JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP11M01338R000400340065-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 6, 2013
• Sequence Number: 65
• Publication Date: June 16, 1971
• Content Type: REPORT

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 3
Wednesday - 16 June 1971
7. Gwen Lewis, in the office of Senator Len
Jordan, called to say that in view of the Senator's conversation yesterday
with Mr. Gene Cowen, of the White House staff, there was no need for a
meeting today to discuss certain Agency operations in Southeast Asia.
8. Called Representative Morris K. Udall
and offered to review with him the substance of the breakfast briefing we
had given other members of the Hanley Subcommittee regarding our problems
.on the Ervin bill. Mr. Udall appreciated the offer and said he would like to
get together possibly Wednesday, 23 June. He asked me to call him then,
to make a firm date.
9. Mr. Gene Cowen, of the White House staff,
called to say he had talked with Senator Len Jordan yesterday and there was
no need for further action regarding Jordan's query re certain Agency activities
in Southeast Asia,
10. Called Representative Lawrence Hogan
and said I would be glad to meet with him to summarize the briefing given
the Hanley Subcommittee regarding our problems with the Ervin bill, which
Mr. Hogan had been unable to attend. Mr. Hogan appreciated the offer but
said he was "100% with us" and there was no need to waste time on a briefing
in order to get his support. However, he said he was disappointed not to have
visited Headquarters and I told him to call me whenever he had time to come
out for breakfast or lunch.
11. Mr. Davis, Administrative Assistant to
Representative William Scott (R., Va.), called to say Mr. Scott wanted to know
the Agency's views regarding the Badillo bill forbidding the Agency to engage in
paramilitary operations. I told Davis that this bill dealt with authority given
the Agency under the National Security Act of 1947 and was exercised only under
the direction of the National Security Council. I said in such matters the Agency
was merely a service organization carrying out direction of higher authority
and, therefore, could take no position for or against the bill. I suggested the
matter be referred to the White House which was best qualified to speak on
such policy questions,
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