JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP77M00144R000800070040-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 23, 2001
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: April 27, 1976
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal Office of Legislative Counsel Page 3
Tuesday - 27 April 1976
9. (Unclassified - DFM) LEGISLATION Attended the initial Senate
Committee on Rules and Administration mark-up of S. Res. 400. Senators
Marl-, Hatfield (R. , Ore.) and Dick Clark (D. , Iowa) introduced a number
of perfecting amendments to the Resolution. These won the endorsement of a.
majority of the Committee. A number of Senators, including Senators Howard
Cannon (D. , Neb.), Chairman, James Allen (D. , Ala.), and Hugh Scott
(R., Pa.) stated they were supporting the amendments because they improved
S. Res. 400; however, they would be supporting the Cannon substitute to
S. Res. 400. The Committee recessed before reaching the Cannon substitute
and called another mark-up session for Wednesday at 10:00 a. m.
10. (Unclassified - WPB) LEGISLATION Bob Carlstrom, OMB,
called to clear our statement and views letter on 1-I. R. 12039 and H. R. 169,
bills to amend the Privacy Act of 1974. 1 also gave the Agency's clearance
on the Treasury Department's draft comments on the same subject.
11. (Unclassified - WPB) LEGISLATION Called Mike Shaheen,. at
the Department of Justice, to insure that the text of the eight point COINTELPRO
notification program that we had received earlier from the. Department was
still accurate. He said it was.
12. (Unclassified - WPB) LEGISLATION Lt. Col. Bennett, at the
Department of Defense, called. He was drafting the Department's comments
on H. R. 11365, Representative Robert Michel's (R., Ill.) bill to protect
the identity of intelligence personnel, and was interested in the Agency's
views. I read him excerpts from our draft letter. He said that he had
been planning to take the same approach and thanked me for my help.
13. (Unclassified - RLB) ADMINISTRATIVE - DELIVERIES
Delivered copies of a letter from-President Ford to Senator Frank Church
(D., Idaho) regarding the release of intelligence budget figures and a letter
to Senator Church from the Director regarding congressional oversight
to Messrs. Guy McConnell, Senate Appropriations Committee staff, and
Ed Braswell, Senate Armed Services Committee staff.
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