JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Publication Date: April 26, 1977
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1.1 1 LIAISON Per I request,
I called Dale Schmidt, on the staff of Representative Robert W. Kasten
(R. , Wis. ), and told him the Agency released the unclassified version
of the Soviet energy study yesterday and we would be sending him a
copy, per his request in a conversation withi last week.
Mr. Schmidt thanked me for the assistance.
2. LIAISON Per I I request,
I called Steve Sims, on the staff of the Subcommittee on Oversight and
Investigations, House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee,
and told him the Agency released the unclassified version of the Soviet
energy study yesterday and we would send him a copy, per his request
in his conversation with I -last week. Mr. Sims said he
enjoyed Admiral Turner's talk yesterday before the Subcommittee
on Energy and Power and appreciated our sending him a copy of the
study.
3. LIAISON Charles Murphy, of
Representative Jack Edwards' (R. , Ala.) office, called to request six
copies of "The International Energy Situation: Outlook to 1985." The
copies were forwarded to him.
4. EMPLOYMENT REQUEST In response
to her request of yesterday, mailed to Sally Phillips, in the office
of Representative Robert Edgar (D., Pa. ), an application and brochures
for a constituent.
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5. LIAISON Mr. Hodges, of Representative Thomas
Harkin's (D. , Iowa) office, called to request one copy of "The International
Energy Situation: Outlook to 1985." A copy was forwarded to him.
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of Representative Samuel Stratton's (D. , N. Y.) office, called to
request a clerical employment package for their constituent,
of this office, will send out the package.
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7. LIAISON Ken MacKenzie, of
Representative Lawrence McDonald's (D., Ga.) office, called
to request one copy of "The International Energy Situation:
Outlook to 1985. " A copy was forwarded to him.
8. LIAISON Sent to Alvin Lodish, on the
staff of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade, a copy of
the Agency publication entitled, "The International Energy Situation:
Outlook to 1985. "
9. LIAISON Robert Foust, in the office of
Senator Claiborne Pell, called to ask for unclassified information on
Mexican oil reserves, estimated potential and what their production
rates may be through 1985. CSS , procured figures from
OER. Foust also requested three more copies of "The International Energy
Situation: Outlook to 1985." In discussing his request, I suggested he might
also be interested in "Soviet Oil Production for 198511, which he had not seen;
he said he would be. All of these items will go to him by courier on 27 April.
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10. CONSTITUENT Jim Van Nostrand, in the
office of Representative Don L. Bonker (D., Calif. ), called on behalf of
constituents writing in to ask the basis for CIA's activity in making estimates
relevant to the oil crisis. Office of Public Affairs, provided 25X1
a copy of the DCI's statement at the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Subcommittee on Energy and Manpower, on 25 April 1977. After conferring
with F- I CSS', I read excerpts from the Director's statement to
Van Nostrand, who thought they might help him meet the problem. I am
sending him a copy of the statement, plus a copy of "Prospects for Soviet
Oil Production, " by courier on 27 April. I noted especially that the estimates
(he has "The International Energy Situation: Outlook to 1985") were a part
of CIA's routine program of analysis, not something done for the moment.
Van Nostrand was grateful.
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11. LIAISON Rosemary Ripley, of the
office of Senator Daniel P. Moynihan (D., N. Y.), called to request a
copy of The International Energy Situation: Outlook to 1985." A copy
was forwarded to her.
12. CONSTITUENT Maggie, in the office of
Representative Charles Vanik (D. , Ohio), called on behalf of a constituent
who is about to graduate from college with a major in environmental studies
and seeks leads to jobs in "policy-related" areas. I explained that CIA had
no "policyrnaking" functions, but was interested in the collection and analysis
of foreign environmental data as a part of its charter to provide information
to the policymakers. I suggested she advise the constituent, if CIA might be
of interest to him, to write to the Office of Personnel giving a thorough
description of his background and his interests. On that basis, he could be
given some idea of employment possibilities here. Maggie was grateful.
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Congressional intern in Representative Jonathan B. Bingham's (D., N. Y. )
office, and confirmed his employment interview with the Director at 25X1
4:00 p.m., Thursday, 28 April. I Isaid he had no specific requirements
for Mr. Bingham at this time and would be flexible for scheduling of
several interviews with Agency officials. I subsequently called
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appointments for the latter part of this week.
14. FOIA Left with Alice Smith,
secretary to Jim Cline, Staff Director, House Judiciary Committee,
documents of the now defunct House Un-American Activities Committee
which that Committee provided to the Agency. I explained that the
documents were surfaced in connection with Privacy Act and FOIA
requests of the National Lawyers Guild and Alger Hiss and requested
that Mr. Cline review the documents and advise if there are any
objections to release. Ms. Smith said she would check with Mr. Cline
and he would call me.
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16. LIAISON Met with Jim Smith,
Senate Armed Services Committee, in response to his earlier call.
Smith said he had asked OLC, to check .Agency indices and
determine if Senator Jake Garn's (R., Utah) personal staff representative
on the Committee, David Fitzgerald, holds compartmented clearances.
Smith said checks were negative and he will double check
with Fitzgerald as to when the clearances would have been issued. I
confirmed with Smith Agency policy that the Agency discusses
compartmented intelligence only with cleared permanent staff members
of the Committee. Smith understood and said that this policy will be
maintained. He added that Fitzgerald has been pressing to sit in on
Committee mark-up sessions and that permanent Committee staff
object to his presence.
17. 1 LIAISON Tom Srneeton, Minority Staff
House International Relations Committee, called to request biographical
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indicated that he would like to have.the information by the end of the day.
I called Congressional Support Office, who said that she
would get the information and have it taken to Smeeton's office by courier.
At the end of the day, I checked with Smeeton and. discovered that he had not
yet received the information. I told him I would check and try and get it to
him first thing in the morning.
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18. LIAISON Colonel Steve Harrick,
Office of Secretary of Defense /Legislative Affairs, called to relate
information his office has received in connection with the investigation
of the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct. He said that
a month ago they received a request for Top Secret clearances for Staff
Chie4 John Swanner, and two other staff members which they are now
processing. Just recently he has received a request for Top Secret
clearances on 17 more staff members. Today, Swanner called Harrick's
office and said that in addition to Top, Secret clearances, he would also
like Compartmented clearances for all 20 staff members. Harrick was
calling to ensure that OSD and CIA were not duplicating effort in this
matter. I told him we have had. some preliminary conversation with
Philip Lacovara of the staff and ultimately planned to enter into a
memorandum of understanding with the Committee. We agreed that
we should coordinate our efforts with respect to Committee staff
clearances to avoid duplication and I promised to keep him posted on
our relations with the Committee.
19. LIAISON In response to Mr. Cary's
request, I called Paul Daly, FBI, to discuss a query the Agency had
received from Senator Sam Nunn (D. , Ga.) on behalf of a constituent,
had sought the Senator's assistance
in obtaining a 149-page FBI investigative report on the assassination
of Martin Luther King which had recently been released by the Department
of Justice. Senator Nunn had referred I request to the Department
of Justice but had received a reply from the FBI Director that, since the
material sought was CIA information, the FBI was taking no action.
Senator Nunn had, therefore, referred the action to CIA. I explained
this background to Mr. Daly and stated that knowledgeable Agency
officers had assured me that the report in question was not a CIA product.
Mr. Daly stated that the report had been issued by the Attorney General,
apologized for the unnecessary work this had caused the Agency, and
suggested that the matter be referred again to the Attorney General. I
have accordingly prepared letters for Mr. Cary to send. to Senator Nunn
and the Attorney General.
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20. LIAISON I talked with Paul Daly,
Legislative Liaison, FBI, today and he stated that the Bureau has now
received requests from the House Select Committee on Assassinations
for background investigations on six staff members. He understands
that an additional 30 are in the pipeline. The first six may be the
"handful" identified to six or seven
weeks ago when they visited the HSCA as those staff members who had
previously held clearances. It was noted that they would be the first
group submitted, in the hope the background investigation could be
done quickly.
22, LIAISON Lynn Kennedy, Congressional
Research Service, called requesting copies of reports dealing with
conditions, etc. which were reported to a program called "Intercultural
Exchange" by academic types and/or businessmen who traveled, to the
Soviet Union in the 1960's. I passed her request on tol of
our office, and he will follow up.
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23. LIAISON I called Donovan Gay, Research
Chief of the House Select Committee on Assassinations, and advised him
that we had a new FOIA release dealing primarily with background on
Lee Harvey Oswald. It was arranged that Mr. Cummins, of our office,
and I will meet with Mr. Gay in the House Select Committee on Assassinations
offices during the afternoon of 28 April, when the material will be turned.
over to Mr. Gay.
24. LIAISON Pursuant to Mr. Cary's request,
I sent a copy of the Memorandum for the Record covering our first meeting
with Philip A. Lacovara and John W. Nields, Jr., both of the House Committee
on Standards of Official Conduct staff, to Sam Hoskinson, National Security
Council staff. (See Memorandum for the Record.)
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25. BRIEFING CIA
congressional intern working in the office of Senator Pete V.
Domenici (R. , N. Mex. ), called to arrange for the briefing of
the Senator on Zaire, and possibly Senators James A. McClure
(R., Idaho) and Henry Bellmon (R., Okla.), for 3 May, 8:30 a. m.
26. LIAISON Called. Grenville Gar side,
on the staff of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources,
to close the loop on the geopolitical briefing that Senator Henry M.
Jackson (D. , Wash.) had requested. Garside was aware that the
DCI had called Senator Jackson, but no firm date for the briefing
has been set and they will let us know. In response to my query,
his thoughts were that this briefing would cover such questions
as access to Middle East oil, implications of Soviet shortage,
implications of financial problems caused by high oil prices, and
the strains in world relationships likely to result. Further refinement
of the scope of the briefing is possible.
27. LIAISON Spoke to Bill Miller, Staff
Director, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, concerning the
Committee's session with (See Memorandum to DCI,
27 April, OLC 77-16Z4.)
28. LIASION Called Dave Finnegan,
on the staff of the Subcommittee on Energy and Power, House Interstate
and Foreign Commerce Committee, who said that there would be
a slight delay in obtaining the transcript of the briefing held before
the Subcommittee on Monday, 25 April, but assured me that he would
provide us a copy as soon as it is returned from the reporting firm.
29. BRIEFING Spoke to Dorothy Fosdick
and Richard Perle, both on the staff of the Permanent Subcommittee
on Investigations, Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, and
arranged to cover an update on Soviet strategic forces, possible
damage assessment on the Boyce/Lee case as it may affect SALT
via disinformation or nullification, and technology transfer at
2:00 p.m., 28 April.
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30. LIAISON Received a call from
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, who asked about his request
for a meeting with DDO officials on technology transfer problems. I told
him I did not think the Agency had any information on American companies
violating export restrictions. He replied that his real interest was to make
sure this problem was adequately followed somewhere in the government.
He knows from his years with the CI Staff that this information was formerly
received in quantity. He has already spoken with officials at the Department
of Commerce. I agreed to try and set up a meeting, although one of the
principals is away.
32. LIAISON Spoke with Anne Karalekas,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, several times regarding her
requested unclassified response to one of the questions submitted to
Admiral Stansfield Turner in connection with his confirmation hearings. By
the end of the day, I was able to read to Karalekas the response as approved
by Admiral Turner.
Karalekas also asked me the status of our commitment to provide
reports to the Committee on incidents reported to the IOB. This was agreed
to in Mr. Knoche's 21 January 1977 letter to the Committee, but has not
been implemented pending approval of the new administration. I told her
I would check on this and let her know.
Committee on Intelligence staff, and gave him the answer to the question
he had-asked me on 25 April on a particular covert action project.
34? LIAISON Talked with Audrey Hatry and
Spencer Davis, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, to work out
final arrangements for the Director's appearance before the Committee on
27 April to discuss the open budget issue.
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35. LEGISLATION Brian Walsh, on the staff
of Senator Lawton Chiles (D. , Fla. ), balled regarding S. 1264, a bill just
introduced by the Senator relating to Federal procurement policies. Mr. Walsh
said it crossed his mind that this bill might affect the CIA, and he would
be interested in any comments we might have. He requested in this regard
that an Agency officer involved in procurement contact him so that he might
better be able to evaluate our interests in this legislation.
36. LEGISLATION Called Dan Wall,
Legislative Director to Senator Jake Carn (R. , Utah), to inform him that
the language in the S. 305 draft report which Stan Taylor, on the staff of the
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, had made available to us yesterday,
relating to Agency amendments was acceptable.
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and advised that he had talked to Dick Kaufman, Joint Economic Committee
staff, who said that the Committee would want CIA and DIA to come up
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yesterday from Chairman William Proxmire (D., Wis.) asking the DCI
to appear on 27 May at 10:00 a. m. on "Allocation of Resources in the
Soviet Union and China." He said this was the same thing he was
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that DIA has approved Kaufman for SI and TK but that George Krumbhaar,
Minority Counsel, was sent forms about ten months ago and has never
returned them. He said both Kaufman and Krumbhaar were told last
year that they had to have these clearances in order to sit in on the
briefings. said he will be taking some analysts up this week or
next to talk to Kaufman to get a better feel for what is required at the
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38. LIAISON Called. Beverly Lumpkin,
House International Relations Committee staff, and asked if we could
change the meeting between the Director and Representative Donald
Fraser (D., Minn.) from 6:00 p.m. to 11:30 a. m. on 5 May. After
checking she said this would be fine.
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39. LIAISON Called Guy McConnell,
Senate Appropriations Committee staff, and told him that in his
appearance before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence tomorrow
the Director would state that he had no objection to a single total
intelligence budget (NFIP) figure but would leave the final decision up
to the Committee and the Congress. He would, however, object
strenuously to any further disclosure of intelligence budget figures.
40. LIAISON Called John Swanner, Staff
Director, House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, to tell
him that in checking on the status of his clearance request in DOD we
learned that his clearance is being processed for Top Secret only
(not in accordance with DCID 1/14). I urged Swanner to contact DOD
to make sure that they consider his clearance under DCID 1/14
(TS - SCI). Swanner said he would.
41. LIAISON Called Sam Hoskinson,
National Security Council staff, to advise him of the position the Director
would be taking tomorrow with the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
on the subject of an open intelligence budget.
42. LIAISON Received a call from
Representative Jerome Ambro (D., N. Y.) who asked me to drop by
his office tomorrow so that he could see me on a sensitive matter. I
said I would be by around 2:00 p. m.
43. LIAISON Called John Ford, Chief
Counsel, House Armed Services Committee, to advise him of the action
the Director had taken today in accepting the resignations of two current
CIA employees who had been involved with Edwin P. Wilson. I told Ford
the Director was trying to reach Representative Charles Wilson (D., Calif. )
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cc: DDCI Ex. Sec. DDI DDA DDS&T Mr. Lapham
Mr. Hetu SA/D070 IC Staff Comptroller NIO
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