JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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November 6, 1975
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Approved For Release 2004/10/07: CIA-RDP77M00144R000500060 6 ._ JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL Thursday - 6 November 1975 I. I LIAISON Delivered to the office of Representative Charles Rose, III (D., N. C.) background information on the duties and responsibilities of the Agency that Representative Rose had requested. 2. LIAISON Dick Lasaar, of Representative Sidney Yate's (D. , Ill.) office, called to request a copy of Where's What. I told him our only remaining copy was being placed in. the Library of Congress. 3, EGISLATION Jim Stimpson, OMB, called to comment on a portion of our prepared testimony on S. 2515 (testing on human subjects), which we had forwarded to him. earlier in the day. He requested that we make our support for a Commission more conditional in view of the fact that HEW was opposing the creation of the Commission proposed in S. 2515. 4. LIAISON Charles Stevenson, of Senator John Culver's (D., Iowa) office, called requesting the latest unclassified information on Soviet activities in Somalia. Senator. Culver was going onto the floor early in the afternoon to make a statement on the issue. After checking with Mr. OCI) and I told Stevenson that we did not have anything on an unclassified basis that would undercut the thrust of Senator Dewey Bartlett's (R. , Okla..) and Representative Samuel Stratton's (D., , N. Y.) reports and that while there was sorr.i.e recent Soviet activity there, if anything it indicated more of the same. I told him we would be happy to come up and discuss the, matter directly with the Senator, 5. LIAlISON Called Paul Hoff, on tl~e staff of the Senate Government Operations Committee, and arranged to meet with him next Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. on the question of existing appropriations and authorization procedures for the intelligence community. 1A IC Staff, will accompany me. This was a follow-up item from Eery 40 c::o )er meeting with Iloff and other members of the Committee staff. 25X1 Approved For Release 2004/10/07 : CIA-RDP77M00144R0p0500060026-6 25X1 Approved For Release 004/111py0/07 : C - S~ r.1 Journal -- Office of Legislative Counsel Thursday -- 6 November 1975 ET 4R0005000 Page 4 25X1 12. BRIEFINGS Accompanied the Director and 25X1A Messrs. Nelson andl -1 to a briefing of the full. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the subject of Africa. _Sce Memo for Record. 25X1 25X1A 25X1A 25X1A 25X1 13. LIAISON Charles Lombard, Senate Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee staff, called with three items on his mind. He wanted to know if we had seen Senator Barry Goldwater's remarks on the floor of the Senate about the Director's dismissal and the need for continued Select Committee investigations. I told him we had indeed seen them and forwarded them to the Director,. Secondly, Lombard asked if we were aware of any newspaper clippings which would support the argument that the proceed.ingsof the Select Committees we the Agency's operations abroad. I suggested he raise this withi Review Staff. Thirdly, Lombard sail of the Senate Select Committee, is interested in a position with the Agency when the current investigations are completed and asked if I could check 25X1A on the possibilities for him. I suggested to Lombard that he send me a resume on which he said he would do. 25X1A Stimpson, OMB, regarding his suggestions to that we make certain changes in our prepared statement before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure tomorrow. I told Stimpson that the statement was completed and ready to go to the Subcommittee and I felt we had adequately covered the points which he raised in slightly different words. After going over these items individually, Stimpson agreed but made it clear that we should not take a position with the Subcommittee . which would be construed as support for chairman Edward M. Kennedy's (D. , Mass.) bill, S. 2515. 25X1 25X1 15. LIAISON Called Guy McConnell, Senate Appropriations Committee staff, to advise him the Senate - Subcommittees of Health and Administrative Practice and Procedure ?staffors were pressing us very hard to declassify several, documents including IG reports which -ire felt we could not make public. I told McConnell I would appreciate it if he would inform Chairman McClellan of this development in the event be. felt it appropriate to take the matter up with Senator Edward Kennedy (D:. , \/la.ss. ) at tomorrow's hearing. McConnell said he would talk with the Senator about it. Approved For Release