JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP77M00144R000500060036-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 27, 2004
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: October 22, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Wednesday - 22 October 1975
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6. INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING
Accompanied OSR, to a briefing of Representative Les
spin (D., Wis.) and his Legislative Assistant, Ed Schaller.t, on
Soviet defense spending. The briefing went well. Representative
Aspin seemed to be quite knowledgeable on the subject of Soviet
defense and seemed to be appreciative of the briefing. He may
use the information to support arguments against a recent DOD
statement on the increase in Soviet defense spending.
7.1 LIAISON Received a call
from a member on the staff of Representative Max Bau.cus (D. , Mont. ),
who requested a tour of the Agency for the Congressman's Legislative
and Administrative Assistants. I told her that there were no tours
given of Agency facilities but that a member of our staff would be
happy to meet with any member of the Congressman's staff for a
chat about the Agency. She said she would call us back if this was
desired.
8.
LIAISON Together with
met with Duke Short, Senate Juclici.ary
SE Division,
on Internal Security, and gave him the material prepared
by I in connection with his appearance before
the Subcommittee. Short said that he does not yet know which Senator
will preside, however, he hopes it will be Senator Strom Thurmond (R. S. Car. )
The hearing will be held in Atlanta, Ga. sometime in November.
9. LIAISON Senator Milton Young (R., N. Dak.)
returned Mr. Cary's call and I explained the subject matter and the Senator
said he would be free to see Mr. Cary later in the afternoon.
Senator Young asked me about General Ii'ranco, indicating that
Chairman John McClellan (D., Ark.) 1177p ed a note around the
Appropriations Committee late yesterday that CIA had indicated that
Franco was dead. I confirmed that we had received an alert on this late
yesterday but at this point it is not all that clear.
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11. I BRIEFING Pat T=1olt, Chief of StLff,.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called and said the Committee
would like to receive a briefing from the Agency and the Department of
State on Africa on Wednesday, 29 October at 10:00. Holt said that
this would not be a joint CIA/State briefing. Holt felt that the briefing
would last only an hour. I confirmed with Holt that the Committee was
basically interested in Southern Africa but that it is possible that some
of the senators might ask questions about Northern Africa, such as
'Morocco and Spanish Sahara.
12. LIAISON Talked to Jim Wilson,
Techical Consultant, Tlouse Science and Technology Committee, explaining
that we had not been in touch with the Committee for some time because
of the press of other business but that we had not forgotten them. Wilson
thanked rue for the consideration and asked us to review our holdings to
determine if we might have something of interest to report to the
Subcommittee on Space Science & Applications chaired by Representative
Done Fuqua (D-., Fla.).
13. ) LIAISON Called Ralph. Preston, I-7a:LseJ\plxrcpr i:i.o:n;
Committee staff, and raised. with hhn the prots:l_ei--n: of the Select Commit:tees
asking for our memoranda for the record or transcripts of comrnittee
briefings. He agreed that we could provide tl:l.e prepared statements of the
Director but not the transcripts or the memoranda.
14. LEGISLATION Bob Carlstrom, OMB,.
called to say that OMB would clear our report on S. 21'70, the Congressional
Right to Information Act, provided that, a few r..l.ltltct;