JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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December 11, 2003
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October 15, 1975
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25X1 Approved For Release 20q 4/01/14 C r1p X7J 1 dR000400050042-0 Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Wednesday - 15 October 1975 Page 3 25X1 8. BRIEFING Accompanied 25X1A , to a briefing o Representative John Murphy (D., N. Y.) in connection with his trip to Korea as head of a congressional delegation to participate in South Korean Veterans Day. A number- of personal staff sat in on the briefing including: Larry O'Brien and Carl Perian. Following his visit to Korea, Mr. Murphy will travel to Indochina in connection with his House Committee on Merchant Marine & Fisheries responsibilities on development of the Nation's Continental Shelf. In late November, following his return, he said he would like to get together with us and share his observations. Today's briefing lasted for about two hours and was very well received with the Congressman being an old Korean hand and asking a number of questions. Unclassified biographical material and maps were provided and we gave the Congressman, for his use only, a classified OER unattributable report on the state of the economy in Korea. Mr. Murphy will. be addressing the Korean General Assembly and the university in Seoul. He will meet with representatives of the State Department and other agencies in preparation for the speeches. 25X1 25X1 25X1 9. LIAISON Left for Ed Braswell Chief Counsel, Senate Armed Services Committee, two blind memos on the legislative intent that the details of congressional briefings under Section 662 of the Foreign Assistance Act on Presidential Findings are to be provided orally pursuant to national security interests. This is a follow-up of an earlier conversation I had with Braswell concerning the amount of detail that is placed in the record during these briefings. 10. LIAISON Met with J. Sourwine, Chief Counsel, Subcommittee on Internal Security, Senate Judiciary Committee, to indicate that we would be providing a r or __t a. the Select Comm tt;c,6- on nti.r-dealings with Jack Norpel, formerly of his staff, who had put us in touch with an informant of the Subcommittee who in turn provided information for use in the protection of Mr. Helms and an Agency facility. Sourwine appreciated our interest in making Senator James Eastland (D., Miss.) and himself aware of this before the event and he said he had no problems as long as the name of the informant was not disclosed and I told .aim it would not be. Mr. Gambino, D/OS, has been advised. CONFIDENTIAL Approved For Release 2004/01/14: CIA-RDP77M00144R000400Q 421q/21/2003 25X1 25X1 Approved For Release 2 04/01/14: CIA-RDP77M00144R000400050042-0 CONFIDENTIAL Journal Office of Legislative Counsel Page 6 Wednesday - 15 October 1975 they satisfied. 19. LIAISON Frank Slatinshek, Chief Counsel, House Armed Services Committee, called and said the Committee has just: received a letter from Chairman Pike giving them a series of questions on what reports the Agency has given. them on covert action operations. Slatinshek said he would like eitherl or me to stop by`to see 25X1A him and. talk to him about it. Slatinshek said some members have expressed an interest in going to the People's Republic of China and asked me if I knew who he could get in touch with other than the State Department. I told Slatinshek I thought the PRC had a liaison officer in Washington whom I thought he could talk to and. that I would be back in touch about it. I told Slatinshek that the SenaLr. ` r..t CommiLi&e has gotten on to some of our documents having to do with committee briefings. It relates. to Chile, Cuba, and a number of other topics. I told him the Director had provided the Ssome statistics but the Committee has now come back WNW- and asked to look at our Journals. I told Slatinshek, as he knew, we also write memoranda for the record on our briefing sessions; our Journal, only indicate who accompanied the Director to the briefing, the date, the time, and then references the Memorandum for the Record. I said I expect that if they look at our Journal items they will then. want access to our. memoranda, but that is where we would draw the line. These memoranda are usually prepared in lieu of a transcript and are privileged Committee documents in our custody. Therefore, the Select Committees would have to direct any requests for them to the oversight committee concerned. I told him that this is the way Guy McConnell, Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, and Edward Braswell, Chief Counsel, Senate Armed Services Committee, feel about them and asked Slatinshek if he agreed with this philosophy. He said he did indeed and asked if we had gotten the same kind of request from the House Select Committee. I told him not as such; but they have asked about covert action. Slatinshek said the House Select Committee asked them how many times we have reported to them and were 25X1A 25X1 25X1A 25X1A . JGE , GE L. CAI( Legislative Coun. zc1 cc: O/DDCI CONFIDENTIAL Ex. Sec DD1Nppt!d f)qT, as ( / 1/Lth41/aA RDI a7iM Mr. Warner Mr. Thuer. mer