JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00380R000600190050-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 2, 2003
• Sequence Number: 50
• Publication Date: April 24, 1974
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 4
Wednesday - 24 April 1974
9. LC) Called the following Agency contact points
regarding a us ie u committee on Surveillance and advised them of
my meeting with Tom Korologos, of the White House staff, and also that
the Director may bring this matter up at the USIB meeting tomorrow:
a. Bill Donovan, Investigative Service, Department of
the Navy. Donovan said they had seen nothing on this yet but he would
advise their USIB representative.
b. Marvin Gentile, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
for Security. Gentile said they have an incomplete draft they are supposed
to meet on soon and he will keep us advised.
c. Merrill T. Kelly, Deputy Director for Operations, Army
ACSI. Kelly said they have been kept quite busy with the Ervin Committee
questions and an ACLU suit. He said he would send over copies of the
answers to these questions for our information.
d. General Counsel of NSA. said they 25X1
never received questions from Norvill Jones, of the Subcommittee staff.
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calls.
e. Colonel Ned D. McDonald, Air Force. He said he was
unaware of the whole thing. He will check into it and be back in touch with me.
Appropriations subcommittee.
I subsequently checked with Paul Summitt,
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.10. PLC) Met with Tom Hart, Senate Judiciary
Committee staff, who handles Committee matters for Senator Robert C. Byrd
(D., W. Va.). We.discussed S. 2543. which amends the Freedom of Informa-
tion Act and overrules the case. Hart strongly supported our
position on the bill. He made it clear, however, that Senator Byrd, though
a strong advocate of law and order and supporter of the Agency, is very
unpredictable on the positions he will take. He felt sure that if the Agency
makes a good case, Senator Byrd will support us. He suggested that we
prepare a detailed memorandum justifying our position which Hart will use in
discussing the bill with Byrd. Hart feels certain that the Judiciary Committee
will report out a bill, as the feelings in the Senate on this matter are running
very high. He hoped that he could get Senator Byrd to agree to our amendments.
He suggested that we continue our efforts with the other staff personnel, as he
feels the Agency has a good case. He further suggested that the Director
submit his written comments on the bill to Chairman James O. Eastland
(D., Miss.) and to Senator John L. McClellan (D., Ark.) as Chairman of our