JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R001400020010-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 1, 2004
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: August 22, 1978
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office o. Leg:i
Tuesday - 22 August 1978
LIAISON Called Jane McMullan
Senate Appropriations Committee staff, and asked her if she could
try to move the Intelligence Community Staff reprogramming letter
through Senator John C. Stennis' (D., Miss.) office. She said
she would try.
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6. LEGISLATION Ken Bass, at the
Department o justice, ca e to say that Justice had no
objection to our letter to Representative Charles Bennett
(D., Fla.) on H.R. 89, classification legislation. He
suggested, however, that since Admiral Turner had not talked
to Attorney General Bell on the bill that we should substitute
the word "subject" for "matter" in the last paragraph of the letter.
7. I I LIAISON Called Thomas K. Latimer,
taff Director, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,
o remind him that he was scheduled to appear before the Advanced
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Intelligence Seminar at the Chamber of Commerce building at 1300
hours on Thursday, 31 August 1978.
8. I I ADMINISTRATIVE DELIVERIES Delivered
two unclassified agriculture reports on Iran to the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence which Bill Miller, Staff Director, had
requested for Senator Charles M. Mathias (R., Md.).
9. LIAISON Saw Bill Miller, Staff Director, 25X1
Senate Select omma ee on Intelligence, and informed him that the
Department of State had issued its approval for the Agency to
provide routine support
an that
this authority fell within the Omnibus portion o the June 1978
Presidential Finding.
10. LIAISON Called Loch Johnson,
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence staff, to find
out whether Representative Les Aspi.n (D., Wis.) would he in town
between now and 6 September. Mr. Johnson said no. I told
Mr. Johnson that the DCI and' Representative Aspin had talked about
one of the National Intelligence Estimates, that they had agreed
to get together at some future date, and. the t--;was just checking
on Representative Aspin's availability. /
FREDERICK P.-HTTZ
Legislative Counsel.
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Friday 1.1 August 1978
12. 1 I LIAISON Received a. call. from
Ken deGraf:fenreid, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
staff, who said he had some classified Agency publications which
were not needed and I asked. him to return them to me.
13. I I LIAISON Received a. call from
Bruce van oors , on .lie personal staff of Senator Richard Clark
(I:)., Iowa) . van Voorst said the Senator wanted to alert Iowa
universities about the CIA publications available through the
DOCEX program and asked that we send him approximately 35 copies
of a report which could be disseminated to Iowa libraries. I
said I would look into this for. him.
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14. I I BRIEFING Accompanied
OER/NFAC, ORI'A/NPAC, and Frederick Ilitz, Legislative
Counsel, to a reac_-ast briefing of Representative Ike. Skelton
(D., Mo.) on Vietnam. Skelton. is a Member of the delegation
headed by Representative Sonny Montgomery (D., Miss.) which will
go to Vietnam soon. Skelton was very appreciative for the
briefing and offered to meet with our . analysts after his return.
During the briefing, Mr. Hitz talked to Skelton about the
electronic. surveillance bill.
/is. LIAISON Called Jean Evans,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, and asked whether
Senator Charles Mathias (R., Md.) might speak to an Advanced
Intelligence Seminar on 31. August at 1:30 p.m. Evans was doubt-
ful but agreed to get back to me.
16. I I LIAISON Received a call from
Barbara .B. ac , in the ottico of Representative Donald Bonker
(R., Wash.), requesting that their office be put on distribution
for Middle East and North Africa and Sub-Saharan
Africa. told her they would start receivin these on a regular
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17. LIAISON Bob, in the office of
Senator Henry M. Jackson ., Wash.), called concerning a
constituent letter relating to the, Agee disclosures. I referred him
to the 4 August Congressional Record remarks of Senator Lloyd Bentsen
(D. , Texas) . IIe~ thought t i s woulcFhe most helpful.
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