JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: November 13, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Thursday - 13 November 1975
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10. LIAISON I dropped by the office
of Dick White, Administrative Assistant to Representative Dale
Milford (D. , Texas), and chatted with him about the breakfast
meeting of Milford and Director Colby and others. We also
discussed general details of a follow-up meeting.
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Investigator for the ,subcommittee on Administrative Practice
and Procedure, omnnitt n the rd' ar a package of material
which had asked me to pick up.
12. LIAISON Received a call. from Ern
Shields, Legislative Assistant to Representative James S
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D. , Nev. )
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Senate Government Operations Committee staff, to let hirn know that the
House Intelligence Committee's congressional. oversight hearings had been
indefinitely postponed, and to get the names of all the staffers who participated
in our l2 November meeting.
14. LIAISON Called Karin Lissakers,
Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Multinational corporations staff,
and advised her we did. not have the 3 January 1973 issue of. Canard Enchaine.
I suggested she try the Library of Congress and. she said she had already
done this without success.
-~~.~ ~..ul'-iy.mt ~x.roves, in the
office of Representative George O'Brien (R. , 111., ), and advised her that
General Walters would be happy to tape a radio show with Representative
O'Brien and also Representative Clair Burgener (R. , Calif. ). A time was
set for Monday, 17 November at 1:00 in the House Recording Studio, B 310
Rayburn House Office Bu:ilcling.
16 LIAISON Mr. `Fhuerxne:r suggested
1would be the best person to speak to the RotryC.l.ub'at
o ricgebm, New Jersey, who requested a speaker from the CIA to talk
to them ab,iut the Agency.
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,(A INTERNAL USE ONLY ADDENDUM TO JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Wednesday - 12 November 1975
1. BRIEFING Bill Hogan, Counsel, Rouse
Armed Services Committee, called and requested that the briefing
before Chairman Lucien N. Nedzi's (D., Mich.), Special Subcommittee
on Intelligence, next Monday include the subject of allocation ?f total
Soviet resources to their defense effort vis-a-vis the U. S. and the two
trend lines that permit analysis of the situation. , OCI, 25X1A
was advised.
2. I BRIEFING Met with. Alan Ramberg, a
congressional intern in the office of Representative David Obey (D. , Wis.
in response to his earlier call to We discussed in general 25X1
terms Agency procedures for granting congressional. committees access
to compartmented information. He asked that arrangements be made for
Mr. Obey to he briefed on the sensitivities which require the protection
of compartmented information since he has been getting n-iore into our
material and he wants a better understanding of the security implications.
The briefing was tentatively set for 10:30 a. m.. Wednesday, 19 November.
HEARING Met with Duke Short, on the Sew! 5X1A
Judiciar?r-..%ubcom.mittee on Internal Security staff, and discussed further
deletions from the material prepared F_ I as
requested by the FBI. Arrangements for executive session 25X1A
testimony before Senator Strom Thurmond (R. , S. Car. ), in the Russell
Senate Office Building,were confirmed for 10:00 a. m. Tuesday, 1.8 November.
, Chief, SE Division, DDO, was advised..
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Journal Office of Legislative Counsel
Tuesday - 11 November 1975
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7? I ILIAISON Called Edward
Mulcahy, Deputy Assistant Secretary of African Affairs, Department
of State, and brought: him up--to-date on our arrangements on the
briefing of Representative Charles Diggs (D., Mich.), Chairman of
the Subcommittee on International Resources, Food. and Energy,
House International Relations Committee.
8.1 1 LIAISON Called Lefty Anderson,
Chief, Investigations and Survey Staff, House Appropriations Committee,
concerning the Investigation Staff's request of DIA for a list of NIE's
and said the Director would prefer to provide this information directly
to the staff and that he felt they should also review other merrioranda
which serve the same purpose. Anderson agreed with this approach
and will alerE (Head of DIA Investigation Staff) to
expect the material directly from us. The information was transmitted
to later in the day.
9. BRIEFING Iti connection with
the briefing of Representative Edward Koch (D., N. Y.) on the situation
in the Middle East, arrangements were made with for
F_ I NIO/'MEE, and OSR, to present the
briefing on Friday, 14 November at 9:30 a. m.
10. I ADMINISTRATIVE - DELIVERIES
Delivered to Senator John Sparkman's (D. , Ala. ) office a letter from
the DCI concerning a possible leak from the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee. Copies of the same letter. Mere delivered to Senator
John L. McClellan (1). , Ark. ) and Senator John C. Stennis (D. , Miss.
Left a copy of the follow-.up material of a briefing on the Middle East
with Marian A. Czarnecki, Chief of Staff, of the llou:,e Committee
on International Relations. Czarnecki was to return the documents
along with the Congressional Check List: that same afternoon. Also,
left one part of the same material %, ith George R. 13erdes, Consultant.
on the Subcommittee on International Security & Scientific Affairs.
Left a copy of the Soviet aid to Syria for Michael I:[. Van Dusen,
Consulta-it, Special Subcommittee on Investigations.
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Senate Ju liciary Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure,
c requested certain additional information for the Subcomm ittee.
(,See Memo for the Record)
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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Friday - 7 November 1975
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6. CONSTITUENT I call from
who is a
student at George Washington University. She is doing a paper on
congressional oversight of the CIF. and wanted to know if we had any
information that we could send her on oversight. A package of
unclassified information was prepared and forwarded to her.
and I appeared before a joint meeting of the Kennedy Subcommitt
ees
on Health (of Labor and Public Welfare Committee) and Administrative
Practice and Procedure (f Jti l; .1ar~r Committee) to testify on t:he Agency
drug programs and our position on S. 2515. See e~.no for Record.
Snodgrass, House Appropriations Committee staff, who said he would like
to talk with someone on the subject of "net assessment': I told him I was
not an authority on this subject but knew at one tirn.e that the net assessment:
function was handled by a group within the NSC staff. However, I said I
would check on this and let him know who he should contact:.
J ~._. ~. ... ?,~yyica.L1 Li I. CCl
Relations Committee staff, called to be certain that the Director was still
planning to meet with the full Committee for a briefing on the Middle East
next Wednesday. I told him the Director was still planning to attend.
Committee staff, called to say they had received the GAO report on Air
America,that it was favorable and for us to go ahead. Kogan asked if a
portion of the financing of the sale was still going to be handled by the
acceptance of a note. I told him my last information was that it, wculd be
and he said this was fine since GAO had also approved the arrangement
with that provision in it.
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