JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP76M00527R000700150036-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 23, 2003
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: December 23, 1974
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal -? Office of Legislative Counsel
Monday - 23 December 1974
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4. (Internal Use Only - LLM) Col_ Clinton Granger, NSC staff, .
called in light of the press allegations over the weekend and'wanted to know
`if we still wanted to press for a statement.by the President on section 32
tzrrthe Foreign Assistance Act as submitted, to OMB, the National Security
Council staff and others on 13 December 1974. Granger indicated that
even before the disclosures, such a statement was meeting resistance in
OMB, of which we were avrare, and after consulting with the Director, I
told' Granger that -we much appreciated his efforts but that we prefer to
back off on pressing for a statement at this time and he said he would get
the message across to OMB.
5. (Internal Use Only - LLM)a lawyer within 25X1A
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N I called and wanted to discuss the ramifications of the
Freedom of Information Act as well as the availability of intelligence on
foreign control of various U. S. industries, said he was 25X1A
separate from normally worked with AG/OGC.
I said, it wouldibe more appropriate if he talked with a member of our - 25X1A
General Counsel office, said he would give Matelski a call.
6. (Confidential - JGO) In response to a call from L. James
.Kronfeld, Staff Counsel, Subcommittee on Foreign Operations and Government
Information, House Government Operations Committee, I met with
Kronfeld, Max Stetner and William G. Phillips, Staff Director of the
Subcommittee. Chairman William S. Moorhead (D., Pa.) has requested
a detailed report of the Committee staff concerning the information provided.
the staff upon which he and Representative John N. Erlenborn (R. , Ill,) had
relied in their statements concerning Agency exemption from the privacy
L.- "11. If the press is to. be believed, the information provided the Committee
by was faulty. I explained to Phillips et al that
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is one of our most competent staff officers and that the information he had
provided had been staffed out within the Agency and provided to
for his use.with the Chairman and the Committee. I also pointed out that
if there was error in the information, it is an error. that. is unknown at the
present time to our office. I assured them from my knowledge that the
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present press reports, in consequence, insofar as the existence of such
files, would be in error. Phillips indicated that Chairman Moorhead has
requested a report not later than Friday, 27 December. I told Phillips
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would meet with them himself on Friday.
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