JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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May 4, 1977
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25X1 JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL Wednesday - 4 May 1977 25X1 1. 25X1 25X1 25X1 25X1 25X1 25X1 25X1 Contacts - 2 Release 2005/11/233: CIA-RDP80-00941A00030004C 2?s7 - 15 In s uts - 77 SECRET O LIAISON Sent to Rosemary, in the district office of Senator Dick Clark (D. , Iowa), a copy of the Agency publication entitled, "The International Energy Situation: Outlook to 1985" for the use of a constituent, 2. I LIAISON Sent to Martin Sletzinger, on the staff of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, a copy of the "Reference Aid: Yugoslav Socialist Federal Republic Party and Government Structure, " per his request. 3. LIAISON Sent to Linda Goodgame, in the office of Senator Lawton Chiles (D. , Fla. ), a copy of the Agency publication entitled, "The International Energy Situation: Outlook to 1985. " 4. LIAISON Sent?to Chairman Henry Reuss, House Finance and Urban Affairs Committee, a copy of the Agency publication entitled, "USSR: Hard Currency Trade and Payments, " per his request. 5. LIAISON Sent to David Ryans, in the office of Representative John B. Breckinridge (D. , Ky. ), a copy of the Agency publication entitled, "The International Energy Situation: Outlook to 1985." 6. LIAISON G. Rosen, of Senator William Proxmire's (D. , Wis.) office, called to request general information on the Central Intelligence Agency. The material was forwarded to her. 7. LIAISON Jim Martin, of Senator Lee Metcalf Is (D. , Mont.) office, called to request one copy of "An Analysis of the Cyclical Dynamics of Industrialized Countries." The publication was forwarded to him. 25X1 Approved For Release 2 E IA-RDP80-009 25X1 For Release lftR ft-RDP80-00941AO00300040020-7 Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 2 Wednesday - 4 May 1977 8. LIAISON Called Chuck Snodgrass, House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, on the secure phone, to tell him that the Intelligence Community Staff was preparing written responses to the questions he raised on a sensitive project on Friday, but I gave him an interim response based on my conversation with John McMahon, AD/DCI/IC, on Friday. I told Snodgrass, however, that my interpretation of Mr. McMahon's answer was subject to correction in the written response by the Intelligence Community staff. Snodgrass said he understood and appreciated the interim information which put him a little more at ease on this subject. Snodgrass also mentioned that Jim Taylor, Comptroller, had talked with him on the open phone earlier alluding to a budget amendment for another sensitive project. He said he would like Taylor or me to call him back on a secure phone to provide more details. After checking with Mr. Taylor, I called Snodgrass and indicated what the nature of the amendment was and said that as-Mr. Taylor had suggested, we would be glad to have someone come up and brief him at his convenience. 10. FBIS Per his request, I called FBIS and had Mr. Mike Stone, in the office of Representative James Oberstar (D., Minn.), put on the FBIS mailing list for the Soviet Union and Western Europe Daily Reports. 11. LIAISON Met with Representative Samuel L. Devine (R. , Ohio), Ranking Minority Member of the House Select Committee on Assassinations, and went over the same grounds that I had covered the other day with Representative Richardson Preyer ( D. , N. C. Chairman of the Subcommittee on Investigating the Assassination of John F. Kennedy. Mr. Devine was most understanding and supportive of our security needs. 25X1 Approved For elease 2005/1) RDP80-00941A000300040020-7 !Uff- Approved F RET Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Wednesday - 4 May 1977 Page 3 12. LIAISON Walt Ricks, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, called to indicate that Senator Robert Morgan (D. , N. C. ) indeed would be interested in a briefing on Mexico which I offered the other day. Arrangements were made with Congressional Support Staff, for ORPA, to brief the Senator at the Bethesda Naval Hospital this afternoon. 13. LIAISON Pat Carroll, House Liaison at the White House, called because she was having trouble finding out within the White House the basis for the President's statement that former President Nixon is being provided intelligence material. After checking with Messrs. Ben Evans, Executive Secretary, and Congressional Support Staff, I left a message for Ms. Carroll that she should check with the White House Situation Room. 14. LEGISLATION Talked with Jim Davidson, on the staff of the Senate Committee on Governmental. Affairs, concerning S. 2, the Sunset review bill. He indicated that the bill had been undergoing several changes during mark-up. He said that the review period will now be five years, that zero-base reviews done pursuant to a proposed Executive order will be made available to Congress, and that the definition of "program for review" will be made by the Congressional Budget Office. 15. LEGISLATION Called Robert Carlstrom, in the Office of Legislative Reference at OMB, regarding the bill submitted to Congress yesterday by President Carter on financial disclosure and ethics in Government. Mr. Carlstrom said the bill was prepared by the White House in lieu of an earlier draft Executive order on the same subject, and that the draft bill had been sent to a number of Executive agencies and departments for coordination, but not to the CIA. (Mr. Carlstrom said he did not know why it was not sent to us.) Mr. Carlstrom made a copy available to us. I checked also with Ron Kienlen, in the General Counsel's office at OMB, but he said his office had not been involved in the preparation of the draft bill. 16. LEGISLATION Called Janice Mays, on the staff of the House Ways and Means Committee. She said an amendment had been proposed in conference which would defer the effective date of section 911 of the Tax Reform Act from January 1976 to January 1977. Approved For Release 2005/11/23 CIA-RDP80-00941A000300040020-7 C: 7 r' 25X1 25X1 For Release 2005/11/23 : CIA-RDP80-00941A000300040020-7 SECRET Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 4 Wednesday - 4 May 1977 17. LEGISLATION Called the Senate Committee on Human Resources Subcommittee on Labor and the House Post Office and Civil Service Subcommittee on Employment Opportunity, and found out that there was no action pending on S. 481 and H. R. 5226, identical bills to amend the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967. 18. BRIEFING I accompanied DDI/ORP.A, to a briefing of Senator Robert Morgan (D., N. C.) concerning major issues in U. S. -Mexican relations. Senator Morgan is recuperating at Bethesda Naval Hospital from knee surgery and the briefing was held there. Senator Morgan also asked questions about Mexican history and about Panama and was able to answer all questions on both points. There are several follow-up items. 25X1 19. LIAISON Called Barbara Chesnik, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, and told her the Agency has produced no gazeteers since the mid-1950's. Chesnik asked for one for the Committee's reference files in order to look up the correct spellings of places which are mentioned in Committee briefings. I renewed my offer of yesterday to Chesnik to examine the maps available in CIA's map library but she was noncommittal. 20. LIAISON Invited Elliot Maxwell, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, to speak to the Senior Seminar on 20 May at 1:00 p.m. OTR, had asked for a speaker with knowledge of the thrust of the Senate Committee's thinking on new intelligence 25X1 charters. Maxwell agreed to speak to the group. Approved Fo Release 2(r M IA-RDP80-00941A000300040020-7 I 1~7_ 1,611 1) L_ Approved For Release 2005/11/23 : CIA-RDP80-00941A000300040020-7 SECRET Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 5 Wednesday - 4 May 1977 22. THIRD AGENCY Together with a group from the Agency, I attended an all-day series of briefings, "Operation Dialogue" which explained the organization of the Defense Intelligence Agency. It was held at the Defense Intelligence School. Representatives from other agencies were also present. 23. LIAISON I called Clara Buchanan, Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff, and set up an appointment to see Norvill Jones, Staff Director of the Committee, to go over five transcripts of recent hearings to obtain his approval for a number of corrections and deletions. The appointment has been set for Monday, 9 May, at 10:30 a. m. 24. LEGISLATION At the request of the Legislation Staff, I called John Ritch, Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff, to inquire into the background on the recent amendment to the Case Act requiring the reporting of agreements to State Department within 20 days of execution. 25. LEGISLATION Called Annette Sherman, Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff, and requested all of the amendments 25X1 that had been proposed to S. 1160, in response to a Legislation Staff request. F-IGEORGE L. CAR Legislative Counsel cc: DDCI Ex. Sec. DDI DDA DDS&T Mr. Lapham Mr. Hetu IC Staff SA/no9 Proved For Release 2005/11/ UA-RDP80-00941 A000300040020-7 Comptroller Tfl Contacts - 5 Approved For Release 2005/11/23 : CIA-RDP80-00941AR0 ?Q0040020-7 6 Ills 0 - s - 2 INTERNAL USE ONLY Cut 2 ADDENDUM TO JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL Wednesday - 4 May 1977 1. (Internal Use Only - RJK) BRIEFING Anne Karalekas, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, spoke to a Records Management Seminar held at She presented an excellent background explanation for the Committee and its current working relations with the Agency and the Intelligence Community. It was extremely well received by the approximately =Agency Records Management Officers in attendance. They expressed their concern to her about the Committee's reluctance to grant the Agency permission to dispose: of a large volume of records. Ms. Karalekas said she would communicate this concern to the appropriate Committee staff members. 2. (Unclassified - RJK) ADMINISTRATIVE DELIVERIES Delivered a letter for Senator Adlai Stevenson (D. , Ill.) from Admiral Turner. On leaving the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence offices, I met Hal Ford, of the Select Committee staff, and advised him that I had just delivered the letter. 3. (Unclassified - RJK) LIAISON Attended a meeting between Mark Gitenstein, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, and Robert Gambino, Director of Security. Gitenstein is a principal staff member on a new Subcommittee on Secrecy and Disclosure of which Senator Joseph Biden (D., Del.) is Chairman. His purpose in meeting with Mr. Gambino was to discuss a broad range of security matters. He also indicated he would like to have Mr. Gambino give the Subcommittee members and staff a two hour briefing on the Agency's security procedures. (See Memo for the Record) 4. (Unclassified - PG) LIAISON As a follow-up to the meeting with Philip A. Locavara and John W. Nields, Jr., of the :House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct I called Paul Daly, FBI Legislative Counsel, to advise Daly that it appeared advisable to shift the investigations required for security clearances for the Committee staff from DOD to the FBI. had been in contact with Daly on this matter earlier, and Daly indicated to me that this would not be a problem for the FBI. In response to my request that he attempt to expedite the investigative phase of the clearance for Nields, Daly asked that Locavara and Nields contact him directly on this. I agreed and so advised Nields. STAT lt l5T I STAT Approved For Relealfl f1 2 0-00941 A0 0300040020-7 Approved For Release 2005 I lA000300040020-7 Addendum to Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 2 Wednesday - 4 May 1977 5. (Unclassified - PG) LIAISON I telephoned John W. Nields, Jr., House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, and advised him that I had been in contact with Paul Daly, FBI, pursuant to the security clearance problem for Committee staff. In view of the results of my discussion with Daly, I recommended to Nields that he, Philip Locavara, Special Counsel of the Committee, or John Swanner, Staff Chief, get back in touch with Daly. Nields said he would do this right away. 8. (Unclassified - AM) LIAISON Sent to Mrs. Torbet, in the office of Senator Quentin N. Burdick (D. , N. Dak. ), a copy of the Agency publication entitled, "The In.ternatio.n.al Energy Situation: Outlook to 1985. EURTUE Legislative Counsel STAT O /DDCI Ex. Sec. DDA DDI DDS&T SA/DO /O Mr. Lapham Mr. Hetu IC Staff NIO Compt STAT STAT INTERNAL USE ONLY Approved For Release 2005/11/23 : CIA-RDP80-00941A000300040020-7