NOTE TO(Sanitized) FROM SAM HOSKINSON
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NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
Fr-bruary 28,.1978
Attached is the Abourezk letter to
Dr. Brzezixiski which I mentioned to
you over the phone this morning. I
have also talked with Bill Miller,
who, like you, suggests offering
Abourezk an opportunity to read the
document himself by taking it to him-
but with retention by the Select
Committee. Miller thought. Senator
Bayh might be willing to intervene
with Abourezk if it came to that.
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EDWARD M. KENNEDY. MASS. CHARLES MCC. MATHIAS. JR-. MD. JOHN C. CULVER. IOWA PAUL L.AXALT. NEV.
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JAI.(ES ABOUREZK, S. OAK. ORRIN O. HATCH. UTAH IRENE R. MARGOLIS
JAMES B. ALLEN. ALA. MALCOLM WALLOP. WYO. CHIEF COUNSEL AND STAFF DIRECTOR
JOSEPH R. BlDEN. JR.. DEL.
JOHN C. CULVER. IOWA
HOWARD M. METZENBAUM OHIO
DENNIS DE CONCINI. ARIZ.
FRANCIS C. ROSENBERGER
CHIEF COUNSEL AND STAFF DIRECTOR
February 23, 1978
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WASHINGTON. D.C. 20510
COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
SUECOMMITTEC ON
ADMINISTRATIVE PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
Mr. Zbigniew Brzezinski
Assistant to the President for
National Security Affairs
National Security Council
Old Executive Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20506
Dear Mr. Brzezinski:
Your letter of February 3 arrived while I was away during
the recess; hence my delay in responding.
I appreciate your willingness to cooperate with the Sub-
committee's inquiry relating to the NSC's role in CIA's
decision concerning public acknowledgment of its role in the
Glomar Explorer Project.
I was surprised, however, at the procedure the NSC unilaterally
undertook for transmitting the documents requested by the
Subcommittee in connection with this inquiry. It was my
understanding, from my conversation with your assistant,
David Aaron, that the requested material would be delivered
directly to me and that after reviewing the documents, I
would inform you if anything further was required. At no
time was there any discussion of providing the material through
the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Indeed, I would
have never agreed to such an arrangement.
Let me stress that such an arrangement is totally unacceptable.
The Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure has
an independent authority and jurisdiction and I will not
enter into any agreement which abrogates that responsibility,
Furthermore, when the Select Committee was established, it
was expressly acknowledged that:
"nothing in this resolution (S. Res. 400) shall
be construed as prohibiting or otherwise re-
stricting the authority of any other Committee
to study and review any intelligence activity
to the extent that such activity directly affects
a matter otherwise within the jurisdiction of
such Committee." S. Res. 400 s 3(c).
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Letter to Mr. Zbigniew Brzezinski
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It was never intended that the Select Committee would be a.
clearinghouse for classified material requested by any other
Committee of the Senate, especially when the information
although classified is not necessarily intelligence information.
In any event, the responsibility for determining what matters
are appropriately before a Congressional Committee or Sub-
committee clearly rests with Congress and not the Executive
branch.
Accordingly, please have delivered to my office the material
which was forwarded to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence..
I can assure you that appropriate arrangements can be made to
handle the material, consistent with the sensitivity of the
information.
ames Abourezk
lC ALQ1I JIL CL1n
Subcommittee on Administrative
Practice and Procedure
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