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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel 
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Thursday - 27 May 1971 
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Met with Joanne Bailey, in the office 
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of Representative Lawrence G. Williams (R., Pa.), on a constituent letter 
asking the Congressman to comment on the CIA involvement in heroin 
traffic from Laos to Vietnam and gave her a fact sheet for her use in drafting 
a suitable reply to refute the charges. 
Miss Bailey is new on the job and 
asked for guidance on how to handle inquiries in the future concerning CIA 
and I explained the ''no comment! policy and that if it is helpful we would 
be glad to work up suggested replies. 
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Met with Mrs. Peckham, in the office of 
Representative Charles Thone (R., Neb.), 
on a constituent letter implicating 
CIA with the current drug problem and gave her a fact sheet for her use in 
preparing a suitable reply without attribution to the Agency. 
She said she 
wasn't sure that the constituent deserved a reply. 
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ed Leit with Hendrick Gideon, Senate 
Subcommittee 
on Executive Reorganization staff, some material on the 
organization of the intelligence community that he had requested (see Journal 
of 25 May). 
8. reed In followup of his call of 21 May, met 
with Al Tarabochia, Senate Internal Security Subcommittee staff, and he 
pointed out several passages of special interest in the book Venceremos 
Brigade, recently published by Simon & Schuster, and told me that in about 
a week he would make available to us a transcript on an individual being 
detained in the Virgin Islands who alleges detailed knowledge of training 
of revolutionaries in Mexico and Haiti.[———s—~—s*é*WV HX: Division, has 
been advised. 
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| Robert Hull, Department of State, 
advised that 
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ace, 
Deputy 
Director General and Director of Personnel, 
will be appearing before the Hanley Subcommittee, 
2 June 1971, and in his 
testimony will support full exemptions for CIA, NSA, Defense, FBI and 
State and, in addition, that the President be given the authority to designate 
"critical-sensitive'' positions to which the bill would not apply. 
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With respect to the HEW proposed legislation to provide for a 
transfer of credit between Civil Service and Social Security, Hull said that 
State would most likely defer to the views of the Civil Service Commission. 
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