JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP76M00527R000700150066-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 24, 2003
• Sequence Number: 66
• Publication Date: November 27, 1974
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Wednesday - 27 November 1974
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11. Talked to Bill Van Ness, Chief Counsel,
Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, with regard to the
questions raised by Senator Howard M. Metzenbaum (D. , Ohio). In brief,
Van Ness suggested the Agency might either have someone standby to
testify in executive session or the Agency could respond to questions to
Van Ness himself so that he in turn could respond in executive session.
I told Van Ness that I was sure we would much prefer the latter course
of providing the information to him for use in executive session. See
Mr. Cary's journal item.
12. Met with Roger Mott, Special Assistant
to Representative Samuel S. Stratton (D. , N. Y. ), and reviewed with him
background of this case. Mott will file the correspondence. If any further
information is desired by Representative Stratton, Mott will call me.
13. Talked to George Berdes, on the staff of
the Subcommittee on National Security Policy and Scientific Developments,
House Foreign Affairs Committee, and after checking with Mr. Duckett's
secretary, scheduled a briefing for Wednesday, 11 December, at 10:00 a. m.
on SALT violations and agreements.
14. (Confidential - GLC) Accompanied the Director and Messrs.
Nelson an to a briefing of the House Appropriations Committee
Special Group. See Memorandum for Record for details.
15. Met with Representative Chet Holifield to
tell him how much we appreciated the support which he and Representatives
John N. Erlenborn and William S. Moorhead had given us in fighting
presentative Bella Abzug's proposed amendment to abolish the CIA
exemption from the Right of Privacy legislation (see Memo for Record).
16. Attempted to see Representatives Johan
Erlenborn and William Moorhead but they had left town :for the holiday and
I will try to reach them on Monday.
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Met with Representative Albert Quie to
discuss his letter to the Director askin for comments on a letter the
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Minnesota, regarding allegations of CIA involvement in activities in
Northern Ireland. I showed Quie a copy of the Director's classified letter
of 26 October 19:74 to Chairman Lucien Nedzi, Intelligence Subcommittee of
House Armed Services Committee, on this subject. I explained to Quie our
reluctance to give him an unclassified denial of this allegation, which he
could appreciate. He added, however, that he had gotten in a jam in his
district in denying Agency involvement in Chile, later to find that in fact
we were. He said he had relied on assurances from someone (not from the
Agency). I made it clear to the Congressman that the Agency was not involved
in the coup in Chile and the statement to that effect was still accurate. We
discussed the possibility of his getting a copy of Chairman Nedzi's response
to the similar inquiry which might have been useful to him in replying to
McGovern. I told Quie I would look into this and be back in touch with him.
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