JOURNAL- OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP77M00144R000300090035-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 2, 2006
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: October 7, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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Tuesday 7 October 1975
13. I LEGISLATION Called Ronald McCluskey,
Assistant Counsel, Subcommittee on Retirement & Employee Bcnefi.ts,
House Post Office and Civil Service Committee, and discussed retirement
legislation now before the Subcommittee with particular emphasis on
creditable service and also H. R. 6227, right of counsel for Federal
employees which, McCluskey feels will, be approved by the I-louse and the
Senate. The Subcommittee is now engaged in extensive oversight
hearings of the retirement system and he believes they should get to
the creditable service segment after the first of the year.
14. LIAISON Duke Short, staff member,
Senate '-ubcommittee on Internal Security, called inquir.i.ng as
to the status of the Agency's review of the papers prepared by
e
in connection with his testimony in the near
future before the Subcommittee. I told him that our review would be
completed within a few days and I would get the material to him as soon
as possible. I was advised.
15. LIAISON Met briefly with Jim Cline,
Counsel, House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Ci.ti.zenship,
and International Law, and left with him a blind memo concerning the
results of a check of Agency files he requested on several individuals in
Interpol alleged to be former Nazis. He said be would be back in touch
if he needed any further information-
16. ADMINISTRATIVE Picked up from.
Charles Snodgrass, House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee staff,
a letter for the Director.
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6. LEGISLATION Stopped. by the] I
Judiciar Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights to discuss pending criminal
justice information legislation, S. 2008, with Doug Lea, Counsel. He gave
me a draft of certain modifications that the staff had made to the bill and
asked me if I could prepare for him some examples of Agency problems with
the bill.
7. LIAISON Took a call from Ed Schallert,,
in the office of Representative Les Aspin (D., Wis. ),who inquired about the
validity of statistics of the 1969 Soviet Civil Defense Manual. This Manual
asserted that Soviet civil defense techniques were so good that in a massive
nuclear attack on Soviet cities, only 3 to 4 percent of the urban population.
would be killed. Schallert asked if we could verify these statistics. After
checking with who called OSR, I told Schallert that we felt
these figures were definitely propaganda and that the actual figures would
be higher. However, we had not conducted a study to determine the actual
figure, but that he could probably get these statistics from the targeting
people at the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
8. LIAISON Talked to Wes Clark, in the
office of John O. Marsh, Counsellor to the President, about a couple of items
on the Administration's Action Plan on Intelligence. Clark's name had been
given me by Russ Rourl, also of Marsh's office, whom I called earlier. Clark
said the White House was no longer planning to make a general approach to
the congressional leadership on the importance of intelligence, but would deal
with the leadership on an issue-by-issue basis. This information. was reported
to General Wilson's task force.
9. I I FAA BRIEFING Accompanied the Director
to a briefing of the Defense Subcommittee of the House Appropriations
Committee on the President's finding of 10 August 1975 under Section 662
of the Foreign Assistance Act. (See Memorandum for the Record)
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13. LIAISON In follow--up of my
conversation with Tim Ingram, Staff Director, House Government
Operations Subcommittee on Government Information and Individual
Rights, a call was made to set up an appointment with Chairwoman
Bella Abzug (D., N. Y.) and she asked to speak to me. She said that
an appointment would not be necessary since all I would have to do is,
drop off the material to her so that she could read it at her
convenience and that she would lock it up in her office safe at night when
she was through. I referred her to Mr. Colby's letters to her of
15 August and 3 October and said that pursuant to them I would not be
authorized to relinquish permanent possession of the material. She
was very upset and after a lengthy exchange in which I attempted to explain
the situation as I saw it, she said that I should be in her office at 0830
in the morning. 11
14. I LIAISON Subsequent to my
conversation with Chairwoman Bella Abzug (D., N Y. ), Chairman Jack
Brooks House Government Operations Committee, called concerning,
the /rv
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House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Ci izens]-dp, & International.
Law, and informed his secretary that we had prepared some material in
response to Cline's request for any information concerning alleged Nazis
in Interpol and that I would be by to drop it off.
16. LIAISON Jim Michie, staff member,
.5a to--X di T.i~ y u co.mittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure,
called inquiring as to whether the Agency had made a decision to rF laa 25X1
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