JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP76M00527R000700110012-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 11, 2003
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: February 26, 1974
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 3
Tuesday - 26 February 1974
9. I IDelivered to Ralph Preston, House
Appropriations Committee staff, an additional copy of the memorandum
"Oil Ownership and Profits in the Middle East" and a copy of the Director's
letter to Senator McClellan, Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee,
of 22 February 1974 concerning Senator Proxmire's proposal for release of
community budget figures.
10. Called Rob Roy Ratliff, NSC staff,
and discussed a substitute sentence in the Agency's report to Chairman
John C. Stennis (D., Miss.) on S. 2321, which places tenure limitations on
the Director of Central Intelligence. The NSC preferred that the Agency not
defer to the National Security Council as to the advisability of requiring the
President to specifically authorize in writing every specific function to be
performed by the Agency. Ratliff will check out the substitute sentence
with the NSC and call us back.
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11. OLC, delivered to
George Armstrong, Minority Staff Member, House Committee on Internal 25X1A
Security, an unclassified rundown without attribution on international
terrorist groups prepared by I CI Staff. The study was requested
by Armstrong for use by Representative John M. Ashbrook (R. , Ohio) in
connection with Committee hearings on terrorism beginning tomorrow.
12. Met with George Gilbert, OMB, and discussed
Agency views on State an Justice reports to the House Judiciary Committee
on 223 which prohibits the solicitation or acceptance of private funds
to be used by a Government agency to influence a foreign election. I explained
that we have no problem with the bill as written, but were concerned by the
comments in the State and Justice reports which can be interpreted as
favoring amending the bill to cover areas that would affect our activities.
Gilbert understood the Agency's concern, but noted that State's report .had
been cleared. Justice, however, is being requested by OMB to revise their
comments and limit their position to the bill as written. (See Memorandum
for Record.) Gilbert also noted that his file indicates the Agency had concurred
in State's report to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last year when
OMB asked for our comments on a draft of the bill. I told Gilbert I was sure
that we had commented only on the draft bill and not State's report, but I
would check. I also advised Gilbert that our people had reviewed and
concurred in the transcript of the testimony to be given later in the day
(26 February) on H. R. 12223.
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