JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Publication Date: March 26, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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Wednesday - 26 March
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15. Frank Schwartz, rLiaison, called
concerning statements made by the Director involving the FBI during
his testimony before the Abzug Subcommittee on 5 March 1975. He
asked that we provide specific examples of those cases referred to
by the Director in which the Agency turned down a request involving
an American citizen.
16. Received a call from Ursula Culver,
Secretary to Senator Hubert Humphrey, who said the Senator would not be
available for the briefing on Portugal before the recess. She asked that we
call her on 8 April to set another date. was advised. 25X1
OCI, and I met with Senator
John Stennis for our weekly briefing session. See Memorandum for Record.
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18. Later in the morning, Carl Duckett, DDS&T, and
I met with Senator John Stennis and Duckett briefed him on the sensitive Agency
project. See Memorandum for Record.
19. In response to a request from Senator John Pastore,
Carl Duckett and I met with him and with Senator Baker (Pastore asked us if
Senator Baker could be present) for the purpose of briefing them on a sensitive
Agency project. George Murphy, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy staff,
was also present and took some notes. See Memorandum for Record..
20. Met with Ed Braswell, Chief Counsel, Senate
Armed Services Committee, and filled him in on our meetings with Chairman
Stennis earlier in the day. I mentioned that Stennis is interested in getting a
pre-briefing on the intelligence and Agency budgets when Congress reconvenes.
DPMO review(s) completed.
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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Monday - 24 March 1975
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1. (Unclassified - RJK) Stopped by Senate Foreign Relations
Committee staff office and picked up a transcript which the Committee was
returning to the Agency for sanitization.. It was the Director's testimony
before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on 31 May 1,960 and the sub-
ject covered was the summit conference.
2. (Internal Use Only - RJK) Met with. Austin Smith, Defense
Subcommittee, House Appropriations Committee staff, and reviewed with
him Agency proposed changes to the page proofs which he had. given us
earlier. Most of these were mainly editorial changes. Smith approved
of all of the proposed changes and provided the Agency with a courtesy
copy of the page proofs.
3. (Unclassified - WPB) I phone S o obtain a copy of the
regulations promulgated pursuant to the reservation of Presidential
Recordings and Materials Act (P. L. 93-526). 1 spoke to Janet Gibson of
the task force which drew up the regulations and she agreed to send me a
copy. I also spoke to Steve Garfinkle, an attorney who did. most of the work
on the regulations. I asked him how GSA interpreted "the Presidential
historical materials of Richard M. Nixon" and whether the GSA would confine
itself to obtaining materials containing evidence relating to the Watergate
crimes. He said that the regulations were broader in scope, that the GSA.
had interpreted "Presidential historical materials" as materials created or
received by the White House during President Nixon's administration, and
that they would seek to obtain such materials whether or not it related to
Watergate. Our conversation touched on whether this would include
intelligence reports prepared for the White House and he, inferred that
it could. He concluded by saying that the regulations were very complex
and that if I had any questions after reading them, that I should feel free
to give him a call.
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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Monday - 17 March 1975
1. Called Marc Himmelstein, regardiiag
the status of the Government travel amendments (H. R. 35757-n-77.7 172).
Himmelstein expects final action within a couple of weeks and said, the
House bill will be just what the Administration wants.
2. Pat Yack, on the staff of Representative
Alan Steelman (R. , Texas), called and wanted to talk to someone about
the Agency's classification program. He said he was preparing for
Representative Steelman a bill establishing a statutory system of classi-
fication and he wanted an informal reaction from CIA before it was introduced.
He gave me a brief rundown and I told him that it appeared quite similar
to a number of bills that had been introduced in the last Congress. He
acknowledged that he had drawn the language from these prior bills, I
made clear to him that our comments on any legislation must. be submitted
through OMB. I agreed to stop by in the very near future,. however, to
brief him in general terms as to the nature of the Agency's classification
program and the unique procedures to protect intelligence sources and.
methods. He understood that this would be only an informal chat.
3. Left with Jack Boos, Intelligence
Subcommittee staff, House Armed Services Committee, a package of
material concerning Representative Michael Har. rington's (D. , Mass. )
appearance at an international conference in Mexico City, which discussed
alleged U. S. intervention in Chile. The material had been requested by
Chairman Lucien N. Nedzi (D. , Mich.) in his conversation with 25X1
on Friday evening, 14 March.
4. Met with Barbara Madsen, on the staff
of Representative Don Bonker (D. , Wash.), and provided her with son-YCo
maps which she had previously requested. I also gave her a copy of the
GPO listing of Agency produced maps. She accepted my apology for the
delay in getting these materials to her. 25X1
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Thursday - 13 March 1975 - CONFIDENTIAL
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19. Mr. Graves,, Press Assistant to Senator Walter
Huddleston, called to say he had received a call from Steve Freedman,
WCPO-TV in Cincinnati. Freedman had been contacted by someone who
claimed to have been trained by CIA in Panama and who has quite a story
to tell about his participation with CIA. Freedman will, not identify the man
to Graves but Freedman is looking for guidance as to how much credence this
man's story has. Graves asked if someone could. call. Freedman directly
Graves would like us to let him know when we have called
Freedman. I passed the above to Mr. Thuerm.er who said he would call.
Freedman.
.21. Dick Ober, NSC staff, called to ask about
the Ryan amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act. I filled him in on what
the amendment was all about and what we have done to comply with that
amendment and the Bolling/Hansen report.
22. Called Chairman Lucien Nedzi, Intelligence
Subcommittee, House Armed Services Committee, and told him the Director
and I had been talking about the Judiciary Committee getting witnesses from 2X
the Post Office Department on. the mail intercept program. See Memo for Recorrd.
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Tuesday - 11 March 1975
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1. Received a call from Andrea Nordel
in the office of Representative Stephen J. Solar.- (D. , N. Y. )a' Solar z
is interested in mandatory retirement prior to age 70 and his staff is
asking various agencies what their mandatory retirement. age is, and
the rationale for it. I promised to get back to Ms. Nordel tomorrow
with a response.
2. uIn response to his earlier call
to called Bill Hogan, Counsel, Intelligence Subcommittee,
House Armed Services Committee, and said we would not have any
problem with his redoing the classified aide memoire we had provided
Frank Slatinshek, Chief,Counsel of the Committee, in connection with
our views letter on H. Res. 205 (resolution of inquiry on Chile). I then
revised the document for him casting it as a Committee document and
removing the classification and sent it to Hogan following the Director's
,review. Hogan felt the document would be helpful in dealing with the
resolution in open session before the full Committee.
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tii ca rr,-,a mun4__'r, called to alert us to a possible call from.
Representative Jonathan Bingham (D. , N. Y.) for a briefing on SALT '
verification.
4. (Confidential - LLM) Marc Kliman, in. Representative Les
Aspin's (D. , Wis.) office, called and we scheduled a briefing for the
Representative for 3:30 p. m. , tomorrow on Soviet expenditures.
OSR, have been alerted. Kliman
has no security clearances and would like to be in a position to repeat
whatever he learns. I said under these circumstances it might be better
for him not to sit in on the briefing as it may obstruct the Representative
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Friday - 7 March 1975
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13. (Internal Use Only - PLC) In regard to his earlier request,
called Jim Davidson, on the staff of the Subcommittee on Intergovernmental
Relations, Senate Government Operations Committee, to confirm that an
exhaustive search failed toreveal the existence of any "delimitation
agreement" between the ~~~ ~~~~77 ....,,,nd CIA which was written in 1948. I referred
him to a classified FBI memorandum dated 7 February 1966 prescribing
the scope of CIA's activities in the United States. Davidson said he will
request the document from the FBI. He explained that the Subcommittee
needs this material in connection with their study to determine the juris-
diction of agencies within the intelligence community and the congressional
oversight which was initiated in the closing days of the 93rd Congress.
With the establishment of the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental
Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, however, no hearings
will be held, though the study will be continued and coordinated with the
Select Committee. Davidson added that he works closely with Bill Miller,
the Staff Director. Davidson said he would be back in touch with'us and
would furnish us copies of any correspondence with the FBI.
14. (Internal Use Only - PLC) Marc Ginsberg, Staff Assistant,
Senate Subcommittee on Refugees and Escapees, Senate Committee on the
Judiciary, called and asked if we had any information concerning Charles
Dean, 24 years old of New York City who had visited Laos as a tourist
in September 1974 and was captured by the Pathet Lao forces. According
to Ginsberg, he was then on a boat with an Australian and an AID official..
After checking with I called Ginsberg back and
told him the Agency was aware of the circumstances but the only information.
we have has been provided by the State Department and I suggested he check
with them. He said he would contact Sam Goldberg, Legislative Liaison at
State, as well as someone in AID.
15. (Internal Use Only - FMC) Received a call from David Batt,
Administrative Assistant to Representative Joe D. Waggonner, Jr. (D. , La.
who wanted to report that the Representative was again in receipt of another
letter from I concerning her appeal of the Agency's settlement
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