JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R002100080043-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 21, 2006
• Sequence Number: 43
• Publication Date: August 31, 1978
• Content Type: NOTES

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CONFIDENTIAL
.JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Thursday - 31 August 1978
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1. LEGISLATION Spoke with
Mr. Michael en , Department of Justice, Programs and Budget
Staff, regarding the Senate report language on Justice
Appropriations. I told Mr. Wenk that would probably send
a representative, i.e. Fred Hitz o . Ile 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.
G'' 2. LIAISON Along with 25X1
UG( , met with Tim ngram, Staff Director; Richard Barnes,
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0 11 4.; 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 handling of criminal cases involving national security with the
Justice Department, scheduled for 12 September.
3.1 1 THIRD AGENCY In the absence of
took a call from Margaret McKenna, Deputy
Counsel to the resident, 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. 1 --71 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 Dresser 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
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