JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 17, 2005
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: May 30, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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Friday - 30 May 1975
SECRET
12. In a series of conversations with
Captain Neill.and;Bob Monahan, both of the Pentagon, regarding the
request by the Senate Foreign Felations Committee for the classification
of the 1960 testimony on the U-2 and the Summit Conference. It was
apparent that a great deal more coordination and information was
required by all concernP'elr CIA. and DOD) and Monahan volunteered
to take on the lead responsibility for this one, including clarifying with
Pat Holt, Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff, the misleading
statements in the latter's letter to all agencies involved.
13. Spoke with Bill Hogan, House Armed
Services Committee staff, and he agreed to discuss with Frank Slatinshek,
Chief Counsel of the Committee, the Committee's responsibility for
the 1947 executive session hearings on the CIA Act. if the response is
favorable, then we will refer Tim Hardy, of_the Presidential. Commission
staff, to I-louse Armed Services for a copy.
Later, I advised Hardy of this possibility and that we hope to hear
on it sometime next week.,
14. Pat Hanson, temporarily in the office
of Senator Strom Thurmond (R., S. Car. ), called to arrange a. briefing
for approximately 25 college interns. The briefing was scheduled for
19 June and OTR, will handle.
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Bob McBrian, Treasury Department,
called to obtain suggestions on how to handle requests for sensitive
operational information by committees of Congress. I reviewed. with him
some of the options available and the guidelines we follow.
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5. Spoke to Brady Williamson, in the office
of Senator Dick Clark (D. , Iowa), about the scheduled briefing of the
Senator on South Africa. Williamson said this would be basi.c education
for the Senator who has been given the chairmanship of the Africa Subcommittee
of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Hearings before the Subcommittee
are planned in late June to cover the countries of South Africa, Rhodesia,
Mozambique and Angola. Paul Walsh, ADDI, has been alerted and he will
identify the briefers.
6. Talked to Ms. Cooper, of the Subcommittee
on Government Information and Privacy, House Government Operations
Committee, who wanted a listing of the membership of the CIA oversight/
investigating committees, which was provided.
7. In response to his call the other day,
called Admiral Mathews, in the office of Representative Bill Chappell
(D. , Fla. ), but he said no further action was needed from the Agency as
Leon Nguyen Xuan had been cleared and soon would be assigned to an
office in the Department of the Navy to encourage Navy personnel to
sponsor Vietnamese refugees.
8. Jack Sankster, in the office of Andrew*
Maguire (D. , N. J. ), called in connection with the 22 May invitation to the
Director to appear at a conference on Spain to be held in the House Caucus
Room on June 10, 1975. In response to my query, Sankster said much of
the preliminary work had been handled by volunteers, and indeed, as has been
found out to be the case in other invitations, per.haps'no, prior telephone
invitation had been made as referred to in the letter. Sankster actually
works for the Fund for New Priorities in America and is only in Mr.
Maguire's office to support this conference. Other conferences he has
worked on include one supported by Senator Hughes on Chile and one by
Senator Abourezk on Indochina. When I said the title of the conference
concentrated on foreign policy, which is out of the scope of the Director's
and the Agency's charter, Sankster minimized that possibility and said it
was just an informal discussion among a wide range of disciplines and that
members of Congress are attending and they hope that representatives
of fate Defense, academia, labor and others would be there. Ile also said
tha enator Fulbright and Colonel Edward King would be there. From his
other statements, the conference appears to be whether any U. S. interests
are being served by U. S. agreements with Spain. There will be no fixed
agenda or prepared statements, but the attendees at the conference, which
runs all day, will speak and listen as the spirit moves them.
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Office of Legislative Counsel
Washington, D. C. 20505
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Mr. Robert Hull
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Room 1818
28 May 1975
Per our telephone conversation of
yesterday, you will find enclosed a copy of our
legislative package on CLARDS which was
submitted to OMB on 21 April 1975.
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Tuesday - 27 May 1975
5. Herschel Clesner, Commerce, Consumer,
and Monetar rairs . u ocommi - -ce, Rouse Government Operations
Committee, called and said he was interested in a subscription to FBIS
Daily, Reports from the standpoint of following international economic
matters. Based on the advice of I
FBIS, it was arranged that
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we would send one complete set of daily reports for Clesner's examination.
to sample the product. I informed Clesner of this and that he probably
would conclude that the Western European book would be the most productive
for him.
6. In the absence of Jim Oliver, OMB, spoke
with Arnold Donahue to advise him that there may be a delay in departmental
response to OMB clearance requested on the Agency's unauthorized disclosure
legislation by Circular A-19 because of a possible USIB session on the
legislation. Donahue had no problem but obviously does not want OMB to
be tarred with the brush of delay to the extent that this slows up the
coordination process.
Donahue also gave OMB's thoughts on the paper on the joint committee
on intelligence.
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request to transfer to DTA the TK and COMINT clearances of Charles
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misgivings (with which`DIA agreed) and then by calling Captain O'Neill, DOD,
(his office apparently requested this action) and attempted to close the loop.
O'Neill was unfamiliar with the case and said he would look into it and be
back in touch tomorrow.
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Tuesday - 27 May 1975
9. J. Bryan Atwood, in the office of
Senator Thomas Eagleton (D. , Mo. ), called to arrange a briefing for the
Senator and himself on the situation in Asia, particularly Korea, Thailand
and the Philippines, in preparation for the Senate debate scheduled next week
on U. S. foreign policy. Senator Eagleton is interested in identifying the
next "don nxino" (a word per Atwood not in the Senator's foreign policy
vocabulary). Atwood said they would treat our information as background
Atwood said he has a DOD Top Secret clearance.
The briefing is scheduled for Thursday, 29 May at. 10:30 in the Senator! s
office.
10. Received a call from Rita Argenta,
Secretary to Bill Hogan, Intelligence Subcommittee, I-louse Armed Services
Committee, who has some material for someone to pick up at the Committee
when they have a chance this week, I told
11. Bob Hull, allnna_rtment of Sta_tA_ who
handles retirement matters called and requested a copy of the Agency's
package amending the CIA Retirement Act which is now in OMB. Hull
indicated that State will be soon sending their proposal amending the
foreign service retirement act to OMB. The package will be substantially
the same as was submitted to the last Congress. A copy of the retirement
package was sent to Hull.
13, Ran into Paul Summit, Senate Judiciary
Subcommittee staff on Administrative Practice and Procedure. He alerted
me to the upcoming hearings in late June on the Nelson and Kennedy bill on.
electronic surveillance. They intend to call the Attorney General and perhaps
one or two other witnesses. This would clear the bill for reporting out.
However, Senator John L. McClellan (D. , Ark. ) feels the bill goes too far
as concerns requiring warrants in all cases of foreign intelligence. They
hope not to have the bill reported out of subcommittee, however, he said
there is a good chance that Senators Edward M. Kennedy (D. , Mass.) and
Gaylord Nelson (D. , Wis. ) will get it out as an amendment to S. 1, when it
is reported out or as a floor amendment to S. 1, codification of criminal laws.
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Friday 23 May 1975
CONFIDENTIAL
Called George Gilbert at OMB to inform
him that State had some problems with a sentence in our comments on S.
sow
244 con
cerning Section (g)(2) and that we were preparing to forward
alternative language. He said he appreciated being alerted, although he
himself saw no problem with the language as it was.
8, Accompanied Mr. Warner to a. meeting at
*a&~With Messrs. Emerson Brown, Bill Jones and Gene Malraborg.,,
to discuss State's draft position with respect to our unauthorized disclosure
legislation. In a constructive session at State representatives conceded
to drop references to section (g)(2) as possibly placing restrictions on
intelligence information from our ambassadors as being contentious without
due cause and we agreed that the Director probably would not object to dropping
certain language from the Speaker letter concerning problems with legislation.
encompassing a larger class of persons than those covered by the proposed
legislation. On the general timing of the proposal it was agreed that it:
would perhaps be best to table the matter at a USIB meeting and in that
connection we said we would advise OMB of this development in connection
with OMB imposed requirements for departmental reports back to OMB.
9. Clark McFadden, General Counsel, Senate
Armed Services Committee, called to report that Pat Holt, Chief of Staff,
Senate Foreign. Relations Committee, had called Ed Braswell, Chief Counsel.
and Staff Director, Senate Armed Services Committee, concerning the possible
termination of the NID and that as a result the matter had been discussed with
Chairman John C. Stennis (D. , Miss. ), Senate Armed Services Committee.
He feels this will be a tremendous loss to the Committee but would not want:
to do anything to make things more difficult for the Agency. I thanked McFadden
for letting us know and informed him that the NID would be continued through
the recess, the matter `,ras being reconsidered and we would notify him before
the fact if it is terminated.
10. Following Mr. Lehman, s, DDI, script,
called Mickey Haggard, Library of Congress, and provided hire comi-nen.ts
on his taper on the DDI.
CON IDENTIA!
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