JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP77M00144R000300130070-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 29, 2004
• Sequence Number: 70
• Publication Date: October 1, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 2
Wednesday - 1 October 1975
6. ADMINISTRATIVE Received a call. from
Wes Clark, White House staff, who is currently working for John O. Marsh '25X1
Counsellor to the President., Ile said Marsh had received xjmy note with the
attached exchange of correspondence with Representative Bella Abfu r D. N. Y. )
regarding information she has demanded concerning our files on the
case. Clark asked me to review the background on this situation which I
provided hiin. He said he wanted to talk with Jack Marsh about it, but alrn
suggested that we stay in close touch with Steve Blac_khurst, in the Department
of Justice, who was keeping on top of cases like this. I told him I would ask
I lof OGC to do this. Clark was very strong on the position that
the agreemen- worked out with Representative Otis Pike's (D. , N Y. ) Committee
for the transmittal and handlings of classified documents was applicable only
to the Pike Committee. I told him I understood and added that we had made our
offer to Mrs. Abzug and felt that we had to remain with that position, although
we proposed to check with a number of people, including Representative
Jack Brooks (D. , Texas), on this position.
7. I I ADMINISTRATIVE Lewis Hunter, of GAO,
called to say that the International Division of GAO has a program which be
identified as the "Quick Cognizance Studies Program, " in which members
of GAO prepare studies on the basis of their own research and information
obtained in field contacts with U. S. personnel. He said they were currently
sending two men (Bob Brady and an unidentified individual) to Spain for the
study of that country and wondered if we could arran.ge a briefing for them
in view of their departure this weekend. Hunter and I talked this matter over
4t some length, and I stressed the fact that we had no intention of getting into
any operational information with these representatives, nor would we be a.
party to a transmittal of intelligence findings to the Congress or elsewhere
through third parties (like t;he GAO). He indicated that he understood these
ground rules and said the information in these studies is retained in GAO
for their own background purposes in planning and progra.mxn.ing. I took this
up with who will provide a briefing and will also clear it with
the Director and the DDO.
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