JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Wednesday - 14 November 1973 25X1
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and I talked by telephone with
I and Tom Reckford,
Commission on the Organization of the Government for the Conduct of Foreign
Policy staff, regarding the arrangements for Mr. Colby's appearance before
the Commission next Monday, and made arrangements with them for the
necessary security briefings and certifications. We discussed with Mr. Crowley
our requirements regarding the handling of the transcript in his reporting firm
and he had no objections.
Mr. Reckford expressed concern that State and DOD were not making
similar arrangements for physical security of the hearing room and the
handling of the transcripts of their witnesses. We said this was a matter
that we thought had to be resolved by each agency in accordance with its
own requirements.
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3. Jim Woolsey, General Counsel, Senate Armed
Services committee, called regarding the St. George matter. He said that in
connection with the Committee's inquiry into St. George's allegation concerning
Mr. Helms' first knowledge of the Watergate breakin, he would need to know the
names of the watch officers on duty in the Watch Office on 17 June 1972 and all
other relevant information including the Watch Office log, tapes if any, and the
procedures under which the Watch Office operated during the time period from
midnight 16 June 1972 to the time of Howard Osborn's called to Helms on the
evening of 17 June 1972.
I brought up with Woolsey the matter of Dave Dorsen's, Ervin Committee
staff, request for copies of the Agency's correspondence to Senator Symington
on the 28 June 1972 memorandum and pointed out that as he knew there were in
fact two unclassified communications to Symington: the memo of 6 November 1973
and the letter of 5 November along with the text of Helms' response regarding the
28 June 1972 memo. Woolsey said that on instructions from Symington he had
shown the 5 November letter and Helms' response to both Senator Baker and
George Murphy, JCAE staff, and would attest to this if the matter came up. Under
the circumstances I told him we would give Dorsen only the 6 November memo
since the Committee was on notice regarding the other correspondence and
could request it if they wished it.
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Wednesday - 14 November 1973
4. I I Pat Holt, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
staff, called to say Western Hemisphere Subcommittee would like to hear
from the Director on Monday, 26 November 1973 at 10:00 a. m. on the present
and prospective situation in Chile. He said there would undoubtedly be questions
also on the events of last summer and the possible Agency role therein. He
said the Director's testimony would be a followup to the recent testimony of
Std- llenartm n officers on the same subject. He said the hearing would be
in executive session and a transcript would be made.
After checking with the Director, I confirmed to I It th Director's
availability and notified Dick Lehman, OCI, and IO, of the
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5., Talked to Senator Stuart Symington who
confided he was having Andrew St. George in to his office this afternoon
for a talk prior to possibly calling St. George to a formal Committee hearing
on Friday. He said he had run St. George down through Seymour Hersh,
and Symington wanted to be sure that we were pulling together all the
information necessary to refute St. George's allegations.
6.
figures or financial data.
Called Senator Birch Bayh to say we still
He said in this case we need not come over to brief him but he
to let him know as soon as we had a meaningful story to tell.
Received a call from Chuck Conneely, Senate
Armed Services Committee staff, who said he was preparing the Committee
report for our cost-of-living retirement legislation for CIARDS for Committee
action tomorrow. He said he thought it was essential that they include in
the report the gross figures representing the increase in the unfunded libility
for each of the cost-of-living increases. (These figures are included in a
classified statement on the financial impact on the legislation which we provided
the Committee staff.) After we had consulted Mr. Wattles, I advised Conneely
that if he and Ed Braswell, of the Committee staff, felt it was absolutely
essential to put out these figures in order to facilitate action on our bill that
we would not object although we ordinarily prefer not to divulge either personnel
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