JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP77M00144R000800010010-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 9, 2004
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: December 17, 1974
• Content Type: NOTES

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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Tuesday, 17 December 1974
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2. Talked to Mike Finley, House Foreign Affairs
Committee staff, and Staff Assistant to Chairman Dante B. Fascell (D, , Fla. ),
Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs, in response to his question
earlier in the week concerning the three cases in recent months of arrest
and detention of American citizens where no notification of the arrest was
given to the American embassy. We have no evidence to indicate any pattern
in such cases and it would appear that an explanation is not available for
failure of proper notification. No further action is indicated.
3. Talked to William Skidmore, OMB, and
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afternoon, Skidmore will contact this office directly when the Enrolled Bill
is received from the House.
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5, Talked briefly by telephone to Chairman
Lucien N. Nedzi (D. , Mich. ), Intelligence Subcommittee, House Armed
Services Committee, on the matter and told him that
Mr. Cary would be by during the afternoon to brief him in detail.
6. Talked to Marian Clow, Secretary to
Representative Hamilton Fish, Jr. (R. , N. Y. ), and scheduled a briefing
on the Soviet Union for 3:00 P. M. , Wednesday, 18 November. Representative
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has been advised.
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7, Called Frank Reeder, OMB, regarding
S. 3418 and discussed the possibility of including our floor statement expressing
concern as to the broad authority of the study commission in statements
before both the House and Senate. We agreed, it would be better to confine
ourselves to only the House floor statement. I later called Steve Daniels,
House Government Operations Committee staff, and he confirmed that
Representative William S. Moorhead's (D. , Pa.) floor statement will
contain a comment expressing concern that the study commission established
under the bill does not impair statutory responsibility of the Director to
protect intelligence sources and methods.
8. Spoke withl NSC staff,
concerning the Foreign Assistance Act and it was his feeling that everything
was moving so fast that it may not be productive for the Director, at this
time to- send a letter to the President on section 27 and.ahat they .have the
material we previously sent over, 0 said he will let us know if anything
further is needed.
9. Called Bill Esponisa, OGC/AID, to
confirm that the conferees had adopted the House version of the intelligence
activities provision of the Foreign Assistance Act but that the conference
report included language that strict measures should be taken to insure
maximum security of the information submitted to the Congress pursuant
to this provision.
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10. Called Guy McConnell, Professional
Staff Member, Senate Appropriations Committee, to advise him of the
outcome of the conferees on the Foreign Assistance Act which is due for
vote by the Senate this afternoon.
I also advised him of the inquiry of John Anderson, GAO, for budget
and personnel figures. McConnell said we could refer Anderson to him
for confirmation of the congressional guidelines limiting such information
to the oversight committees.
11. Called Col. Clinton Granger, NSC
staff, to advise him of the outcome of the conferees on the Foreign
Assistance Act and he indicated he was aware of the outcome and that
now is the time to send a letter to the President outlining the problem.
12. Jack Hamilton, in the office of
Representative Michael Harrington (D. , Mass. ), called to find out the
status of the Agency's intelligence sources and methods legislation including
whether he might be able to get a comment from the Justice Department
which I said:wa.s always possible but I thought improper since the
measure was still involved in the Executive Branch coordination process.
I referred him to the Director's and Department of Justice representatives
testimony on the bill before the Intelligence Subcommittee, House Armed
Services Committee on 22 July 1974.
I also told Hamilton that I could not be of any help to him on
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are the types of matters we report only to our oversight committees.
13. Sam Goldberg, State Department,
called and gave me a short wrapup of the Foreign Assistance Act and in
connection with my expression of concern that we had not carried the day in
limiting the committees entitled to sensitive intelligence information, he
said there might be a way to minimize the problem and suggested we talk
it over in the near future.
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14. Called Clark McFadden, General
Counsel, Senate Armed Services Committee, and advised him of the outcome
of the conference report on S. 3394, and he acknowledged he had gotten our
material and said that Senator John C. Stennis (D. , Miss.) was standing by
to change his vote and possibly those of others if it would have done any good,
but the margin of 49 to 41 foreclosed this opportunity.
15. Spoke with Dorothy Cornegay, on the
staff of Senator Edmund S. Muskie's (D. , Me. ) Intergovernmental Relations
Subcommittee, Senate Government Operations Committee, and asked her if it
would be possible for the Agency to "ride the jacket" when the hearings held
9-10 December on intelligence oversight are published. She said the
estimated publication date was mid-February and told me she would call to 25X1
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17. I talked with Clark McFadden, General
Counsel, Senate Armed Services Committee, and brought him up-to-date on
the action of the conferees on the House/Senate versions of provisions in the
Foreign Assistance Act relating to intelligence activities. I said that despite
all of our efforts the Senate conferees had receded and accepted the House
version. I also informed McFadden of our interest in the privacy legislation
which is coming up for a vote on the Senate floor. I told him that the House and
Senate committees had provided us with the exemptions that we felt we needed
from this legislation and asked that McFadden be alert to the possibility of floor
amendments which might destroy our exemptions. He thanked me for calling
and said he would be on the lookout.
McFadden also said that Seymour Hersh had been "running around
yesterday" trying to see the Chairman about a big story on CIA. I told him that
we had gotten rumblings on this from a numb ,of sources including contacts to
the Director who had indicated to Hersh tha he ould not discuss Agency
activities with him_
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gislative Counsel
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