JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78M02660R000200010038-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 2, 2004
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: February 27, 1976
• Content Type: NOTES

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24. LIAISON Called Guy McConnell,.
Senate Appropriations De~en~_~,5ubcommittee staff, and told. him that
the Director was trying to see Chairman John McC1,e11a.n but. he had t:o
cancel the scheduled. meeting because the Director was called out of.
town. I told McConnell that the Director wanted. to discuss with. the
Chairman the situation with the Congressional Budget: Office anal: t:he
Senate Budget Committee.
2 5. ADMINIS'TRA`I'I Vl~, Tom. La.ttim,e r,
Department of Defense, called about the request from Representative
Bella Abzug (D. , N. Y.) regarding an extension. on i:1.~e baxa of t:he
destruction of material. I told Lattimer that we would have to get:
together with our General Counsel before any decision is rxiade.
We agreed to keep in touch with regard to our replies.
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Agency, called. and asked, about our cooperation wits, t:he Budget Committees.
He said they have been asked, to testify jointly ~Tith CIA on. 4 Maroh at 7:00
before the Senate Budget Committee. We both agreed, there was xio point:
in bath CIA and DIA testifyin at the same time before t:he same committee
on the same subjects. I told hat we had. a.~ot: liea.rd anytl-~i;ng about a
joint briefing until now, said that Mike ,Toy,. of the Senate Budget.
Committee made the request on behalf of Senator Ernest Hollings (D., ,S. C. ).
I told here seemed to be same discrepancy between what the
Comma ee members wanted. and. what the staff members ~~vere recluest:ing.,
As soon as this problem was cleared. up. I told ~I would be back in toucl.~. 25X1
27. Spolce-with Grace Murphy,.
Representative Ralph Regula's (R. , Ohio) office, about the st:udex7ts Mr. Regu,l.a
would. lilce to have visit the Agency. There will lae about 20Q people;, students
and. chaperones, who would like to come out on. 2 April., She asked if we could
arrange the lecture as early as possible in the x~,.orning. I gold lzer I would. be
back in touch.
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31. , LIAISON R.epr e s entati.ve Samuel 5.
Stratton (D. , N. Y.) called and said he would lilce to get some idea
of the sensitivity of the lealcs of the Pike Report. I told ]VIr, Stratton
that we would get someone familiar with the items in the repay. t: up
~tamorrow to talk with him about it. I also mentioned that Mr. Bush,
during his appearance on the "Meet the Press" pragran~, an ?.? ?~'ebruary,.
had addressed himself to this subject and. offered to provide Mr. Stratton
with a copy of the transcript of that program.
33.? LIA.IS?N Called Jerry Christison,
in the office of Senator Claiborne Pell (D. , R. I. ~, f.o arx. angc a.n ap}~aii~4:m.exaf-
for Mr. Carver, . NIO, and Mr, Cary to meet with him to discuss project
Mr. Christison had gone far the day and. ]7is secxet:ary said
she would cal me in the morning to let me know a.f Nir. C;hrisi:ison
could come to the Agency on Friday at 3;d0 p. m, for the meeting.
34.. LIAISON Called Margate Nicholson,
Executive Secretary to Chairman John McClellan,. ,Senate~o~iat.'on?,_
Committee and advised her that the Director v~o to meet with
C rman McClellan tomorrow or Friday. She advised that: t:he Senator is
out of town and will not return until late tomorrow, but caYZld see t:he
Director at 9:Q0 on Friday. After checking witlx the. Director's office,
I told Ms. Nicholson that time would be fine with tl~e Directox.
35. LIAISON Called Chairznaxx George
Mahon, I-Iouse Appropriations Committee, to try to arrange ter: meeting
between the Chairman a.nd the Director for tomorrow. Mr. Mahon saa.cl
he was very sorry but tomorrow he will be completely ivied up on t:he
Defense Appropriatioxi bill. He asked that I call back tomorxow afternoon:
aroun 1 4; 00 p. m, and he could tell me what his s c]~edu.].e will be ].ilce
for I~'z iday.
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5; LIAISON Stopped by to see
Guy McConne . , _pproprati~ns__Gommite staff, but he
was gone for the day.
6. BRIEFING Called Dorothy Fosdick,
Perrnanen u committee on Investigations, Senate Government
Operations Committee staff, and said that Carl Duckett, DDS&T,
would be up to brief hex and Richard Perle, also of the Subcommittee
staff, on Friday, 27 February, at 3;00 p. m. an Soviet strategic
forces.
7?. LIAISON John Childers, Senate
Government Operations Committee staff, called and we discussed
the disposition of a sensitive Agency project.
8~ LIAISON Spoke v~ith Morello Hansen,
Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff, concerning the Committee's
request for the March 1958 transcript of Herbert Scoville, former ADSI,
and asked her who had requested the transcript. She said it was
Professor Robert A. Divine, Department of History, University of
Texas.
9.. LIAISON Called Johri _Goldsmith, Senate
Armed Services Committee staff, and told him that Richard Moose,
Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff, had all the necessary
clearances for Goldsmith to talk to Moose about his recent t rip to the
Far East. It was agreed that Goldsmith would not discuss Agency
matters.
11. Craig Roberts, in Representative
Jack Kemp's (R. , N. Y.) office, called and requested the text of Brezhnev's
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Friday - 20 February 197G
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1? LIAISON I z1~et with :C3i11 I~cgan,
House Armed Services Committee staff, and secured from. ]7i.m the Office
of Security file on Lee Pennington, which had been given to Cliairm.an
Lucien Nedzi (D. , Mich. ), Special Subcommittee on Intelligence; Rouse
Arnned Services Committee, during the Subcaxn.rx~.ittee's Wal:exgate
investigation. I told Hogan that Mr. Madigan, Senator X-Iowar:d :Batter's
(R. , Tenn) staff man, on the Senate Select Cam.mi.ttee, had: requested the
file far review.
I also informed Hogan that the Agency will hold a seaninar on
8 and g March on Machine Translation Devices to wbic:h Mr. Peter Toma,
President of the LATSEC COMPANY , will be invited. Zlogan will pass
this on to Representative Bob Wilson (R. , Calif. ), wl.~o t.~as been t:~ol.lowi:ng
Toxr~a's negotiations with the Agency. I asked Hoga.tx as to when i:he
Subcommittee plans to schedule hearings on the Agency's bi.l.l H. R. 11088,.
to amend CIARDS. Hagan said that due to other pressing business, ]:~e
could not give me a firm date. However, he felt certain that action. would
be taken in this Congress.
explained the delay in the handling of the FOIA r. equ.esi: from. Mr. David Novick
by the Agency's Znfarzxiation and Privac} Coordinator. I left: with hirn
correspondence from the Coordinator to Novick at~c1. R,ei~rese~~.i-a.tive Reuss.
Springarn was appreciative of the visit azd said the delay would cause no
Staff Director to Representative Henry ;i. Reuss (17. , "t'Visc. ), and
3. FUTA I met with Mr. Tear}r Springarn,
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9. LIAISON Tom Dine, Senate
Budget Committee staff, called to request a compartmented clearance
for himself. He explained that the Committee had, deterxninecl thaf. there
should be a xeview of the intelligence budget wb.ich ,Senators Alan
Cranston (D. , Calif.) and Pete V. Domenici (R. , N. Mex