JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL FRIDAY - 17 FEBRUARY 1978

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
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• Publication Date: February 17, 1978
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Friday - 17 February 1978
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10. (Unclassified - MMP) LIAISON Called Tom Dine, on the
staff of the Senate Budget Committee, to tell him that I was passing to 25X1
him two unclassified CIA publications he had requested from
ORPA. NFAC /CSS, had called this to my attention and
and I agreed that it would be best for me to call Mr. Dine to ensure that
he realized that OLC was the focal point for congressional contact.
Additionally, I explained to Mr. Dine why it was important that he deal
through OLC.
11. (Unclassified - MMP) LIAISON Accompanied I NFA61SS,
to discuss with the following Staff Directors their reactions and appraisals
of the NID: Chuck Snodgrass, House Appropriations Subcommittee on
Defense; Norvill Jones, Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Hal Ford,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, (filled in for William G.
Miller, Staff Director) and Ed Levine, of the staff sat it; Jack Brady,
House International Relations Committee; and John Ford, House Armed
Services Committee.
12. (Unclassified - MMP) LIAISON Picked up a document addressed
to Office of Legislative Counsel, from the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence.
13. (Internal. Use Only - MMP) BRIEFING Don Lynch, Senate Armed
rvices Committee staff, called to request a meeting with OSR analysts to
discuss the Soviet navy. After checking with NFAC/CSS, it 25X1
was agreed that the briefing would take place at the Headquarters building
on 22 February 1978 at 1330 hours.
14. (Unclassified - MMP) CONSTITUENT Called Maribelle Symington,
in the office cI Representative William Cotter (D. Conn.), and told her
that we have not yet completed file research on
I told her that I expected that
we would have full results for Representative Cotter by 24 February. She
was most appreciative of the call.
15. (Unclassified - MMP) LIAISON Dick Giza, House Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence staff, called to find out whether we had
arranged for briefings for him on DDO reporting on energy and on DDS&T/OSO.
He added that he would be fully booked during the coming week and told me
the afternoons of the following week that were free. I told him that I would
arrange times for the briefings and get back to him.
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Thursday - 16 February 1978
6. LIAISON Informed David Bushong, 25X1
Senate Se ~Je ligence staff, that the Agency had no
records of the
Bushong had asked that Agency records be searched as he had received
this information from another agency.
7? I I LIAISON Met with Stan Taylor, Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence staff, who requested an NFAC briefing
~~~/// on 27 February on the issue of Soviet ability to detect U. S. nuclear
submarines. Taylor previously reviewed documents on this, subject, the
most recent of which is 1976 and Taylor wants an update.
Taylor informed me that the Committee was hiring Richard Beal
as a Committee consultant to aid the Committee in its understanding of
IC's use of computers. Taylor asked that Beal's security clearance be
set up for 27 February. In addition, he and Beal would like to meet with
NFAC personnel on the SAFE computer program. Taylor and Beal would
also like to meet with the NFAC officer. in charge of external contracts on
27 or 28 February. Taylor indicated Tom Moore, of the Committee staff,
might also be included in this session.
8? LIAISON Met with Ted Ralston, Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence staff, who indicated the week he was
spending at NPIC was tremendously worthwhile.
9? ADMINISTRATIVE DELIVERIES
Delivered enry iugni, Administrative Assistant to Senator Daniel K.
Inouye (D., Hawaii), the duplicate intelligence medal awarded to Senator
Inouye.
10. I ADMINISTRATIVE DELIVERIES STAT
Delivered to iris Aldridge, on the staff of Senator Birch Bayh (D., Ind. ),
Chairman, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the unclassified SNIE
on nuclear proliferation
Aldridge had requested this previously.
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Thursday - 16 February 1978
11. DMINISTRATIVE DELIVERIES
Delivered JU &JU0C&.U , Select Committee on Intelligence staff,
a letter from the Director addressed to Senator Birch Bayh (D., Ind.),
Committee Chairman, regarding a response to a Stanford University
speech; documents o ables related to drug matters
in Panama for David Bushong, of the Committee staff; a paper on
systemic problems in intelligence analysis on the Soviet Union for Stan
Taylor, of the Committee staff; a letter addressed to Chairman Bayh
and Senator Barry Goldwater (R., Ariz.), Committee Vice Chairman,
regarding intelligence activities in Panama for Bill Miller, Committee
Staff Director; and an outline of the Palestine Liberation Organization ands'
personal notes from a briefing on terrorism for Angelo Codevilla, of
the Committee staff.
12. LIAISON Sent a copy of an Agency
publication, "Memorandum: Prospects for Further Proliferation of
Nuclear Weapons, " to Jim Matthews, in the office of Senator Harrison
Williams (D., N.J.), per his request.
13.1 LIAISON Sent a copy of an Agency
publication, "Communist Aid to the Less Developed Countries of the
Free World, 1976, " to Nick Dunlop, in the office of Representative Paul
Iv cCloskey (R., Calif.), per his request.
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Wednesday - 15 February 1978
11. I I LIAISON Called Barbara Allem, Senate
Foreign Relations Committee staff, to tell her that I was sending the transcript
of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 10 February 1978, hearing on
Foreign Military Presence in Africa to Norvill Jones, Staff Director. I told
her that the transcript has not yet been reviewed for accuracy, that it is only
being sent to Mr. Jones for review and that it will have to be returned with
the afternoon courier.
12.1 1 LIAISON Called Bob Wixer, in the office
of Representative Paul indle R., Ill. , to discuss the' ossibi it of our
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in OCUR. Bob will look into and get back to me. He did recall that the
Congressman had offered to make the slides available to us if we were
interested.
13. LIAISON Called Bill Hogan, House
Appropriat 9Goxwru SEEM, too isscuss Representative G. William Whitehurst
(R. , Va.) letter to the DCI on Soviet civil defense. -I explained that the
report that Congressman Whitehurst had requested was very highly
classified and was 182 pages long. Further, I explained that the paper
would only be available on call and would have to be delivered in the
morning and picked up by the courier in the evening. Bill said that
this would be fine with the Congressman.
14.1 ~ BRIEFING Attended the bi-weekly
current intelligence briefing of the House Permanent Select Committee
on Intelligence in Room H 405, the Capitol. (See Memorandum for the
Record.)
15. I LIAISON Bob Bell, Congressional
Research service, called asking for help in locating the FBIS translation
of the 5, 000 word Pravda article that I had sent to him the previous day.
After a little scurrying around, it was located, having already arrived in
his offices.
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office, request, sent by courier to Pat Long, House Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence staff, five maps: three were road maps (Germany,
UK and France) and two were maps of Europe.
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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Tuesday - 14 February 1978
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ADMINISTRATIVE DELIVERY Took an
NFAC produced paper on Soviet use of Space and delivered it personally
to Pat Long, on the staff of the House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence. Pat signed a receipt for the highly classified document.
27. ILIAISON Pat Long, House Permanent
Select Committee on a gence s aff, asked me to obtain a copy of the
DCI Perspectives report. After calling Jackie Simpson, in the office of
Dick Kerr, Resource Management Staff, and finding out that this year's
report has not yet been completed but that last year's is available, I called
Pat to so inform him. He said that last year's report is most acceptable.
I told him that he could expect to receive it either this afternoon or tomorrow.
28. LIAISON Called Loch Johnson, House
Permanent Select Committee on a igence staff, to set up a meeting at
Headquarters on 16 February at 1400 hours with C/CAS/DDO, 25X1
to discuss CIA and some other questions that
Mr. Johnson has about CA generally. This time was agreeable to Mr.
Johnson and SA/DO/O andl --I have been informed.
29. LIAISON Delivered covert action
budget details to Dan Childs, on he staff of the Senate Select Committee
on Intelligence. This is material Childs had requested.
30. I I LIAISON Called Chuck Snodgrass, on
the staff of the House Appropriations Committee, and told him that the
DDCI wished to lunch with him and Ralph Preston. Snodgrass will
suggest a date.
31. I FIAISON Linda, on the staff of the Senate
Foreign ReIarions 3tt called to request a copy each of the South
Asia and North Africa Daily Reports be mailed to the attention of
Pauline H. Baker, of the Committee. I called FBIS/Liaison, and
requested that Ms. Baker be added to their list for these reports. Lillian
said she would handle this and I advised Linda.
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