JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP77M00144R000300090037-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 2, 2006
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: October 3, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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Friday 3 October 1975
LIAISON Walter Elder, Review Staff,
,-called to say he had talked with Bill Bader, Senate Select Committee
staff, about his letter requesting access to our OLC Journals over
the past ten years. Elder indicated we could not comply with this
request in this broad a form and made preliminary arrangements for
us to attempt to pull together information on our briefings of coy) gressionzgTAT
committees in another form.
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Ex. Sec.
DDI
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DDS&T
Mr. Warner
Mr. Parrxmenter
IC Staff
EA/DDO
Comptroller
,Mr. Fhuermer
EORGE L. CARS'
Legislative Counsel
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Thursday - 2 October 1975
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9. INTELLIGENCE., BRIEFING
Talked to Lewis Hunter, GAO, in response to his call yesterday and told
him that I had made arrangements for Bob Brady, of his staff, to corne to
the Agency for a briefing t 4:00 p.m, this afternoon. I. z eiterated
that this briefing should be for GAO's background purposes only and also
that neither at Headquarters or in the field would we discuss Agency operations
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Thursday - 2 October 1975
11. LIAISON The Director called and
advised me of a call he had received from Chairman George H. Mahon
(D., Texas), House Appropriations Committee, in which he noted with some
concern remarks made by Representative Edward I. Koch (D. , N. Y.),
during the debate yesterday on the Giahno amendment (for an open
intelligence budget) to the Defense Appropriations bill. More importantly,
the Chairman asked the Director if we could give him a list of the most
serious allegations that have been made against the Agency and resp,?nses to
those allegations in a question and answer format. I told the Director we
would prepare such a paper.
12. LIAISON Tallied with Bill Sin-ipson, of Senator
James Eastlan 's D. , Miss, staff, and confirmed arrangements for the
8:30 a. m. breakfast meeting of the Chairmen's Representative Organization
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John Stennis' (D., Miss.) office, and asked if the Senator would be
available for the weekly briefing by Mr. George Cary and
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we are scheduled for next Friday.
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14. LEGISLATION Doug Lea, Counsel,,
u zay=Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights, called and asked if I would
come down in the next: few days to discuss with him and other staff people the
Agency's problems with pending criminal justice information legislation. We
arranged for a meeting on Monday, October 6. He also asked if he could obtain
several more copies of Where's What. He asked finally if the Agency had
decided on whether to provide a witness to the hearings on the electronic
surveillance technology being held by Senator John Tiunney (D. , Calif. ). I
told him that our position was the same as it had been when he had talked to
Iseveral months ago.
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Thursday - 2 October 1975
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16. LIAISON Called Jim Gchrig, staff member;
Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences, and arranged for a
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briefing for him and Gilbert Keyes, staff member, on Soviet space developments
at Headquarters to be given by , OWI. Time was set. for 10:30 a. m.
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subsequently verified with checked necessary
clearances with Security.
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Ex. Sec.
DDI
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DDS&T
Mr. Warner
Mr. Parmenter
IC Staff
EA/DDO
Comptroller
Mr. Thuermer
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LEGISLATION Left for Representative
Clement J. Zablocki. (D., Wis.) information concerning the need for
secrecy in matters related to intelligence in connection with the
Giaitno amendment to the Defense Appropriations bill to be considered
on the floor later today.
10. LIAISON Attempted without success to
contact: Los Janka, NSC staff, to bring him up-to-date on our session with
Richard Perle, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Senate
Government Operations Committee, on the 11 February 1975 transcript
before the Arms Control Subcommittee of Senate Armed Services.
11, ADMINISTRATIVE DELIVERY Met: with
Kathy Henderson, on the staff of the Labor 1? cc Welfare Subcommittee
on Health of the Sp-uate, and received from her, a letter from Senator
Edward M. Kennedy (D., Mass. ) to the Director. I also delivered C
item to Senator Kennedy's personal office.
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