JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP77M00144R000600010025-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 26, 2005
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: April 30, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Wednesday - 30 April 1975
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8. GLC) Accompanied the Director to a briefing of the
Senate Appropriations Intelligence Operations Subcommittee on the intelligence
community budget. See Memo for Record.
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Operations Committee
here at Headquarters.
GLC) Called Jim Kronfeld, House Government:
staff, and arranged for him. to corns to lunch on Friday
10. Called Bob Old, Senate Armed Services Corr,rni.ftee
staff, and advised him t hat we saw no basis for briefing Captain Ned Beach
on the I told him the Senate Select Committee members
were coming out here tomorrow and I was pretty sure this subject would be
covered then and that would take care of briefing, Senator John. Tower.. Old
had no problems with this and said he would take care of it with. Beach.
11. GLC) Called Vern Loen, White House staff, and
said I would try to meet with him on Friday to sign him up for sonic special
clearances.
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of the Assistant Secretary for Public In rma ion who wanted to release,
for official use only, pictures taken by the Agency of the helicopter landing,
pads in Vietnam used for the evacuation. I referred the call to LA. Division
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Subcommittee on Legislation and National Security, House Governmea:xi:~Ass
Operations Committee, to determine the status of the transcript: of
briefing of the Subcommittee on 24 April. Henderson
said that the transcript has not yet been typed and that he would contact:.
me as soon as the transcript was ready, and I in turn promised to provide
the appropriate follow up items, explaining that the responsible bfficial.s
have obviously been tied up with the more important matters relating to
the evacuation, which he understood.
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Wednesday - 23 April 1975
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- LLM) Called
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OGC DID., who
indicated his willingness to contribute to a working draft paper a om
Lattimer, Dhad not yet provided him. suggested I send him
40 another copy and said he would provide me with the input from all
of DOD and NSA.
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LLM) Called Elmer Henderson, Staff Director,
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Operations Committee, and outlined the security procedures we would
desire to follow with respect to any transcript taken of
NIO/SEA, briefing of the Subcommittee tomorrow. Henderson
would check with Chairman Jack Brooks (D., Tex.).
10. PLC) Met with Marietta Burckett, Legislative
Secretary in the o. ice a senator J. Bennett Johnston (D. , La. ), in regards
to a letter from a constituent, H. P. Estes, commenting on press reports
of the Agency's Soviet submarine operation. I explained the Agency's
official position is no comment. She understood and will so notify the
constituent.
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12. PLC) Delivered to the office of Senator Clifford P.
Case (R.,, N. J. ) a personal and confidential response to his Freedom of
Information request.
13. LC) Left with Bill Hogan, Counsel, Intelligence
Subcommittee, House Armed Services Committee, for Jack Boos, also on
the Subcommittee staff, a copy of a letter from a constituent:, F. G. Mitchell,
to the Director who commented as to the public security problems of the
House Select Committee due to the past conduct of one of its members.
14. PLC) Betsy Samuelson, in the office of
Senator Patrick J. Leahy (D. , Vt. ), called and asked for the reference
to the Agency's implementing regulations published in
I provided her with the information.
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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Monday - 21 April 1975
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2. RJK) Spoke with John Garrity, Defense Sub-
committee staff, House Appropriations Committee, who confirmed that
so long as the Agency retained the transcript and reporters' notes from the
Director's testimony of 17 April,. it was not necessary to retain the type-
writer ribbon and he agreed that the Agency could dispose of it.
3. RJK) John Warnick, on the staff of Representativ&
L. A. "Skip" Ba a is R. , Fla.), called to request FBIS Daily Reports
for the Soviet Union, Asia and Pacific, and Latin America. FBIS Liaison
will make the necessary arrangements. 25X1
4. RJK) Called the office of
and in her absence, left word that the Agency had complied
with her request to obtain secrecy oaths from. James C. Smith, Senate
Armed Services Committee staff, for compartmented information.
5. GLC) Representatives Robert McCl.ory and Robert
Kasten visited the Agency for a breakfast/briefing with the Director, Carl
Duckett, John Clarke and myself. Following the breakfast I gave the Congress-
men a tour around the building making stops at the Operations Center, the Libr ar5
OWI, the Computer Center, Commo Center and Support Staff, DDO. The
Congressmen were most interested and attentive during the briefings and express(
particular interest in receiving papers of the problems encountered in the FOJA..
and possibility of Soviet influence in the current criticism of the Agency.
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