JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R001700050070-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2004
• Sequence Number: 70
• Publication Date: August 31, 1978
• Content Type: NOTES

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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Thursday - 31 August 1978
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1. LEGISLATION Spoke with
Mr. Michae enc, Department of Justice, Programs and Budget
Staff, regarding the Senate report language on Justice
Appropriations, I told Mr. Wenk that we would probably send
a representative,'i.e. Fred Hitz or He stated
that this was an excellent idea and that Ms. Patricia Wald,
Chairperson, Assistant Attorney General for Legislative
Affairs, Department of Justice, insisted that we do so.
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2. LIAISON Along with 25X
OGC, met with Tim Ingram, Staff Director; Richard Barnes,
Counsel;.and Kathy Sands, Minority Counsel, House Government
Operations Subcommittee on Government Information and Individual
Rights, to discuss the scope of the Agency's testimony concerning
its ha dling of criminal cases involving.national security with the
Justice Department, scheduled for 12 September.
3. THIRD AGENCY In the absence of
took a call from Margaret McKenna, Deputy
Counsel to the President, regarding the scheduled meeting of
Agency representatives with Peter Sullivan, on the staff of
the Senate Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on
Investigations Chaired by Senator Henry M. Jackson (D., Wash.).
Ms. McKenna said that the White House would prefer that this
meeting not take place until further instructions were received.
Ms. McKenna said that in explaining the postponement to
Subcommittee staff we could refer to conversations that had
taken place between Assistant to the President for Congressional,
Liaison Frank Moore, Senator Jackson and Subcommittee Chief
Counsel Owen J. Malone.
4. LIAISON On instructions
from the Deputy Legislative-Counsel called Peter Sullivan, on
the staff of the Senate Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee
on Investigations, to inform him that the Agency representatives
.scheduled to meet with him later in the day on the lI case
would not be able to attend. Sullivan asked whether this was
at the direct instruction of the White House. I told him that
I was not familiar with the details of the dealings between
Executive and Legislative Branches on this matter, but that it
was my understanding that Assistant to the President for
Congressional Liaison Frank Moore had spoken with Chairman
Henry M. Jackson (D., Wash.) and with Subcommittee Chief Counsel
Owen J. Malone.
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She will discuss this further with Mr. Frank Moore, Assistant to
the President for Congressional Liaison, and call back if the
Agency should cancel the briefing. She did not call back. Later
in the day, the office of Mr. Homer Moyer, Deputy General Counsel,
Department of Commerce, called and requested the names of the Agency
representatives that briefed the Subcommittee staff last week on
the Dresser case and a run-down of the topics discussed. Moyer
prepared an over-all memorandum covering all executive agencies
that briefed the Subcommittee staff which was to be presented
to the President tonight.
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15. I ILIAISON Notified Margaret McKenna,
Deputy Counsel to the President, of our rescheduling of a
follow-up briefing on the Dresser case by OER analysts with
Peter Sullivan, staff member of the Senate Government Affairs
Subcommittee on Permanent Investigations. I explained that this
was a follow-up to our briefing of last week. I assured her
that we have not commented on the merits of issuing the license
to Dresser since our role is advisory. McKenna appreciated our
position and said the IQ` i e did not.want to prejudice our
relationship with Subcommittee Chairman Henry M. Jackson (D., Wash.).
16.1 1 BRIEFING Spoke with .Toula, in
the office o Representative John Murphy (D., N.Y.), to firm up
arrangements for the Congressman to meet with the DDCI instead
of the DCI at 2:00 p.m. on 31 August regarding the situation in
Nicarauga.
17. LEGISLATION Discussed further
with Bill Heckman, Department of Justice, prospects for House
passage of the electronic surveillance legislation and there will
be a meeting of the affected agencies of the Legislative Branch
at the Department of Justice.
I told Myers that it was alright as Beck.had been involved in
the initial review.
18. LIAISON Henry Myers, on
the staff of tie House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee,
called and asked if it would. be okay of Mr. Robert Beck, of the
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19. LLM) LIAISON Dorothy Roberson,
secretary to Earl Eisenhower, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
staff, called saying that Eisenhower had related to her from
Arizona his interest in a certain opinion of FOIA involving the
Agency. He also said that Senator Barry Goldwater (R., Ariz.)
would like a further briefing sometime next week on matters
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