JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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May 22, 1975
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Approved For Release 2007/02/07 : CIA-RDP77M00144R000300020021-7 Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 4 "CRET 14. I I Left with Marsha, Secretary to Al Chiel ie investigator, Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Internal Security, two photos requested by Tarabochia in connection with his study of the Venceremos Brigade. Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D. , Minn.) for personal delivery toI the Senator a personal and confidential letter from the Director answering the Senator'.s inquiry on whether the Agency had a file. on him. In the absence of arranged for Tom Smeeton, Minority staff, rnational. Relations Committee, to receive all eight FBIS Daily Reports until he notifies us that he doesn't need them any longer. FBIS Liaison has been notified. Committee staff, and asked about a copy of the transcript of the Director's testimony yesterday. He said he would check into it right away. Committee staff, and iii his absence, asked his secretary to tell him I would meet him at the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy offices at his convenience today to transfer some material to the Select Committee. She said she would pass this message on. Later, Bill Bader, of the Select Committee staff, called and I met: with George Murphy, Executive Director, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, and worked out procedures for certain documents to be placed in Murphy's custody as agreed in letters from the Director and the Chairman of the Senate Select Committa~ to Senator John Pastore ~(D. , R. I. ) on this subject. M+ -? r' Approved For Release 2007/02/07 : CIA-RDP77M00144R000300020021-7 Approved For Release 2007/02/07 : CIA-RDP77M00144R000300020021-7 Journal -- Office of Legislative Counsel Page 4 Monday - 19 May 1975 25X1 25X1A 15. I uIn the absence o. took : Fields, Was ington Workshops, and to c or that OTR, would definitely be at Mt. Vernon College on Tuesday, 17 June to speak to their Workshop... 16. a call from Tom Smeeton, two charts he had given Smeeton. I told Smeeton that I would check and someone would be back in touch. Smeeton said there was no hurry on this, he was just checking. In the absence of took. who wanted to know if had been able to get updated copies o 17. I I Phoned Alan Parker, Counsel of the House Judiciary Committee, on H. R. 61 and 62, bills which regulate the dissemination and use of criminal justice information. He informed me that hearings which had been scheduled for the first week in June would be postponed at least another week. He also told me that a new bill on criminal justice information, a combined effort by Senator John V. Tunney (D., Calif.) and Congressman Don Edwards (D. , Calif.) may be introduced in the near future. We concluded by agreeing to meet sometime during the week of the 27th through 30th May to discuss H. R. 61. 18. As a follow up to my calls on Saturday to Jack Marsh and Bill Kendall, White House staff, regarding the importance of the Turkey aid legislation to the Administration, Pat O'Donnell, of the White I-louse staff, called and gave me a list of Senators who could "use work" as far as the vote on the legislation is concerned. I told him we would do what we could to inform them of our stake in this, but strictly from the intelligence side. O'Donnell said that would be very helpful. Approved For Release 2007/02/07 : CIA-RDP77M00144R000300020021-7 Approved For Release 2007/02/07 : CIA-RDP77M00144R000300020021-7 OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL CIA INTE NAC USA QNLX Friday - 16 May 1975 1. (Unclassified - GLC) Called George Murphy, staff of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, to discuss storing material for the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations With Respect to Intelligence Activities. Murphy agreed in principle with our storing material. there but said the arrangement would have to be cleared with several members of the JCAE, most important of whom would be Senator Pastore. He also said he would have to have something in writing as to who would have access to the material. This was passed on to 2. (Unclassified - GLC) Called Dick Kaufman, Joint Economic Committee staff, and gave him the dates of the 17th through the 25th of June for the Director's appearance before Senator Proxmire's Subcommittee on Economies and Priorities in Government. Kaufman will be back in touch to confirm a date. 3. (Unclassified - GLC) Received calls from Dr. Stevens, ADD/S&T, an OSI, with further reference to the request GAO has made to ERDA for a briefing on nuclear safeguards. There appears to be some difference of opinion as to whether the Agency or ERDA should handle this briefing. I talked with Marian Czarnecki, Staff Director, unuge Tter-nafinna1 1 1 f~;nns Commi ..e who acknowledged they had made such a request to ERDA, was surprised that we might be the Agency involved in providing the information but said if we were he would agree with my proposal that we handle the matter directly with the Committee. (He mentioned three different Subcommittees are involved in this.) He said he would not, however, extend this same arrangement to ERDA. I passed this information back to I F ho said he STAT would discuss it further with Stevens. CIA INTE[ NAE USE ONLY Approved For Release 2007/02/07 : CIA-RDP77M00144R000300020021-7 Jour nalAp 41e F8f RLeel~js?a?007e/0~/o07 : CI -RDP77M00144R0003000200P211- ? g Friday - 16 May 1975 25X1 25X1 CONFIDENTIAL 5? I lEric Foreman, on the staff of Senator Dale Bumpers k1j. , Ark, , called to set up a briefing on the Middle East.. I explained our limited resources to provide such services to personal staff and Foreman said he thought the Senator would be interested in a briefing also and that he would check and let us know. 25X1A 6. Mike Van Dusen. House International OWWw"ja- -- mmj ttoP staff r--,lled to express Chairman Lee Ha.milt:on's (D., Ind.) appreciation for the fine briefing by Messrs. I OSI and F J OCI7 of the Investigations Subcommittee on 13 May. p line wtt a suggestion by Jack Brady and Mike Finley, of the Subcommittee staff, Van Dusen deferred to Marian Czarnecki, Chief of Staff, the requirements for access to compartmented information. 25X1X1A send a copy of the transcript of the testimony on the Maya uez incident before the Defense Subcommittee of House Appropriations Committee for our editing and security review. When received it will be sent to NIO/SEA, for this purpose and should be returned to on urs Y. CONFIDENTIAL Approved For Release 2007/02/07 : CIA-RDP77M00144R000300020021-7 Approved For Release 2007/02/07 : CIA-RDP77M00144R000300020021-7 Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Friday - 16 May 1975 CIA INTERNAL USE ONLY 8. (Unclassified - BAA) Per Page 3 instructions, called Mr. Paul Goulding's office, Administrative Assistant to Senator Claiborne Pell (D. , R. I. ), and told his secretary that our Personnel Office had been in contact with a constituent of theirs, told them that he would be in the Washington area within the next 30 days and would call for an interview when he arrives. 9. (Unclassified - RJK) Spoke with Bill Raiford, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, and told him, in connection with his earlier request, that the date of the first meeting of USIB was 15 September 1958 and that this date was unclassified. 10. (Unclassified - RJK). Spoke with Rick Gilmore, Multinational Subcommittee staff, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and told him that. we do not have a classified version of our food paper ("Poteritiail Implications of Trends in World Population, Food Production and Climate") but that I. would be.-on the lookout for publications of this type to forward to him. 11. (Internal Use Only - RJK) Tom Hipple, on the staff of Represen- tative Andrew Jacobs, Jr. (D. , Ind. ), called to ask for information about the FBIS Daily Reports. After some discussion, I agreed to send him the Western Europe Daily Report for a period of one month and Ripple will tell us if he wants it continued. FBIS Liaison has been advised. 12. (Internal Use Only - RJK) Delivered. to the offices of Senators Edward M. Kennedy (D., Mass.), Walter F. Mondale (D., Minn.), Charles McC. Mathias, Jr. (R., Md.), George McGovern (D., S. D.) and John Sparkman (D., Ala. ) and Representative Lester L. Wolff (D. , N.Y.) FBIS items in. which their names were mentioned. 13. (Internal Use Only - RJK) Met with Tom Smeeton, F-Tnr International RP1n1-.innc r.n,,,,-, ifi-c-r- c &ff, and provided him with organizational diagrams for the intelligence community and the Agency for his use in briefing Ranking Minority member, Representative William S. Broomfield (R. , Mich.').' Per guidance from Mr., Cary, I told Smeeton that if the Congressman would like an Agency briefing, we would be pleased to provide it at his con- venience. C!AIN ER~IAL USE Y USE ONLY Approved For Release 2007/02/07 : CIA-RDP77M00144R000300020021-7 Approved For Release 2007/02/07 : CIA-RDP77M00144R000300020021-7 Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Thursday - 15 May 1975 CIA INTERNAL USE ONLY 12. (Unclassified - JMD) Lee McKenna, in the office of Representative M. Caldwell Butler, called and asked for several sets of application forma.. 10. (Unclassified - GLC) Accompanied the Director and s to a session with the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental. Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities. See Memo for. Record. STATINTL 11. (Unclassified - JMD) Called Mildred Ward retary to Senator John Stennis, and told her that when as wvi.th-the Senator yesterday, the Senator asked for a briefing on Soviet: hardware for next Monday or Tuesday. I asked if she would set a time and date. She said she had to check with the Senator and would be back in touch. STATINTL STATINTL STATINTL STATINTL STATINTL 13. (Unclassified - JMD) Mark Kliman, in the office of Representative. Les Aspin, called and said he had talked to someone, he though some weeks ago and would like to talk to him again to clarify some points. I said I would see if I could locate him and call back. I talked with I who said Kliman had talked toE efore but they did not want Kliman to hav phone number---they want Klimanis calls to come to this Office instead of directly too He said, however, he would have call Kliman back and answer his questions. 14. (Unclassified - GLC) Received a call from Maurice Eisenstein, Acting Deputy Director, Division of International Security Affairs, ERDA, who said they have received a request from GAO which states that in connection with a study they are doing on behalf of the they would like an intelligence briefing on the effectiveness of nuclear safeguards. Eisenstein was agonizing over how to handle this. I told him that if a requesst of this sort came to the Agency, I would contact Marian Czarnecki, Staff Director of the Committee, and deal with him directly on the matter cutting GAO out of the circuit completely. I said as far as I knew none of the people in GAO had the proper clearances for briefings at the level that would be required on this subject: anyway. 15. (Unclassified - JMD) Barbara Grabon, in the office of Les Janka of the White House, called and cancelled the Legislative Interdepartmental cIf: IN TL NA[ USE cNL / EO, GE L. CA'Ry Page 3 Mr. Thuermer, Mr. L - 1 , ~VlI. YV~U-vIItr., ff41ft3061Qt1Dller F7-CIA - P Iteznro~,Fo~Z/