JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R003100010001-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 13, 2004
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 30, 1978
• Content Type: NOTES

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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Wednesday - 30 August-1978
1. LIAISON Per her request, I
sent to Shirley, in t e office of Representative Floyd D.
Spence (R., S.C.), the Agency publication entitled "USSR:
Development of the Gas Industry."
2. THIRD AGENCY Took a call
from General Counsel, SA, who asked whether there had
been any developments subsequent to the inter-agency meeting
held on 25 August to discuss requests for information made
by the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on International
Operations. I told that I had been informed by
Theodore Heavner, Bureau o intelligence and Research,
Department of State, that in accordance with the plan of
action worked out at the meeting, State had asked Committee
Legal Counsel Michael Glennon to formulate his latest oral
request in writing. This written request had not yet been
received, however.sked whether there had been any
movement toward involving e SSCI in this matter. I told
Silver that there was none to my knowledge, and noted that
the plan of action agreed to at the inter-agency meeting
envisaged such a move only after the State Department referred
certain of the Subcommittee's questions to the DCI and after
there was further consultation among the interested agencies.
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3. LIAISON Received a call from
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George E, Danielson Calif.)., who said that the Congressman
would like copies' of two-maps of Vietnam that were shoian to him
while on a recent trip to Vietnam,
4. LIAISON Marie Hertslet, Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence Clerk, called to confirm that
Bill Miller, Staff Director, would attend the East Asia Chiefs
of Station Conference scheduled for 17 October at 10:00 a.m. at
The other two conferees who have been invited are
Tom Latimer, Staff Director, House Permanent Select Committee on 25X1
Intelligence and Fred Ritz, Legislative Counsel.
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5. LIAISON Sheila O'Donnell, from
the Public Eye, a local perio ical, called the Director's office
and was referred to OLC. She was interested in one of the
statements included in the CIA. report on KGB utilization of the
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Affairs, and told him of the call and told him that Ms. O'Donnell
should be referred to the Library of Congress, which has copies
of the U.S. section of the Soviet Daily Report in which there
are several examples of Soviet manipulation of the 25X1
case. ]W. Peterson said that he would call Ms. O'Donnell.
6. LIAISON Emerson Brown, Department
of State Congressional Liaison, called to ask whether we had
responded to the letter to the DCI from Representatives
Edward Boland (D., Mass.), Chairman, House Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence, Les Aspin (D., Wis. an "ikon
., Calif.) on the su sect of Presidential Findings. I
referred him to the SCC meeting in which the decision was reached
that the Attorney General and the DCI would call on the
Congressmen individually and subsequently would send a letter
reply. In sum, there has not yet been a response to the letter.
Mr. Brown also told me that State had received a letter
from Senator John Glenn (D., Ohio) asking for an assessment
on the impact on SALT II talks of the sale of the 25X1
He read to me the interim response which, in essence, only
acknowledged receipt of Senator Glenn's letter. I have advised
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7. LIAISON Ed Levine, Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence staff, called requesting that I
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that OLC, allowed both Mr. Levine and Jean Evans,
also of the Committee staff, to road about two weeks ago. I
said that I would try to track it down and get back to him.
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10. LIAISON Met with Ryan Conroy,
on the staff of Senator Alan Cranston (D., Calif.), to discuss
our rationale for providing suggested replies to the Senator
in response to two recent constituent inquiries.. One of
these had to do with 25X1
the discovery of a She 25X1
found it difficult to accept our reasoning but said that
she would discuss the matter further with the Senator to
see whether our suggested reply mechanism would be acceptable
after all. Apparently, what she is seeking is a response on
Agency letterhead so that it can be copied and passed on to
the constituent.
11. LIAISON Sent information
regarding aggregated curren accounts for OPEC to Dario Scuka,
Library of Congress, per his request and per. Robert Kelso's,
OLC, instructions. Scuka had requested this information
throu-h NFAC.
12. LIAISON Saw Dick Giza, House
Perin anee ec committee on Intelligence staff, and he told
me that the Committee would hold hearings on Warnings on 19 and
20 September and that a letter would be coming over shortly.
He also said that there was no need to answer the letter from
Tom Latimer, Committee Staff Director, to Fred Hitz, Legislative
Counsel, which asked for an estimate on when the Director would
designate an individual within the Intelligence Community as
the central control point for intelligence warning. (See OLC
Journal item for 23 August.)
Mr. Giza asked for a briefing on the techniques that the
Agency,is presently employing in obtaining assessments of
North Korean military forces. I have informed
CSS/NFAC.
13. LIAISON Saw Loch Johnson,
-House Permanent Select omml tee on Intell staff, who
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in the 1960s. He asked these two questions in connection
with the Agency's relationship with academia. I have passed
these questions to /DDO.
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14. LIAISON Called Barbara Tarris,
on the staff of Representative John Erlenborn (R., Ill.), and
offered to send her a copy of the unclassified paper "Terrorism
1977" that NFAC had provided to the House Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence. This was in response to her phone
call to Martha, of our office.
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