JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP77M00144R000300100008-3
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• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 25, 2006
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: June 26, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Thursday - 26 June 1975
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1. (Internal Use Only - DFM) Called George Gilbert, OMB,
regarding their request for approval of the State Department's no comment
position on H. R. 1311. This bill would prohibit an officer of the U< S.
Government from soliciting any citizen to make an expenditure to influence
a foreign election. I told Gilbert we feared that the language of the bill was
broader than is intended, i. e. , to prohibit private funds from being
channeled through the Government to influence a foreign election. I told
him this was the kind of issue that we should raise rather than State, so
that we would develop a final position on the bill ourselves and forward it
to him shortly. STATINTL
2. (Unclassified - DFM) In response to an inquiry from
I called Edith Waskewich in the legislative
liaison office of the Department of State to confirm my belief that there
were no executive agreement bills requiring the publication of all past
executive agreements. She knew of none, but did mention P. L. 92-403,
which requires transmission to Congress, under injunction of secrecy where
necessary, of all executive agreements. I subsequently passed this infor. --
nation along to
3. (Internal Use Only - DFM) I I and I met with Dennis STATINTL
Unkovic, Legislative Assistant regarding
several pieces of legislation of interest to the Agency which are pending
in t e. The topics we covered with Unkovic
were electronic surveillance legislation (S. 743); the S. 1210 amendments
to the Freedom of Information Act; S. 1289, "Open Communications Act;"
and the bills on congressional approval of executive agreements (S. 632.
and S. 1251). See Memorandum for the Record.
4. (Unclassified - CG) Received a call from, a man on the staff
of Representative Clarence E. Miller (R. , Ohio) who asked how m nv (Irnes
Mr. Colby had testified before Congress this year. I told h_rn the Director's
appearance before the Abzug Subcommittee on Government Information and
Individual Rights, House Government Operpf,.ons Committee, on Wednesday
had been the 38th appearance. He said "that's incredible" and thanked me
for the information.
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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Tuesday - 24 June 1975
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1. (Unclassified - RJK) Received a call from Carol Pollack,
in the district office of Representative George Miller (D. , Calif. ), w}-ioa
wished to have the address and telephone number of Air America for a.
constituent whose husband was killed while serving with it.. I gave her
the information she requested and told her that the Air America people
would be happy to help her.
2. (Internal Use Only - RJK) Met with Lillian Smith., Minority
staff, House International Relations Committee, and gave to her for Toni
Smeeton, who was in a briefing, two charts showing the intelligence communit
and the Agency structure.
3. (Unclassified - RJK) Delivered to Senator Charles 1-1. Percy's
(R., Ill.) office for Scott Cohen, a copy of the Agency publication entitled
The Soviet Economy: 1974 Results and 1975 Prospects" (A (ER 75---62))..
4. (Internal. Use Only - RJK) Met with Tim Ingram, Subcommittee
on Government Information and Individual Rights, House Government Operation.
Committee; staff, and provided him with a copy of the Director's prepared state,
ment before the House Select Committee on Intelligence of 15 June 1975,,. per
arrangements made by Mr. Miller.
5. (Unclassified - RJK) Mr. Stevenson, on. the staff of Senator
John C. Culver (D., Iowa), called to ask for FBIS reports from Somalia and
the Soviet Union relating to the establishment of a Soviet naval facility in
Somalia for the period 10-25 June. After checking with FBIS Liaison I called
him back saying that the reports would be mailed to him directly.
6.. (Internal Use Only - PLC) Jay Sourwine, Counsel- QPnar-
Subcommittee on Internal Security called on behalf of James L. George, a xnenibc:i
of Senator Bill Brock's (R.. , Tenn.) staff. Senator Brock is extremely con-
cerned about the attacks upon CIA and he wants to give a speech on the Senate floor
on the nature and extent of KGB operations in the United States. George is
compiling material for Brock's speech and contacted Sourwine. Sourwine felt tha.i:
his material is insufficient and he asked if arrangements could be nzacie for an
Agency officer familiar with KGB operations to -talk to George and provide him
information and possibly material that Brock can use in his speech. I told Sourwir
that I would check into this for him. Sourwine asked that we call George directly
(224-?1481) as to what can be arranged.
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Tuesday - 24 June 1975
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7. (Internal Use Only - PLC) Met with Al Tarabochia, Chief
Investigator,ubcommittee on Internal Security. I told
Tarabochia that a check of Agency records on the Cuban woman in whom he was
interested had revealed information which was apparently identical and that I
should have it to him by the end of the week. Tarabochia had been given the
name of the individual, Alina Aloya, by an American newsman who accompanied
Senator and Mrs. McGovern during their recent trip to Cuba. The Cuban woman
was among the group in Cuba that hosted Senator McGovern while he was in 25X1
Cuba. Tarabochia asked if it would be possible for an Agency
to talk to him about the background of this individual. I told him I would
check and let him know.
8. (Internal Use Only - PLC) Met with Representative John E. Moss
(D. , Calif.) and discussed his letter to the Director stating that the Directors
response to his request to review any information that the Agency has concerning
him was clearly inadequate. I explained that other than several FBI reports, whic
we had asked the FBI to provide to him directly, the only material we had was
maintained in the folder in his name in the Office of Legislative Counsel. I also
explained the type of information contained therein. He agreed that he did not
want any material which concerned mutual correspondence and copies of which
would be already in his office files. He asked that I provide him all other
information. He made clear to me that he has an oversight responsibility over the
Agency as ranking member of the House Government Operations Subcommittee on
Legislation and National Security and feels that he must know what information
the Agency maintains concerning him. I told him I would comply but we would
have to delete any references to intelligence sources and methods and those
journal entries which are totally unrelated to him or his office. He asked that:
I provide him this information after the July 4 recess. Representative Moss was
most congenial and stated several times that this manner of handling his request
was completely satisfactory to him.
9. (Internal Use Only - WPB) Called Dennis Unkovic, Legislative
Assistant to Senator Hugh Scott, (R. , Pa.), to arrange a meeting with him
forl and myself in order to discuss legislation pending before
the Senate Judiciary Committee, i.e., S. 1210, Senator Kennedy's amendment.
to FOIA; S. 1289, a bill on executive calendars; and S. 743, a bill on
electronic surveillance,, and various executive agreement bills. A meeting
has been set for 2:00 p.m., Thursday, 26 June.
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Tuesday - 24 June 1975
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10. (Internal Use Only - WPB) Took a call from Jay Sourwine,
Counsel,
bcommittee on Internal Security, who asked
whether we knew of any small, commercially available tape recorder
better than the Hitachi TR 210 for taping room-sized conversations. I
said I would get back to him on this.
11. (Confidential - WPB) Jim Wentzel, Office of Legislative
Affairs, Department of Justice called with regard to the Director's letter
to the Attorney General concerning upcoming Department testimony on
electronic surveillance legislation. He said he just wanted to assure
the Agency that the Department will continue to reflect the interests of
the foreign intelligence community in its testimony and its other efforts
on electronic surveillance matters. We then went on to discuss prospects
of the various bills pending before the House and Senate. Mr. Wentzel
was quite pessimistic. He said that, in his opinion, the going will be
tough, that Congress will pass unacceptable legislation, and that it will
ultimately come down to whether a Presidential veto can be sustained.
12. (Internal Use Only - WPB) Werner Brandt, on the staff of
Congressman Tom Foley, Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee,
called to confirm the Agency's sugar briefing for July 9, between 5:00 p. in. ---
7:00 p.m. at 1301 Longworth. He mentioned parenthetically that the Committee
might be interested in a briefing on wheat at some future date.
13. (Internal Use Only - WPB) Received a call from Mark Kolner
on the House Republican Research Committee who had some questions on
General Walters' trip to Portugal last year. Specifically, he asked
whether his mid-August visit was a "state visit, " whether he reported his
findings upon his return, and, if so, whether this report was written and
available to the public. I asked the underlying purpose of this request, and
he said that the Committee was studying the development of the situation
in Portugal and of U. S. relations with Portugal. I told him that I would get
back to him.
14. (Internal Use Only - PLC) Talked in some detail with Mike
Cavanagh, Staff Assistant, House Post Office and Civil Service Subcommittee
on Postal Facilities, Mail, and Labor Management, regarding a proposed
date for the Director to testify before the Subcommittee and on whether or
not the hearing should be held in executive session or not. I told Cavanagh
I would be back to him with a confirmed date.
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