OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP77M00144R000800100015-0
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 11, 2003
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: February 27, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Thursday - 27 February 1975
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1. Checked with) I OP,
regarding the request of Harold Gould, Deputy Staff Director, House
Science and Technology Committee. She said she had been, in. touch with
Mr. Gould and had given him the needed information.
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2. Russ Rourke, White House staff, called to
ysay he was LDXing to us today a copy of Phil Areeda's second letter to the
/ Iouse Foreign Affairs Committee on H. Res. 206 and-207.
3. Received a call from Andrew Hamilton,
Counsel for National Defense and International Affairs, Senate Committee on
the Budget, who is interested in establishing liaison with the Agency.
See Memo for Record.
4. I lAbout 1730 hours, Frank Sullivan, Senate
Armed Services Committee staff, called to say Senator Sa.m. Nunn was going
to appear on CBS-TV tomorrow morning and he would like an unclassified
update on the situation in Cambodia and Vietnam. I made arrangements for
IO/SEA, to talk directly to Sullivan.
f 5. I I Talked with Guy McConnell,. Senate Appropriations
Committee staff, and in response to an inquiry he has received from Senator
Milton Young brought him uptodate on a sensitive project.
I also advised McConnell that there was interest in the application of
whom he referred to us but it would be several weeks
before we had a definite reading on our interest. McConnell appreciated this
information but said this should be treated as a routine referral.
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Journal- Office of Legislative Counsel
Irl'urs.jay February
Mae Sykes, Congressional Relations, State Department, and told her
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an independent contractor /translator while he lived in Arlington, Virginia.
Sykes said she thought she had satisfactorily closed out Representative
Robert H. Mollohan's (D. , W. Va.) inquiry concerning this case.
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concerning the pending requirement on State Department from the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee for a break out by agency of Federal
8. I I Mr. Cary advised from. the Hill that this
rning the House Foreign Affairs Committee had adversely reported,
t a two to one margin, Harrington resolutions of inquiry 206 end 207.
The above information was relayed to the Director's office.
Called Frank Slatinshek, Chief Counsel,
House Armed Services Committee, advising him of the House Foreign
% ffairs Committee action on the Harrington resolutions of inquiry and
V6utlined our proposed response to airman Melvin Price on H. Res. 205
explaining the need for consistency with the Administration's response on
the related resolutions. Slatinshek said that the House Armed Services
t,-Committee had reported adversely on the Holtzman resolution, H. Res. 72,
directing the President "to provide, not later than ten days after the adoption
of this resolution, to the House of Representatives the full and complete
information contained in the report of William E. Colby delivered to the
President on or about December 26, 1974. " This information was relayed
to the DrlctoY'i office. +arro,,,_ ``==
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in the office of Representative Dante Fascell (D. , Fla. ), in response
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could fall within the description he gave me yesterday, had some time
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the Secretary of Defense, called with respect to our proposed response
_H. Res. 205 which was sent to him earlier in the day. He indicated
that it looked good to them.
11. I I Called J. Sourwine, Chief Counsel,
Subcommit ee on internal ecurity, Senate Judiciary Committee, in
response to his earlie inquiry and told him we had no unique information
on and suggested he might want to contact the FBI.
of the description he had provided we could not determine whether the
area described was the property we formerly possessed. I offered to
pull records out of our Archives if he is not able to obtain satisfactory
answers to his questions from GSA, Navy and Customs.
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L,-t6 advise hil-n o e status o play on_jj,, Res. 2q and although I had sent
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im on 25 February a copy of the Director's proposed reply to Chairman
Melvin Price, House Armed Services Committee, he had lost sight of the
fact that Agency views had been solicited on this resolution. I told Janka
that I would send him a proposed revised reply based upon Counsel to the
President, Areeda's, revised letter to Chairman Thomas Morgan, House
Foreign Affairs Committee, Janka promised to get the draft cleared for us
before the end of the day.
Janka called later in the afternoon to say he had not received a copy
of our revised proposed reply on the resolution as promised above. After
checking, it was determined that the White House Situation room had received
the material at 12:17'p. m. Janka was somewhat embarrassed and said he had
checked into the Situation Room and somewhat jokingly said we share the
Subsequently, Janka called an sai e a reviewed the proposed
reply with General Scowcroft, Deputy Assistant to the President for National
Security Affairs, who ok'd it and tha ,t/R, icharyl-Fc rickland, DOD, had as well,
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