JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP77M00144R000500110090-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 4, 2004
• Sequence Number: 90
• Publication Date: February 5, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Wednesday -- 5 February 1975
J. Robert Vastine, Minority
uovernment operations Committee, called to get
my thoughts on a draft bill to be introduced by Senator William Proxmire
(D., Wis.) and who is seeking Senator Charles Percy (R., Ill.) as
a co-sponsor which would subject the Agency funds, including unvouchered
fundsrto a GAO audit. I told him, of course, I could not speak for the
Agency and suggested some modifications which would require GAO to
audit vouchered funds, a practice which has been suspended and perhaps
to review the bottom line of the Director's certificate on unvouchered
funds to get an idea on the total amount expended for reporting to
existing oversight committees only. We discussed inconclusively
whether the words "financial transactions" would achieve this limited
result and I said I doubted it. I said that the dilemma posed by any
additional audit would be to second guess discretion imposed solely
in the Director whether expenditures are extraordinary, confidential
or emergency nature and the problem of protecting intelligence sources
and methods.
2. I On behalf of the General Counsel,
called Guy McConnell, Senate Appropriations Committee staff,and asked
if he could provide us a copy of the Comptroller General's response to
Senator William Proxmire's (D., 'Wis.) query on the legality of certain
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es. McConnell has a copy but is not authorized to
release it until l the Senator drops his bill in the hopper. McConnell
explained that the GAO document was a summary dated May 10, 1974,
#B179296. This information was relayed to OGC.
3. Spoke to Charles Lombard, Minority
Counsel, Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences, who said
he would be free to talk with Mr. Cary, this afternoon on the question of
security procedures for the Senat, lect Committee.
4. Rick Marrow, Democratic Study
Group of th ouse ol Representatives, called and in resp onse to his
query, I gave him the names of Mr. Cary, I land myself 25X1A
as possible points of contact and explained we had some other officers
in the
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ose identi y I did not volunteer.
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