JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Publication Date: March 8, 1976
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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Monday - 8 March 1976
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21. LIAISON Had lunch with Guy McConnell.,.
Senate Appropriations Committee, and briefed. him on the 0 case..
I also revxeweTwitl-him the Senate Budget Committee problem and
our meeting with Senator John McClellan (D., Ark.) on it yesterday.
I told him that the Director planned to see Senator Milton Young (R. , N. Dak..
on this subject tomorrow. I also discussed with McConnell our concerns
with certain of the provisions of S. Res. 400.
22. LIAISON Called Frank Slatinshek,
Chief Counsel, House Armed Services Committee, and told him that
Mr. Bush has decided that he would not attend the informal session this
afternoon with Mr. Robert Ellsworth, DOD, on the budget.. Mr. Jack
Iams, Comptroller, would accompany Mr. Ellsworth and speak to the
Agency budget.
23. LIAISON Called Bill Cochran, Chief
Staff Director, Senate Rules and Administration Committee, and discussed
with him our concern over the Senate Government Operations bill (S. Res. 400)
which is now pending in the Rules Committee. I explained to him the
two areas of our concern. - being the authorization. provision and provisions
permitting disclosure and release of sensitive information. He said he plans to
speak to Chairman Howard Cannon (D., Nev.) today and recommend that the
Committee request an extension of the 20 March reporting date so that
they can hold hearings on the proposal. He said that in any event the Director
would. be given an opportunity to be heard, either by testimony or by letter.
24. LIAISON I called Larry Smith, in the office
of Senator Mark Hatfield (R., Oreg. ), and discussed with him in detail our
concern over S. Res. 400, which is now pending in the Senate Rules Committee,.
He expressed. his concern also and agreed to speak to the Senator and
get his views on this legislation.
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in the Comptroller's office, who had expressed interest in this legislation.
Committee is not planning any action either. :[ informed
13. LEGISLATION Called the Senate
Government Operations Committee concerning S. Z925, a bill providing
for zero-based budget review every four years. The Committee is not
planning any action on this bill in the foreseeable future. I then called
the House Rules Committee concerning a similar bill., Ii.R. 11734. That
STAT 14.1 I LIAISON Spoke with Jan Lipkin,
on the staff of Representative Donald Riegle (D. , Mich. ), concerning her
request for any information we might be able to provide on a Frank Gould,
who disappeared in the Philippines sometime during September 1974. I
had explained to her that we would be happy to provide anything that we
might be able to turn up, but that the State Department was the proper
action office. Ms. Lipkin said the family had already had lengthy contacts
with State. Having checked with DDO and Office of Personnel, I advised
her we had no information to offer on Mr. Gould.
STAT 15. LIAISON During the day copies of the
Agency publication entitled, "A Dollar Comparison. of Soviet and U. S.
Defense Activities, 1965-1975, " were sent to Alan Rombe- r;, on the staff
of Representative David Obey (D., Wis.), and to Pam Vorder Bruegge,
Congressional Budget Office staff.
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17. (Unclassified - JMD) LIAISON Jane McMullen, S .,
Appropriations Cnmmitt staff, called and said they have a burn bag
sonic classified material to return to the Agency. I told her
____jvill pick these up tomorrow.
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STAT 6. LIAISON Accompanied the Director to a
meeting with Chairman John McClellan, Senate Apl~ropriat:ions Committee.
(See Memo for th;e-Record. )
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8. CONSTITUENT In the absence of
Penny Mathews, on the staff of Senator John G. Tower (R. , Texas), I
left with the receptionist a suggested reply for a constituent, Sister Alice
Lacey, who had. written inquiring about .Agency involvement in the Iranian
governments
9. ADMINISTRATIVE -- DE'LIVE RITE..S
Met with Mary Dooley, on the staff of the Subcommittee on Internal Security,
Senate Judiciary Committee, and provided her with Agency documents
entitled "A Dollar Comparison of Soviet and U. S. Defense Activities,
1965--1975" and "Recent: Developments in Soviet hard Currency Tra.de,"
per her request.
10. ADMINISTRATIVE .- DELIVERIES
Met with Clara Buchanan, on the staff of the S6nat:c Foreign Relations
Committee, and gave her two copies of the "National. Basic Intelligence
Factbook" for Chuck Meis sne-r, and -John Rit,ch, of, the Comhiittee :staff.
STAT 11. LIAISON Spoke with Bill. Higgs, on the
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staff of Representative Augustus Hawkins (D. , Calif. ), Chairman of the
Subcommittee on Equal Opportunities, House Committee on Education
and Labor, to tell him that the Agency's "Affirmative Action Plan, "
which he had requested, was now off the press and would be sent to him
first thing Monday morning. I provided him. with the :carne and extension
of Omega J. C. Ware, Jr. , the Agency's Equal Ernploy.ment Opportunities
Officer. Higgs was mos : appreciative of our assistan~:e.
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Ms. Helene :Boatner, 0/Comptroller, and I met with. Guy McConnell., of the
Sew nrox._r;ai_ions Committee staff, to discuss our appearing before
his Committee on 10 March 1976. See Memorandum for the Record.
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LIAISON Bob Schiclk, of Senator Hugh Scott's
(R. , Pa. ). office, ca ec regarding mail from Vietnam and Communist
repression. After talking they said. inai.l was coming to the
U. S. via Paris. The internal mail system in Vietnam was not good and
the Communists were having problems with the Catholics and the I-Ioa I-tao.
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4. HEARINGS HOUSE APPRO:PRIAT:[ONS
COMMITTEE I called Chuck Snodgrass, of the House Appropriations
Committee staff, to tell him that I will be sending down an advance copy of
the DCI's statement for the budget hearing, soon. I hope to meet him along
with Helene Boatner, O/Comptroller, around 12 March to go over the
scenario for our appearance the follo;a
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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Friday - 5 March 1976
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(OLC) and I spent about 20 minutes
with Guy McConnell, Senate Appropriations Committee
Staff, this afternoon, trying to get some guidance
on questions that might arise in next week's hearing on
the Agency budget.
Guy did not have much to offer. He did suggest
that questions would come up one day or the other on
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suggested that the DCI remind them at the outset
of the Agency hearing that he was now wearing his
Agency hat and that he stress our past personnel.
.reductions. He commented that Colby had said last
year that we'd gone about as far as we could go --
this can be used to strengthen our case for remaining
stable in positions this year.
Procedure: Guy suggests a talk from briefing
boards, rather than from the full text. He does want
a copy of text and all briefing boards for each member.
He does not need copies of anything in advance of the
hearing itself on the afternoon of the 10th. (We did
deliver his copy of the statement, which he kept,
promising to go over it in detail and let us know if
he had any further ideas. )
Bob himself suggested that we have a map
showing location of all domestic offices and installations
and that the DCI be given enough background to permit
him to comment on the CIARDS legislation and on our
practices on conforming to last year's executive order on
reporting new systems acquisitions to Congress. We
are taking care of these things.
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Helene L. Boatner
Chief, AnG, O/Comptroller
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11.. 1 BRIEFING Richard Frykiund, Department
of Defense, called and confirmed that Senator Ernest Hollings (D.. ; S. Car.)
has decided that no staff of any kind will be permitted in the Senate Budget
Committee hearing this afternoon. He requested that we provide him with -
a copy of our printed statement.
12.1 1 LIAISON I called Charles Snodgrass,
staff of the House Appropriations Committee, and brought him'up to date o?
the Senate Budget Committee situation. I told him that Mr. Bush had met
with Senators Alan Cranston (D., Calif.) and Pete Domenici (R., N.Mex.)
yesterday concerning budget matters.
I also asked him whether he thought Representative Robert Giaimo
(D., Conn.) might like to have a copy of the "Dollar Comparison of Soviet
and U.S. Defense Activities, 1965-75," and he thought he would.
Snodgrass then said that Representative John McFall (D., Calif. )
is spending a lot of time on the House Select Committee Report and would
like two things. One is a copy of all the Seymour Hersh articles written
in the last few years concerning allegations against the Agency. The
other is an estimate of the intelligence community as to what the Russians
know about U. S. SIGINT operations.. I told him that it might take some time
to get the answers to both these questions, but that I would be back in touch.
He also asked about the status of his FOI request of a couple weeks
ago. I told him that I had discussed it with the Director and we had problems
with it.
13. BRIEFING Doug Bennett, Staff Director,
Senate Budget Committee, called to alert me that Senator Alan Cranston's
(D., Calif.) staff is planning to protest their exclusion from the
Budget Committee hearing this afternoon. I told hit:- that this was a
decision made by Senator Ernest Hollings (D., S. Car.., and not the Agency.
I also told him that the Director had talked with the Senator last night and
at that time the Senator had not decided to exclude the staff members. I
thanked him for alerting us and told him that we would stay out of any
controversy that developed. (The Director was notified. )
14. LIAISON I called Guy Mc Connell, Sena
Appropriat ens Subcom:nitt on Defense staff, and told him that the
Director was meeting with Chairman John McClellan ':onzorrow at 3:00. 1
asked him to try to get ~,o Jim Calloway, Counsel, to alert him to the
meeting also. .
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ADMINISTRATIVE - DELIVERIES
Delivered to Kaye Burchell, Administrative Assistant to Representative
Delbert Latta (R., Ohio), materials for the Congressman's son in
preparing a term paper on CIA.
6. LEGISLATION Received a call from
Jim. Oliver, OMB, who asked some questions about the authorization
provision in S. Res. 400, the Senate oversight bill. Oliver also offered 11
to tell George Gilbert, also of OMB, that our- letter on the resolution
would not be there until tomorrow.
7. LEGISLATION, allt;r_ 'l:Torx S,meeton,
on the House International Relations Committee staff, and Craig Roberts,
in Representative Jack Kemp's (R., N. Y.) office, to alert them to the
Burton/Harrington amendment on covert action and assassinations which
was to be introduced today during consideration of the foreign. military
assistance bill, H. R. 11963. I told them I would drop off some back-up
material.
8. LEGISLATION Called Torn Srneeto.n
and Everett Bierman, House International . Relations Committee staff,
off the floor during consideration of the foreign military assistance-bill,
H. R. 11963, and discussed the Burton/Harrington amendment on covert:
action and assassinations, providing them with back-up material..
9. LEGISLATION Sat in. on the floor debate
of the foreign military assistance bill, H. R. 11963. There were 13 amendments
considered in the course of the evening, but I had to leave before the
Burton/Harrington amendment on covert action and assassinations. came rip.
10. HEARINGS I talked with Guy McConnell,
of the SenateA p 'opriations Committee staff, to advise him. that I had the
;budget ?.ccount in OLC and asked if he thought there were any problems and
issues which need looking into before our appearance on the 10th. I said I
would like to come down to chat with him, but he said be didn't foresee any
problems with the budget. He suggested I come down when a st:ateinent was
ready and use the statement as a basis for discussion to anticipate problems.
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