JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP77M00144R000300050036-8
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• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 21, 2006
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: October 23, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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Wednesday - 22 October 1975
10. I BRIEFING Jerome Levinson, Counsel,
Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations, Senate Forei n Relations
Commi-.eP--called to set up a briefing with OER, own the-
overseas deposit, holdings of U. S. banks and oil producers deposits
explaining that this was a suggestion of of NSA, whom
Levinson had recently met with on this same subject. Levinson said
he would like Karin Lissakers, of the Subcommittee staff, to accompany
him. I told Levinson we would check into this and be back in touch.
OCI, was advised.
11. I BRIEFING Pat Holt, Chief of Staff,
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called and said the Committee
would like to receive a rVe ing rom the Agency and the Department of
State on Africa on Wednesday, 29 October at 10.00. Holt said that
this would not be a joint CIA/State briefing. Holt felt that the briefing
would last only an hour. I confirmed with Holt that the Committee was
basically interested in Southern Africa but that it is possible that some
of the senators might ask questions about Northern Africa, such as
Morocco and Spanish Sahara.
12. LIAISON Talked to Jim Wilson,
Technical Consultant, House Science and Technology Committee, explaining
that we had not been in touch with the Committee for some time because
of the press of other business but that we had not forgotten them. Wilson
thanked me for the consideration and asked us to review our holdings to
determine if we might have something of interest to report to the
Subcommittee on Space Science & Applications chaired by Representative
Don Fuqua (D., Fla.).
Committee MIT, anT cirrazse witft him the problem of the Select Committees
asking for our memoranda for the record or transcripts of committee
briefings. He agreed that we could provide the prepared statements of the
Director but not the transcripts or the memoranda.
4. I I LEGISLATION Bob Carlstrom, OMB,
called to sapid 'VOUICi c ear our report on S. 2170, the Congressional
Right to Information Act, provided that a few changes were made. I told
him I thought the change 3 were unnecessary and that I would call him back
tomorrow.
13. LIAISON Called Ralph Preston, I-base AFAmq-i : tion
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Tuesday 21 October 1975
Brady, Hou ions Committee staff, called and requested
a briefing for himself and Jack Sullivan, of the Committee staff, on Friday,
10:00 a. m. , on the subject of Indochina. He asked, that all countries be
included. I told him this would be arranged. Was, advised.
F ill see Brady on Friday morning.
16.1 I LIAISON Called Guy McConnell,,.
Clerk, Senate Appropriations Committee, and told him of the existence
of a leak of the "Taylor Report" as well as the hold down. on it. He said
the hold down "doesn't bother me. " I alerted him to the annex of the
Congressional Checklist and explained the source situation to him.
I then told McConnell. about the requests we have received from
the Select Committees for copies of Memoranda for the Record of
Committee briefings. He agreed with me that we could give copies of the
statements prepared for the Director's use but not the memoranda.
I then discussed with McConnell our reclarz.a letter on the budget
and said I had suggested the Director see Senators Roman Hruska (R.,. Nebr. )
and. Milton Young (R., N. Dak.). McConnell said if we saw them, he thou-ht
we should see Senator John Pastore (D., R. I.) and the other members of
the Committee also. He said if we go up and. say "save this program
and cut others" we could lose all. the programs. He strongly recommended
against doing it that way.
17.1 1 LIAISON Called Jane McMullen, in Guy
McConnell's, Senate Appropriations Committee staff, office; Ka-l, in
Frank Slatinshek' s, 1-louse Armed Services Committee, office; Ra].ph
Preston, House Appropriations Committee; Elly, in Pat Bolt's , $yna
Foreign Relations Committee office; and Jack Brady, House Internatioanal.
e a ions Committee, and advised them that we had received a report
that Generalissimo Franco had died. I said t:hi s
system has not always been accurate though and we were doublechecking
the accuracy of the report. 1 --1
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Monday - 20 October 1975
11. I I LIAISON Received the page proofs
of the Director's testimony before the Subcommittee on Priorities anal
Economy in Government, Joint Economic Comnm.ittee, from Richard
Kaufman, on the Committee staff, who requested that we complete our
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that all our requested changes were made in the page proofs. We, therefore-,
advised Kaufman that we had no objection to their publication of the information,.
Arrangements were made later for the Agency to ride the jacket: for 350 copies..
12. I I INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING :f. met: with
Rick Gilmore, on the staff of the Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations,
Senate Foreign Relations Ca eel and delivered to him a copy of the
Research Aid on Soviet Grain, 1960 to 1973, which had been provided this
office by I OCI. We also discussed the agenda for a
briefing of Gilmore and Senator Dick Clark (D. , Iowa) for their proposed
trip to the Soviet Union. (See Mernorandumn for the Record. }
13. ADMINISTRATIVE - DELIVEIfI:E"S
I took a cal. from Charles Snodgrass, on the staff of the Subcommittee
on Defense, House Appropriations Committee, who mentioned that: we
had promised him a verbatim transcript of Director Col.by's press
conference imntnecjia.tel.y.followi.ng the confrontation betwe_en the Executive:
Branch and the House Select Committee on Intelligence. I told him we
would get one to him immediately. A copy was provided to
Comptroller, for delivery to Snodgrass the following day.
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14. HEARINGS Dr. Sohn ilolntfeld:, on the
staff of Chairman Ray orn ton s Subcommittee on Domestic and Inter--
national Scientific Planning and Analysis, Committee on Scicnce and
Technology, called and stated that he had talked to Chairman '.Thornton
regarding our desire to have an Agency witness testify in o-xecrtt:ive session
at the hearing on 28 October. Chairman Thornton fell: t]:1a.t even though he
could understand our reasons for an executive session, he still wanted to
hold an open hearing. One of the reasons is that his Sulbconln-ritt:ee: does
not normally hold executive sessions and they will have to sanitize Iron-:
their minds what portions are classified and which are not Tlwrefore,
Dr. Ilolrnfeld requested that we reassess the situation to scie. What., if
anything, we can do for there in the nature of prov.idirrf, a w;ti:rress for an
open bearing.
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