JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 3
Thursday - 2 November 1978
12. BRIEFING Jim Fellenbaum, Senate
Appropriations Committee staff, relayed a request from GeorgFla.)
Patten, Legislative Assistant to Senator Lawton Chiles (D.,
for a briefing of the Senator on the recent newspaper storyyn
about Soviet MIG-23s in Cuba. The Senator app
urgent need for this information. On advice o rovide
NF.AC/CSS, I called Patten and told him we would be happy to p
any information there is to the Senator and. asked if it was urgent
enough to consider sending someone down to Florida. He said he 25X1
would call back.
13. LIAISON Received a call from
Duane Andrews, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
staff, who requested a briefing for himself and Martin Faga, also
of the Committee staff, on the numbers of supergrades in the
Intelligence Community. They are commencing a study of this
subject as a result of the 1979 budget hearings. The meeting
is set for 9 November with representatives from the Office of
Personnel and the Comptroller's office.
14. LIAISON DIA, called
to alert us to e ac y Smith, se Services 25X1
Subcommittee on Research and Development staff, is no longer on
that Subcommittee staff and is now on the personal staff of
Senator Gary W. Hart (D., Colo.).
LIAISON Met with Tom Latime
and Loch Johnson, House Permanent o5lect Committee on Intelligence
staff, in response to their follow up request in connection with
some of the basic essentials relating to the 1 November 1978
Presidential Finding. Latimer is not confident that they could
obtain approval of a reprogramming request in the near future
because of the absence of Members.
4'2i. I LIAISON Met with Jack Brady,
Chief of Staff, House Internationa Relations Committee, in response:
to his request in connection with some of the basic essentials
relating to the 1 November 1978 Presidential Finding. He foresaw
no probiwns.
LIAISON Met with Jim
7. Fellenbaum, Senate Appropriationsommittee staff, in response
to his requ with some of the basic essentials
.relating to He
seriously questioned the reprogram ina asnec s oi -Litt: proposal.
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