JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIAVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80S01268A000200010017-3
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 21, 2006
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: April 28, 1977
• Content Type: NOTES

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Voorst, on the staff of Senator Dick Clark (D., Iowa), who requested ay
briefing on a number of matters with respect to arms control and SALT.
Senator Clark is trying to develop background on these matters and
asked for as technical a briefing as could be provided on the BACKFIRE
bomber, cruise missiles, etc. Senator Clark would like the briefing on
3 May at 5:30 p.m. . There are some problems with the briefing which
I will try to work out.
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the staff of the House Ways and Means Committee. She said there was no
action planned for the repeal of section 912 of the Tax Reform Act. It may
come up in the tax hearings scheduled for the fall- r ~r formed
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10. 1 LEGISLATION Hilda Schreiber, OMB,
called and said that the full House Post Office and Civil Service Committee
had approved a Hatch Act bill with "some kind of national security employee
exemption." She did not have the precise language and said she would give
it to me as soon as she could. Apparently, it would permit the Civil
Service Commission to adopt regulations upon the recommendation of
the various agency heads as to which employees should remain covered
by Hatch Act restrictions.
11. I I LIAISON I left word for Gerald Decker,
Senate Fol rmnarions Subcommittee on Foreign Assistance staffer,
that we had sent a copy of the classified version of the "National Basic
Intelligence Factbook" this morning to Norvill Jones, Staff Chief, of the
Committee, and asked if Decker would refer to Jones to look at the book.
Decker had requested .a chance to do this several days ago.
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Wednesday - 27 April 1977
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26. I LIAISON Called Sam Hoskinson, NSC,
and alerted him to our letter to Chairman John Sparkman, Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, regarding his request for declassification of the
1961 transcript of the hearing which then Secretary of State Dean Rusk
testified on a number of classified matters with respect to Latin America,
and told Hoskinson that the NSC was mentioned in a number of places and
we had suggested in our letter that Chairman Sparkman might wish to
refer the transcript to the NSC prior to its release.
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