JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP76M00527R000700170004-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 23, 2004
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: March 24, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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CONFIDENTIAL
JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL,
Monday - 24 March 1975
1. Stopped by Senate Foreign Relations
Committee staff office and picked up a transcript which the Committee was
returning to the Agency for sanitization. It was the Director's testimony
before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on 31 May 1960 and the sub-
ject covered was the summit conference.
2. Met with Austin Smith, Defense
Subcommittee, House Appropriations Committee staff, and reviewed with
him Agency proposed changes to the page proofs which he had given us
earlier. Most of these were mainly editorial changes. Smith approved
of all of the proposed changes and provided the Agency with a courtesy
copy of the page proofs.
3. I phoned GSA to obtain a copy of the
regulations promulgated pursuant to the Preservation of Presidential
L.l ecordings and Materials Act JP. L. 93-526). I spoke to Janet Gibson of
the task force which drew up the regulations and she agreed to send me a
copy. I also spoke to Steve Garfinkle, an attorney who did most of the work
on the regulations. I asked him how GSA interpreted "the Presidential
historical materials of Richard M. Nixon" and whether the GSA. would confine
itself to obtaining materials containing evidence relating to the Watergate
crimes. He said that the regulations were broader in scope, that the GSA
had interpreted "Presidential historical materials" as materials created or
received by the White House during President Nixon's administration, and
that they would seek to obtain such materials whether or not it related to
Watergate. Our conversation touched on whether this would include
intelligence reports prepared for the White House and he inferred that
it could. He concluded by saying that the regulations were very complex
and that if I had any questions after reading them, that I should feel free
to give him a call.
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Committee. Smeeton said that Representative: Broomfield had suggested we
get together and I told him I would see him either tomorrow or Wednesday.
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I mnow a staff member of the House International Relations
5. Talked to Jay Sour ovine, Chief Counsel, Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee, who tried to reach me on. Friday. He stated
is a rather precise way that he would like us to take another reading on the
possibility of the Subcommittee having access t
6. George Hallanan, in the office of Representative
Robert McEwen, called tc: say a constituent has raised a question with the
Congressman as to the cost of the submarine -Jrogram.. I told Hallanan that
the Agency was making no comment on this matter but there were several
;public statements by members of Congress that he might find useful. I told
him we would get him references to these.
7. Called Ursula Culver, Appointment Secretary
t:o Senator Hubert Humph-ey, by way of follow up to the Senator's expression
of interest in a briefing on -Portugal. She said the Senator would be out of
the city until Wednesday 'jut it might be arranged Len. She will check and
let me know.
8. Received a call #:?om Ken Davis, in the office
of Senator Hugh Scott, requesting another copy of -:he China Atlas.
will deliver a copy.
g. Accompanied
OCI, to a debriefing of Representative Edward Derwinski covering
recent trip to Yugoslavia to a Parliamentary Conference. See Memo for
10. Received a. call from Senator John Stennis
who asked if we would e_cpeclite the special. cl,eara,ces for Jim Kendall, a
former member of the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee staff who is now
doing special work for Stennis on the full Senate Armed Services Committee
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