JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSELTUESDAY - 17 OCTOBER 1972

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74B00415R000200170004-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 15, 2006
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: October 17, 1972
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 4
Tuesday - 17 October 1972
11. (Confidential - GLC) Captain Ed Bauser, Staff Director, Joint
Committee on Atomic Energy, called and asked if he could get a briefing
this afternoon on the latest information on the naval construction at Nikolayev.
Bauser had seen the Beecher article in the New York Times today and this
had sparked his renewed interest in the subject he has been following rather
closely. He also mentioned interest in any new information on the "Lenin"
and any new information on Soviet submarines. I told Bauser it would be
difficult to set this up this afternoon, but made arrangements for a briefing
tomorrow morning at 11.
12. (Secret - GLC) Met with Bill Woodruff, Counsel, Senate Appro-
priations Committee, and brought him up-to-date on a number of current
intelligence items. See Memorandum for the Record.
We chatted briefly about the ramifications for the Agency of a debt
ceiling along the lines now being discussed in the Congress. Woodruff said
if such a ceiling were imposed it could well bring about a cut in the Agency
budget. (Later in the day the Senate rejected the ceiling proposed in conference
and sent the legislation back to the conference committee. )
13. (Unclassified - LRH) Anthony L. Mondello, General Counsel,
Civil Service Commission, called to say they had an urgent request from
Senator Kennedy's Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure,
for the personnel folders on a number of the people who have been named in the
Watergate case, including Apparently the Commission will be
under some compulsion to furnish such personnel folders within their jurisdiction.
Mr. Mondello asked me if we were subject to Civil Service rules and regulations
under some circumstances. I said we took the general position that we were not
subject to any of their rules and regulations although we cooperated with some
of their requirements, such as the equal opportunity regulations, but not on the
grounds that we are technically subject to them. Mr. Mondello said he under-
stood and asked if we did not have a special exemption under 50 U. S. C. A. 403g.
I said this was true. He, therefore, proposes to talk to the Subcommittee staff
in connection with to say that after consulting with me he does not
believe he has jurisdiction in that case. This, of course, may well bring a
request from the Subcommittee staff directly to us.
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