JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP77M00144R000800150030-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 2003
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: September 26, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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CONFIDENTIAL
Journal Office of Legislative Counsel
Friday - 26 September 1975
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9. LIAISON Talked with Guy McConnell,
Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee staff, about the cuts that have
been made in the intelligence budget by the House Appropriations Committee
and told him of our intention to write letters to both Chairman George
Mahon (D., Texas) and Chairman John McClellan (D., Ark.) expressing our
concern about these cuts and asking Senator McClellan for an opportunity
to appear before the Senate Intelligence Operations Subcommittee to go
into these subject areas in some depth. McConnell thought this made
sense and further said that he thought straightening out the Reserve fund
would be no great problem.
10. HEARINGS Paul .Hoff, Senate Committee on
Government Operations staff, called to inquire whether we had seen the notice
in the Congressional Record of the proposed Committee hearings on
congressional oversight of the intelligence community. The hearings are
scheduled for the week of Z December. I replied that we had seen the
notice and had brought it to the Director's attention. Hoff said it was
too early to send a formal request to the Director to testify, but that one
would be forthcoming when their schedule became clearer. I told Hoff
that of course I could not speak for the Director, but that congressional
oversight of the Agency was unquestionably one of the major questions we
were facing and that my personal opinion was the Director would want to
testify. Hoff said he would be back in touch as their plans began to shape
up.
I raised with Hoff the status of the lobbying legislation which the
Committee has been considering for approximately six rrionths. He said
that the Committee was taking a narrow approach on the subject and that
a new Committee bill would be introduced soon and hearings held shortly
thereafter.
1.1. I LEGISLATION Bill. Hogan, Counsel,
House Armed Services Committee, called regarding an opinion he was
writing on the disclosures by the House Select Committee in the Light: of
the Rules of the House of Representatives and the resolution establishing
the Select Committee. Although initially not. so disposed, after a lengthy
discussion Mr. Hogan agreed with my views which had been communicated
to Frank Slatinshek, Chief Counsel, some time ago in a written form.
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