JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP77M00144R000400110005-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 25, 2006
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: March 14, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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Friday - 14 March 1975
10.1 Called Mrs. Sally Horn, in the office of Representative Jonathan Bingham, and told her we could arrange for
Carl Duckett to brief the Congressman personally on SALT and related
topics and suggested she come up with several dates that were convenient
to the Congressman and I would check Duckett's calendar. She asked again
if it was alright for her to sit in on the briefing and I indicated it was not
in view of the subject matter involved. She said she would talk. further with.
Bingham and be back in touch with us.
l~' I eceived a call from. Jim Oliver, OMB,
who was i.n e e in any information I could give him regarding the Budget
Committees since OMB is preparing a response to a request they have received
from GAO reportedly on behalf of the Sener ?F ~-t ~- , - I reviewed
a good bit of the background on this with. Oliver including my conversations
with Guy McConnell, Senate Appropriations Committee staff. I tried to make
the point with Oliver that someone was going to have to get the Budget Com-
mittees and the Appropriations Committees to agree on their respective are lA
of jurisdiction, otherwise OMB and the Executive departments were going to
be caught in the middle between these two groups. I suggested that this might
b e a topic for discussion with the Ad Hoc Group being chaired b
and I also said I would raise it with Jack Marsh, Counselor to the resident..
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Subcommittee, House Armed Services Committee, and told him the Director had
asked me to follow up on the question Nedzi had raised with the Director at a
social gathering last night concerning Representative Michael. Harrington.'s
participation in a "mock trial" in Mexico City last month. See Memo for
Record.
to chat with him about the subject of GAO and 5~r~a-t? R~1t~rcoi- r?me, {{-,,,, interest:
in Defense and intelligence matters. Maury recognized this was going to become
an increasingly difficult problem. He said they are currently dealing with
Andrew Hamilton, of the Senate Budget Committee staff.
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Hamilton this information on the ground he had no obligation to do so. He
also commented that Hamilton is the same individual who approached bin-).
several months ago regarding a story he was doing on the intelligence age]7.Cies.
McConnell gave him very little information at the time and did not see his
final product but he said the thrust of his questions indicated his article
certainly was not friendly toward the Agency.
I commented on the report on the Executive Dining Room which. we
recently delivered to McConnell. He said since this had beery a matter of
interest almost exclusively to Senator Margaret Chase Smith who was defeated
in her bid for reelection to the 93rd Congress, he thought he would try to get
this provision stricken from the la 25X1A
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Accompanie NIO/ME, to a 25X1A
meeting with Guy McConnell, Senate Appropriations Committee staffs, to
brief him on the Iran/Iraq situation. (See Memo for Record)
I talked with McConnell briefly about the rash of inquiries that are
developing from the QgAg, t_Com.mittees; and GAO on behalf of the Budget
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Committees. McConnell mentioned that Andrew Hamilton, of the`
Bijdrynf had been in touch with him and requested facts and
figures on Agency appropriations. McConnell told. me he refused to give
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4 Legislative Counsel
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Ex,. Sec.
Mr. Thuermer Mr. Warner
Mr. Lehman
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