JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL WEDNESDAY - 28 NOVEMBER 1973

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• Publication Date: November 28, 1973
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5. JGO) In response to a request from Mr. Houston,
I tried to reach John Martin, House Ways and Means Committee staff, but he
was continually tied up in meetings during the day. The calls were cancelled
in favor of a meeting to be arranged for Houston with Martin at a later date.
6. JGO) Met with Frank Slatinshek, Chief Counsel, House
Armed Services Committee, and gave him two one-page items on the Grail
SA-7 surface-to-air missile and the Sagger AT-3A and AT-3B anti-tank
missile which were promised to him yesterday.
7. I I- JGO) Received a call from Everett Bierman,
House Foreign Affairs Committee staff, who told me he has a request from
Representative EdwardDerwinski concerning certain maps and asked if I
would drop by during the day tomorrow.
8. II- JGO) Met with Bill Hogan, House Armed Services Committee
staff, who told me that Chairman Nedzi, Intelligence Subcommittee, has
requested Hogan to query us and DIA concerning the statement reported in the
excerpts of President Nixon's questions and answers set forth in page A-12 of
Sunday's Washington Post (18 November) that severe intelligence national
security problems in the Ellsberg case were reviewed with the Ervin Com-
mittee and that the Ervin Committee had agreed they were too sensitive for
review and deferred further considerations on these matters. I told him I
would check it and see if we have any identification of the matters referred
to by the President for a report directly back to Chairman Nedzi.
Hogan told me th-* 0 7.714 mill be scheduled for Monday, Tuesday or
Wednesday next week depending on the schedule of the full Committee and he
will let me know tomorrow.
After discussion of the bill in detail, Hogan noted that the question of
unfunded liability of the retirement fund could always come up even though this
is an open session. I told him we would be prepared to handle it.
Hogan showed me also a report from Air Force concerning allegations
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reference to CIA cDomestic Contact Division activities for our comment.
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25X1 6. 1 ~ JGO) Met with Chairman Lucien Nedzi, Intelligence
Subcommittee, House Armed Services Committee, in response to his request
and briefed him on the latest developments concerning SAT. He was particularly
interested in why a question might have been raised with him of a pending action
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letter withdrawing request for CAB approval of sale tol together with
STATOTHR a surrender of the certificates on Friday, 30 November. This is also the date
that has been set for submission of proof of financing by the purchaser to the
Agency. Since the original understanding with the CAB had been that the letter
of withdrawal and submission of certificates would take place on 22 November,
Nedzi felt that this extension of date to this Friday could be the matter that
had come to the attention of his inquirer.
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and gave him a verbal fill in concerning
2255X18gNedzi had no question on either of
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I gave Nedzi a two-page memo dated 27 November on the effectiveness
of Soviet and U. S. weapons provided the Arabs and Israelis which he requested
in the meeting yesterday afternoon with John Maury and myself. He returned
the memo after reading it.
I met with Nedzi again later in the day and made an appointment for
Mr. Helms.
7. - JGO) Received a call from Bill Hogan, House
Armed Services Committee staff, who told me Chairman Nedzi, Intelligence
Subcommittee, will be scheduling hearings ^H .- 2.714 Parly next week. Hogan
said the hearings will be pro forma but he would like to talk with me about the
bill if I can drop by tomorrow.
8. - JGO) Talked to Art Kuhl and Ellie Voghtmann, staff
of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and told them that the transcript of
the Director's meeting with the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee on 26 November
has been returned from the reporters. Since no requests have been received
from members for review of the transcript, it will be retained in OLC for safe-
keeping subject to the call of the Committee.
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OCI, for information requested by the Director, I had several telephone
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conversations over the weekend with members of the Foreign Affairs Committee
staff. I was finally able to contact Mike Finley, Inter-American Affairs Sub-
committee staff, and learned from him that Representative Michael Harrington
(D. , Mass.) has not yet filed a report on his trip to Chile but that he was quoted
by a backpage item in the New York Times as having said that he went to Chile
with a bias and returned with the same bias. I was able to ascertain that the
bias referenced would be a belief that the CIA was actively involved in the
overthrow of the Allende government and that U. S. Government policies
during the period of the Allende government were in opposition to the aims
of that government. Mr. Harrington met with all but one member of the junta
(Pinochet) during his visit to Chile.
17.1 1- JGO) Met with L. James Kronfeld, Staff
Counsel, Subcommittee on Foreign Operations and Government Information,
and reviewed with him A ency correspondence started in June 1971 through
October 1973 with California, who had
written Kronfeld concerning release of information by CIA for his use in
research dealing with the World War II "Liberator" pistol and its distribution.
Kronfeld told me he would respond directly td without further reference
to the Agency telling him in effect that he had been in contact with the Agency
and others and it would appear that no further information on the subject
other than that already provided is available. I thanked Kronfeld for his
consideration.
18. JGO) Talked to Bill Hogan, House Special Sub-
committee on Intelligence, Armed Services Committee, who told me the
question of handling the (TART)S nnSf_nf-1i rina mendment would be taken
up at the 8:30 meeting of the staff tomorrow morning.
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BULLETIN
1. A cost-of-living retirement annuity increase of 5.5 percent has
been authorized commencing 1 January 1974 for annuitants under either the
Civil Service Retirement Act or the CIA Retirement and Disability System.
2. As explained in Employee Bulletin No. 379, "Possible Cost-of-Living
Increase and Liberalization of Eligibility for Civil Service Retirement
Cost-of-Living Annuity Increases," dated 5 November 1973, an amendment to
the Civil Service Retirement Act now guarantees that an immediate annuity
which begins after the effective date of a cost-of-living increase will be
no less than it would have been if the employee had retired just before
the effective date of the increase.
3. An example of the current application of the new amendment is
as follows:
a. If an employee under Civil Service Retirement elects to retire
by 31 December 1973, his annuity will be the greater of his annuity
as of 30 June 1973 with the prior 6.1 percent cost-of-living or the
annuity calculated as of 31 December 1973. Added to that greater figure
will be the 5.5 percent cost-of-living increase effective 1 January 1974.
b. If the individual elects to retire after 31 December 1973,
then his annuity on the date of separation will be compared to 31 December
1973 with the 5.5 percent and he will receive the greater annuity.
4. As was explained in Employee Bulletin No. 379, the cost-of-living
amendment does not apply to participants in the CIA Retirement and Disability
System. Equivalent legislation for CIARDS has already been approved by the
Senate and we are optimistic that it will become law before 31 December 1973.
If it is not, however, participants in CIARDS, to be eligible for the 5.5
percent cost-of-living increase, must be off the rolls no later than 31
December 1973.
5. Eligible employees wishing to take advantage of this confirmed
cost-of-living annuity increase through retirement should contact the
Retirement Affairs Division, extensions 3328, 3303, 3257, and 2847, as early
as possible to permit expeditious review of service records and preparation
of estimated annuities.
DISTRIBUTION: ALL EMPLOYEES
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Wednesday - 21 November 1973
4. I- JGO) Delivered the transcript of the Director's briefing
of Monday, 19 November, to Thomas J. Reckford, Staff Assistant on Intel-
ligence, Commission on the Organization of the Government for the Conduct
of Foreign Policy. I also gave Reckford a lift to the Executive Office Building
where he was to complete the arrangements for the secure storage of the
transcript with PFIAB.
5? I I- JGO) Received a call from Angie Morris, Senate
Foreign Relations Committee staff, who asked that I stop by and pick up a
letter from the Committee. I told her I would be by as early as possible on
Friday.
6. JGO) Talked to Carl Marcy, Chief of Staff, Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, with regard to the transcript of the briefing
before the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee last month by Secretary Kubisch
and Ambassador Davies. Marcy told me he would like to accommodate us but
none of the staff would be available in the main Committee room on Friday
so it would not be possible for us to review the transcript prior to the Director's
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25X1 7. JGO) Talked to Frank Slatinshek, House Armed
Services Committee staff, who told me the addition of the Spaatz and Bradley
riders on-tha CTARDS billL ould not cause any problem in his estimation in
the expeditious handling of the bill.
25X1 8. 1 k RJK) Delivered to the offices of Senators
STATSPEC J. W. Fulbright (D., Ark.) and Henry M. Jackson (D., Wash. tems
in which their names were mentioned.
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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Tuesday - 20 November 1973
House Armed Services Committee, in the absence of Representative Nedzi,
to tell him of Ambassador Helms' upcoming visit. Slatinshek suggested
it would be a good idea for Helms to pay a brief call on Nedzi during his stay.
I told Slatinshek of our concern to push forward with niir (T4RnQ
retirement legislation and he agreed to give it prompt attention.
2. - GLC) Talked with Joel Merkel, Legislative Assistant
to Senator Henry M. Jackson (D., Wash.), and told him our General Counsel's
office had been in touch with Frank Bartimo, Assistant General Counsel
(Manpower & Reserve Affairs), DOD, about Merkel's draft language for
section 2(5) of Senator Nelson's proposed resolution to establish a Joint
Committee on Domestic Intelligence. Since Bartimo had found Merkel's
language acceptable, we did not object to it although we felt there were better
ways of accomplishing the same purpose. I said if we were asked to report
on this resolution we would take the position that the Agency should either be
given a full exemption or that language should be included to state that nothing
in the provisions of the resolution should authorize the Joint Committee to
examine investigative or surveillance activities conducted by CIA pursuant
to law. Merkel said he was somewhat persuaded to accept our substitute
language but then decided to use his language initially and then have the
Senate Government Operations Committee formally request our comments
and those of DOD. At that time we could submit our proposed language and
the Committee could substitute it if it seemed advisable then.
3? I I- GLC) John Goldsmith, Senate Armed Services
Committee staff, called regarding his conversation with John Maury yesterday.
He said the man named Boyd they talked about yesterday was not the Jim Boyd
who was associated with the Fund for Investigative Journalism which has
sponsored 17 ecent efforts.
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9. I I- JGO) Met with Bill Hogan, 1-louse Armed Services
Committee staff, and received from him another crank letter from
for our information. Also discussed with him the CTARng
legislation which was passed by the Senate today. Hogan said although he
cannot speak for the Committee, he sees no reason for formal hearings and
feels the legislation can be expedited as soon as Chairman Nedzi, Intelligence
Subcommittee, returns from his Middle East trip.
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to a meeting with the staff of the Commission on the Organization of the
Government for the Conduct of Foreign Policy and completed security
documentation for Francis O. Wilcox, Fisher Howe, William B. Spong,
Thomas J. Reckford, Paul Schratz, Gloria Adams, Barbara Moore and
Jo Ann Lashley,
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25X1 12. RJK) Delivered several maps to Mark Ginsberg,
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Senate Subcommittee on efugees and Escapees, per his request to
13. - RJK) Delivered a number of maps to Ann Pride,
on the staff of Representative Bill Alexander (D. , Ark.) and Irene Schecter,
in the office of Representative Richardson Preyer (D. , N. C. ), per their requests.
14. RJK) Delivered the Director's response to a
letter from ena or oward Baker (R. , Tenn.) to the Senator's personal
secretary.
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18. - LLM) Referring to my call to her some weeks
ago, Hilda c rei er in OMB called to approve adding to our proposed cost-
the period of marriage for a surviving widow or widower from two
to one year. I told Schreiber that in view of the Senate's action today in
passing our bill we could not make an addition at this time but thanked her
for thinking of us and told her we would include the change in the amend-
ments still pending with OMB.
19. LLM) In view of the news coverage of our
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morning sessions with the Senate Armed Services Committee on
allegations which intimate an Agency connection with I calle
Woolsey to alert him to the 29 October letter from Fu.lbrig.ht on the same
subject and reviewed with him our proposed reply. Woolsey said he would
like to have the substance of our reply once the letter is sent to Fulbright.
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Committee staff, talked to Ellie Voghtmann, assistant to Mr. Holt, concerning
the availability of Secretary Kubisch and Ambassador Davies' testimony before
the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee during the last week of October. She
was able to contact Holt later in the morning who advised that it would be
necessary to obtain Secretary Kubisch's and Ambassador Davies' approval and
to gain final permission from Carl Marcy, of the Committee staff. It would
then be possible for me to review the transcripts in the Committee hearing
room. I thanked Miss Voghtmann and told her that I would not pursue the
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