OLC JOURNAL
Originator: CIA
Document date: 12/17/1976
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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20. (Confidential - GLC) LIAISON Austin Smith, House Appropriations

Committee staff, called and said he wanted to alert us to the fact that he

would be traveling to West Germany, Austria and Switzerland and would be

leaving Monday evening. He said he has no plans for any contact with

our Stations, I thanked Smith for the alert.

21. (Confidential. - GLC) LIAISON Called Paul Daley, Department

of Justice, and discussed with him the Director's meeting with

Chairman Thomas Downing (D., Va.) and Representatives Henry Gonzalez

(D., Texas) and Stewart McKinney (R., Conn.), of the House Select

Committee on Assassinations, and told him that the Director thought it

would be a good idea tö include"Representative Richardson Preyer

(D., N. Car.). Daley thought this was a good idea and we agreed to keep

each other informed on the happenings.

Later in the day, a call was made to Daley's office to inform him

that this meeting had been cancelled due to Committee meetings and had

not yet been rescheduled.

22. (Confidential - GLC) BRIEFING Called Eddie Martin,

Administrative Assistant to Senator Edward Kennedy (D., Mass.), and

told him of our interest in briefing either the senator himself or a designee

on our (LESTIPEND program.

It was agreed that Tom White and

03(grich Isenstead) C/CCS, would come by on Tuesday afternoon at 2:30

to talk to him about this subject.

23. (Unclassified - GLC) LIAISON In the absence of Gretchen Koitz,

spoke with Kathy Cooper, in the office of Representative Les Aspin (L., Wis.),

and told her on a confidential basis that Robert Montgomery Lanigan)was

in fact an employee of the Agency, that the appropriate people in the 3

Agency were aware of the domestic problems and that as far as the Agency

was concerned this problem should be handled between Lanigan) and his

wife, or their attorneys. When asked if we could supply Lanigan's address,

I said I would have to check and would be back in touch on Monday. 3

24. (Secret - THW) BRIEFING I spoke with Fran Williams, in the

office of Senator Lawton Chiles (D., Fla.), and scheduled an appointinent

for 5 January 1977 at 11:00 a.m. to brief the Senator on the PSTIPEND

program.

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