JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP76M00527R000700140023-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 10, 2014
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: October 3, 1974
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Thursday - 3 October 1974
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12. Delivered to William J. Van Ness, Chief 25X1
Counsel, Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, for Senator
Henry M. Jackson (D. , Wash.) the blind memorandum, "Impact of High Oil
Prices on the Less Developed Countries," and the Statistical Survey requested
by Senator .M rk-qon nel Vn Nac uring the briefing yesterday provided by
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13. Called Marian Czarnecki, Chief of 25X1
Staff, House Foreign Affairs Committee, this afternoon and asked him if
there was anything he could tell me about the Committee's consideration
i.e'l-oday of the various amendments dealing with covert activities. Czarnecki
said the Committee had not gotten to these amendments today but he expects
they will come up at a Committee meeting on Tuesday.
14. Received a call from Frank Slatinshek, 25X1
Chief Counsel, House Armed Services Committee, advising me that
Representative Nedzi had talked with Representative Jack Brooks (D., Tex.)
about the SAT matter and in Slatinshek's terms had "mollified" Brooks on
the basis that we would give Brooks a full briefing on the SAT sale including
access to the GAO report on its investigation. Slatinshek said this meeting
has been set for 9:30 Monday morning and at his request I called Brooks and
confirmed this arrangement.
15. General Wilson called to advise of a
conversation he has had with General Graham. Frank Slatinshek, Chief
Counsel, House Armed Services Committee, contacted Graham today
about a report they had received from Seymour Hersh to the effect that
when CIA withdrew from activities in Chile that the Defense attaches took
over. General Wilson said there is no truth to this. In addition, General
Hon, who is now with DIA, was an attache in Chile at the time and General
Graham has arranged for him to meet with Representative Nedzi tomorrow
morning to talk with him about the matter.
16. Delivered to the Senate Government
Lev,erations Committee the Agency's report on Committee Print No. 5 of
a?,?.?14,8, the right of privacy bill. I explained to the secretary of Mr. James
Davidson, staff member handling the bill, that OMB had just cleared our
report this morning.
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Thursday - 3 October 1974
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7. Called Bill Jones, Subcommittee on
Government Activities, House Government Operations Committee, following
Mr. Cary's conversation with Representative Jack Brooks (D., Tex. ), to
confirm the arrangements for the briefing of Representative Brooks and Jones
on SAT and the sale of Air America, that Chairman Lucien N. Nedzi (D., Mich, )
had requested. Jones said the briefing would be at 9:30 a.m. , Monday,
7 October, in Representative Brooks' office. Jones had no additional guidance
saying he had just learned about it himself. I told him of our
office would be there along with two or more experts who are intimately
acquainted with the details. Following this conversation, I called
OS, office to alert him to the upcoming briefing.
8. Talked to Paul Goulding, Administrative Assistant,
and Tom Hughes, Press Secretary, to Senator Claiborne Pell (D. , R. L),
concerning an incident during the visit of Senator Pell and Senator Jacob K. Javits
(R., N.Y.) to Cuba. See Memorandum for the Record.
9. Met with Frank Slatinshek, Chief Counsel,
House Armed Services Committee, and briefed him on the current situation in
Cyprus; coup plotting in Greece and the health of Lon Nol.
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10. Met with Chairman Lucien N. Nedzi (D., Mich.), 25X1
Intelligence Subcommittee, House Armed Services Committee, who told me
he had had a meeting with Seymour Hersh during the day. See Memorandum
for the Record.
Also rescheduled with Nedzi the briefing to 11:00 a. m., Friday,
4 October, with Carl Duckett, DDS&T, on a sensitive project. Also arranged
with Nedzi for him to visit the EA Station Chiefs luncheon briefly at noon time
on Monday, 7 October.
We discussed the correspondence of Representative Jack Brooks
(D. , Texas) at some length and it was agreed that Nedzi would talk to Brooks
following the line of his original conversation in April--that the Committee has
had the SAT matter under detailed review. We agreed that he will talk to
Brooks before the Agency gives any further consideration to a written response
to the letter of 23 September.
11. Confirmed with Werner Brandt, Legislative
Assistant to Representative Thomas S. Foley (D., Wash.), Chairman of the
Subcommittee on Livestock and Grains, House Agriculture Committee, the
breakfast briefing on Soviet and PRC feedgrains and climatology for Wednesday,
9 October, at 8:00 a. m.
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