JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP76M00527R000700150020-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 23, 2003
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: March 14, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Friday - 14 March 1975 CONFIDENTIAL
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14. I I Picked up from the office of Richard M.
Moose, Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff, several questions which
CIA would be asked during its briefing of Senator Dick Clark (D. , Iowa)
on Monday, 17 March
15. Met with Jim Kronfeld, Counsel,
Subcommittee on Government Information and Individual Rights, House
Government Operations Committee, and discussed the Agency's
exemption in the Privacy Act. Kronfeld was in agreement with the
general thrust o -of "thincl ng to exempt intelligence sources and methods
and modify court review. He added that Representative Paul N. McCloskey, Jr..
(R. , Calif. ) is very concerned regarding the impact of the Freedom of
Information Act upon agencies and departments, as clearly demonstrated
,by the Director during his testimony on the Privacy Act. McCloskey will
(!introduce legislation to amend the Freedom of Information Act. Kronfeld
thought it best and consistent that CIA seek for the FOI Act the same
exemption as it will be seeking for the Privacy Act. I told him we would
hope to have something formulated by the latter part of next week, and he
asked for a draft of our proposal as soon as possible in order to discuss
it with Representative McCloskey.
16. Dropped off in the office of
Representative Andrew Maguire (D. , N. J. ) for personal delivery to
the Representative Mr. Gary's response to the Representative's inquiry
as to any information maintained by the Agency concerning him.
17. At his request, left for Jim Guirard,
Administrative Assistant to Senator Russell B, Long (D. , La. ), excerpts
from my personal copy of "The Evil Tree of Communism" which further
illustrates basic communist doctrine concerning their disbelief that man
has a soul.
18. I ILeft with Bill Hogan, Counsel, Intelligence
Subcommittee, House Armed Services Committee, another copy of the Agee
book for Chairman Lucien N. Nedzi (D. , Mich. ), per his request.
I also went over with Hogan again the agreed upon deletions in the
22 July 1971 recorded transcript of the General Cushman/E. Howard Hunt
meeting, which is to be included in the Committee's open publication on
Watergate.
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Called Mrs. Sally horn, in the office
of Representative Jonathan Bingham, and told her we could arrange for
Carl Duckett to brief the Congressman personally on SALT and related
topics and suggested she come up with several dates that were convenient
to the Congressman and I would check Duckett's calendar. She asked again
if it was alright for her to sit in on the briefing and I indicated it was not
in view of the subject matter involved. She said she would talk further with
Bingham and be back in.teuch with us.
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and I also said I would raise it with Jack Marsh, Counselor to the President..
D e a topic for discussion with the Ad Hoc Group being chaired by
who was interested in any information I could give him regarding the Budget:
Committees since OMB is preparing a response to a request they have received.
from GAO reportedly on behalf of the Senate Budget Committee. I reviewed
a good bit of the background on this with Oliver including my conversations
with Guy McConnell, Senate Appropriations Committee staff.. I tried to make
the point with Oliver that someone was going to have to get the Budget Com_
mittees and the Appropriations Committees to agree on. their respective areas
of jurisdiction, otherwise OMB and the Executive departments were going to
be caught in the middle between these two groups. I suggested that this might.
25X1 12 Called Chairman Lucien Nedzi, Intelligence
Subcommittee, House Armed Services Committee, and told him the Director had
asked me to follow up on the question Nedzi had raised with the Director at a
social gathering last night concerning Representative Michael Barrington',-,
participation in a "mock trial" in Mexico City last month. See Memo for
Record.
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to chat with him about the subject of GAO and Senate Budget Committee interest
in Defense and intelligence matters. Maury recognized this was going to become
an increasingly difficult problem. He said they are currently dealing with
Andrew Hamilton, of the Senate Budget Committee staff.
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