JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2005
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• Publication Date: October 31, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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8. (Secret - LLM.) LIAISON Spoke several times during the
day with Frank Slatinshek and Bill llogan, Chief Counsel and Counsel,
House Armed Services Committee, and then later in the afternoon while
on the 1-lill, Hogan advised that Chairman Lucien. Nedzi (D., Mich.) had
agreed 99 percent with the proposed sale of the residual assets of
Air America but was reserving the one percent until. he had in hand
GAO' s written report. Chairman Ncdzi gave us the go ahead to explain
the matter to Chairman Jack Brooks, I-louse Government Operations
Committee. An appointment was set for 2:30 p.m. on Monday, 3
November with the Chairman..
9. (Internal Use Only - LLM) LEGISLATION Called Pat Holt,
Chief of Staff, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, regarding the
McGovern amendment, :/f959 to I-l. R. 9005, and said that it would
appear to be in the best interest of the United States as a whole that
the McGovern amendment not he pushed and he agreed that it would
not hurt to see Senator McGovern on this either directly or raise this
point with him indirectly with another Senator. Although there is
nothing to stop a member of Congress from introducing such proposals,
I argued the fact that these things are reported to six committees of
Congress and assures a fairly broad cross section. and. that every effort
should be made to channel reactions privately back to the Executive Branch
rather than publicly in amendments such as this.
10. (Internal Use Only -- LLM) LIAISON Spoke with Benson
Buffham, DD/NSA and provided some suggestions with respect to
dealing with a particular Subcommittee.
11. (Internal Use Only -- LLM) LIAISON Alan Roml)erg, in the
office of Representative David Obey (D., Wis. ), called concerning the
request for the Middle. East briefing for Representative Obey and several
other Congressmen and asked that there be included. in. it some assessment
of the Israeli political. situation and the dynamics of the pressure on it
as a result of congressional action. on the .Foreign Assistance bill, e. g.,
if the total. amount recommended by the Administration was not approved,
etc.
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5. (Internal Use Only - LLM) LIAISON Guy McConnell,
Senate Appropriations Committee staff, called in connection with the
stories in the paper today that the 40 Committee bad had no meetings
during the period 1972 through 1974 and said he had been instructed to
find out the facts. I said that I believe that the lack of meetings is
essentially correct but that the real point is whether the actions were
coordinated, and they were, through papers, phone calls, and supporting
staff procedures. McConnell said that they would, like to have a letter
from the Director on this. Mr. Cary will follow-up.
6. (Internal Use Only - LLM) LEGISLA`.VION Sheridan Brinley,
AID, called acknowledging receipt of the points paper we had sent to
him last night for use in the Senate Foreign :Relations Committee
backup book in connection with the McGovern amendment, -11959 to
H. R. 9005. He indicated he would use a great majority of it except
for the separation of powers argument. I said I could appreciate the
political expediency in doing this but as a matter of principle it is the
soundest and strongest argument .
7. (Internal Use Only - LLM) LIAISON Tiny Ingram, Staff
Director, Subcommittee on Government Information & Individual Rights,
House Government Operations Committee, called. prior to our session
scheduled for 1:30 FF.m.. today to ask if we would be bringing with us
the reports prepared by I as a result of his periodic
review of the Warren Commission material in the possession of the Archive,
After checking with C/Services Staff, I informed Ingram
that there were no reports but rather letters to the Archivist and we had
authorized the Archivist to send two of those letters to the Subcommittee.
Later, in the company of met with Ingram, 13i11 STAT
Florence, of the Subcommittee staff, and Donovan Gay, of the Library
of Congress,to discuss the guidelines used by the Agency in connection with
the declassification of information, particularly the Warren Commission
information. The session went very well and Ingram said he would. send
us a letter covering the follow-ups from the session. Mr. Florence
seemed to be primarily interested in the mechanism and laws relating to
the Freedom of Information Act. Mr. Donovan, who apparently has
reviewed much of the Warren Commission holdings in the ./archives, was
basically interested in whether we would use the national security "excuse"
for non-declassification. Mr. Ingram seemed to be interested in assuring
that the material we were reviewing fo_? cleclassi.Iica.tion i1iclucled material
which may have developed subsequent to the Warren Con~tnission investi-
gation and especially any material prov.ded 1:13'C', Rockefeller Con un.ission.
Ingram maintains that there were four r of three periodic reviews and reports
to 1110 rchives, ~vil.l check to sec. if there was a lctIc;r to
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Wednesday -- 22 October 1975
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10. (Confidential - LLM) BRIEFING Jerome Levinson, Counsel,
Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations, Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, called to set up a briefing with)
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explaining that this was a suggestion of 1of . &L pm
Levinson had recently met with on this same subject. Levinson said
he would like Karin Lissakers, of the Subcommittee staff, to accompany
him. I told Levinson we would check into this and be back in touch.
OCI, was advised.
11.. (Confidential - LLM) BRIEFING Pat Holt, Chief of Staff,
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 I-Iolt 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.
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12. (Internal Use Only - LLM) LIAISON Talked to Jim Wilson,
Technical Consultant, House 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 m.e 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
Don Fuqua (D., Fla.).
13. (Confidential - GLC) LIAISON Called Ralph Preston, I-base Apln-cpda.tions
Committee staff, and raised. with him the problem. of the Select Go).-nmittees
asking for our memoranda for the record or transcripts of committee
briefings. He agreed that we could provide the prepared statements of Ili(-
Director but not the transcripts or the memoranda.
14. (Unclassified - WPB) LEGISLATION Bob Carlstroin, OMB,
called to say that OMIT would clear our report on S. 2'.170, the Congressional
Right to Information Act, provided that a few changes were Ta)aclc. I. told
him. I thought the changes were unnecessary and that would call him back
tomorrow..
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15. (Internal Use Only - LLM) LIAISON Tim Ingram, Staff
Director, Subcommittee on Government Information & Individual. Rights,
House Government Operations Committee, called referring to their
oversight of the NationaC~a:chives and wanted to arrange an interview
with of the Agency, to determine what guidelines he had
used in his periodic review of the Agency's contribution to the Warren
commission holdings which were conducted in 1965, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1972
and 1973. Ingram is aware that we are currently reviewing this material
again and said the Archivist had informed them that he was referring their
request to CIA for their consideration on the CIA material involved.
Ingram was not clear on whether he was only interested in the guidelines
followed or if he will be interested in some of the substantive information
in those records. I said if it was the latter, we would most likely run into
the same problem of intelligence sources and methods that we had earlier
experienced. He said he would limit himself to the guidelines for now.
John McMahon, ADDA, has been advised.
16. (Unclassified -- LLM) LEGISLATION Bill Hogan, Counsel,
Mouse Armed Services Committee, called to express his concern that
providing for CIA doctors in the Senate version of the Ilouse passed legislation
designed to provide personal immunity for Title 10 doctors while performing.
their official duties, might hamper the ultimate approval of the legislation.
I explained this was not our intent but we had a problem and this seemed
to be a suitable legislative vehicle and I asked :o join in the
conversation to review our progress in the Senate side up to now. Learning
that only doctors were involved, Hogan said he would check with the
I-louse Judiciary Committee to see if they would have any objection to the
add on for Agency doctors, explaining that he had cleared the proposal
earlier with that Committee in order to get it through on the consent
calendar.
17. (Unclassified - BAA) LIAISON Yesterday, called Bette Starkey,
Appointment Secretary to Representative Paul Rogers (D., Fla. ), to set:
up an appointment for Messrs. Theodore Shackley, C/EA., and
with the Congressman to discuss a sensitive matter. A_tentative
appointment was set for Thursday, 30 October at 4:00 p. m. Ms. Starkey
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5. (Confidential -- LLM) LIAISON I DDS&tT f SP,S,.
called to alert us that Representative John Murphy (D., N.Y.) and
Senator Henry Jackson (D., Wash.) had written the Secretary of Interior
concerning the Glomar Explorer and to Chairman John McClellan,
Senate Appropriations Committee, urging that funds be provided to
maintain the program on a temporary basis until Interior is in, a
position to fund it.
6. (Internal Use Only - LLM) LIAISON Called Howard Feldman,
Chief Counsel, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Senate
Government Operations Committee, concerning the inquiry on
and told him that there was no record substantiating
claim that he is a mercenary. ;,Feldman said he would like to have a
letter to this effect which I said we would supply but only on the basis
that it would not become part of the public record and he agreed to
that condition.
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7. (Unclassified - LLM) AGENCY VISIT Representative
Samuel Stratton (D., N.Y.) visited Headquarters to address the I,a.tirz
American Division chiefs of stations conference from 9:00 to 10:00 a. m.
which went very well.
Earlier, he breakfasted with the Director and Messrs. Nelson,
Carver, Cary and
8. (Internal Use Only -- LLM) LIAISON Scott Cohen, Executive
Assistant to Senator Charles Percy (R., Ill.), called and said that
Edgar Weinberg, Assistant to the Executive Director of the National
Commission on Productivity,was interested in productivity trends in
Eastern Europe and wanted to know how he could plug into"CIA on this
subject. OCI, will handle this with Weinberg.
9. (Internal Use Only - LLM) INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING In
connection with the briefing of the Special Subcommittee on Investigations,
House International Relations Committee, tomorrow, called Mike Van
Dusen, Consultant on the Subcommittee, and obtained. from hire a
commitment that only Committee staff personnel would attend the ;session
and that he would control access into the hearing room and the off the
record classified nature of the briefing will be stressed.
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