JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R002800030054-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 26, 2004
• Sequence Number: 54
• Publication Date: October 12, 1978
• Content Type: NOTES

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Thursday - 12 October 1978
25X1 S. LIAISON Received a call from
George Krauss, GPO, who gave me the GPO jacket number for the
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report entitled "National
Security Secrets and the Administration of Justice."
25X1 6. LIAISON Received a call from
Keith Raffel, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff,
who indicated he and Bill Miller, Committee Staff Director, had
seen an 11 October article in the Washington Star suggesting
that French intelligence services were aiding.Quebec separatists.
Raffel asked if we had any information on this.
25X1 7. LIAISON Received a call from
Ben Marshall, Security Director, Senate Select Committee on
intelligence, who said he had been asked by Pat Sweeney,
Legislative Liaison, DOD, to supply a list of all staff members
who have CIA clearances so that DOD can grant them Top Secret
clearances. Marshall was unhappy about this request and asked
if DOD couldn't be satisfied through working with the Agency.
I agreed to look into this for him.
25X1 8. LIAISON Received a call from
./Audrey Hatry, Clerk, Senate Select Committee on intelligence
staff, who said Bill Miller, Committee Staff Director, had asked
for a substantive intelligence briefing on 31 October about
NIE 11/4.
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25X1 10. LIAISON Received a call from
/Walt Ricks, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff,
who indicated Senator Robert Morgan (D., N. Car.) might be
25X1gin t icks asked Brussels
for a briefinOctober gof return
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departure
An NFAC briefing on Warsaw Pact forces was se
for tomorrow at 2:30 p.m.
25X1 11. LIAISON Called Len Weiss, Staff
Director, Senate Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Energy,
Nuclear Proliferation and Federal Services, and informed him
that the Agency had attempted to reduce distribution of the GAO
25X1report on 0 from the 30 or so subcommittees which GAO had
originally su Rest t hos ttt g8 f' allp~p involved
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Thursday - 12 October 1978
25X1 17. LIAISON NIO/USSR, 25;
briefed a group of Senators and staffers w o will e traveling to '
the Soviet Union in mid-November. Senator Abraham Ribicoff (D., Conn.),!
Chairman of the delegation, was present along with Senators
Henry Bellmon (R., Okla.), Thomas Eagleton (D., Mo.), John Durkin
(R., N.H.), John Glenn (D., Ohio), Dennis DeConcini (D., Ariz.),
Richard Schweiker (R., Pa.), and Paul Laxalt (R., Nev.). The
Senators had been invited to visit the USSR by Supreme Soviet. A
number of staffers and a re resentative of the State Department sat in
25X1 on the briefing. I Icommented on the current political
situation in the Soviet Union, of the Soviet political structure, and
on some of the personalities whom the Senators were likely to
meet. Followin the briefing, Senator Bellmon unexpectedly suggested
25X1 that meet the group in Rabat, Afghanistan, and debrief
them on the plane on the way back. We would look into the
feasibility of accepting the Senator's suggestion.
25X1 18. LIAISON Called Tom Latimer,
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Staff Director,
and advised him of the Hou e Select Committee on Assassinations
25X1 attempt to serve with a subpoena. Latimer indicated
that the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence would
not want to become involved and I said I just wanted to make
sure in light of their primacy of jurisdiction.
25X1 19? LEGISLATION Spoke further with
arl Eisen ower, 'Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff,
about the status of H.R. 12171. It appears our interests are
still being looked at.
25X1 20. LIAISON Called Howard Liebengood,
Legislative Assistant in t e office of Senate Minority Leader
Howard Baker (R., Tenn.), in connection with the possible interest
of Senator Baker in the upcoming GAO report. Liebengood appreciated
our thinking of the Senator's interest and recommended to GAO that
a copy of the report be sent to Senator Baker, Attention: Howard
Liebengood. This will be done.
We further discussed our interest in H.R. 12171.
25X1 21. LIAISON Per her request, I sent
to Nancy Carmen, house International Relations Committee staff,
the publication entitled "Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members
of Foreign Governments."
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