JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL THURSDAY - 24 AUGUST 1978

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R000700110031-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2004
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: August 24, 1978
• Content Type: NOTES

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9. I I LEGISLATION Discussed with
Michael Uel1, Ch-Lei: Counsel., Ilouse Permanent Select Comma ttee
on Intelligence, draft proposed americ'ments to II.R. 12171, the
"Federal Auditing and Accounting Act of 1978. ee T niorandum
for the Record.)
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LIAISON At the request of
Director o-_ e-r onnel for Special Programs,
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I called IIi1 a Schreiber, Retirement Specialist, Office of
Management and Budget, and inquired V; to status of the provision
in the Department of State's authorization. )ill to change the
provision for computing annuit7i t e Foreign Service
Retirement Act from a three year average to a high one year.
Schreiber said the provision. was approved by the conference
committee, however, the President is strongly against _; and
other provisions in the bill and will veto it if the provisions
remain. was advised.
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19. I LE!;I SLATION Spoke with.
Mr. George Gilbert, , UM.BUTT:1ce of Legislative Referericc,
who informed me that Justice has not yet been able to
comment on CIA proposed amendments to the Federal Tort
Claims Act (S. 3314). Mr. Gilbert did, however, state that
Justice does not believe the bill has a chance of passage
this session. This merely confirms earlier similar reporting
from our sources on the Hill.
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16. LEGISLATION Spoke with
Mr. Michael O'Neil, Chief Counsel, House Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence, and summarized for him the letter
we were proposing to send from Deputy Director Carlucci
to Chairman Edward P. Boland (1)., Mass.) on the matter of
II.R. 12171, the "Federal Accounting and Auditing Act of
1978." Mr. O'Neil asked that we provide him today with a
copy of the draft letter so that he could focus on it before
600010, meeting his commitment to get some amendatory language to
Chairman Brooks' staffers working on this legislation. I
told Mr. O'Neil I foresaw no problem in providing him a draft
of the letter provided lie did not.show it to anyone not on his
staff; he agreed to this. A copy of the draft letter was
provided by courier to Mr. O'Neil.
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17. 1 JLEGISLATION Discussed with
Mr. John at~lFBI, the substance of the letter we are proposing
to send from Deputy Director Carlucci to Chairman Edward P. Boland
(D., Mass.), House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, on
the matter of H.R. 12171, the "Federal Accounting and Auditing
V Act of 1978." Mr. Kaul said he had spoken with Mr. Larry Hammond,
of the Department of Justice, subsequent to my conversation with
/ 18.1 I LEGISLATION Called Mr. Stu Foss,
~/ Departme for ense l~f Civilian Personnel Policy,' regarding
Title VII (Labor Management Relations) of the Civil Service Reform
bill. According to the Civil Service Commission, Mr. Foss
was to be the drafter of exclusionary language provisions for
Title VII. Mr. Foss, having recently returned from vacation,
was unaware of this but promised to follow up and call me back.
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14. I ILEGISLATION Received a call
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from Mr.' arm ug as, ,egis ative Correspondent to Representative
John Rhodes (R., Apia.), who inquired about legislation to
protect against the unauthorized disclosure of identities
of intelligence officers. Mr. Douglas said his query was
prompted by recent press articles concerning the activities of
Philip Agee. I told Mr. Douglas we were looking at such
legislation and gave to him numbeh, of several bills in both
Houses of Congress that deal with this subject.
15.j ILEGISLATION Spoke with
Mr. Lariy ri on ice of Legal Counsel, Department of
Justice, on the matter of providing to the House Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence amendatory language to H.R. 12171,
the "Federal Accounting and Auditing Act of 1978." I gave
Mr. Hammond the gist of the letter we were proposing to send from
Deputy Director Carlucci to Chairman Edward P. Boland (D., Mass.),
in which we were recommending very strongly that the whole issue
addressed by H.R. 12171 -- the authority of the Comptroller
General to audit confidential funds expenditures -- be considered
carefully and preferably in the context of the charter legislation;
but that, if that were not possible then we would recommend an
amendment to H.R. 12171 which would maintain the status quo of
the CIA's present relationship with the Comptroller General on
this matter. Mr. Hammond said he had no problems with the letter
but asked that we include therein a clear reference to the effect
that our amendment did not address the effects of the bill on
other entities of the Intelligence Community and that we would
hope these matters would be addressed when the legislation receives
full consideration. He also clarified for me the position of
the Department on section 3 of the bill.
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