JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-00957A000100030039-5
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 27, 2006
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: October 3, 1974
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Thursday - 3 October 1974
1. David McClintock, PM/SAS, Department
of State, returned my can. He a called yesterday in response to a letter
from Senator J. W. Fulbright, (D. , Ark. ) to Dr. Kissinger requesting State's
ews on the Abourezk amendment, No. 1922, to S 22o the Foreign
Assistance Authorization Act. He wanted to coordinate State's position
with ours and I offered to send him a copy of Mr. Colby's 24 September 1974
letter to Senator Fulbright on this subject. He said he would be back in
touch with us before they sent their response to Senator Fulbright.
2, Received a call from John Thro,
NR, Department of State, requesting our position on S. Res. 404, to establish
a select committee on irate,1l1gence. I told him'that our position was not yet
set because of the fluid alltpa, .tioaa in Congress regarding CIA oversight and
because of the Senate Armed Services Committee's advice that we need not
move rapidly on this. He is anxious to know our position before they respond
on this resolution. I told Thro we would contact him as soon as our position
had been established.
3. I IPlaced a call to Max Friedersdorf,
Deputy Assistant to e re i e egislative Affairs, the White House,
make sure he was abreast of developments on the covert action amendments
in the House Foreign Affairs C:ommittee:, but he did not return my call.
4, 11empton Jenkins, Assistant Deputy
Secretary, Congressional Relations, Department of State, called and said
he has received the package I had sent him yesterday on resolving the problem
used by section 28 of S. 3394 (Foreign Assistance Authorization Act). He
agreed with the propose so ution and and said that he would carry through
on it and would let us know if he runs into any difficulty.
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5. Matt Harvey,gAID, called to report
that he believed Bob Dockery, Professional Staff Member, Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, would. be sympathetic to.our interests in connection
with the Foreign Assiatan uthosization bill and -I thanked him for the
suggestion. ,J
6. s a. follow up to a. message he left
at the Watch ice last night at l0:Q4, met with Marian Czarnecki, Chief
of Staff, House Foreign Affairs Committee, early this morning in the
omrnittee's- office to review.the amendments proposed by the professional
staff members and by Representative Donald M. Fra.-per (D. , Minn.) to the
House version of the Foreign Assistance Authorizati6n Act concerning
covert action. -1 told Czarnecki, -t' at the staff propos was essentially the same as
the Hughes amendment passed by the Senate yesterday with the additional require-
ment of reportiog to the Senate Foreign Relations anal House Foreign Affairs
Committees. Not to be reported are intelligence gathering activities, and I
told Czarnecki.,bhat it is sometimes difficult to distinguish; intelligence
gathering from covert action until you get down:to thd'end of the line and he
said it was.the tent that the escape clause for, intelligence gathering would be
liberally interpzteted. I also said there was a .definitg area of possible
encroachment ow the constitutional authorities. of the. President, gave him
examples, with which he agreed, and he hustled off to brief.Chairman. Thomas
Morgan, House Foreign Affairs Committee, as the full Committee was convening
for session. I d'aid more relevant to the issue is what the House will do
with the reform,Legislation now on the floor which-would give "overview'!
authority over military and foreign intelligence to therForeign Affairs, Committee
and Czarnecki said that matter may come up, on the House floor today and he
just was not sure of the outcome. Czarnecki came out a couple of times to
ask questions and I told him that we really did not want to be in a position of
formally consulting with the Committee at this juncture and, at my first
opportunity, I'departed.
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