JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL WEDNESDAY - 7 NOVEMBER 1973

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00380R000800020034-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 5, 2003
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: November 7, 1973
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Wednesday - 7 November 1973
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5. Discussed with Bill Hammel, Office
of the General Counsel, National Security Agency, NSA's position
concerning H. R. 8865, which establishes a Federal Review Office.
Hammel stated that NSA was requesting an exemption, as H. R. 8865
would create serious statutory conflicts with the personnel security
program in NSA. By statute in 1964, the Director of NSA was given
sole authority to develop and administer a security program for NSA.
I informed Hammel that their position paralleled the position of
CIA, as our security program is also based on statute.
STATINTL 6. called and
asked for any nizormacann we culd give her on congressional action pertaining
to the Federal budgetary process. I told her of the work which is being done
by a joint congressional committee and said we would get to her whatever
information we had available on the subject.
7. I I Jim Woolsey, Senate Armed Services
Committee staff, called this morning to advise that Senator Symington had
released to the press Mr. Colby's memorandum of 6 November 1973 to
Symington. Woolsey commented that he thought it was a good job.
Woolsey also mentioned that Joel Merkel, on Senator Jackson's
staff, might be in touch with us regarding the language they are trying
to insert in Senator Nelson's resolution to establish a Joint Committee on
Domestic Intelligence Activities. Woolsey will be out of town for five days
and has given Merkel my name as a point of contact. Woolsey added that
they have received some suggested language from Defense but he (Woolsey)
is having considerable difficulty in fitting all of this together in some
acceptable legislative format.
8.. 1 1 Called Cedric Kroll, Actuary, U. S.
Treasury Department, and closed out our review of the proposed amendments
to CIARDS, including retirement financing. Kroll suggested a couple of
minor modifications which I said we would be glad to accept. In the 'interest
of expediting OMB clearance and in response to his request for guidance, I
suggested that Treasury's report to OMB on the legislation merely refer
to the discussions held between the two agencies and our acceptance of their
suggestions for minor modificationq.
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