JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP77M00144R001100090007-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 4, 2006
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: August 29, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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somehow involved. I sail I would check and get back to him.
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Journal Office of Legislative Counsel Page 2
Friday 29 August 1975
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5.
INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING After
consulting with (OC
I) and
(OER), I stopped
by Representative J. Edward R
oush's (D. , Ind. ) office to discuss with
Timothy Leeth, Staff Assistant, the Agency methodology in forecasting
Soviet grain yields. I outlined for him the various sources of information
the Agency uses in forecasting, stressing that the Department of Agriculture
has access to everything the Agency does. I told hi.n) that weather data was
the most important information used in forecasting and that this was
supplemented by other kinds of intelligence such as press reports, attache
reports, and ERTS. Leeth was primarily interested in the utility of E.R'T'S
as an intelligence tool. I told him that ERTS was useful., but was collateral
to and not central to these forecasting exercises. He seen-ied satisfied at
this very general exposition.
6. LEGISLATION Received a call from
Bill Jones, INR/State Department, regarding the Agency's letter to OMB
on Jones suggested we solve our problems with the bill by
requesting additional definitions rather than changing the text of the bill,
as we had proposed in our letter. I told Jones we would consider his
suggestion, and I would be back in touch next week.
7. LIAISON David Vienna, on the staff of the
Senate Government Operations Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations,
called regarding allegations of CIA involvement in the counterfeiting of U. "13.
currency. Charges date from 1963 when CIA. was alleged to have gotten U. S.
plates from the Treasury to produce currency to fund operations which Congres
would not appropriate monies for. Somehow, CIA lost control of the plates
and some former employee used them to make money. While Vienna. doesn't
believe this story, there have been large quantities of U.S. currency
floating around which would suggest that some plates were loose in this
country. Ile wanted to know whether a a former U. S.
Army Colonel, was connected with thisAge_ncy. This man was somehow involved.
in this counterfeiting scheme. He also wanted to know the connection with
I who was involved withi . A Long 25X1
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