JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP76M00527R000700150075-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 24, 2003
• Sequence Number: 75
• Publication Date: November 13, 1974
• Content Type: NOTES

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7. In the course of a number of conversations
between OUC, (who was in touchwith the Special Prosecutor) and
(who was on the Hill with Chairman Lucien Nedzi and Bill Hogan,
House Armed Services Committee), we were advised of the Committee's decision
to release the Watergate testimony of General Walters and Richard Helms and
Patrick Grey and of the Special Prosecutor's request that we give to their office
a copy of General Walters' testimony of 16 and 21 May 1973. Agreement was
finally reached for the Agency to sanitize the testimony of General Walters
tonight and return it to the Committee first thing tomorrow morning. The
Committee will then review our recommended excisions and send the transcripts
to the Special Prosecutor. We will then receive from the Committee the Helms
and Grey transcripts for sanitization and release.
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on the matter.
8. At the request of I returned a call
from Marty Herwitz, IC Staff Pentagon, who expressed interest in current
1 gislative measures which would restrict the number of military attaches abroad.
informed Herwitz of the sense of the Congress provision in P. L. 93-475
(State/USIA authorization) to the effect that Congress believes the U. S. military
presence overseas in the form of attaches and military assistance missions, etc.
ought to be substantially reduced. I then described to Herwitz the current
language of Section 13 of S. 3394, foreign assistance bill, which would reduce
overall such military personnel overseas, but at the same time allow an increase
in the number of military attaches. Herwitz said that the intelligence community
had requested a small increase in attaches for FY-76, principally for the
Middle East, but the request bad been turned down by OMB for reasons of
"recent legislation. " Herwitz is principally interested in resolving this matter
in anticipation of briefing Mr. Colby Saturday morning. I suggested to Herwitz
that he might consider the argument that if the requested increase in attaches
is sufficiently justifiable in terms of intelligence needs, the Director could take
the position that this increase is not necessarily contra to the sense of the
Congress and would not be contra to Section 13 of S. 3394, if enacted. Herwitz
said this is exactly the information he needed and that he would provide us with
a copy of the papers prepar~ecl for the Director and the Director's decision
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9. Called Jim. Davidson, Counsel, Senate
Government Operations Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations, and
inquired as to the status of the Agency exemption from most of the provisions
14f, S. 3418, the Senate version of the right of privacy bill. He explained that
he and Bob Bedell, OMB, felt it best that the minor technical amendments to
the bill be disposed of first. They hoped to tackle the Agency exemption by
Friday of this week. Davidson understood that Bedell did not see any problems
with our proposal. In response to a direct question, he assured me that he
was not Bluffing us off, and that though Senator Sam J. Ervin, Jr. (D., N. C. )
was opposed to granting the Agency an exemption as CIA, he would be receptive
to an exemption for Intelligence Sources and Methods. He said as soon as Bedell
clears our proposal Davidson will call me and we will go over it together before
he submits it to Senator Ervin. The bill may be scheduled for floor action the
latter part of next week.
10. Called George Gilbert, OMB, and inquired
ms's to the status of certain legislation. During the discussion I assured him that
our Agency legislative program for the next Congress would be submitted to
him by Friday of this week. He requested that we include cost figures on the
proposed adoption by CIARDS of the recent changes to the Civil Service Retire-
ment System. was advised of the call.
11. 1 __J Met with Ralph Preston, House Appropriations
Committee staff, and reviewed with him Mr. Cary's memorandum for the
record of questions relating to the FY 1975 budget. Since each of these items
had been the subject of previous discussions with him, he had no problem or
question about them.
I reviewed with Preston the GAO request for the Economic Intelligence
Weekly and the International Oil Developments for distribution. Preston had no
question about refusal to enter GAO on routine distribution. (With Preston's
agreement the finding was unanimous with each of the four committees that the
Agency not put GAO on distribution for the EIW and the IOD. Mr. Walsh, A/DDI,
has been advised. )
I also talked briefly with Preston on General Walters' testimony before
the U. S. District Court on the Haldeman/Ehrlichman trial.
12, I Met with Berniece Kalinowski, Personal
Secretary to Frank Slatinshek, Chief Counsel, House Armed Services Committee,
and left with her blind memoranda for Slatinshek's use concerning two New York
Times articles-1'U. S. Policy and Soviet Subs"and "CIA Said to Have Asked Funds
for Chile Rightists in 1973.
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