JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Publication Date: March 11, 1977
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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Friday - 11 March 1977
1. LIAISON Spoke with Anne Karalekas,
on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff and invited her to
address the Agency Intelligence Process Course on 18 April 1977 from
9:00 a. m. until 10:30 a. m. She said she would be delighted to do this and
would appreciate transportation from the Committee rooms to the Chamber
of Commerce building. I told her we would provide this for her.
OTR, who requested a speaker, has been advised.
2. EMPLOYMENT Donald Abernathy,
Administrative Assistant to Representative Stephen Neal (D. , N. C. ),
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I called Abernathy back and told him an appointment had been scheduled
forl for Monday, 14 March, at 10:00 a. m.
3. BRIEFING Attended a briefing on the Soviet
navy before the Senate Armed Services Committee. The principal briefer
was Mr. Paul Walsh, A/DDI. (See Memorandum for the Record.) After
the meeting, I mentioned to Senator Wendell R. Anderson (D., Minn.) that
I had not yet heard from his secretary as to whether either of the dates 14
or 17 March which we suggested would be suitable for him to visit the Agency
for a briefing. He said his schedule is extremely heavy and he did not know
when he might be able to make it. Mr. Walsh suggested to Senator
Anderson that perhaps arrangements might be made for him to come out on
a Saturday. The Senator said his office would get in touch with us.
4. LIAISON Received a call from Paul Daly,
Legislative Liaison, FBI. He said that the Justice Department granted
approval for the FBI to brief Representative Larry P. McDonald (D., Ga. )
on the security of NATO and they will contact his office Monday, 14 March.
I then called Mr. McDonald's office, and in his absence, spoke to his
secretary. I explained the background of Mr. McDonald's request for a
briefing on the security of NATO and informed her that the FBI was the
principal agency in this area and that they will be contacting Mr. McDonald
Monday to set up a briefing.
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5. I I LIAISON Received a call from
James Fellenbaum, Senate Appropriations Committee staff,
requesting background data and supporting arguments for
I ire-programming. Called Helene Boatner, Office of the
Comptroller, to relay this request.
6. BRIEFING Called James
Fellenbaum, Guy McConnell, and Pete Bonner, Senate Appropriations
Committee staffers, to set up a meeting with IC Staff for Monday,
14 March, to discuss IC Supplemental. The meeting is set for
2:00 p. m. in Committee offices.
7. BRIEFING Accompanied
F- I D/DCI/IC, to a briefing of Senator Ted Stevens
(R., Alaska) on Intelligence Community and major (national)
programs. James Fellenbaum and Pete Bonner, Senate Appropriations
Committee staffers, attended. (See Memorandum for the Record,
11 March 1977.)
LIAISON Jean Evans, Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence staff,visited Headquarters for a
briefing on CI resource utilization which was presented by
C/CI Staff.
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answered all their questions to their satisfaction and there
are no follow up items. (See
Memorandum for the Record. )
9.1 LIAISON Called Evelyn Chavoor,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, and discussed with
her the status of her review of Agency file systems, and document
destruction policy. She said she hoped, by the end of the month,
to have completed her recommendations on Committee review of
Agency documents to be destroyed.
10. LIAISON Discussed with Dan Childs,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, and Bill Miller, Staff
Director, the most recent developments regarding their request for
a detailed briefing on a particular CA program and associated
Reserve release. Both agreed that there was no longer any need
for them to have the briefing. I also discussed with Childs the
revised schedule for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
budget hearings.
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in response to questions the Senator had rased at Admiral Stansfield
Turner's, DCI, confirmation hearing, the fact that a participant in the
I notified Miller that the Agency had received a telegram saying
Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D. , Hawaii) had suggested that the writer, a
of Milwaukee, ask the Agency if al of
Houston, Texas was connected with the CIA within the past eight years.
Miller said he knew nothing about the inquiry.
12. LIAISON Met with both Bill Miller, Staff
Director, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and Ted Ralston, also
of the Select Committee staff, regarding the secrecy agreement I had
asked Ralston to sign in connection with his access to 38 DDO "Blue
Stripe" reports. Miller had a potential problem with the final paragraph
of the agreement depending on the interpretation given it, and I agreed to
inquire into this matter further. I mentioned to Miller that I had been
asked to obtain signatures of staff members on security agreements
regarding another compartmented system and Miller posed no objection,
except that the staff members' responsibility must run to the Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence rather than to the DCI.
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13. ADMINISTRATIVE - DELIVERIES
Delivered to Mark Gitenstein, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff,
information on the Agency's intelligence sources and methods
proposal.
14. LIAISON Met with Paula Schwartz,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, who asked me if she
could look one more time at the group of internal memoranda
concerning F- I
15. I I LIAISON Met with Tom Moore,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, who asked me to set
up a briefing for him with an official in the Comptroller's office to
discuss the Agency's FY 1978 budget. Moore is assuming some
Committee responsibility for the CIA budget and wants the discussion
in preparation for the formal budget authorization. hearings on
22 and 23 March. I agreed to try and set up a meeting for him on
8 March at 1:30 p. m.
17. ADMINISTRATIVE - DELIVERIES
Delivered to Martha MacDonald, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
staff, a letter from Mr. Gambino, Director of Security, on GPO employee
Donald Thomas Fortman, who will handle Committee matters for the
GPO. I also delivered to Ms. MacDonald for Dan Childs, also of the
Committee, for SA-D/DCI/IC, a study on
intelligence activities against illicit narcotics trafficking.
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18. 1 LIAISON Talked to Lisa Kanemoto,
on the personal staff of Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D. , Hawaii), to see
if that office knew about the inquiry to the Agency from a
After checking, Ms. Kanemoto said
no one in the office, including Senator Inouye himself, knew anything
about the matter. I also told her of the recent death of a former
Agency employee who we believe to be a personal friend of Senator
Inouye. Kanemoto said the Senator was aware of the death and in
fact was attempting to have the man buried at Arlington Cemetery.
19. LIAISON Discussed with
Walt Ricks, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, the
creation of the new Ad Hoc Group on Investigations. Ricks said
the purpose of creating the Group was to have a standby investigations
capability so that staff members would not be pulled off other
projects, such as the budget or quality of intelligence study, when
the need for an investigation arose.
20. ADMINISTRATIVE - DELIVERIES
Delivered to Roger LeMaster, Legislative Aide to Senator Walter D.
Huddleston (D., Ky.), a working paper on sources and methods
legislation that was prepared by OGC.
21. LIAISON Picked up a letter
from Marty Gold, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. staff, for
the and agreed to have it sent to him
through the Agency's pouch.
22,. LIAISON Spencer Davis, Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence staff, gave me a. copy of a letter
from a in Vietnam which I agreed to forward to Clayton
McManaway at tR-77ST-alte Department. I have followed this procedure
in the past with McManaway.
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Control Officer, NSA, called requesting a copy of the letter from Jack
Blake, DDA, to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House
regarding a report on Agency activities under the Freedom of Information
Act for 1976. I told him I would forward him a copy.
24. LIAISON Burleigl:i Leonard, in the
office of Senator John Danforth R. , Missouri), called regarding a constituent
who worked for the International Red Cross and had been asked to leave
Lebanon by the PFLP. The constituent asked Senator Danforth if he could
arrange a meeting between the constituent and the PFLP to clear the record.
I told Leonard there was nothing we could do as an Agency and suggested that
the constituent be put in touch with the Department of State to see if they
could arrange something through the PLO office at the United Nations.
25. LIAISON Tom Smeeton, House International
Relations Committee staff, called and asked if a chart on Rhodesian chrome
exports which we had provided could be attributed to the Agency. I told
him that the chart had been prepared in blind form in order that it not be
attributed to the Agency and asked him to ensure that any use of the chart
would be non-attributable.
26. I I LIAISON Called Jack Brady, House
International Relations Committee staff, to inform him that Lewis Gullick,
also of the Committee staff, had requested a briefing on the pros and cons
of S. Res. 400, and to alert him to the fact that we had been asked to brief
Representative Andy-Ireland (D. , Fla.) and other members of the Committee
at Mr.- Ireland's request on the political and military situation in Panama...
27. BRIEFING Ira Nordlicht, Senate Foreign
Relations Committee staff, called requesting a briefing on oil liftings and
weather problems in the Persian Gulf area, particularly with regard to
Saudi Arabia and Iran. After checking with CPS, I suggested
to Nordlicht that he come out to the Agency for the briefing which he agreed
to do. The briefing is scheduled for 2:30 p. m. , 16 March 1977.
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28. LIAISON Dale Schmidt, in the office of
Representative Robert Kasten (R.. , Wis. ), called wanting to know if Senator
Edward Kennedy's (D., Mass.) release of the CIA report on MKNAOMI
had been unilaterally declassified by Senator Kennedy. He also requested a
copy of the report. I told him the report had been declassified by former
Director William E. Colby and referred him to Senator Kennedy's office
for a copy. He later called back and said Senator Kennedy's office was out
of copies. After checking with SA/DO/O, I told Schmidt we
would forward him a copy of the report.
29. BRIEFING Jeff Porro, in the office of
Senator Howard Metzenbaurn (D. , Ohio), called to see if we would brief
the Senator on Soviet strategic posture. I told him I was sure something
could be worked out and would get back to him.
BRIEFING Hans Binnendijk,, a new member
of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee -staff, called a number of former
acquaintances in the Agency requesting a briefing on the economic, political
and military situation in Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Syria. The people he
contacted reported the matter to CPS, who called me. I
then called Binnendijk and set up a briefing at the Agency for 10:00 a. m. ,
18 March 1977. CPS, is arranging the briefing which will be
held in room 3G-02.
31. BRIEFING Called Norvill Jones, Chief
of Staff, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and mentioned to him that
Hans Binnendijk, a new staffer of the Committee, had called former
acquaintances in the Agency requesting a briefing and asked Jones if he
would mention to his staffers that any requests for briefings come through
OLC. He said he would see to the matter.
Jones also asked if we would determine when Admiral Turner's
schedule would permit a briefing for the full Committee on the world-wide
situation. He also asked if such a session could be preceded . by an update
briefing on 662 matters. He said any Tuesday would. be the best day as that
is the normal meeting day for the Committee. I told. him I would check and
get back to him.
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32, I I LIAISON Bob Mantel, Executive Assistant
to the Chief of Staff, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called to give
us some background on new Committee staffer, Hans Binnendijk. I told
Mantel I had already been in touch with Binnendijk and set up the briefing
which he had requested.
33. CONSTITUENT I returned a call put to
Mr. Cary by Virginia, a self-reported
weapons inventor whose earlier inquiries through the office of Senator
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said that many other agencies (FBI, Department of Defense, Law En orcement
Assistance Administration) have shown interest in his weapons and have
said the U. S. Government should have them, but none follow through. I
reiterated that CIA had no interest, but said that unofficially we might be
able to suggest where else he might try to go to get a, hearing. I said
I would try to reach him in a few days.
34. LIAISON In the absence of Sam
Hoskinson, NSC staff, I filled in Bob Rosenberg, also on the NSC staff,
on the state of play on S. 305.
35. LIAISON Bill Jones, General Counsel,
House Government Operations Committee, called and asked me to stop
by within the next day or so to discuss a matter concerning the CIA
Retirement Act.
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1.1 RIEFING Guy McConnell, Senate
Appropriations Committee staff, called and shifted the Agency budget
presentation to 2:00 p.m. on 2l March. This was later confirmed
with him.
2. AGENCY VISIT Senators John Chafee
(R., R. I.) and Malcolm Wallop (R., Wyo.), new members of the
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, were invited to a breakfast
meeting at the Agency this morning for the purpose of receiving some
background briefings to bring them somewhat up-to-speed in connection
with their participation on the Senate Select Committee. Present at
the breakfast in addition to Admiral Turner were: Mr. Knoche,
D/DCI/IC, Richard Lehman, NIO, and
George Cary, OLC. The general functions of the Community and the
Agency were discussed with the Senators and following the breakfast
session they were taken on a tour of the Operations Center. Prior to
their departure, I mentioned two particular areas of consideration and
concern to us. One had to do with the question of charters for the
Intelligence Community on which we would hope the Committee would not
move too quickly and the other had to do with the question of an open
budget. I told the Senators that we would like to provide them with
some information on this latter subject and I pointed out some of the
problems that revelation of an intelligence budget figure would create.
At this point, Senator Wallop mentioned that he would'. be Vice Chairman
of the Subcommittee on Budget Authorization, Senate Select Committee
on Intelligence and was particularly interested in my comments on the
open budget issue.
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3. LIAISON Talked to Werner Brandt,
Legislative Assistant to Representative Thomas Foley (D., Wash.),
to tell him of my conversations with Mr. Foley's secretary, regarding
the provision of information of interest to the House Agriculture
Committee and of my interest in talking with Mr. Foley about the
prospects for select committee legislation in the House this year.
Brandt, as usual, was very cooperative and said he would try to help
in arranging for a meeting with Mr. Foley at an early date. (See
Memorandum for the Director dated 12 March 1977, OLC 77-0931.)
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