JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL WEDNESDAY - 12 MAY 1971

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• Publication Date: May 12, 1971
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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Wednesday - 12 May 1971
1. (Confidential - GLC) J. Sourwine, Chief Counsel, Senate Internal
Security Subcommittee, called today and asked if I had seen an advance copy
of Paul Scott's column which is due for release on Friday, 14 May. I told
him I had not. According to Sourwine, Scott's column says that North Korea
is the number one hatchery for guerrilla terrorist training for the Soviet Union
and Communist China. It says that the scope of North Korean training of
guerrillas is growing and is a threat to the security of all developing countries
"according to a CIA estimate now being circulated within the Nixon Administra-
tion." The article goes on to say that Mexican officials have alerted U.S.
authorities to the fact that two dozen North Korean-trained guerrillas have
entered the United States in recent weeks. It adds that in Romania North Korean
terrorists operating out of the country's embassy tried to seize a diplomatic
pouch. The article winds up by stating that at least one of the persons believed
to have been involved in the recent bombing of the Capitol and who fled to Cuba
by way of Canada is believed to have been trained in North Korea. Sourwine
asked if he could have access to the document mentioned in Scott's column or
at least the sense of the information contained in it. I told him I would look
into it and be back in touch with him.
2. (Internal Use Only - JGO) Met with Mr. Bun Bray, Staff Director,
Manpower and Civil Service Subcommittee, House Post Office and Civil
Service Committee, who told me that H. R. 3807, a bill to establish and
govern the Federal Executive Service, is not scheduled for action in the
Committee. He noted in part that Representative Derwinski (R. , Ill.) earlier
this year in a Committee meeting told the Civil Service Chairman, Robert
Hampton, in effect that this is not a good bill and the next time the Adminis-
tration should check such items with the Republican members who are
expected to defend such matters after they are referred to the Hill. Mr. Bray
would like to avoid staff briefing of the detail of Agency problems with this
legislation unless it appears that the bill is going to receive some consideration
in the Subcommittee. He will keep me advised.
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3. (Secret - JGO) Met with Mr. Don Henderson, Senate Foreign
Relations Committee staff, who will be leaving this week for a trip to
Poland and debriefed him on certain sensitive intelligence and completed
the necessary security debriefing documentation prior to his departure.
4. (Internal Use Only - JGO) Met with Mrs. Lois G. Meyers,
House Post Office and Civil Service Committee, Employee Benefits
Subcommittee staff, who told me that the Committee meetings for today and
tomorrow have been cancelled. Mr. Hal Witt, of the American Civil
Liberties Union, has been rescheduled for Monday, 17 May. Department
of Defense has requested that their appearance be deferred until after the
Chairman of the Civil Service Commission, Mr. Robert Hampton, who
is presently scheduled for appearance on Wednesday, 19 May.
5. (Internal Use Only - RJK) Provided William K. Vaughan,
Legislative Assistant to Representative Charles A. Vanik (D., Ohio),
several Agency brochures for a constituent who is writing a term paper
on the Central Intelligence Agency.
6. (Internal Use Only - RJK) Left an information copy of a response
to an inquiry from Mrs. Carolle J. Carter by John M. Wigglesworth,
Executive Secretary, Strategic Services Unit, with the receptionist in
the office of Representative Donald Edwards (D. , Calif). Mrs. Carter had
written to the Congressman and to the Agency concerning the activities
of the Office of Strategic Services.
7. (Internal Use Only - RJK) Delivered to the offices of Senators
John V. Tunney (D., Calif.), Edward Kennedy (D., Mass.), Jacob Javits
(R. , N. Y.) and J. W. Fulbright (D. , Ark. which their
names were mentioned.
8. (Internal Use Only - LLM) Jack Norpel, Senate Internal Security
Subcommittee Staff, called on behalf of an IRS Agent, Robert Handley, who
was investigating a number of individuals and wanted to know, before in-
stituting action, whether the interests of any Federal agencies may be involved.
(See Memorandum for Record for details. )
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9. (Internal Use Only - LLM) Met with David Minton, Staff
Director and Counsel, Senate Post Office and Civil Service Committee
and discussed the prospects in the Senate for the Federal Executive
Service legislation (H. R. 3807). Minton believes the legislation is a
"warmed over" idea but said that Chairman Hampton's testimony was
favorably received and that the legislation could move, but that amend-
ments would be needed. Minton was sympathetic to our needs and said
he was sure that Chairman McGee would agree with whatever we felt
was necessary and this would apply to NSA as well. He said the FBI
might have a hard time, however. He said the only one we would have
to convince, if we were interested in pursuing clarifying amendments,
would be Senator Hiram Fong (R., Hawaii), Ranking Minority Member
and he felt we would be able to do this through a letter from the Director
to Senator Fong.
10. (Unclassified - LLM) Called Mary Jane Del Balzo, in the
office of Senator: Mike Mansfield (D. , Mont. ), in connection with the
Senator's letter on behalf of
and she suggested that we send application forms directly to the Senator's
office, as had made the inquiry to the
Senator.
11. (Confidential - GLC) OP/MMPD,
called to let us know that when the Air Force people went back to see
Mr. Robert Foster, on the staff of the House Appropriations Committee,
concerning the item on Air Force personnel in the budget they said this
had already been taken care of by our contact with the Committee and no
:further problems were encountered. See Journal of 7 May 1971.
12. (Confidential - GLC) Talked at some length with Ed Braswell,
Chief Counsel, Senate Armed Services Committee, about the situation
regarding GAO's request to us for assistance in the study they are
preparing at Senator McIntyre's request on U. S. and Soviet military R&D
expenditures. It is Braswell's recommendation that we contact Senator
McIntyre personally on this (without Committee staff present) and explain
to him our problem with a GAO study and brief him on the subject matter
involved.
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13. (Confidential - GLC) Called former Representative John Marsh
w.....--u CL11U atou were aware OI .niS association with the Andrew Mellon
sponsored or anization SCAF.. I told him it had also been brow ht to my
STATOTHR attention that was a professor nd Marsh
acknowledged this. I told him that in view of professorial sta4j#T TIR
and the fact that our people felt any contact wi im y us at this time might
be counterproductive for both of us, we preferred not to see him.
seems to be doing very well on his own and it would seem best to le . im
continue that way. Marsh said he certainly respected our judgment on this
and. appreciated our looking into it.
14. (Confidential - GLC) Checked with Bill Woodruff, Counsel,
Senate Appropriations Committee, about the timing of our briefing of the
Senate Appropriations Committee on both the budgets of the intelligence
community and the Agency. Woodruff agreed with my assumption that this
would not take place next week, but would probably be scheduled some time
during the last week of this month (the week of 24 May). I talked with him
about the arrangements I would like to make with the Alderson Reporting
Company if a transcript is to be taken and Woodruff had no problem with this
at all. (This is essentially the same arrangement we have with the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee on their transcripts.) I will contact Mr. Frank
Strout at Alderson to work out the details.
I briefed Woodruff on a number of current intelligence items including:
Soviet silo construction, Soviet Mongolian border forces, and Soviet port
facility in Egypt.
15. (Internal Use Only - GLC) Picked up from J. Sourwine, Chief
Counsel, Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, an advance copy of the
Paul Scott column for 14 May and sent copies to Messrs. Goodwin,
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16. (Confidential - JMM) Talked to Chairman James M. Hanley,
Employee Benefits Subcommittee of House Post Office and Civil Service
Committee, who welcomed the suggestion that the Subcommittee visit
Headquarters for a breakfast briefing in the next several days and he
said that Dick Barton, of his staff, would coordinate with other Subcommittee
merribers and call me to work out arrangements.
17. (Confidential - JMM) Called William Thomson, in the office of
Senator Clifford P. Hansen, who said that in view of the time deadline they
had telegraphed to the Wyoming University newspaper, The Branding Iron,
the Senator's open letter in response to Allen Ginsberg's open letter query
to the Senator regarding Agency involvement in Southeast Asian drug traffic.
Mr. Thomson said that nevertheless they planned to go ahead with a
query to the Bureau of Narcotics which they hoped would produce an answer
that could usefully be made public.
18. (Unclassified - JMM) Received a call from Ben Welles,of the
New York Times, who said he understood that Representative Herman Badillo
was introducing a bill forbidding the Agency to engage in paramilitary operations,
and Wells wondered if this would get much support on the Hill and if we were
seriously concerned. I said I didn't expect this bill to go very .far.
JOHN M. MAURY
Legislative Counsel
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