JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 29, 2009
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: May 5, 1976
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Tuesday - 4 May 1976
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26. BRIEFING Rudy Rousseau,
Foreign Affairs Assistant to Senator James Pearson (R., Kan.),
called and said he would like to add Dick McCall, of Senator Gale W.
McGee' s (D., Wyo.) staff, in on the briefing of himself and
Robert Dockery, Staff Associate, Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere
Affairs, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on Guatemala. I said
I was sure there would be no problem and told him tha
of our office, would be in touch with him.
AGENCY VISIT Florence Fields,
Washington Workshops, called and said that the 22 June date she had
given us for the high school students from Beverly Hills, California
to visit the Agency would have to be changed and suggested 24 June.
I told her that I would check and have someone get back in touch with
her OTR, later advised that he had talked with Mrs.
Fields and had confirmed the 24 June date.
LIAISON I IC Staff,
called to advise that he had been contacted by Dr. Nicksch, Library of
Congress, asking him to appear before a committee of. Congress, in
open session, concerning his prior service in
I tol~ that I would call Dr. Nicksch to find out the details and
be back in touch.
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Wednesday - 5 May 1976
HIAISON Took an earlier call placed by
George Cary and told Tom Latimer, Department of Defense, of our
interest in being assured that all affected department and agencies have
a unified position on the various oversight committee options which will
be considered by the Senate next week. Latimer agreed that it would be
a good idea to keep in touch especially on calls we get from the Hill on
this matter and that there be a unified position. In response to my query,
Latimer said it was his belief that the Administration was still supporting
a joint committee approach.
We also discussed the proposed letter to Senator Frank Church
(D., Idaho) on the destruction of records and he said he had no problem
with our letter and said he thought our letter was better than the letter
they had sent since it did not request approval from. Senator Church.
12. BRIEFING I accompanied Mr. Zeke
Zellmer, D/OWI/DD/S&T, to a briefing of Representative Stephen J.
Solarz (R., N. Y.) on certain sensitive collection facilities of the Agency.
The briefing went well and Representative Solarz again demonstrated his
intellectual capacity and ability to ask penetrating questions. (See Memorandum
for the Record.) 25X1
House International Relations Committee staff, to fill him in on the request
of Vic Johnson, on the staff of the Subcommittee on International Trade and
Commerce, to have us sanitize the transcript of the 12 April hearing before
the Subcommittee. He said he had no problems with our doing it but
suggested that we consider what precedent we might be setting and what
pressure that might engender for similar requests in the future. I thanked
him for his suggestion and told him I would discuss it with Mr. Cary.
He alerted me to a letter from Representative Pierre du Pont, IV
(R., Del.) to Representative Thomas E. Morgan (D., Pa.), Chairman of
the Committee, asking Chairman Morgan to authorize a CIA briefing of the
full Committee next week on the balance of forces in South Korea and
implications with respect to defensive needs of South Korea. Czarnecki
thought Chairman Morgan's response would be that due to the full plate
that the Committee already had on the 1977 authorization bill that there
would not be an opportunity to call for such a briefing. Chairman Morgan
will suggest to Representative du Pont that he would have no objection if
Mr. du Pont wanted to set up something for an early morning briefing
next week for whatever members of the Committee felt they would like
to attend.
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LIASION I called Marian Czarnecki, on the
 1. I HEARINGS I called Job Dittberner, House
Select Zommi ee on er ons Missing in Action in Southeast Asia staff,
to give him the following as an interim to Representative G. V. Montgomery's
(D., Miss.) letter to the DCI concerning the prison break in Vientiane.
The prisoners were recently arrested individuals comprised largely of
politicians, ex-FAR soldiers and convicts. Many of them had been
recaptured and some shot; those that have escaped to Thailand have
disappeared in the bush. Approximately a dozen have been apprehended
by the Thai authorities. We are attempting to debrief those the Thais have
captured to acquire information on conditions in Laos and possible
American MIAs. Because of their recent arrest, it is not likely that the
escapees would have any information on MIAs but we will nonetheless ask
them. This may take some time but we will keep the Committee informed
as we go along.
OFFICE OFLEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Thursday - 6 May 1976
2. I ADMINISTRATIVE DELIVERIES I had a courier
deliver a copy of the Indonesian Study - The Coup that Backfired, which
had been sent to the Library of Congress, to Richard D'Ammato, Legislative
Aide to Representative James M. Jeffords (R., Vt. ), for the Congressman's
use. 25X1
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