JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 1, 2002
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: May 9, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal Office of Legislative Counsel
Friday - 9 May 1975
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6. (Confidential - LLM) Called Mike Reed, Legislative Assistant,
in the Office of the Speaker, in line with our agreement in our last meeting
concerning action the Speaker might take to attempt to deter the proliferation
of sensitive information among congressional committees and to be
considerate of Mr. Colby's time and advised him of our most recent
contact from House Post Office and Civil Service Subcommittee on Post:al
Facilities, Mail, and Labor Management indicating a probable interest in
Mr. Colby's testimony on mail survey. I gave Reed the referent: information
and he promised to see what could be done. I said that we left it up to him as
to what actions could be undertaken which may not be counterproductive.
7. (Confidential a LLM) Called Bill Hogan, Counsel, House Armed
Services Committee, regarding the above matter of the House Post Office and
Civil Service Subcommittee on Postal Facilities, Mail, and Labor Management:
on Mr. Colby's testimony on mail survey and informed him of my conversation
with Mike Reed, of the Speaker's Office, and suggested that he might want
to bring this to the attention of Chairman Lucien Nedzi (D., Mich.) with
the hope that he might be able to convince Chairman Charles H. Wilson
(D., Calif.) to stand down and let the Select Committee :review these matters..
Hogan said he would mention this to Jack Boos, House Armed Services
Committee staff, as he had my call the other day and to Mr.. Nedri..
8. (Confidential -- BAA) Per Mr. Miller's instructions, called
Charles Meissner, enate Forei n Relations -- y staff, and confirmed
10:00 a.m., Tuesday, 13 May for his briefing on the Israeli economic
and military situation. The briefing will be held here at Headquarters
in Mr. Maurice Ernst's, OER, office.
9. (Confidential - BAA) Called Jerome Levinson, Counsel, Subcommni.tt:c,
on Multinational Corporations, t' s to confirm
Thursday, 15 May at 3:30 for his briefing on STATOTHR
10. (Internal Use Only - RJK) Met with Charles Snodgrass,. Defense
Subcommittee, House Appropriations Committee, and gave him a weekly
listin of finis he intelligence publications which had been prepared for him
b I Congressional Support Officer, OCI. I asked Snodgrass
to return the listing when he had completed his review. He said he would
see that the courier returned it to Headquarters.
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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Thursday - 8 May 1975
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19 . (Unclassified - G_T_,C) Called Amelia Graves, Secretary to
Senator Stuart Symington, and advised her that Mr. Duckett was not feeling
well today and would not be able to call the Senator. I again told her if
there was anything I could do to have the Senator call me. She said she
would pass this message on.
20. (Unclassified - GLC) Met with Allen Rexinger, Legislative
Assistant to Representative Robert McClory, and briefed him on the
Harrington and Drinan suits and also filled him in on the circumstances
surrounding Harrington's leak of the Director's testimony on Chile before
the Nedzi Subcommittee of House Armed Services.
21. (Unclassified - GLC) Ellie Vogtmann, San~tn _F r,rnia_n. R__etaF.inna_.
Committee stafF, called concerning the transcript of the Director's testimony
of 12 March 1974 before the Multinational Corporations Subcommittee. She
asked if the copy we returned to them was the only copy in existence, I told
her we had Xeroxed a copy of it so it could be shown to the Director with the
changes we had made on it. She said that was fine. They just did not want
to give the original copy to Justice and not have any other copy available for
the Committee's use if needed.
22. (Unclassified -- GLC) George Lardner, Washington Post correspondej
called regarding the President's comments about CIA and -the in. his
state of the world address. See Memo for Record,
23. (Internal Use Only - PLC) Called Jim Kronfeld, Staff Member,
House Government Operations Subcommittee on Government Information and
Individual Privacy and discussed the chances of a quick amendment to the
Freedom of Information Act to relieve the Agency from responding to STATNTL
under the Freedom of Information Act to release all Agency documents that
have been provided to the Select Comm.itte an the ' ission.
See Memorandum for the Record.
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12. (Confidential - LLM) Returned the call of Jerome Levinson ,TATOTHR
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Counsel, Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations, gnat e For ein
. Gcz F, who is interested in a briefing
of the crporation. I told Levinson that I was sure we could
arrange suc a "briefing but that we could only cover the foreign part:
of the activity and not activities in the United States.
Levinson said the Subcommittee is looking into situations such as the
United Brand episode where multinational corporations were involved in
foreign political payoffs to obtain foreign contracts. I told Levinson
we would back in touch.
13. (Unclassified - LLM) Spoke with Jim McConkie, Administrative
Assistant to Representative Gunn McKay (D., Utah), concerning their
interest in setting up a briefing for a large group of University of Utah
students. I told him we would be back in touch with whatever arrangements
we could work out.
14. (Internal Use Only -- LLM) Talked to Arnold Donahue, OMB,
regarding our desire for their input on the joint committee paper. Donahue
said he would assign the task to Jim Oliver.
15. (Confidential - LLM) Jim Oliver, OMB, called to review the
procedures used to implement the Congressional side of the Presidential
findings requirements imposed by the recent Foreign Assistance
Act amendments concerning covert actions. I provided Oliver a rundown
on how we are handling this.
17. (Unclassified - WPB) Called Arden Schell on the staff of the
House Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Constitutional Rights,
to ask about the status of H. R. 61, a bill on control of criminal justice
information. She told me hearings had been scheduled for 20 and Z2 May,
and they hoped to reach mark-up stage in mid-June.
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Monday - 5 May 1975
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12. (Unclassified -- GLC) Called Ed Braswell., Chief Counsel, Senate
Armed Services Committee, and advised him we had sent him a copy of
the Director's reply to Senator Edward Kennedy's 24 April. letter on
electronic surveillance. Braswell said it was on his desk but he had not
had a chance to read it yet.
13. (Unclassified - GLC) Called Ron Tam.rnen, in the office-of
Senator William Proxmire, and told him I had a letter to the Senator from,,
Dr. Edward Proctor which I would deliver to him tomorrow.
14. (Confidential - GLC) Pat Holt qonatr- T"nre i;;n Relations Committee
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staff, called and inquired about the transcript of the Director's testimony of
12 March 1974 before the Multinational Corporations Subcommittee. I told
Holt of the problems we are having in trying to correct: the transcript and he
agreed it would be best from the Committee standpoint to deliver it uncorrected
and if Justice wants to develop it they can come back to us. I promised Holt
the transcript would be delivered tomorrow morning.
15. (Confidential - PLC) Left with J. Sourwine, Chief Counsel,
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Internal Security. raft version.
of the to-be-published book by for him to 25X1
read and determine if he wishes to call him before the Subcommittee. Also
left with Sourwine was a blind memorandum concerning who is
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17. (Unclassified - PLC) Delivered to the office of Senator Edward M.
Kennedy (D. , Mass. ), as Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on
Administrative Practice and Procedure, a letter from the Agency responding to
a number of questions on electronic surveillance. A copy of this letter was
also delivered to Guy McConnell, Senate Appropriations Committee staff.
18. (Unclassified - PLC) Returned to the office of Senator Walter D. 25X1
Hudd].eston (D. , Ky.) a photo raph of the Senator which was given to this office
for delivery to who called the Senator's office and identified
himself as an Agency employee. CIA records were negative concerning
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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Friday - 2 May 1975
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1. (Confidential - DFM) Called Dave McGinn in the Massachusetts
office of Representative Michael , Ma..ss.) to report: thatPATOTHR
Agency had no one with the nam previously assigned to
Vietnam. McGinn was quite surprised and said that his constituent seemed
very matter of fact about their son's Agency employment and i:ha.t he would
check further and get back to me if necessary.
2. (Unclassified - DFM) Called to report that STATOTHR
we would not be returning the questionnaire W1171-1 ~e za sent us regarding,
our interest in natural resources information. I went over again the general
areas of our interest and our sources, and pointed out that we had very
limited computer handling of this information. I also stressed that: our
interests overlap the interests of certain other Federal agencies or
departments and that any information they supply would probably encompass
our effort. though not ecstatic seemed satisfied.
3. (Unclassified - GLC) Representative Robert Gi:ainao spoke to the
Senior Seminar class on the Hill this morning. The session. went: very well
with lively exchanges on a number of current issues,. Giaimo was especially
concerned about any possible valid allegation that President Kennedy's
assassination was in retaliation to a CIA assassination attempt on Castro, 25X1A
Committee staff, visited the Agency for lunch witl
4. (Unclassified -. GLC) Jim Kronfeld, H zs
be delivered to the Committee until early next week.
5. (Unclassified - JMD) Ellie Vogtnzann, naL :oxei,g~n. 1lelatjon q
Committee staff, called and said the corrected transcript of the Director's
testimony of 12 March 1974 before the Multinational. Subcommittee need not
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Friday - 2 May 1975
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6. (Unclassified - JMD) Hugh Wolff, Library of Congress, called
and asked if they could have two copies of "Guide to CIA. Statutes and Law. "
I told him I would see if copies were available and let him know.
of Trends in the World Population, Food Production and Climate.
will handle this.
-1. (Unclassified - JMU) Ann Scudder, in the office of Representative
Don Fuqua, called and asked for a copy of the publication "Potential Implications
8. (Confidential - GLC) Jim Wilderotter,. White Hous e staff, called
and said he thinks we should start developing whatever kinds of documentation
we can with respect to the degree of congressional notification and acquiescence
in specific operations and activities in the past, See. Memo for Record.
9. (Confidential -- BAA) Per instructions, called.
Charles Snodgrass, House Appropriations Committee staff, and asked if
it would be possible to change the scheduled briefing of the Defense
Subcommittee from 5 June to 2 June at 10:30 a. in. or 4 June at 2:00 p. nm..
Snodgrass said this was not possible because Congress would be in recess
at this time.
10. (Confidential - BAA) Charles Meissner, s~Fo~ egn?,
p,tS Committee staff, called and requested a briefing sometime next
week on the Israeli military and economic situation.. I told him I would b.a-ve
get in touch with him on Monday.
11. (Confidential - PLC) I pD/OER, called and
asked that we handle a call he had received from Gene Sullins, International
Division, GAO. I called Sullins and determined that he wanted the same
Agency briefing given to Senator Charles H. Percy (R. , Ill. ) concerning
controls of nuclear reactors sent abroad referred to by the Senator on the
Senate floor. Sullins also wanted a central focal point i.n'the Agency to which
he could deal rather than "calling all around" a oing. As
concerns his first request, after checking withi OCI, I
advised Sullins that the briefing of Senator Percy was given by ERDA and not
CIA. He also asked to call Mr. Eisenstein. As to the second request, I told
Sullins to call our office unless he was informed to the contrary. I made it
clear that each request would, however, have to be reviewed closely. Sullins
said he understood the relationship that exists between CIA and GAO and
contemplated very few requests. He was interested only in an initial office
/to contact. /
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