JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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March 14, 1977
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ase 2005 Contacts - 3 O O Ae0003000200ir4-6 O BAA Outs - 4 JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL Monday - 14 March 1977 1. I I LIAISON Received a call from Kathy, in the district office of Senator Lowell P. Weicker (R. , Conn. ), who requested that we send Agency brochures to a constituent, Kathy said I needed the brochures this week for a term paper she was preparing an asked that I send them directly to This has been done. 2. LIAISON Received a call from Clara Buchanan, Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff, who wanted to know if we would send up an updated version of Guide to CIA Statutes and Law for Norvill Jones, Chief of Staff of the Committee. I asked Ms. Buchanan to send their book back with the NID and we would update it and return to them. She said this would be fine. 3. BRIEFING Called Beverly Swain, on the staff of Representative Bob Carr (D. , Mich. ), and arranged for Mr. Carr to visit the Signal Analysis Center in Room GG76 at 8:00 tomorrow morning. This is a follow-up to his previous visit. However, later in the day, Mr. Carr Is office canceled out and, will call to set up a new time. 4. LIAISON Rita Argenta, secretary to Bill Hogan, Counsel, House Armed Services Committee, called and asked when;the transcript of-the Committee hearing on 31 January was picked up from the reporting company. After checking, I called her back and told her that it was picked up on 1 February. 5. LIAISON Called Warren Nelson, Legislative Assistant in the office of Representative Les Aspin (D., Wis. in response to his call to Nelson was inquiring as to the authority of the Director to terminate employees as part of his study of the problem of leaks. We chatted on the background of the problem and the Agency's proposed legislation. He will call back if he needs further information. Approved For elea;;6,-RDP80-0 25X1 Approved or elease 2005 JIB-CT4*00941A000300020014-6 Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Monday - 14 March 1977 Page 2 6. LIAISON I called Belinda Nielsen, in the office of Senator Carl Curtis (R. , Neb. ), to say that we would drop off a comment on prospects for sale of U. S. agricultural products abroad on 15 March 1977. 7. LIAISON I called Charles Snodgrass, House Appropriations Committee staff, and mentioned to him that had been called away due to a death in the family and that we were working on the transcript for the 7 March briefing on Soviet civil defense and asked for a modification in the normal time limits on transcripts. He said in view of the circumstances, we could have three or four extra days as needed. I is finalizing the transcript and will get it up to Snodgrass on 15 March. 8. BRIEFING Called Jeff Porro, in the office of Senator Howard Metzenbaum (D., Ohio), and told him we would be happy to brief the Senator on the Soviet strategic posture and suggested that since the Senator is new, we would like to have him out for a breakfast at which time we could give him the briefing as well as an overview on the Agency. Porro said he would check with the Senator and get back to us. 9. BRIEFING Called Ira Nordlicht, Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff, in follow-up to his previous request for a briefing which has been set for 2:30 p.m. , 16 March 1977. 10. LIAISON Charles Snodgrass, House Appropriations Committee staff, called and asked if someone could pick up some classified trash, some transcripts, and some budget justification books from him sometime soon. I told him that the next time someone was on the Hill, I would ask him to stop by his office, will pick up the materials tomorrow. Approved For Releao e 20 5 112 ~ 0-00941 A000300020014-6 25X1 25X1 Approved F r Release 2 MM' uTX1 80-00941A000300020014-6 Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 3 Monday - 14 March 1977 11. LIAISON In response to a request, I mailed three Agency publications, entitled "USSR: Some Implications of Demographic Trends for Economic Policies, " "USSR: Hard Currency Trade and Payments, 1977-1978, " and "USSR: The Impact of Recent Climate Change on Grain Production, " to Mary E. Dooley, Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Internal Security staff. 12. LIAISON Received a call from Barbara Allem, Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff. She asked whether compartmented clearances for Geryld Christianson, on the personal staff of Senator Claiborne Pell (D. , R. I. ), had been transferred from the State Department to the Agency. I told her that I had covered this situation earlier with Elly Vogtmann, Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff. I explained that Christianson is already aware that his clearances could not be transferred from the State Department and that there is a firm policy against granting compartmented clearances to personal staff members. I suggested that she might want to call Colonel Steve Harrick, OSD, Legislative Affairs, to confirm that the Defense Department holds to this same position. 13. LIAISON Called Bill Miller, Staff Director, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, to discuss several points. I informed him that Mr. Richard A. Sprague, Chief Counsel, House Select Committee on Assassinations, had notified us the Committee was considering interviewing I land has asked for access to Agency materials on him. Sprague was informed that the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence had already requested and received access to these materials and had previously subpoenaed I land, therefore, Miller might receive a call from Sprague on this matter. In response to my question, Miller said he had received one of NSA's new "gold phones" but that it was in his office and not in his home. I reported to Miller on our meeting with Senator John H. Chafee (R. , R. I.) and Senator Malcolm Wallop (R. , Wyo. ), new Senate Select Committee on Intelligence members, and the fact that follow-up briefings were suggested and the idea accepted by the two Senators. One of the Senators had suggested that they receive these briefings from the staff rather than take up the Agency's time. I told Miller we did not consider this an imposition on our time at all and would welcome the opportunity to brief them. Miller said he would try to arrange for such a briefing. 25X1 25X1 Approved se 2005/11/23 : CIA-RDP80-00941A000300020014-6 O NF1 TIA1, Approved F r Release 200ffol 3 W-00941A000300020014-6 Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 4 Monday - 14 March 1977 14. I I LIAISON Talked with Stan Taylor, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, several times during the day in regard to additional changes of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence preliminary statement 15. LIAISON Called Tom Moore, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, to report that Comptroller officials could meet with him at 1:30 p.m. on 15 March to discuss the CIA budget. He was most appreciative. 16. LIAISON Met with Bill Jones, General Counsel, House Government Operations Committee, and John Moore, also on the Committee staff, concerning what they view as a gap in the CIA Retirement Act for supplemental annuity or recomputation when a CIARD annituant is reemployed by the Federal Government. Discussed were several options, including the establishment of retirement rights under the Civil Service system after five years of reemployed service. I promised to provide further information on the options discussed. 17. BRIEFING Major Dick Pahland, in the Department of the Army Senate Liaison Office, advised that he would be accompanying Senator Mike Gravel (D. , Alaska) on a trip to South America and that the Senator was interested in receiving a substantive intelligence briefing from our people in Pahland said he would get further definition from Senator Gravel and be in touch with us on the specifics. 18. LIAISON I sat in on a session between John McMahon, AD/DCI/IC, and Jim Fellenbaum, Senate Appropriations Committee staff, as a preview for the 16 March session on the reclama on the IC Staff FY 77 supplemental. Fellenbaum will try for a mark-up immediately following our session on 16 March. He explained why we should not expect support on the official representation allowances, but seemed most supportive of other elements in the reclama following Mr. McMahon's explanation. Fellenbaum particularly questioned the size of the budget group and the need for the IC Staff, as opposed: to the DDI, to get into the application of systems analysis to intelligence evaluations. 25X1 25X1 Appmvpci or Release 2005M 1 9249t-00941A000300020014-6 Approved For Release 204'1j; "+1-00941 A000300020014-6 Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 5 Monday - 14 March 1977 19. LIAISON DIA, called concerning upcoming DIA sessions on the Hill and to review the guidelines for excluding personal staff from briefings at the compartmented level. GE GE L. CA E -Legislative Counsel cc: DDCI SA/DCI Ex. Sec. DDI DDA DDS&T Mr. Falkiewicz SA/DO/O IC Staff Comptroller NIO 25X1 25X1 Approved For Release 2005/11/23 : CIA-RDP80-00941A000300020014-6 Contacts - 1 Approved For Release 2005/11/23 : CIA-RDP80-00 Ii0003000'20014-6 CIA INTERNAL USE ONLY Ins - 0 Out s - 1 ADDENDUM TO JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL Monday - 14 March 1977 1. (Unclassified - GLC) LIAISON I met with Chairman Melvin Price (D., Ill.), Chairman, House Armed Services Committee, to discuss the possibilities of a joint or select committee on intelligence in the House of Representatives and to obtain his views on this subject. (See Memorandum for the Record.) 2. (Unclassified - GLC) LIAISON Received a, call from Richard Sprague, Counsel, House Select Committee on Assassinations, who said he was interested in looking at any documents which the Agency had concernin J any contacts he had with Cuban groups or any involvement e had in anti-Castro plots. He mentioned that the Committee had subpoenaed I nd he would like to have access to this information as soon as possible. I told him I would look into it and be back in touch with him. (See Memorandum to the Director this date.) 3. (Unclassified - GLC) LIAISON Following my conversation with Richard Sprague, Counsel, House Select Committee on Assassinations, I called Paul Daley, FBI, and OGC, talked with Mike Kelly, Counsel to the Attorney General on FBI matters, about the request from Sprague. The essence of Daley's response was that the Bureau had received a similar request for access to information on Trafficante but that while they were making unclassified material on the Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy assassinations available to the Committee, they were not responding to the request for the Trafficante material. CIA INTERNAL USE ONLY Approved For Release 2005/11/23: CIA-RDP80-00941A00 T-M2111- T~ CL - Approved For Release 2005/11/23 : CIA-RDP80-00941A000300020014-6 CIA INTERNAL USE ONL Addendum to Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 2 Monday - 14 March 1977 4. (Unclassified - GLC) LIAISON Later in the day, I talked with Steve Fallis, House Select Committee on Assassinations staff, to advise him that we were not in a position to provide access to any files on the part of uncleared Select-, Committee personnel until such time as clearances were obtained and appropriate secrecy agreements were executed. At this point, Richard Sprague, Counsel of the Committee, came on the phone and referred to the fact that Mr. Knoche had made an exception in granting access to classified material regarding the STAT 5. (Unclassified - GLC) LIAISON Received a call from Dorothy Fosdick, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Senate Government Operations Committee staff, requesting access to a study mentioned in the Henry Bradshir article in the press today entitled, "U. S. Hard Currency and Payments in 1977-1978. " I made arrangements for the document to be delivered to Ms. Fosdick this morning. STAT GEORGE L. CARY Legislative Counsel cc: DDCI STAT Ex. Sec. DDI DDA DDS&T STAT Mr. Falkiewicz SA/DO/O IC Staff Comptroller NIO 25X1 Approved For Release 2005/11/23 : CIA-RDP80-00941A000300020014-6 CIA INTERNAL USE ONLY