JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP77M00144R000500070036-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 2, 2004
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: July 10, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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CONFIDENTIAL
JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Thursday - 10 July 1975
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1. Called Mr. Foster Collins, Deputy for USIB
and Special Support, Office of National Security, Department of the Treasury,
and advised him that there was no mention of Treasury, Customs or any
other agencies at the Director's appearance this morning before the House
Post Office and Civil Service Subcommittee on Postal Facilities, Mail,
and Labor Management, 'so they were in the clear. This was true of both
the Director's testimony and his statement. A copy of the statement was.
LDX'd to Mr. Collins around 1300 hours today.
Delivered a package from the
Director to the office of Senator Stuart Symington (D., Mo. ).
3. Received a call from. Dr. Richard
Grimmett, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, who
requested a copy of the so-called "Vail Report. " I told him we would put
one in the mail to him tomorrow morning.
4. I I In response to an inquiry from
in Mr. Thuermer's office, called the office of Senator Stuart Symington
(D. , Mo. ).. One of his aides read to me the statement made by the Senator
regarding his May 1973 meeting with Mr. Colby on questionable activities.
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Administrative Assistant to Senator Russell B. Long (D., La.). Mr. Guirard
was told of a Newsweek magazine mention of a CIA report dealing with 'an
attempt by th,- OPEC. develop their own fleet of oil tankers,
Senator Long ast year sponsored a bill to require 20*percent of all oil imports
to be carried on U. S. flag ships, and this Newsweek article has revived the-
25X1A Senator's interest in such a bill. Guirard asked that the Senator be sent a
copy of the report, and I agreed to look into the matter. was
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Mail and Labor Management on this date.
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Accompanied the Director to his meeting
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10. I I In the absence of John Marsh, Counsel
to the President, I talked to his Assistant, Russell Rourke, and filled
him in on our conversations with Representative Lucien Nedzi (D., Mich.)
regarding press allegations about information assimilated by Searle Field,
of the House Select Committee staff , alleging Agency "infiltration" of the
White House staff. I told Rourke that Mr. James Wilderotter, White
House staff, had been in touch with Mr. John S. Warner, OGC, on this
subject this morning and Warner had LDX'd to Wilderotter a page from
the summary of the 13 August 1973 document which apparently was a basis
for erroneous statements by Field in his memorandum. I told Rourke that
we were working on the sanitization of this page for Nedzi and would be in
touch with him later as the situation developed.
I also told Rourke that before entering the hearing with the House
Post Office and Civil Service Committee this morning, Mr. Colby had
flatly denied the allegations of Agency "infiltration" of the White House.
We agreed to keep in touch on this subject.
11.. Mike Rosenbaum, in Representative
Patricia Schroeder's (D., Colo.) Denver office, called regarding my letter
of 2 July 1975 to Representative Schroeder concerning her request for
and the general
Rosenbaum asked for a reference
to the statute involved which was the basis for our exemption under the
Freedom of Information Act for protection of intelligence sources and
methods. I gave him the code citation to Section 102 (d)(3) of the National 25X1
Security Act as amended and to Section 6 of the CIA Act of 1949 as amended.
13.. Took a call from Mike West, on the staff
of the House Armed Services Committee. West inquired whether Agency
materials are routinely sent to the National Archives as are the older docu-
ments of other Government agencies. I replied that the Agency had its own
storage facilities and that documents were reviewed after a ten-year period
and some were routinely destroyed. I told West that certain materials do
find their way to the National Archives, such as the CIA materials used by
the Warren Commission, but that this is the exception and not the rule.
CON lDENTIAL
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