JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73B00296R000100040032-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 20, 2006
• Sequence Number: 32
• Publication Date: June 3, 1971
• Content Type: NOTES

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OFFICE OF ?-:"CLATIVE COUNSEL
Thursd: - 3 June 1971
I I ~Cceivod a cali from i3arbala y,
_7 to oiLice of Senator R1b1CO i. , Conn. ), requi sti lg an inet:`t'Vi v 113r
a c nstituent, Arrangements were made wi;h
OP for tomorrow at 1:00 p. m.
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3. I I Accompanied Messrs. James Frey a..d cartes
i a.vlo:r, of OMB, and A/Ir. John Clarke, OPPB, to a meeting wlc-i N ssrs. Wood
cuff and Preston, of the Senate and House Appropriations Comrn_u.;tee staffs. 25X1A
the meeting Mr. Frey broagh-c up tine s iect of interim unain .or adio Free
_:urop : and Radio Liberty and proposed a in
an amount equivalent to one year's budget for t :e Radios. Wooc : ,i - oppose but
said lice would take up with Senators Ellender (D. , La.) and Yourg (R. , N. Dak. )
an alternative proposal made by Mir. Frey to carry interim funding under the
continuing resolution. Mr. Preston indicated that Mr. Mahon has pr,viously
i _dicai u that he has no objec -ion to tine continuing resolution apprca =it. (See
h'ir, Clarke's Memorandum for the Record) Mr. David Abshire, r ssi:':ant
Secretary of State for Congressional Relations, was advised of the ssions.
hill Woodruff called later to say that he had talked with Cha-rxr,a :.
EU-'_ender about the Radios and E1lender has told him that he would not agree to
r_y continued funding of the Radios which was not in the open. With regard to
chi: use of the continuing resolution, Woodruff said Ellender "didn't say yes and
c._unlt say no. " He added, however, that if the Administration io use
continuing resolution approach, Ellender would want a letter from "somebody'
this effect. He said cite letter should also indicate that there is no objection
-c(i~ the Chairman's stating on the floor at the time the resolution is considered
T' it contains interim funds for the Radios pending action on the C~. bill.
od uff said again that Ellender is not in favor of continuing the Radios and is
?.,~.ing to help with an at-.propriation to cover the cost of their term.ina,cion.
Mr. L'Dshire is being advised o~ this development.
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Wednesday - 2 June 1971
in his office for Messrs. Frey and Taylor, OMB, Mr. Clarke and
concerning the Radios.
Agency. I confirmed with Mr. Preston the meeting for 10:00 a. m. tomorrow
5. I I Met very briefly with Mr. Ralph Pr;.;zAon;, House
Appropriations Committee Staff, and filled him in on a few of the highlights
of ye sterday' s meeting with Messrs. Blandford and Slatinshek. Mr. Preston
noted, in passing, that the schedule of the Committee is very tight but that 25X1A
he has no additional advice from the Chairman on a date for meeting with the
6. Met with Mr. William G. Phillips,
Staff Director, Subcommittee on Foreign Operations and Government
Information of the House Committee on Government Operations, and reviewed
with him the letter to the Director from Chairman William S. Moorhead
concerning information on Agency staff biographies. After some discussion
Mr. Phillips indicated that the prime purpose of the letter was to identify
proper points of contact for the Committee within the various agencies of
Government and that it had not been possible to screen the hundred or more
letters that had been sent out. Mr. Phillips will be pleased to continue
contact with me. No further response is required to the Chairman's letter.
7. I I Met with Miss Jean Gordon, Administrativ
Assistant to Representative ar es 'ubser (R. , Calif. ), who told me that
the letter from the Narcotics Bureau to Mr. Gubser would be forwarded during
the day for inclusion in today's Congressional Record.
Talked to Roberta Gerson, Secretary to
Chief Counsel on the House Select Committee on Crime, about a letter from
I which they had referred to us. This was obviously
a crank-type e e r - rom a disturbed individual and Miss Gerson said it
was forwarded only to us for our information and no response was required.
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9. Left with Sarah Tuggle, on the staff of
Senator Edward Brooke . , ass. ), a suggested reply to an inquiry the
STATOTHR Senator had received from bout Agency involvement with
Radio Free Europe and Air America.
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Tuesday - 1 June 1971
5. Accompanied Messrs.
CI Staff, and A, to a briefing of Ed Braswell an
Jack Ticer,of the Senate Armed Services Committee staff,on the drug
situation in Southeast Asia. The Committee staffers were pleased to
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The briefing was rather general in nature
and did not get into great detail on Saigon government involvement in the
problem.
Braswell repeated the statement he has made on numerous
occasions since the Defense procurement authorization bill was before
the Armed Services Committee last year that they needed information
from the Administration regarding our policy in Southeast Asia. As
before, I told Braswell this was something that should be taken up
either with the Department of Defense or the White House.
Accompanied Carl Duckett, DDS&T, and
of DIA, in a meeting with Russ Blandford and Frank
Slatinshek, of the House Armed Services Committee staff, to clarify
the confusion about the new Soviet ICBM silos. Duckett and II 25X1
emphasized that there was no disagreement between CIA and DIA as to
the evidence regarding the new silos, and it was too soon to arrive at
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Blandford and Slatinshek with a brief unclassified prepared statement
spelling this out, but Blandford and Slatinshek indicated they would feel
free to go beyond.this in public statements which might be issued by
the Committee.
After and Duckett departed I briefed Blandford and
Slatinshek on the E -II class Soviet sub that just arrived in Cuba.
7. Met with Ralph Preston, HouseAppropriatio ns
Committee staff, on the E-II class Soviet sub in Cuba.
I also told Preston of.the request of Blandford, of the House Armed
Services Committee staff, that he and Slatinshek wanted a briefing on the25X1A
Agency budget in order to backstop Chairman Hebert in the event of
questions from the floor regarding I told
Preston how we plan to respond to this request and he seemed to in this
satisfactory. I suggested that he let Chairman Mahon know that for the
first time the Chairman of the Armed Services Committee was gettiiig into
the Agency budget which had heretofore been discussed only with
Appropriations Committee.
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