JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL THURSDAY - 30 MARCH 1978

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• Publication Date: March 30, 1978
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Thursday - 30 March 1978
7. LIAISON Had further conversations
with Don Sanders, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, concerning
his investigation for the Senate Select Committee on Ethics and we had
a meeting of the minds on where matters now stand an how we should handle
things in the future. This will be covered in a Memorandum of Understanding
to be executed for this purpose.
9. LIAISON Called Hans Binnendijk, Senate
Foreign Relations Committee staff, and told him that we would be providing
him today with a new copy of the Middle East arms balance study so that
it would be clear to the readers of thepassessment whose work it was.
10. LIAISON David Bushong, Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence staff, called to say that Senator Barry
Goldwater (R., Ariz.) would' like to have a briefing on ~arly next
week, probably Tuesday. In preparation for that session I invited Bushong
to the Agency tonight to get a fill in on what we know of that organization.
11. LIAISON Jack Brady, Chief of Staff,
House International Relations Committee, called indicating Committee
plans to hold hearings on the Middle East arms balance the week of
17 April (probably 18 April) and will want the DCI or a representative to
testify in that connection. Brady asked if we could provide the Committee
an intelligence assessment. I said we could and would on the condition
that for the time being access be limited to members of the Committee.
Arrangements were made with NFAC/CSS, to transmit
the assessment.
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Wednesday - 29 March 1978
6. LIAISON Sam Hoskinson, NSC staff,
called to get a status on the follow-up of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee referral to CIA for an assessment on the Middle East
arms balance. I informed him of the developments with the Committee
and also said I thought if the matter came up we would decline to
participate in a group briefing of key Senate staff aides.
our cooperation in a Memorandum of Understanding. He was agreeable but
obviously wants to move quickly.
investigations he is conducting for Senators Robert Morgan (D., N. C.)
and Harrison Schmitt (R., N. Mex.) of the Senate Select Committee on
Ethics. I explained where we were and that it would be im ortant to cover
7. .LIAISON Don Sanders, Senate Select
ommittee on Intelligence, called concerning the status of one of the
8. LIAISON Per her request, sent via
courier to Lisa Block, on the staff of Representative'~$tewart McKinney (D. , Conn.),
a copy of the Agency publication "USSR: Hard Currency Trade and
Payments, 1.977-78. "
10. LIAISON Per his request of yesterday,
sent via mail to Chris Aldridge, in the office of Senator Birch Bayh
(D., Ind.), another copy of the January 1978 National Basic Intelligence
Factbook.
Acting Legislative Counsel
cc: O/DDCI
Ex. Sec. Mr. Lapham
IC Staff Comptroller
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Tuesday - 28 March 1978
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29. LL4.ISON Took a call from Dan Caulson,
FBI, who indicated he was forwarding to me copies of Agency documents
in his files relating to the House Select Committee on Assassinations
investigation to which the Committee requests access. We agreed that we
would provide access to the files at CIA.
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30. LIAISON Called Don Sanders,
Special Counsel, Morgan-Schmitt Subcommittee, Senate Select Committee
on Et}ucs, to pass on the substance of the Acting DC3;s letter to Senators
Robert Morgan (D., N. Car.) and Harrison Schmitt (R., N. Mex. ).
31. LIAISON Received a call from
Chris Aldridge, in the office of Senator Birch Bayh (D., Ind. ), who
requested another copy of the National Basic Intelligence Factbook. I told
him that I would forward a copy to him.
C/ORPA/AF, to a briefing of Senator S. I. Hayakawa (R., Calif.). The
briefing had been billed as a current intelligence briefing for Rhodesia and
South Africa but the Senator :posed questions which included this but ranged
over the whole of Africa. answered each of the Senator's questions
and the briefing was a useful exchange of information which lasted nearly
two hours. Dr. John Backer, of the Senator's staff, sat in on the briefing.
32. LIAISON Accompanied
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