefing from the Department of State, to which he agreed.
3. (Secret - GLC) Hand carried to William Woodruff, on the staff
of the Senate Appropriations Committee, a blind memorandum prepared by
the Office of Economic Research on the subject of the Galosh missile sites.
Attached to the memorandum was a map showing the location of each of the
sites and their status of completion. Mr. Woodruff said this was precisely
what Senator Milton Young (R. , N. Dak.) needed to straighten out his thinking
on this .
4. (Secret - GLC) Mr. Woodruff inquired as to when he would be
receiving an Agency budget book. He said that in looking at the revised
budget as far as he was concerned the revisions could be made as pen and
ink changes on the original budget. This might make it simpler to identify
the changes. (This has been passed on to Mr. John Clarke , OPPB. )
5. (Secret - GLC) In response to a further inquiry from him, I 25X1 C
restated to George Murphy, on the staff of the Joint 'Committee on Atomic
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Tuesday - 6 May 1969
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6. (Secret - GLC) Mr. Ed Hartung, Minority Counsel, enate 25X1
Appropriations Committee, advised me that Senator Milton Young (R. , N. Dak2~X1A
would probably be in touch with us in the near future about
7. (Unclassified - GLC) During the day, I talked with Mr. Charles
Kendrick, Administrative Assistant to Senator Peter Dominick (R. , Colo.),
and Maxine Hyde, Personal Secretary, regarding the Senator's visit to the
Agency for luncheon tomorrow. The Senator is driving his own car and is
familiar with the directions for reaching the building.
8. (Confidential - JGO) The transcript of the Director's testimony
before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on International Organization
and Disarmament Affairs on 23 April 1969 was forwarded to the Committee
for their use and was returned at the end of the day.
9. (Confidential - JGO) Called Jim Lowenstein, Senate Foreign
Relations Committee staff, and advised that the Agency response to
Chairman Gore's questions in the hearing of 23 April is in process but
may not be completed before the end of the day. Lowenstein advised the
responses were needed as soon as they could be provided but that he was
certain the Chairman would understand the necessary delays in transmittal.
10. (Unclassified - JGO) Talked with Ken Sprankle, House Appropriation.,
Committee staff, and advised, in response to his query on Friday, that Miss
25X1A had been employed by the Agency during the period
June 1956 through September 1957 and had left this Agency to further her
education. I also advised that would be clearly re-employa 1A
by the Agency.
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Thursday - 1 May 1969
1. (Unclassified - LLM) Bernard Dobranski, Administrative
Assistant to Representative William Murphy (D. , Ill. ), called to thank us
for sending the Congressman the China Map Folio the other day and asked
if we had any other similar folios on the Far Eastern Asia and I said I
would be pleased to check.
2. (Internal Use Only ?- LLM) Mrs. Sauls, Democratic Study Group,
called to request six be sent to Frederick Merrill, 1422
Longworth House Office Building, who apparently does the foreign affairs
research for the Group. I explained the restrictions in connection with this
"official use only" material which she appeared to fully appreciate. Have
asked to arrange for the subscriptions.
3. (Secret - JMM) Messrs. William Woodruff, Senate Appropriations,
Committee staff, and Robert Michaels, House Appropriations Committee
staff, visited the Agency to view the film. "True Sons of the People" and
to receive a briefing on a sensitive collection project. (See Memo for the
Record for details.) While in the building Woodruff paid a brief courtesy
call on the DDCI.
4. (Unclassified - GLC) Arnold Brustin, in the office of Senator
Gaylord Nelson, called and with deep apology said that the Senator's legislative
schedule was such that he would have to cancel the arrangements. which we
had made for a briefing of him on the Soviet and ChiCom threat. He gave
no indication that they had any intention of trying to re-schedule this at
some time in the near future. I assured Brustin that we understood that
these situations developed and were completely flexible about them.
5. (Confidential - CEA) Mr. Borstein, in the office of Representative
Leonard Farbstein (D. , N. Y.), called and requested a briefing for Farbstein
on recent shifts in the Politburo. I told him I would check and be back in touch.
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SUBJECT: Briefing of William Woodruff, Senate Appropriations
Committee staff, and. Robert Michaels, House
Appropriations Committee staff, on Project
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1. This morning Messrs. Woodruff and Michaels were briefed at
25X1A Headquarters on the project by Messrs. OPPB,
25X1A A resent were Messrs. John Maury,
25X1 A I OLC. Colonel White and Mr. John
Clarke were present for the major portion of the briefing.
4. During their visit Woodruff and Michaels viewed the Soviet film
"True Sons of the People" which depicted various Soviet weapons, etc. They
both concluded that while the film was interesting they did not feel it of
sufficient importance to warrant showing to members of their respective
Committees.
o n Maury
egislative Counsel
Distribution:
Original - Senate Appropriations
1 - House Appropriations
1 - Chrono
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6. (Confidential - CEA) At his request, called on Senator James
Eastland (D. , Mo.) who was concerned about a press item stating that a
Soviet ship had recently loaded Rhodesian chrome ore at the port of
Mozambique. Eastland said he is giving a speech on the subject of Rhodesia
on Monday and would like to know if there is any truth in the allegation.
After checking with in DDI, I informed Eastland that the press
item is without foundation.
7. (Secret - JMM) Caller Mr. Boyd Crawford, House Foreign
Affairs Committee staff, to say that we had received a call from the office
of Representative Leonard Farbstein (D. , N. Y. ), Chairman of the Europe
Subcommittee of House Foreign Affairs, requesting an Agency briefing on
recent shifts in the Politburo. I asked Mr. Crawford if he would check with
Dr. Morgan, Chairman of the full Committee, to see whether he had any
objections to this briefing.
Later in the day, Mr. Crawford called to advise that the Chairman
"frowns on this sort of request" and recommended we inform Representative
Farbstein he should go to State Department or through the Chairman for
this type of information. I thanked Mr. Crawford for his assistance in this
matter.
8. (Confidential - JGO) I talked at some length with Mr. Robert
Michaels, on the staff of the House Appropriations Committee, before his
return to the city this morning. After the briefing provided for him
and Mr. William Woodruff, on the staff of the Senate Appropriations Committee,
he noted in particular the economy mood of the House. He believes that
some.action could be taken this year looking to reduction in t1ne numbex of
families of vehicles in the space programs. He also noted that the
Appropriations Committee is becoming more critical of "management
study" costs.
9. (Confidential - JGO) Received a call from Mr. Arthur Kuhl,
Chief Clerk, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who requested that the
transcript of the Director's testimony before the Committee on 23 April be
made available to the Committee on Monday through Thursday of the coming
week. He advised that although no hearings are scheduled, the Committee
will have need for the availability of the transcript and almost continual
review on those days.
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