JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 23, 2005
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• Publication Date: March 3, 1977
• Content Type: NOTES

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1.1 ~ AGENCY VISIT Received calls
from Susan, on the staff of Representative Lamar Gudger (D., N. Car.),
and Mrs. Turner, on the staff of Representative Donald Pease (D., Ohio),
accepting the invitation to the 15 March Freshman breakfast/briefing.
Both Members will require transportation.
2. I AGENCY VISIT Clara Buchanan,
secretary to Mr. Norvill Jones, Chief of Staff, Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, called to say that Mr. Jones will not be able to attend the
swearing-in ceremony for Admiral Turner next Wednesday.
3. AGENCY VISIT Received word from
Senator John McClellan's (D. , Ark.) office that the Senator regrets
he will not be able to attend the swearing-in ceremony for Admiral
Turner next Wednesday.
4. I I LIAISON Doris Connor, Senate Armed
Services Committee staff, called and said Clark McFadden, also of
the Committee staff, would like a set of maps of the world similar to
what we had previously provided to Mr. Ed Braswell, formerly of the
Committee staff. I told her we would get such a set together for
McFadden.
5. FBIS Jim Southerland, in the office
of Representative Claude Pepper (D., Fla. ), called and requested a
subscription to the FBIS Daily Reports for Latin America, the SubSahara/
Africa, and the People' s Republic of China. I called I FBIS, 25X1
and gave her this information plus the room number, 2239 Rayburn
House Office Building.
6. LIAISON Per instructions,
I sent via courier a copy of Admiral Turner's confirmation hearing
transcript to Sam Hoskinson, NSC staff.
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7. LEGISLATION I talked with Ron McCluskey,
Assistant Counsel, House Post Office and Civil Service Subcommittee on
Retirement and Employee Benefits, and asked him what action was scheduled
for H. R. 3793, a bill that would provide Federal employees under investigation
for misconduct the right to representation during questioning. He replied
that hearings would be held sometime in the summer or fall of 1977.
8. LEGISLATION Along with 1 -1 25X1
OGC, met with Roger LeMaster, Legislative Aide to Senator Walter Huddleston
(D. , Ky. ), to discuss proposed sources and methods legislation. (See
Memorandum for the Record. )
9. 1 -j LEGISLATION Discussed with Nanette
Blandin, OMB, our proposed letter to Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D. , Hawaii),
Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, on S. 305,
Senator William Proxmire's (D., Wis. ) bill that would expand reporting
requirements and outlaw corporate bribery. Ms. 13landin had a couple of
questions about the bill and suggested that we include in the letter proposed
amendatory language. I told her I would send her a new copy of the letter
with a few additional changes for OMB clearance.
10. LIAISON Received a call from Mike
Madigan, Minority Counsel, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Madigan wanted to know when he could interview
F- I I told Madigan that Mike
Epstein, "Stan Taylor and Paula Schwartz, of the Committee staff, had
interviewed the officer on 24 February and that the officer had left town
after the interview. Madigan was disappointed and said he would speak to
Epstein about the interview.
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12. LIAISON Called. Elliot Maxwell,
Senate Select Committee staff, who informed me that Senator Walter D.
Huddleston (D. , Ky.) had cancelled his plans to visit the Dominican
Republic.
13. LIAISON Received a call from
Hal Ford, Senator Adlai E. Stevenson's (D. , Ill.) designee on the Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence, who asked whether Gil Keyes, Staff
Director, Subcommittee on Science and Space, Senate Commerce Committee,
would be able to sit in on the briefing of Senator Stevenson on 7 March
on the Intelligence Community - NASA interrelationship. I informed
Ford that Keyes had all the appropriate clearances; therefore, we did
not object to him participating.
14. ADMINISTRATIVE DELIVERIES A
courier delivered a package of Agency atlases and maps to Mark Hoffman
on the staff of House Minority Leader, John J. Rhodes (R. , Ariz. ).
15. ADMINISTRATIVE DELIVERIES A
courier delivered an Agency map of Brazil to Scott Dwyer, on the staff of
Representative Philip E. Ruppe, (R. , Mich. ),per his request.
16. LIAISON Charles Sorrels,of the
Congressional Budget Office staff,called to request a briefing on the
logistics requirements involved for the Soviets in transferring military
units assigned to the Sino-Soviet border, to wage warfare along a European
front. Mr. Sorrels had. requested this briefing earlier and had cancelled
out on a few previous occasions. DDI/CPS, advised that Mx5X1
OSR Theater Forces,would provide the briefing on Tuesday,
17. LIAISON Jean Evans,of the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence, called to request a second meeting with
Chief, CI Staff at 9:00 a. m. on Monday, 7 March, to discuss the
outline of the annual CI report. The arrangements were made through
SA/DO/O, office and I later called. Mr. Evans to confirm the
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18. LIAISON Spoke with Martha MacDonald,on
the staff of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence,to inform her that we
are still working on a request which Chairman Inouye had made concerning
Italian press allegations that two communist members of the Italian
Parliament were receiving classified NATO information by virtue of their
membership in the Defense and Armaments Committee of the Western
European Union. I told her she could expect our reply in about a week.
She appreciated our providing her with an.interim response.
19. LIAISON Received a call from Chip Ingram,
on the staff of Representative Ken Holland (D. , S. Car. ). Mr. Ingram
requested that we provide an Agency speaker for a group of about a dozen
college students from Presbyterian College in South Carolina. They will
be in Washington for a seminar
on foreign policy on 31 March. Arrangeme
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OTR, to speak to the group from 10:00 a, m.
to 11:15 a. m. in room 340,
Cannon House Office Building. Mr. Ingram was
availability and the time of the briefing.
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21. I I BRIEFING Attended a briefing on significant
foreign intelligence developments worldwide before the Senate Armed
Services Committee. (See Memorandum for the Record. )
Review, called stating that he was working on declassifying a transcript of
a hearing before the House Appropriations Committee on Soviet capabilities
and intentions during which a Representative often referred to CIA testimony
on the same subject but in :a different hearing. Monahan wanted CIA to revieQ5X1
those portions for possible declassification or excision. After checking with
CPS, and OSR, I gave Monahan 5X1
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23. LIAISON I talked with Chris Vosberg,
of the office of Representative Robert Dorman, (R. , Calif. ), who called to
inquire about an article in the Baltimore Sun of 3 March 1977, quoting the
West German magazine Der Stern, "a U. S. Central Intelligence Agency
report on I I" Vosberg wanted what CIA could give him as an
unclassified comment on the article. I said I would check. I am referring
the matter to DDI/CPS and SA/DO/O.
24. BRIEFING I accompanied 25X1
D/DCI/IC, to a hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
on the Intelligence Community FY 77 Supplemental and FY 78 Budget. (See
Memorandum for the Record of this date. )
25. LIAISON I received a call from 25X1
Intelligence Community staff, stating that DoD legal liaison had advised
him that the NFIP budget hearing scheduled for late March or early April,
had been moved back to the afternoon of 16 March following the
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hearing in the morning.
I called Charles Snodgrass, House Appropriations Committee staff,to
check on this and was advised by Snodgrass that no change had been made.
I so advised
26. LIAISON I received a call from Richard
Schmidt, attorney for John Wiley & Sons, publishers. Schmidt wanted to
know when he was going to receive an answer to the issue he raised regarding
publication of Chile's Marxist Experience. I said I would get to him shortly.
(See Memorandum to of this date. )
27. BRIEFING I sat in as OER China specialist,
discussed with Richard Kaufman, staff chief of the Joint
Economic Committee, topics for the annual world briefing of the Committee
which Kaufman thinks should occur in mid-May.
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28. I LIAISON Jack Ticer, Senate Armed
Services Committee staff, called to tell me that W. E. Cresswell,
Administrative Assistant to Senator John Stennis (D., Miss.), had
dropped by during the course of this morning's hearing and had asked
Ticer if he would have me see him before I left the Hill. Unfortunately,
Ticer neglected to pass this message to me and he: wanted to be sure
that I was alerted to it since Cresswell was now going to give me a
call.
Following Ticer's call, I placed a call to Cresswell by way
of follow-up of his attempt to see me this morning. Cresswell told
me that he wanted us to look into a personnel case of interest to
Senator Stennis. He gave me the details which I have passed on to
DD/OP.
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LIAISON I and I attended
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a meeting in the White House with Rick Merrill, White House Legislative
Liaison staff, Jerry Schecter, Sam Hoskinson, Bob Rosenberg and
Jane Pisano, all of the NSC staff, on the subject of select committee
legislation in the House of Representatives. (See Memorandum for
the Record.)
30. LIAISON I and I met
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with Chairman Clement Zablocki (D., Wis.), House International
Relations Committee, and Jack. Brady, Chief of Staff, to discuss the
Chairman's letter to the White House, especially his statement that
he did not recall being briefed on the
matter. (See
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31. HEARING AccompaniedrX~
D/DCI/IC, John McMahon, AD/DCI/IC, andjX
Chief, IC Support staff, to a hearing before the Subcommittee
on Budget Authorization, Senate Select Committee: on Intelligence, on
the supplemental and FY 1978 budget for the Intelligence Community staff.
A transcript was taken and the hearing went very well. Senators John
H. Chafee (R., R. I.) and Richard G. Lugar (R., :Ind.) were the only
members in attendance.
Subsequent to the briefing, I met with Dan Childs, of the Committee
staff, and Bill Miller, Staff Director, on= the delay in getting together
with them on their request for further details on a. covert action program,
explaining that some material decisions were in the process of being
made and it would take several more days before we would be in a position
to discuss these matters with them, including the amount of detail which
it is profitable to examine and the conditions under which such examination
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32. I LIAISON Advised Sam Hoskinson,
NSC staff, of my scheduled meeting with Chairman Clement J.
Zablocki (D., Wis.) on his 25 February 1977 letter to the President.
We also finalized arrangements for Mr. Cary and myself for the session
at the White House later today with Jerry Schecter, Congressional
Liaison, NSC, Rick Merrill, White House Congressional Liaison staff,
and othersto discuss legislative oversight arrangements.
E .GE L. CARY
Legislative Counsel
cc:
A/DCI
Ex. Sec.
DDI DDA DDS&T
Mr. Falkiewicz
SA/DO/O
IC Staff
Comptroller
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