JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 16, 2005
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• Publication Date: April 14, 1977
• Content Type: NOTES

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Thursday - 14 April 1977
LIAISON Bill Miller, Staff Director, Senate
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Select Committee on Intelligence, returned my call of yesterday prior
to his having lunch with the Director at the Executive Office Building
this afternoon. I told Miller the Director would probably discuss the
matter with him at lunch but that he was most anxious to meet with
Chairman Daniel Inouye (D., Hawaii) and Vice Chairman Barry
Goldwater (R., Ariz.) before he appears before the Committee to
discuss sensitive intelligence collection activities. Since both Senators
are out of town, I told Miller that if it would not be possible for the
Director to see them before Monday's hearing, he would want the
hearing put over until he had an opportunity to meet with them. I also
said that he wanted to be sure both Senators would be present at the
briefing on these activities and the update on covert action programs.
Miller said he thought this was reasonable.
I mentioned that Ed Levine, also of the Committee staff, was
coming out to talk with Bill Wells, DDO, about the covert action portion
of the briefing and Miller acknowledged that Levine was working in this
area with his (Miller's) blessing.
With regard to Mike Madigan's, also of the Committee staff,
request to subsequent conversation with
Miller about the Wilson case, I suggested that we have John Waller, IG,
meet with Miller, Madigan, and Earl Eisenhower, Minority Staff Director
of the Committee, to provide them with some background information on
the subject. Miller said he thought this made sense.
2. LIAISON John Neals, House Committee
on Standards of Official Conduct staff, called to say that he and Phil
Lacovara, also of the Committee staff, who is heading up the Committee's
investig4tion with respect to the Congress, would like
to core out and see me sometime next week (obviously to talk about their
investigation). I told him that I would probably have Tony Lapham, General
Counsel, join us and we would set a time. A meeting has been tscheduled for
"'Wednesday, 20 April, at 2:30 p.m.
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3.1 1 LIAISON Bill Jordan, Senate
Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations staff, called with
reference to the 19 October 1976 letter from Chairman Daniel Inouye
(D. , Hawaii), requesting a classified briefing this year on economic
growth, foreign exchange earnings, etc. , with regard to Egypt, Jordan,
Syria and other Middle East countries. Jordan said he would like to
schedule that briefing for sometime in late May but would like next
week an assessment of certain statements made in testimony before
the Subcommittee concerning Soviet resupply of arms to Egypt since
the Yom Kipper War. (See Memorandum for the Record.)
4. LIAISON Beverly Lumpkin, on the staff
of the House International Relations Subcommittee on 'International
Organizations, called to set up a meeting between Representative Donald
Fraser (D., Minn. ), Chairman of the Subcommittee, and the Director.
She suggested 21 April at 10:45 a. m. or 4:00 p.m. as possible meeting times. After
checking through I with the DCI's office, I told her that the
Director's schedule was full for the 21st of April -and- suggested
either 20 April at 4:30 p.m. or 22 April at 8:30 a. m. She said she would
check it out and get back to me.
5. EMPLOYMENT Ann Warren, in the
office of Representative John J. Flynt (D. , Ga. ), called to request a
professional employment application for a constituent of theirs.
ill send the application to Warren.
6. LIAISON Received a call from
Richard Barnes, who identified himself as a new staff member of the
Government Information and Individual Rights Subcommittee of the House
Government Operations Committee. Barnes stated that the Subcommittee
is interested in charges byl
specifically relating to purging of files prior to Freedom of Information Act
requests.
I told Barnes that we prefer to consolidate responses to such issues
within the appropriate oversight committees, and suggested that Barnes'
Subcommittee direct its request to either the Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence or House Armed Services Subcommittee on Intelligence.
Barnes said he would take my suggestion under advisement.
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7. LIAISON I received a call from
Charles Snodgrass, House Appropriations Committee staff. Snodgrass
wanted to know if a response was being prepared to charges raised by
Snodgrass said he was
particularly interested in allegations regarding misuse. of the representational
funds.
I advised that a response would be forthcoming for his Committee.
On another issue, Snodgrass requested information as to whether the
back salary repaid to I upon his re-hire was drawn from
appropriated funds
8.1 LIAISON Called Bill Hogan, Counsel,
House Armed Services Committee, and discussed the manner of handling
the Agency's unclassified study on Soviet civil defense.. Hogan said that
most of the staff was on vacation and will be back next week. He will
discuss this with John Ford, Staff Director of the Committee, and get
back to me.
Hogan mentioned discussion with him concerning
the Committee submitting an amicus curiae brief in the court case of
Goland vs CIA to preclude disclosure of the 1947 transcript of Committee
hearings on the National Security Act of 1947. Hogan questioned whether
the Armed Services Committee can properly submit such a brief since
the transcript was taken before a committee that no longer exists. He
suggested that we discuss this matter with the Clerk of the House since
custody of the transcript legitimately rests under his control.
9. PRESS INQUIRY Received a call from
Steve Hersch (ph), who claimed he was writing a free-lance article for
Washington Monthly on Representative Ronald V. Dellums' (R., Calif.)
bill to establish a House select committee and wanted to talk to me or
anyone who had read the bill to get the Agency's reactions. He said there
would be no attribution to CIA. He could not recall where he had gotten
my name and number. I firmly declined and referred him to
in Mr. Herbert Hetu's, A/DCI/PA, office, with whom he said he has had
contact. I subsequently called I and alerted him to the call.
said he knew Hersch and that he has been continually trying
to deal directly with Agency personnel rather than through his office. He
will admonish Hersch to deal strictly with him.
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10. BRIEFING I called Larry Smith,
Senate Armed Services Committee staff, and confirmed arrangements for
the Agency's briefing of the Research and Development Subcommittee on
Soviet civil defense. He said that a reporter from Alderson Reporting
Company would be present and we can set up security monitoring if we
determine it necessary. I is checking as to the sensitivity
of the briefing and will let me know if we need security arrangements.
11. LIAISON Sam Hoskinson's office, National
Security Council, reported that there were no problems with the Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence/DCI questions and answers and to let
them go to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence as far as the National
Security Council was concerned. OLC,diispatched the questions
and answers this afternoon to Ann Karalekas, of the Committee staff.
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Grabon, in the office of Sam Hoskinson, National Security Council, that
we would hope to get an answer to her early next week to a letter from
Representative Lionel Van Deerlin (D. , Calif. ), to White House Congressional
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14. 1 LIAISON Received a call from Peggy
Meek, in the office of Representative Eldon Rudd (R. , Ariz. ), who wanted
a copy of the transcript hearing during which Mr. Theodore Sorenson was not
confirmed. I inithis office, called her back and suggested she
apply to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence for this information,
since the transcript was not classified.
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15. I LIAISON Called Anne Karalekas, Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence staff, and informed her that a copy of
the responses to the supplemental questions transmitted to Admiral
Stansfield Turner, in connection with his confirmation hearings, had been
passed to the NSC staff for their information. I told her that lacking
any strong and immediate direction from the NSC staff, the responses to
the Committee would be delivered by courier that afternoon.
16. LIAISON Called Tom Moore, Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence staff, to confirm his schedule of
appointments at Headquarters for the day. Moore is meeting at 11:00 a. m.
with a user of the SAFE system; at 2:00 p.m. with Comptroller, DDI and
DDA officials on the SAFE system and on other proposed ADP related
projects; and at 3:00 p.m. with Dr. Sayre Stevens, DDI, on SAFE and on
more general questions of DDI priorities. Moore said he had been asked
to raise the latter questions with Stevens by Hal Ford, also of the Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence staff.
17. LIAISON Accompanied Ed Levine, Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence staff, to a meeting with William Wells,
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I regarding questions Levine had prepared in
connection with the covert action part of the 18 April Senate Select Committee
on Intelligence briefing. The meeting lasted approximately four hours,
although not all participants were present for the entire session on the
103 questions Levine had prepared. Agency representatives were able to
answer well over half; answers were promised to the remaining questions
on 18 April.
18. LIAISON Called Dan Childs, Senate
Select- Committee on Intelligence staff, and asked him whether he felt there
was a danger that discussion of the open budget question, during the
scheduled 27 April Senate Select Committee on Intelligence briefing, would
lead to open discussion of classified information. Childs said he thought
there was no such danger as he thought discussion could be kept to the
principles involved.
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19. LIAISON Sent by courier to Anne Karalekas,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, letters to Chairman
Daniel K. Inouye (D., Hawaii), Senate Select Committee on Intelligence,
enclosing classified and unclassified answers to questions submitted by
the Chairman's letter of 28 February 1977.
20. I LIAISON Sent by courier to Elliot Maxwell,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, a memorandum from
Special Assistant to the DCI, on the subject of CIA
21. LEGISLATION Spoke with Dan Wall,
Legislative Director to Senator Jake Garn (R. , Utah), regarding our
obtaining a copy of the portion of the S. 305 mark-up transcript containing
remarks by Senator Adlai Stevenson (D., Ill.). Mr. Wall provided us a
copy of this material and said further that Charles Marinaccio, Special
Counsel, Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, was
planning to complete his draft Committee report on S. 305 by COB tomorrow.
He suggested we call Mr. Marinaccio tomorrow if he had not contacted us
by then.
22. LEGISLATION Called Ms. Phoebe Felk,
OMB, and asked her for an extension on our views letter on the Civil
Service Commission's proposed legislation on the employment of the
physically and mentally handicapped. She granted an extension to Friday,
22 April.
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