JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL WEDNESDAY - 6 OCTOBER 1971

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 3
Wednesday - 6 October 1971
8.1 At his request, met with Mr. John
Martiny, Chief Counsel, House Post Office and Civil Service, together with
Mr. David W. Bowers, Inspector, FBI, Mr. Anthony Mondello, General
Counsel, Civil Service Commission, and Miss Marcia MacNaughton,
Constitutional Rights Subcommittee staff, Senate Committee on the Judiciary.
Mr. Martiny outlined briefly the request to him from Representative Udall
(D. , Ariz.) for staff assistance in drafting a proposed amendment to the
Committee bill on invasion of privacy of Federal employees for introduction
in the full Committee hearing. Mr. Martiny appeared to discard completely
a conversational suggestion that had been made during the Subcommittee
meeting this morning that the "exempt agency employees" might file complaints
with the board established under the bill. Discussion centered on possible
amendment to the bill to require annual reporting to the Committee of cases
of a similar nature processed within the intelligence community framework.
Mr. Martiny indicated he would be back in touch with the individual participants
in the meeting at a later date.
9. I I Met with Mr. Marvin Leibstone, Staff
Assistant to Representative William Randall (D. , Mo. ),in response to his
call and reviewed with him a staff paper that was being prepared for
Representative Randall concerning possible introduction of legislation by
Representative Randall relating to release of intelligence information to
the Congress. The paper is a rational attempt to set out guidelines for
controlling the release of sensitive information and indicated in part that
no action should be taken without prior consultation with Agency representatives.
I pointed out to Mr. Leibstone that a bill almost foursquare with the stated
objectives was introduced earlier this year by Representative Charles Gubser
(R. , Calif. ). I also suggested other areas of review that might be of interest.
Mr. Leibstone was most appreciative and said he would call if any further
.assistance is desired by Representative Randall.
10. Left with Richard Perle, on the staff of
the Senate Subcommittee on National Security and International Operations,
the FBIS translation of a portion of Castro's speech in which he referred to
hijacking of U. S. planes to Cuba.
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SF.N. ABRAHAM RIBICOFF
seeking answers
SEN. EDMUND MUSKIE
-incredulous
By LEE HICKLING
The Times Bureau
WASHINGTON - T he R.ibicoff that the delay' had
Defense Department has told been caused by "our efforts
two incredulous senators that to canvass the v a r I o u s
no one at the Pentagon knows sources of , information to
enough a b o u t the in- determine w 11 a t pertinent
ternational drug traffic to; facts are available."
testify on how and from "Allegations of complicity
where narcotics get i n t o on the part of some public of-
S
outh Vietnam.
"
And ' the Justice Depart-
ment, contradicting a state-
ment Atty. Gen. John Mit-
chell made two months ago,
said it has no evidence
linking "any high official in
the Southeast Asian countries'
with the narcotics traffic
there."
.Sen. Abraham A.' Ribicoff
(D-Conn.) speaking for
himself and Sen. Edmund S.
Muskie (D-Maine) in a Senate
speech prepared for today
says that if this is. the case, the
White House had better find
out what the Defense and
Justice departments a r e
doing in the narcotics field.
Mitchell told Muskie, during
a hearing July 7, that "there
has been involvement by
government officials in some;
of these countries" i n
narcotics 'traffic, and our
government had "identified
some of them." But the '.at-
torney general said lie did not
want to testify about the sub-
ject in, an open hearing and
would do so in an executive.
session.
Since then, Ribicoff, wii? is
chairman of the Government'
Operations subcommittee that
held the hearing, and Muskie
have been trying to get
Mitchell to make good on his
premise, and bring along the
secretaries of State a n d
Defense and the director of
the Central Intelligence Agen-
cy.
ficials,
Kleindienst went on,
"have come to our attention.
At the same time, however,
we do not have any specific
evidence which links any
high official in the Southeast
Asian countries with t h e
narcotics traffic there. Thus,
we do not feel that it would
be appropriate . to testify.
)Further, even a closed
session on the subject could
fan unfounded rumors and
cause :possible in~crnational
repercussions."
The Defense 'Department
had turned clown the in-
vitation, earlier, r"libicoff and
Muskie revealed yesterday.
In a letter July 23, an assis-
tant replied for Secretary
Melvin Laird: "This is to ad-
vise_`yorC'that there are no
personnel in the Department
of Defense qualified to testify
in regard to the problem of
international drug traffic and
, will, therefore, be unable
to provide a witness as you
have requested."
Iibicoff and Muskie are
chairmen of t w o sub-
committees of the Senate
G~wcrument Operations Com-
mittee which have been stu-
dying proposals to consolidate
the campaign a g a i n s t
narcotics in a White House
Office of Drug Control.
The administratign wants
such all office to have nothing
to do with law enforcement
policy and the international
drug traffic, feeling that the
The two.senators said in a
joint statement that drugs are
one of the major problems
facing the armed forces in
Southeast Asia, yet the Pen-
tagon apparently has nobody
who can tell the committee
where the drugs come fl-o111
and liow they get into Viet-
nam.
"This is certainly the kind
.of situation that a White
House office should be able to
look into," their statement
says.
The attorney general had
told the committee that there
was evidence that Southeast
,Asian government officials
were involved in the narcotics
trade, and then Deputy Atty.
Gen. Kleindienst said it had
not, the two senators noted.
1;f that is true, they said,
"The attorney general should
explain his earlier statements
to our subcommittee and the
public."-? ,
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