JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00941A000700040018-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2006
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: November 3, 1978
• Content Type: NOTES

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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Friday - 3 November 1978
1.1 1 Per her request, I sent to Sandy
Auman, on the staff of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Committee, the publication entitled "A Handbook of Tutorials
From the Office of Scientific Intelligence." This material
is to be used by Mr. Grenville Garside, Committee Staff Director,
who asked for this material to supplement his knowledge on nuclear
energy.
2. 1 1 LIAISON Herb Romerstein, House
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence staff, called to inform
me that Representative John Ashbrook (R., Ohio) will be traveling
as planned to Europe between 11 and 22 November 1978. I have
prepared a draft cable to the appropriate European Stations.
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3. LIAISON Received a call from
Jean Evans, 5 na=5Z7e ittee on Intelligence staff, who 25X1
informed me Senator Charles M. Mathias (R., Md.) will be taking
two trips abroad in the next month. He will be traveling from
posse i i ies o pre-trip rie ings tor eac
trip. I strongly recommend one for the Moscow trip. Evans also
indicated that the Senator's personal staff member Casimir Yost
would be traveling with him and that he had asked to review any
relevant NFAC publications of the last six months on these countries
prior to the trip.
4.
I LIAISON Received a call from Audrey
Harry, erc, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, who said
the Committee could use wall size maps of Africa and Asia. I said
I would see if I could get them for her.
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5. LIAISON Delivered to Senator 25X1
John Glenn (D., Ohio) a cons. uent'sletter for his district office.
I explained to the receptionist that the constituent had written
a letter about why he was not being accepted for a job by the Agency.
I further explained that the constituent's qualifications were
not what the Agency was,looking for. I asked her if she would
relay this message to the district office and she said she would.
6 LIAISON Accompanied
Sino- ovle p
in-depth approach to this subject by He said that he25x1
would be calling on us for a briefing on ovie particle beams
and other exotic weapons.
I also delivered to Mr. Carbaugh several documents to a
follow-up his recent briefing on Soviet research in weather
modifications.
ORPA/NFAC, and NFAC, to a briefing on People's
Republic of China or o n Carbaugh, of Senator Jesse Helms'
(R., N.C.) staff. The briefing covered the current political
climate, a fraction of the Soviet threat, Taiwan issues, and
S t border roblems Mr. Ca u h a reciated the
7. LIAISON Called Don Sarff, of
Senator Howard e zen aum s ., Ohio) staff, in response to his
inquiry for a constituent which had been referred to us by the
Air Force Liaison. The constituent, Garland M. Wheeler of Toledo
Ohio, requested an "'investigative report" concerning Francis Gary powers.
I advised Mr. Sarf that the Senate Foreign Relations and House Armed
Services Committees held hearings on the subject. I also provided him
with the dates of the hearings and the testimonies. Mr. Powers'book
Overflight might be of help to the constituent. Mr. Sarf appreciated
our oral response and no written one would be necessary.
8. LIAISON Per her request, sent
via mail to Suzanne oisc eir, Office of Technology Assessment,
a copy of "The Scope of Poland's Economic Dilemma."
9. LIAISON Per his request of
1 November 1978, sent to John, in the office of Representative
Thomas F. Railsback (R., Ill.), copies of two documents: "National
Basic Intelligence Factbook" and "Research Aid - Handbook of
Economic Statistics, 1977."
10. BRIEFING Judy Smith, in the
office of Representative William V. Alexander (D., Ark.), called
to ask if we could move his requested briefing on China from
10:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. on`7 No Member. We confirmed the change.
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11. LIAISON Visited Jim Fellenbaum,
Senate Appropriations Committee staff, and, at his request, took
a number of classified documents for return to NFIP elements.
Fellenbaum still has more he wishes to return.
12. I I BRIEFING Called Senator Lawton Chiles'
(D., Fla.) office o lowing up on the Senator's request for a
briefing on MIG-23s in Cuba. The Senator will request the briefing
when he returns to Washington, D.C. NFAC/CSS was informed.
FREDERICK P. HITZ
Legislative Counsel
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