JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R003100040024-8
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• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 4, 2004
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: June 12, 1978
• Content Type: NOTES

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Foreign Re a ions Committee staff,
Chairman John J. Sparkman (D. ,
Clifford P. Case (R., N. J. ) on th
suggested Wednesday, 14 June, o
I said I would check the Directo
Joan Donahue will follow up on
10. I
Beverley Lumpkin, House In
International Organizations
and James Angleton, forme
Conference Room in conne
(See Memorandum for the
Arrangements were mad for the staffers to brief Agency employees
I lat 10:00 a. m. Tuesday. 13 .Tune- Staffer
Steve Blush will also pa
the Amendment to the
the DCI and the Subco
to appoint an additions
ticipate in the interviews. Hershman delivered
dendum to the Memorandum of Understanding between
ittee which allows Chairman Donald M. Fraser (D., Min:
staffer (Lawrence Sulc) to assist in this inquiry.
11. BRIEFING Sent via courier to
Richard Giza, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence staff, the
corrected. transcript and answers to follow-up questions of the 8, 9, and 10 May
Committee hearing on automatic data processing.
12. LIAISON Called Bill Bailey, GAO, and
told him the INJU repot on . oviet satellites he had requested could be seen
but that he would have to r ad it out here. Bailey said that he had already
read the report, and what e wanted was a copy for his retention. I told
him that I did not think t t was possible, but I would check it out.
13. LIAISON Called Mike Epstein, Senate
Select Committee on I -elligence staff, regarding his inquiry about whether.
DDO employee had talked to the Inspector General about
reporting o pstein gave me more specifics on what had
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said about his meeti g with the IG.
I also told Epstein we would hope to
said he would pers
Senator Adlai Stev
nally be in favor of this and would recommend it to
nson (D. , Ill. ).
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called to set up a briefing of
la.) and Ranking Minority Member
7 June Presidential finding. She
Thursday, 15 June, at 3:00 p.m.
calendar and get back to her.
SON Michael Hershman, Larry Sulc, and
rnational Relations Subcommittee on
'taff, interviewed Chief FR Divi2 iij
Agency employee, separately in the C&R
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14. LIAISON Received a call from. Ed Greis sing,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, who asked that I meet with
him as he had two additional requests from the House Select Committee on
Assassinations to review transcripts of Agency employees testimony before
the Church Committee.
15. LIAISON Received a call from Stan Taylor,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, and confirmed the briefing
of Senator Jake Carn (R. , Utah) tomorrow.
16. LIAISON Loch Johnson, House Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence staff, came out to the Headquarters building
for a briefing b sat in as 25X1
well as myself. gave an excellent wrap-up of activities in
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The briefing was excellent and l believe that Mr. Johnson was very satisfied
with it.
Later Mr. Johnson met with Herb Hetu and in the 25X1
Public Affairs offices, to discuss the Publications Review Board, of
which Mr. Iletu is the Chairman andi is the Executive Secretary. 25X1
The briefing was fairly general and Mr. Johnson requested copies of the
new regulation that is coming out, a copy of the regulatory history of the
1 -1 memorandum Whici-I
'Publications Review Board, a copy of the
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turned down Tom Breznmen's article on Latin American Militarism and a
damage assessment of the former Agency employee, book.
.17. LIAISON Called Roy Werner, Senate
Foreign Relations Committee staff, to get a better grip on the purpose
underlying his request for a briefing on Vietnam and confirmed that it will
take place on Wednesday, 14 June at 1400 hours in Room 4304 of the Dirksen
Senate Office Building. He told me that his purpose was to get himself
back -up to date on Vietnam and that he had no special purpose in mind, and
most certainly was not particularly concerned about the refugee situation.
18. 1~IAI.SON Sat in on a briefing of Luis
Zinardi, Internationa ivision C7, by C/Terrorism Branct5X1
on the capabilities of foreign services to cope with terrorism. This took
place in SEII and lasted for roughly one hour. . The briefing,,'was very
general in nature and Mr. Zinardi has requested further briefings by the
This request has been coon clinated with
Ambassador. Isham. of the Department of State and has been passed on to
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13. L LGISLA'.t'ION Called the House Judiciary
Committee to check on the status of 11. R. 11002, the. "Contract Disputes ?
Act of 1978. " 1 was informed that the bill is pending before the full Con-in-iittee,
that Subcommittee action has been completed and that II. R. 11002 represents
a. new "clean bill. " The bill was scheduled for action this month but because
of a crowded schedule action on the. bill has been postponed.
14. LFIGISLATION Called the Senate Governmental
Affairs Committee to check on the status of S. 1785, the "Lobbying Reform
Act of 1977. " I wa,:s informed that the bill is pending before the full Committee;
snarl.?-up is conter:'plated, but due to the C:om mittee's schedule on the Civil
Service bi.ll, the Lobbying marl -up has been postponed to date.
16. :LIAISON Received a call from Mike, in
the office of Representative John M. Ashbrook (R. , Ohio), who wanted to
come out and visit the CIA Library. I told him that this building is restricted
and that if he had business here he would have to be escorted. I asked hug if
he wanted to tell me what his general area of interest was so that perhaps
I could forward some unclassified materials to him. lie said he wanted to
do some sort of s1 udyVon the CIA but had not. decided what the exact subject
would be. After some discussion, it was decided that I would forward to
him some general information about the Agency and the DOCEX listing.
N. LIAISON Called Bill Hogan, Counsel,
House Armed Services Committee staff, and told him we were working on
his request for comments on the heavy forging trade, but would need another
week. Hogan was appreciative of the call and inclic',itcd no hurry for a response.
LIAl:SON Called Jim Bush, I-louse Permanent
to discuss Congressional action on
Bush confirmed that if the Comm ittee plans work out, the
the FBI budget.
FBI will end up with $2. 0 million more than they need for non--intelligence
functions.
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25. LIAISON Called Dick Giza, House
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, to confirm his appointment
.. ay, 15 June at 1500 hours in Room
26. LIAISON Called Tom Latimer, Staff
Director, House Permanent Select Committee on Intel ' e, to arrange
for OGC, and myself to review the file on former 25X1
NPIC employee. I also arranged to read a file that Mr. Latimer had for
me. Subsequently, we went to the Committee at 1400 hours and Mr. Latimer
was satisfied by ith regard to allegations. I 25X1
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received a copy of Representative Romano Mazzoli's (D., Ky.) statement
on the DCI's briefing of the Committee on the Cuban involvement in the
invasion of Zaire.
27. LIAISON Called Colonel Grant Miller,
Congressional Liaison, DOD, to ask whether they have received a copy
of the 24 May letter from Representative Robert McClosky (R., Ill.) to
President Carter on the subject of the foreign electronics surveillance
bill. He said that they had but that they were not planning to take action
on it.
28. I LIAISON Tom Latimer, Staff Director,
House Permanent Selec, - C mii-tee on Intelligence, called suggesting that
the briefer for tomorrow's session with the Committee (to brief the
Committee on the President's 7 June Finding) be prepared to talk about
the 13 June Washington Post article on Martha Peterson, provision of
poison to Soviet agents, and the like.
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31. LIAISON Tom Latimer, Staff Director,
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, received a call from
the office of Representative Elizabeth Holtzman (D., N. Y.) asking how
many CIA officers have received dismissal slips i.n the past two months
and how many of them have actually been dismissed. Office 25X1
of Personnel, informed me slips and that none have 25X1
left. I passed this on to Latimer.
Latimer asked me to sct'up'a meeting for himself and Loch Johnson, also
of the Committee staff, with John Waller, Inspector General. The purpose
of this meeting would be to work out procedures for future Agency or
ex-Agency employees with beefs--both legitimate and illegitimate. I have
passed this request on to
32. LIAISON Jeanne McNally, House
Permanent Select Committee I staff, called requesting the
name(s) of any witnesses who would be accompanying John McMahon, DDO,
in his 14 June briefing of the Committee on the 7 June Presidential Finding.
After checking with Mr. McMahon's office, I told her that
attending. I added that I well might be attending too.
Acting Legislative Counsel, would be
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Acting Legislative Counsel.
33. LIAISON Picked up from Major Lonny
Alexander, Air Force Liaison, two portfolios of photographs taken during
the House Armed,$erv;ices Committee visit to the Soviet Union. These
were passed on the OCR, for their review and will be
returned to Major Alexander within a few days.
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Delivered to House Armed Services Committee a package for Representative
Samuel S. Stratton (D., N.Y.). It was a photo of Brezhnev and several
Generals, which appeared in Newsweek recently. At the Congressman's
request, CSS/NFAC, had identified the Generals who
appeared in the photo.
35. LIAISON Called Richard Kaufman,
General Counsel, Joint Economic Committee,. to confirm that the Director
would be able to appear before the Subcommittee on Priorities and
Economy in Government at 1000 hours on 26 June as request Kaufman
appreciated this and asked that we provide as much of the information
the Committee has requested in advance of the briefing. I passed this
request on to CSS/NFAC.
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