JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL FRIDAY - 7 SEPTEMBER 1973

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• Publication Date: September 7, 1973
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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 3
Friday - 7 September 1973
7.1 1 GLC) Guy McConnell, on the staff of the
Senate Appropriations Committee, called to say that Chairman McClellan
has decided to defer an Agency intelligence briefing for the time being.
McConnell said if the Chairman decides on such a briefing it will not be
before the 16th of September. I have notifiedF OCI, and the25X1
Director's office.
8. JGO) Met with Dr. John Brady, House Foreign
Affairs Committee staff and scheduled a meeting for Tuesday, 10:30 a. m.
in Brady's office forl and myself to debrief him
on the Wolff, Rangel, A.bzug, Stark, Addabbo, and Murphy narcotics Far
East survey trip. Brady gave me a copy of the press release given out this
afternoon by Representative Wolff. He told me off-the-record that the
release was prepared by Wolff's office with no coordination with him or
some of the other members of the delegation. During the press conference
Wolff and others inferred a certain lack of cooperation or lack of information
in the various missions in their dealings with the delegation. Representative
Rangel, in what was described as an attempt at humor, quipped that there
is more evidence of CIA involvement in narcotics traffic than there is
involvement of the PRC. F -I has been advised.
9.1 JGO) Met with William Phillips, Staff Director,
Subcommittee on Foreign Operations and Government Information, House
Government Operations Committee, in response to his letter to me of
24 August 1973 concerning Agency public affairs activities. Phillips was
concerned that the continuing publicity concerning Angus MacLean Thuermer,
the Agency's "public information officer.'' At Phillips' request, we were
joined by Norman Cornish, Deputy Staff Director, and Jim Kronfeld, Staff
Counsel. I described in general terms the functions of the Assistant to the
Director and was able to distinguish them to the satisfaction of the Committee
representatives that that office does not equate to what is normally described
as public affairs activities. No further action is required. See Memorandum
for the Record.
Mr. Cornish took the occasion to mention that the Committee will be
scheduling hearings on Federal Government use of the polygraph and
psychological stress evaluators. He will call me as soon as the Subcommittee
schedule on this matter starts to take shape.
CONFIDENTIAL CRC, 4/11/2003 .
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