JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00380R000500100001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 16, 2001
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 29, 1973
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page Z
Monday - 29 October 1973
3..t (Secret GLC) I met with Ed Braswell, Chief Counsel, Senate
Armed Servic ?ommittee, and reviewed with him the matter of our interest
in obtaining for CIARDS the recent cost-of-living increase approved for the
Civil Service Retirement System. Braswell said he had no problem with
this except the possible matter of time left in this session for getting any
legislation on the floor and suggested that we get this bill to the Committee
as quickly as possible. He also expressed the hope that our transmittal 25X1A
material cover the particular effect which this legislation would have on
the CIARDS.
I also briefed Braswell on our plans to establish a station i
and left with him the Agency's report on S. 1547, a bill to establish a Joint
Committee on National Security.
Jim Woolsey, of the Committee staff, joined us for a few minutes and
briefed both Braswell and myself on Senator Nelson's intention to introduce a
bill to establish a Joint Committee on Domestic Intelligence. Woolsey said
that Senator Jackson's staff has contacted him on this legislation and indicated
that Jackson is interested in cosponsoring the Nelson bill but wants to be
certain that CIA, DIA, NSA, and any other agencies within the foreign intel-
ligence field are excluded from the jurisdiction of the Committee. Woolsey
said he has suggested several possibilities to Jackson's staff. He Would
prefer a specific exemption for the Agency and other foreign intelligence
components but he understands that Nelson will not accept this. Woolsey's
fall-back position is to have Nelson include in his bill the same language
which is in the Stennis bill (S. 2597) setting forth the extent of CIA's
involvement in domestic activities. I expressed the view that it would be
unfortunate if this kind of substantive language were included in legisla.ti.on
which would be outside the jurisdiction of the Armed Services Committee
and suggested as an alternative that language be put in the Nelson bill which
would exclude various intelligence agencies by definition since their function
is one of foreign rather than domestic intelligence.
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