JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R001500050022-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 30, 2004
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: September 25, 1978
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Monday - 25 September 1978
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I I I LIAISON Received a call from
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2. LIAISON In follow-up to his call
on Saturday, I called Howard Liebengood, Legislative Assistant to
Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker (R., Tenn.), and suggested. that
we put together the NID articles which have appeared in the last week
or so on the Nicaragua situation and that following his review he
could determine if he felt Senator Baker would want a personal
briefing. Liebengood liked this idea and the material will be
sent to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence for his
attention.
3. LIAISON Called Lefty Anderson, on
the House Appropriations Surveys and Investigations Staff, and he
told me that the project which would be assigned to the reimbursable
detail from the Agency would be a Department of Interior program
involving the boundries of Government land.
4. LIAISON Informed Jack Ticer,
Senate Armed Services Committee staff, that the item he had called
me about last week appears to involve a forgery and made arrange-
ments for Ticer to receive a briefing on the matter.
5. BRIEFING Bill Hogan, House Armed
Services Committee staff, called concerning the mutual balance force
reduction (MBFR) briefing scheduled for 27 September for a panel
of Committee members. We discussed the security level of the briefing
and the need for appropriate clearances. He will check this out and
get back in touch with us tomorrow.
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JOURNAL
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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
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Wednesday - 27 September 1978
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1. I I LIAISON Spoke to Ed Fritts, 25
GAO, concerning his request for any useful information in connection
with a study they are conducting on near term potential of manufacturing
in space and told him we are still checking it out and that
would be getting back in touch with him.,
2. LIAISON Spoke to Bill Miller, Staff Director,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and alerted him to the im-
pending declassification of the "fact of," what it does and doesn't
mean, and told him that the Chairman would be receiving a letter
shortly asking that he appropriately instruct Committee members
and staff concerning this matter. Miller appreciated the alert
and wondered what this portends for the ultimate declassification
of the existence of a sensitive office.
We also discussed what the Committee needs on a sensitive
case and we are making arrangements for DDO to provide same. At
this point, Senator Malcolm Wallop (R., Wyo.) is principally
interested.
3, LIAISON Spoke to Tom Latimer, Staff Director,
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and alerted him to
the impending declassification of the "fact of," what it does and
doesn't mean, and told him that the Chairman would be receiving a
letter shortly asking that he appropriately instruct Committee members
and staff concerning this matter. Latimer thanked me for the alert
and wondered what this portends for the ultimate declassification
of the existence of a''sensitive office.
4. LIAISON Spoke with both Arnold Kanter,
Deputy Director, ys e s Analysis, Bureau of Politico-Military
Affairs, State Department, and Kathy Smith, State Congressional
Relations, in the interest of coordinating the activities they are
undertaking on the Hill with respect to the declassification of
"fact of" with the letters being transmitted to various committees
by the De utyy Director.
Ms. Smith advised that Roy Werner, Senate Foreign Relations
Committee staff, advised that Senator John Glenn (D., Ohio) is really
not interested in the legal aspects of thel case and would 25
prefer a session solely with 1 IC/SP upport Staff, on 25
the subject of substantive implications. Smith will advise Herbert
Hansel, State Legal Adviser, that his presence is no longer required
and we will. make arrangements for briefing of Senator Glenn.
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