JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R001200160053-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 5, 2005
• Sequence Number: 53
• Publication Date: May 4, 1978
• Content Type: NOTES

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4? LIAISON Took a call from Don
.Sanders, pecia ounse , organ-Schmitt Senate Select Committee on
Ethics Subcommittee. We arranged for John Marshall, of the Subcommittee
staff, to review material related to the Subcommittee's request for
information at Headquarters on 5 May.
the Senate Budget Committee staff, called regarding the status of his
compartmented clearances request. I told Dr. Pillsbury that we still had
nothing for him and that I would notify him as soon as some decision was
made. In talking with him further, I learned that he is, as I expected,
of the Minnesota Pillsburys and that, in fact, I have worked with other
members of his family.
6. BRIEFING DIA, called
to confirm that General Eugene Tighe, Director, DIA, would not be
appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to brief
them on the Middle East arms balance.
O/SA/DO/
sat in on the House International R,elati.ons Subcommittee on
International Organizations staff interview of former D DP Thomas
Karamessines. Michael J. Hershman and Beverley Lumpkin, Subcommittee
staff, conducted the interview.
7? LIAISON Along with
81, I.,EGISLATION Attended a hearing by
the Senate e ec Committee on Intelligence on S. 2525, the intelligence
charter legislation.,' Witnesses included the following news media
representatives: Mike Wallace, Philip Geylin, Richard Leonard and
Edwin Fuller. (See_Memorandum, for the Record.)
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Chief Counsel, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, to. let
him know that we have scheduled a session with representatives of the
Interagency Task Force on Overseas Allowances and the staff of the House
Ways and Means Committee on 15 May, to discuss section 912 (taxation of
overseas allowance). Mr. O'Neil said he didn't think there was any need
for him to attend the meeting, but he would be glad to meet with us after
the meeting to discuss the matter.
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Thursday. - 4 May 1978
13. I I LEGISLATION Spoke with Ed Gleeman,
on the staff of the House Committee on Government Operations, with
regard to H. R. 10998, a "Presidential Papers" bill. I asked Mr. Gleeman
how the staff reworks of the bill was going. Mr. Gleeman said that the
staff was still working on it but hoped to have problem areas ironed-out
within the next two weeks. Mr. Gleeman said that the reworked bill
would then be reintroduced.
14. LEGISLATION Spoke with Ginny Schlundt,
Counsel to the Subcommittee on International Operations of the House
International Relations Committee, to check on the status of H. R.'11383,
a bill to establish a Commission on Proposals for a United States Academy
for Peace and Conflict Resolution. Ms. Schlundt said that CIA's concerns had
been taken care of by deletion of the mandatory "shall furnish" language
in subsection 7(c).
and Phillip Woodside, International Division of GAO, visited Headquarters
to discuss the GAO oil production report with Maurice Ernst, NFAC/OER.
16. LIAISON Received a call from
Mary Ann Richardson, Legislative Correspondent in the office of
Representative Stanley N. Lundine (D., N. Y.), who said they had a
constituent request for the CIA study "on priests and churches that were
receiving federal monies. " She believed the constituent saw a reference
to this in the press. After checking with NFAC/CSS, I told 25X1
Mary Ann that we hod nothing on the subject.
17? I I LIAISON Called Clara Buchanan, secretary
to Norvill ones, Chief of Staff, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and
told her we would start sending the classified "International Energy Biweekly
Statistical Review" to Mr. Jones. This is at the request of Committee
staffer, James H. Thessin. I told her that we were sending back issues
(since December 1977) of this publication to them per Mr. Thessin's request.
I also informed Clara that the documents had to be returned to the Agency
when the Committee no longer needed them.
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18. LIAISON Received a call from
James H. Thessin, Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff, who asked
the status of his request to receive the "International Energy Biweekly
Statistical Review. " I told him that we would start sending the publication
to Norvill Jones, Chief of Staff, and that I had informed Clara Buchanan,
Mr. Jones' secretary, of the arrangements. I told him that we would
arrange to have the back issues (since December 1977) sent to him as
he requested. I also mentioned to Thessin that the documents had to be
returned when they are no longer needed by the Committee.
19. LIAISON I called Senator William D.
Hathaway's (D. , Maine) office to ask if the Director could stop by for a
chat at 5:15 p.m. Betty Blackshaw, in the Senator's office, checked and
said the Senator was interested in talking to the Director but was leaving
before 5:15 p. m. She asked if there was some way the Senator could reach
the Director b hone. I said I would see if the Director could call the
Senator. was informed.
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External Affairs, called to say that DIA, should be the 25X1
point of contact now on the request from Chairman Edward P. Boland
(D. , Mass. ), House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, for
HUMINT information. I Is DIA will have an inventory available
for Jim Bush, of the Committee staff, by Tuesday, 9 May.
21. HEARING Dick Giza, House Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence staff, confirmed that the Automatic Data
Processing hearings *ill be principally concerned with multiplicity of
Defense systems and who is exercising control over these systems.
22. LIAISON Accompanied Stan Taylor, Abram
Shulsky, Angelo o e-v la, Catherine Essoyan and Torn Crowley, all Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence staffers, to a meeting with DDO represen-
tatives on the Italian Red Brigades. C/EUR,
and
and
FUR, briefed the staff members. Don Gregg, SA/DO/O,
O/SA/DO/O, also attended. The meeting had been
requested by Taylor to clear up confusion among the staff about whether
the Red Brigades had international Communist hacking.
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