JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP77M00144R000400010046-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 1, 2004
• Sequence Number: 46
• Publication Date: September 5, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Friday - 5 September 1975
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18. I INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING Accompanied
Brian 1,atell, I, to brie Senator Lawton Chiles (D., Fla.) on Panama.
The Senator's main interest was the Panama Canal negotiations and the
fall-out in Panama should the U. S. Government not negotiate a new canal
treaty. His questions covered internal and external relations due to
postponing a new treaty. Present at the briefing was a staff member,
Colin Bradford.
19. LIAISON Took a Call from
Air America, who said he had been approached by David Vienna, staff of the
Senate Government Operations Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations,
asking rather general questions about Air America/CAT organization and
personnel in Vietnam. Carter said he had rebuffed the inquiry by indicating
that Vienna should stay in channels. I said that Vienna only wanted to obtain
the employment records of and that I would call 25X1
Vienna and try to straighten the matter out.
20. 1 FAA Met with Pat Holt, Staff Director,
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and identified the country of the
10 August 1975 Presidential Finding for further review with Chairman.
John Sparkman (D., Ala.).
21. FAA Met with Chairman Lucien Nedzi,
Special Subcommittee on Intelligence, I-louse Armed Services Committee,
and identified the country of the 10 August 1975 Presidential Finding.
I also reviewed with the Chairman the possible exposure of a cover
placement in a private party' s response to a query made by a. member of
the Subcommittee on International Political and Military Affairs, House
International Relations Committee, and Mr. Nedzi agreed we should have
no problem in closing this. out':in a satisfactory fashion directly and.
suggested we see both Chairman Dante Fascell (D., Fla.) and Representative
Donald Riegle (D., Mich.)
I reminded the Chairman of the find made in the DDS&T and the
various committees interest in this topic which may lead to a leak
or public statement.
I reviewed the report that we had been getting that a former employee
of the Mouse Select Committee staff mad be writing articles about the
Agency but we assume not in violation of his secrecy obligation or the
Committee resolution. Mr. Nedzi said he remembered Ed Roeder w,;1]...
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29, FOIA Left with Georgia Jones, in the
office of Senator John G. Tower (R. , Tex. ), and Catherine Wilson, in the
office of Representative John J. McFall P. , Calif. ), copies of correspondence
from Mr. Cary advising that action in the FOI requests of their constituents 25X1
had been completed.
31. LIAISON Sat in with. O1
while Representative Les Aspi.n . , Wis. ), read the undeleted Marchetti
transcript provided b Aspin had read Marchetti's book and requested
the full manuscript to get some idea of what had been deleted. I left to attend
another briefing before Aspin completed his review.
32. BRIEFING Sat in on a briefing on
Iran given by OCI, given to Representative-
William Lehman (D. , Fla. ), at his request in connection with his upcoming
trip to Iran sponsored by the Aspen Institute in Colorado. The briefing was
informal and had been arranged through Searle Field.,Sta.ff Director, House-
Select Cow At the conclusion of the briefing, Lehman asked if he and
his administrative assistant, Joan Kunkel, could come out and have an informal
chat with the Director. Arrangements were tentatively set for a breakfast at
0800, next Wednesday.
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