JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00380R000600200010-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 26, 2003
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: September 11, 1974
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Wednesday - 11 September 1974
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25X1 7. I I- PLC) Called Doug Marvin, a member
of Senator Roman L. ., rus ca's (R. , Neb.) staff, who handles matters of the
Senate Judiciary Committee for him and inquired as to the status of
the conference report on H. R. 12471, which amends the Freedom of
Information Act. Marvin said the conference committee is still deadlocked.
Four of the seven House Committee members refuse to sign the report.
One objects to the provision granting access to law enforcement files and
the others object to the sanctions against Government employees. According
to Marvin, it was agreed that the special court review procedures for an
in camera inspection of classified information which were included in the
Senate Committee bill and dropped on the Senate floor be included as
legislative history in the conference committee report. This was a
compromise since the rules precluded their inclusion in a conference bill.
I reminded Marvin of the legislative history in the Senate report which
covered Intelligence Sources and Methods, RD, and COMINT and pointed
out the need for this language to be also included in the conference report.
Marvin fully agreed and suggested that I follow this closely with Jim
Kronfeld, Staff Counsel, Subcommittee on Foreign Operations and Govern-
ment Information, House Government Operations Committee. Marvin
emphasized that if the four House members stand fast, the bill will not be
reported out of conference; however, if they bend and the bill moves, it
will pass the Congress. He feels certain that President Ford will not
exercise his veto.
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8. I I- LLM) Jay Sourwine, Senate Internal Security Sub-
committee staff, called to inquire if the Director was in fact going to speak to
the Fund for Peace group the end of the week and when I told him he was,
Sourwine served unofficial, strictly personal notice that if there is anything
he can do to assist we should call on him. I thanked him for his offer.
25X1 9. JMD) Jane McMullen, Senate Appropriations
Committee staff, called to find out what clearances Robert Henry Hodges,.
of the Committee staff, holds. After checking with Security, she was
notified he held all the necessary clearances.
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10. - JMD) Miss Rice, in the Office of the General
Counsel, OMB, called to say they had a proposed Proclamation to be picked
up for comments. I told her we would pick it up tomorrow.-
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11. I I- LLM) Ed Braswell, Chief Counsel, Senate Armed
Services Committee, called and said the Committee briefing on Chile would
be Thursday, 12 September 1974, at 2:30 p.m. in Room S-207 in the Capitol.
Braswell said it had been decided the full Committee would participate. in view
of the fact that the information is now in the public domain. He said Senator
Stennis had carefully considered the matter. I pressed Braswell on whether
he had passed on to Stennis the Director's strong feeling that only the Subcom-
mittee should be involved. Braswell fuzzed a little bit but said Stennis was
aware of the Director's concern. He then went on to say that we lost this one
when the House leaked the transcript which I corrected him on pointing out that
what is involved is Harrington's letter which is a lot different than a transcript
of Colby's statement on the record and that not all of the testimony had come out.
In response to my request, Braswell said he thought he could limit staff to the
Subcommittee staff. Braswell said a reporter from Time Magazine was going
to see Chairman Stennis concerning an article on CIA. In the interest of putting
in a positive plug, Braswell suggested they could say this sort of thing was on 25X1
the down side of the slope and I agreed, but I pointed out that the real issue was
12. I - LLM) Immediately after the above call, the Director
advised he had a call from Chairman Stennis who made a pitch for a full Committee
session. The Director reviewed his problems with this idea on the basis that it
breaks precedent and that what is out is Harrington's letter and :not the classified
transcript. The Director advised that Stennis was not receptive to the idea of
inviting certain select key members and promised to think about the matter but
said the Director should be prepared to talk either way--to the full or the Sub-
committee. Braswell called later and said the hearing on Chile would be before
the Subcommittee only.
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