JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80S01268A000500030029-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 25, 2006
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: September 12, 1977
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 6
Monday - 12 September 1977
24. (Unclassified - JEC) FOIA Called Rob Lyon, Minority Counsel,
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure,
and asked if he could give me any information on the hearings which the
Committee has scheduled for Friday, 16 September, on the (b)(l) exemption
to the FOIA. He said he had just received the paperwork and would get
back in touch with me after he had been able to go through it.
25. (Unclassified - JEC) LEGISLATION Received a call from
Nanette Blandin, OMB, concerning our proposed language for financial
disclosure legislation. She said she had no problems with the language and
that Phoebe FeLk, also of OMB, would be getting in touch with us either
this evening or early Tuesday morning to give us the final clearance to' go
up to the Hill.
26. (Unclassified - JEC) LEGISLATION Called Bob Carlstrom, OMB,
to give our views on a draft Department of Justice bill which would extend the
coverage of the Federal Tort Claims Act. I told him that in general we had
no objection to the bill, but raised several problems including increased
litigation, paying damage judgments and defining who is an employee. He
said he would be back in touch if they needed anything else, and that it was
not necessary to send a letter.
27. (Unclassified - YTF) LEGISLATION Talked to Brian Walsh, on
the staff of the Senate Governments air --SulicomxYxittee on Federal
Spending Practices and Open Government, who had asked to be notified when
we sent our views letter on S. 1264, the Federal Acquisitilo taf 1977,^
to the Committee. He rn`enFionec that the Subcommittee had taken care
of our concern regarding single-source procurement contracts. He would
appreciate it if someone would call him within the next week or so and explain
our problems regarding protest procedures for classified contracts.
28. (Unclassified - RLB) LIAISON Elliot Maxwell, on the staff of
the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, called and requested a copy of
the latest Agency regulation or other a er dealing with relationships with
newsmen. I passed this information o follow up.
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