JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP76M00527R000700150040-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 23, 2003
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: December 18, 1974
• Content Type: NOTES

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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Wednesday - 18 December 1974
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1. Received a call from Jim Kronfeld,
Staff Counsel, House Government Operations Subcommittee on Foreign
Operations and Government Information, advising me that the House
committee had picked up the erroneous entry of subsection (c)(4) listed
,,long those sections in our exemption in (j)(1) in S. 341as it passed
the Senate. This will be dropped when the House passes the bill later
this afternoon. I later received a call from Steve Daniels, House
Government Operations Committee staff, and he also alerted me to the
change, I expressed our sincere appreciation to Kronfeld and Daniels
for their efforts and the efforts of the other members of their staffs in
behalf of the Agency's interests.
I had earlier in the day alerted Frank Reeder, OMB, to the
erroneous entry. He requested that we start preparing our views on the
enrolled bill so they will be ready upon its receipt. Since it is hoped the
President will sign this bill this Friday, if time does not permit the
exchange of correspondence OMB will seek oral views and written comments
will be submitted later.
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Representative Joe D. Waggonner, Jr. (D. , La. ), and asked if we could
be furnished those portions of letter to Mr. Waggonner which
relate to her concerns as to the inadequacy of the Agency's settlement of
her claim for damaged household goods prior to her retirement. I made
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that though the letter was somewhat personal as he mentioned to me last
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up later in the day by and will be furnished to Claims
Review Board.
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3. (1 Talked to Bob Waltheus, in the office of
Max Fridersdorf, White House staff, who said that the President was
t.epecting to sign the Foreign Assistance Act amendments tomorrow morning.
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Wednesday - 18 December 1974
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Called Jim Oliver, OMB, to
advise him that the Director was writing a letter to the President on
ly4rhe intelligence activities provision in the Foreign Assistance Act at
the request of members of the NSC staff. I told Oliver that the original
of the letter was going to the White House but we wanted OMB to know
of this development. It was agreed that Oliver would pick up a copy of
the letter for OMB.
Later, Oliver called me to inquire as to the importance of the
President issuing this statement on the intelligence activities provision
at the time of signing. I told him we felt it was extremely important
in view of the lack of explicit security procedures to overcome House
Rule XI, Clause 27(c).
5? 1 1 Guy McConnell, Professional
Staff Member, Senate Appropriations Committee, called to ask if there
e re any references to the existing oversight committees in law or rules
of the Congress. I told him not to my knowledge except by the very names
of the subcommittees themselves, a long line of precedents, and the
assertion of jurisdiction on legislation and appropriations.
6. Rob Roy Ratliff, NSC staff,
called at 5:15 p.m. to confirm receipt of the Director's letter to the
L,esident on the intelligence activities provision of the Foreign Assistance
Act.
7. (Confidential - JGO) Received a call from Mrs. Ely, Executive
Secretary to Representative Hamilton Fish, Jr. (R. , N. Y. ), who requested
that the briefing on the Soviet Union for Representative Fish be put over until
tomorrow, Thursday, 19 December, at 3:30 p. m. OCI, has
in his remarks about the content of the briefing provided and the support
given him and his staff by the Agency. See Memorandum for the Record.
also on. the Committee staff, on the Middle East. The Senator was most courteot
8. I I Accompanied I
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OCI, to a meeting with Senator Charles H. Percy (R. , Ill. ), William
Ashworth, Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff, and Charles F. Meissner,
9? Received a call from Thelma Shirkey, Assistant
to Marian zarnecki, Chief of Staff, House Foreign Affairs Committee, who
requested some administrative information on the billing from the commercial
reporting firm for the transcript of the briefing of Subcommittee on National
Security Policy and Scientific Developments of 12 December 1974. The
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