JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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Journal -Office of .Legislative Counse]. Page 5
Thursday - 2? May 1976
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21, (Internal LTse Only -PLC) PERSONNEL Jinn Pyrros,
Administrative Assistant to Representative Lucien N. Nedzi. (D. , Mich. },
called inquiring as to the Agency's decision to .rehire two former. Agency
employees who transferred to DEA and want
to return as t ey were misinformed by DEA concerning their eligibility STAT
for DEA's liberal retirement program. Pyrros said this matter is also
of interest: to Senators Sam I~TUnn {D. , G a, ), Joseph R. Bide
and Charles McC. Mathias (R, , Md. ), After checking with
Office of Personnel, I called Pyrros and informed him that a decision would
be made shortly and I will let him know.
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22, (Unclassified - RC) INTEL BRTEFING Charles Sorrels,
Congressional Budget Of:Eice, called to ask for a briefing session by~
DDS&T, far an update of USSR Strategic Missile Test programs,
par icu arly the SS-17. It was arranged for 0900, 1 June,
23. (Tnternal Use Only -LLM) LIAISON Called I3ud McI-'arlane,
NSC staff, in follotiv-up of the Director's initial and O/Ill CI,
subsequent conversation with William Hyland, NSC. A mechanism. was
agreed to, to assure that the NSC was properly alerted to avoid "surprises"
on congressional briefings and it will . be instituted tomorrow,
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24. (Internal Use Only -LLM} FAA .ALERT Notified the
principal members of the Senate and 1-Iouse Armed Services Committees,
Senate and I-louse Appropriations Committees, the House International
Relations Committee, and the Senate For. eign Relations Committee of the
existence of a Presidential finding under Section 662 of the Foreigzi l~ssist:ance
Act. This covers all committees except the Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence. After failing to contact Chairman Daniel Inouye (D, , Hawaii},
who had just departed for Hawaii, I left a message for Bill Miller, Staff
Director of the Select Committee, to call me, See note for file. STA
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Comptroller
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Notification of Committees of Presidential Finding
House Armed Services -- In the absence of Chairman Nedzi
of the Intelligence Subcommittee, the notification and
explanation was provided to Chief Counsel, Franl: Slatinshek.
Slatinshek's reaction was that he can't believe the possible
impact is worth the risk of leakage--later he informed me
that Mr, Nedzi wanted Mr. Bush to know that he thought
it was incredible that the Administration would n~.ount such
an operation because it would be almost impossible to
assure against congressional leakage.in view of the number.
of committees which have to be briefed.
House Appropriations -- 'Chairman Mahon in the company of
Ralph Preston and Charles Snodgrass, viewed this as a
modest effort and was willing to assume responsibility
to assure against Iea_lca.ge in response to the Executive
Branch's concern.,. We are obligated to gei: back to him
if the other committees believe it .~is essential to assemble
for a briefing on the scope and description of the program.
Senate Foreign Relations -- In the a.bsen.ce of Senator Sparkman,
the notification and explanation was provided. to Pat IIolt, Chief
of Staff, IIe too felt that the possible impact was not worth
the risk. His personal reaction was that he favor. ed Lhe earlier
suspended program because it was in support of responsible
:people and that this smacked of a "dirtier trick, " I-Te said he
would inform Chairman Sparkman and it was likely they would
want to schedule a briefing of themselves. His opinion wa.s
that they would not have any objection to the program. I
observed that the probability of leakage ~vonld occur if as is
that Comm.ittee's normal practice a notice is circulated to tree-
full membership of the full Committee that: the Director has
made a repoxt of a nE:w Presidential finding. L-Iolt argued that
the whole purpose of the Ilughes/Ryan az-nendmerzt: is to permit
members to x-aise their objection to the F..xecutive 13 ranch
in a responsible manner and in this connection said that
Senator McGovern, in connection with the
had acted responsibly by wri.tinf~ to the Presx en ~ anc ac never
received a reply. I said I could understand why this topic.
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