JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP77M00144R000300050068-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 22, 2006
• Sequence Number: 68
• Publication Date: August 15, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Friday - 15 August 1975
1. FBIS Delivered to the offices of
Representatives Lester L. Wolff (D. , N. Y. ), Joshua Eilberg (D. , Pa. )
Carl Albert (D. , Okla. ) and Clement J. Zablocki (D. Wisc. ) and Senators
William L. Scott (R. , Va.) and Jacob K. Javits (R. , N.Y.), FBIS items in
which their names were mentioned.
2. ADMINISTRATIVE Picked up a letter
for Mr. Cary from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff.
3.
ADMINISTRATIVE - DELIVERIES
Delivered an FOIA response to the office of Representative Richard T. Schultze
(R. , Pa. ).
ADMINISTRATIVE -- DELIVERIES Delivered a
the office of Senator John L. McClellan (D. , Ark. ),
Chairman, Senate Appropriations Committee, per arrangements made by
Mr. Cary.
5. ADMINISTRATIVE - DELIVERIES
Dropped off the following: (1) with Christine Cohagen of Senator Cranston's
(D. , Ca.) office, our reply concerning a constituent's inquiry on the Agency's
secret budget; (2) with Charlotte Wilmer of Representative John Breaux's
(D., La. ) office, a suggested reply to a constituent's inquiry; (3) at House
Agriculture Committee, Soviet livestock statistics for Steve Allen (staff
consultant) as follow-up items to the 8 August briefing on Soviet grain;
(4) at House International Relations Subcommittee on Future Foreign Policy
Research, material on the PRC for Joyce Shub.
6. CONSTITUENT I called Ms. Debbie Marinern,
in the office of Senator Birch Bayh (D. , Ind. ). She needed a status report:
25X1A on the case in order to respond to a constituent inquiry. I told her
25X1A that we were not yet in litigation and that the attorney for th
had requested a series of documents and that the Agency was also responding
to a FOI request from the family. I mentioned that the Agency had released
a set of files on presidential direction several weeks ago. The foregcing
seemed to satisfy her interest for the moment. My response was ba =cd on
information from OGC.
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16. I LIAISON During the course of the day I talked
separately with Clark McFadden (General Counsel, Senate Armed Services
Committee), Guy McConnell (staff of Senate Appropriations Committee),
Richard Moose (staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee) and
Jack Brady (staff of the 1-louse International Relations Coznrnittee), on the
issue of whether thel_ roject should be conducted under commercial
contracts or under the Foreign Military Sales Act. The consensus of these
individuals was that unless the Defense Department was directly involved
in the contracting, they saw no reason why the negotiations should be subject
to the Foreign Military Sales Act and, in fact, thought it would be more
appropriate if carried out by commercial contract. They all noted that
the DOD is supersensitive on this subject because of the bad experience
negotiations under the Foreign Military Sales Act. However, they did. not
feel this was a. sufficient reason for utilization of the Foreign Military Sales
Act in this instance. Brady, who feels particularly knowledgeable in this
field, said he would be happy to talk with our people further about this if we
desire. I have informed the Director, of
these conversations.
they have had in the I Icase and other recent cases of
17. I LIAISON Talked with O Cl,
about the request we received from Rich Gilmore, Senate :Frei n Relations
Committee staff, for information on how we develop our crop forecasting nd
also whether we share any information in this subject area with U. S. corpora-
tions. I told Iwe proposed to contact Chuck Meissner, of the
Committee staff, and whom we have briefed on related topics, and suggest
he communicate this information to Gilmore. If Gilmore has further questions
we will be glad to talk with him (and set him straight regarding our contracts
with U. S. corporations) but we will not get into matters involving intelligence
sources and methods.
18. LIAISON Placed a call to Tim Ingram,
Staff Director, Subcommittee on Government Information and Individual.
Rights, I-louse Government Operations Committee, to advise him that I had
material to provide him in connection with the Subcommittee's request
concerning thel case, but he was no longer in the office at
6:00 p.m. I left a message with his answering service at his home to call
me over the weekend regarding this matter, but I received no call.
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Thursday - 14 August 1975
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5. CONSTITUENT Accompanied. by
Mr. Gary, delivered to John Doherty, Legislative Assistant to
Representative Robert J. Lagomarsino (R. , Calif. ), a suggested reply
tol letter regarding merger of KGB and CIA. Doherty
mentioned that he might also ask for a reply from the Senate Select
Committee. No further action is necessary.
6. ADMINISTRATIVE -DELIVERIES Met with
Ralph Preston, Staff Assistant, House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee,
and provided him with extracts from transcripts of 2 and 3 March 1971,
3 February 1972 and a Memorandum for the Record of 8 June 1972. These
related to Mr. Helms' testimony before Appropriations Subcommittee on
the subject of Chile.
7. ADMINISTRATIVE-DELIVERIES
Met with Rachel Bostic, on the staff of the Senate Foreign Relations , ubcom--
mittee on Arms Control, International rgai rations and ecurzty A.greerx~e:.xits,
and delivered to. her a copy of Mr. Carl Duckett's 29 July 1975 testimony
before the Subcommittee and answers to questions raised during the briefing
and separately by Senator Stuart Symington (D. , Mo. ). Ms. Bostic indicated
that George Ashworth, of the Subcommittee staff, who had requested the
transcript, would review it on Monday. When the staff has completed their
review of the material, they will notify us and return the material.
25X1 11 EMPLOYMENT REQUEST Met with
the receptionist in Senator Jacob K. Javit's (R. , N. Y.) office, and provided
25X1A her with the Agency's response to the Senator's inquiry on behalf of
I outlined the details of the matter for her and
25X1A indicated that the Agency has been in direct contact with
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ADMINISTRATIVE - DELIVERIES In
response to his request, left three copies of the USSR Agriculture Af-las for
John Baize, I-louse Agriculture Committee staff.
Kolinor, on the staff of Representative Charles H. Diggs, Jr. (D., Mich.),
concerning a letter from a constituent, whhad written a letter to the Congressman with a copy to the Director of~
Personnel. After discussing the content of the letter with her, we agree 95 1 al:
since it was for information only and made no requirement of the Agency that
no response would be expected from us.
i3.1 I LIAISON Les Janka, NSC staff, called to
say he was clearing the Director's letter to Chairman John Sparkman cuaLyy
Foreign Relations Committee, on Maya uez with the understanding that the first
contact with the Committee on this would be a meeting between the Director
and Chairman Sparkman. I told him it was our intention to (1o that, as the
letter indicated, but, of course, we could not control the possibility that
Sparkman would have other thoughts about it. In any event, we will keep the
NSC staff informed as this situation develops. Janka also asked for, and I
agreed to provide him, copies of the Post Mortem on the Mayaguez incident
as well as the pertinent Situation Reports on that incident.
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LIAISON Accompanied and
met with Don Henderson, Deputy Chief, Sena ~~reign Relations Commi to ,
and left with him the Director's letter to the Chairman responding to his
request for information on the Mayaguez_ incident. I told Henderson that as
indicated in the letter, the Director would like to talk with the Chairman as
to how this information could best be provided. Henderson said the Chairman
actually is in town and he (Henderson) plans to talk with the Chairman about
our reply and the State Department's reply in the next day or two. It is
Henderson's expectation that the Chairman will want the. Director to brief the
full Committee on the intelligence aspects of the Ma a uez incident when
Congress returns from recess next month. Henderson said this is something
that Richard Moose, of the Committee staff, would normally handle but in
view of his proposed travel to Africa with Senator Dick Clark, he, Henderson,
would be working on it and he would be back in touch with us.
Counsel, Senate Armed Services Committee, to discuss interests as they
relate to his visit along with Ed Braswell, Chief Counsel and Staff Director,
to the Agency on Tuesday, 19 August.
22 AGENCY VISITS Called. Clark McFadden,
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