JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 7, 2003
• Sequence Number: 63
• Publication Date: October 8, 1974
• Content Type: NOTES

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I Left a message for Anth
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Department o a-e. He had sent me a copy of State's proposed reply
to Senator J. W. Fulbright (D. , Ark. ) on the Abourezk amendment to the
Foreign Assistance Act (S. 3394). I told him we had no problems with
the State response.
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office of Representative William J. Randall D. M ), a suggested reply
to the Congressman's inquiry fro a constituent.
3. Al Tarabochia, Chief Investigator,
Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, Judiciary Committee, called to
cancel the meeting scheduled for 2:00 p. m. this afternoon on thel
Subcommittee report (see Journal item yesterday). He will call when
another time can be arranged.
4. Met with Werner Brandt, Legislative
Assistant to Chairman Thomas S. Foley (D. , Wash. ), Subcommittee on
Livestock and Grains, House Agriculture Committee, and finalized the
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Longworth House Office Building.
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Subcommittee on Government Activities, House Committee on Government
Operations, regarding the follow ups from yesterday's meeting on SAT
with him and Chairman Jack Brooks (D. , Texas). See Memorandum for
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overnment Operations, in response to his call.
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6. I I Met with Norman G. Cornish, Deputy Staff
Director, u committee on Foreign Operations and Government Information,
House Committee on G
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7. Met with Guy McConnell, Senate Appropriations
Committee stair, an rie ed him on Covert Action Item #2. McConnell
had no questions.
8. Met with Richard F. Kaufman, Economist,.
Joint Economic Committee, who asked that we reschedule the briefing on
Soviet defense fund allocations for personnel, etc. , which had been cancelled
last month due to the press of Committee business. If possible, the briefing
will be scheduled for late the week of 14 November.
Committee staff, and briefed him on Covert Action Item #2.Preston
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indicated that he will brief Chairman George H. Mahon (D. , Texas) later
in the day. Preston had no questions.
I delivered to Preston a copy of the IC's blind memorandum
study and attachments, "Impact of Congressional Action on National
Foreign Intelligence Programs for FY 75. "
I reviewed with Preston in some detail the proposal for inclusion
of a line item in the Agency's budget presentation, "Special Operational
Entertainment. " See Memorandum for the Record.
Subcommittee, House Armed Services Committee, and brought him uptodate
on yesterday's meeting with Chairman Jack Brooks (D. , Texas), Subcommittee
on Government Activities, House Government Operations Committee, and
today's separate meeting with William M. Jones, Staff Director of the
Subcommittee. Hogan told me he has a handwritten letter from Brooks to
Chairman Lucien N. Nedzi (D. , Mich. ), Intelligence Subcommittee, House
Armed Services Committee, forwarding copies of the January, April and
October letters. It will be a day or so before Hogan responds. He asked
that he be kept uptodate with regard to our dealings with Brooks.
As a separate item, Hogan told me he has a letter to Chairman
Nedzi from OPIC dated 3 October 1974 requesting access to the Colby
testimony on Chile in keeping with OPIC's responsibility for coverage of
losses due to rationalization of ITT properties by the government of Chile.
In brief, the letter states in part that this Agency had advised that we have
no objection to OPIC's review of the testimony, but that it would be necessary
for them to direct their query to the Committee.
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11. Met separately with both Garner J. Cline,
Counsel, and ran Christy, Staff Assistant, Subcommittee on
Immigration, Citizenship, and International Law, House Judiciary Committee.
At best there will be one more meeting of the Subcommittee, possibly
sometime in November, prior to the close of this session, with little hope
of final action on any private bills that might be considered at that time,
unless an all-out effort were to be made by the Chairman and the Committee
in getting it to the full Committee and through the House prior to
adjournment. I told both Cline and Christy that I would like to talk to
them further about the two bills pending before the Committee prior to
such a meeting by the Committee, They will keep me advised.
12. I Met with Frank Slatinshek, Chief Counsel,
House Armed Services Committee, and discussed with him briefly the
letter from Representative Floyd V. Hicks (D. , Wash. ) concerning Soviet
binary chemical munitions, etc. Slatinshek agreed that it would be well
to brief Representative Hicks personally and to state our normal rule
concerning personal staff,
Withapologies it is necessary for Slatinshek to cancel out on his
tentative agreement to speak to the Senior Seminar on 25 October. As had
been anticipated when first discussed, Slatinshek should now be able to
get out of the city for a few days of vacation at that time.
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has been advised.
I also discussed with him Representative Patsy T. Mink's
(D. , Hawaii) request for information on
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Division, Congressional Research Service, called with a question about
the prohibition against Agency participation in domestic activities. I
called his attention to the relevant portions of the Agency charter and he
said that would answer his question.
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14. Received a call from David Martin, Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee
moment a friend of
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a ureau ot Standards this morning. Martin said
this individual, speciality is in the field of metallurgy. As is
frequently the case with foreigners of this sort, Martin thought he might have
information of value or interest to the Agency and suggested we might want to
have someone talk to him before he departs for New York this afternoon. I
told Martin I would check with ou-r people and be back in touch.
is following up on this.
15. Following up on my conversation with
Bob Dockery, Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff, yesterday I made
arrangements fo OCI, and someone from this Office to meet
with Dockery Thursday, 2:00 p. m. , to debrief him on his recent trip to Cuba
with Senators Pell and Javits.
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16. Met with Guy McConnell, Senate Appropriations
Committee staff, who told me it was looking doubtful that he would be able to
make the trip to the Far East later this month as we had planned since his wife
will be undergoing some surgery during that period of time. I told McConnell
I planned to follow up with Senator Milton Young on his interest in the Council
for a Liveable World but McConnell informed me that Young had left for North
Dakota and will not return until after the election. We discussed the fact that
Young is having a difficult time in his campaign in North Dakota and noted that if
he is defeated, Senator Clifford Case will be :next in line for a position on the
Intelligence Operations Subcommittee since Senator Cotton is retiring at the end
of this Congress.
I mentioned to McConnell that Jack Iams, Comptroller, had been interested
in having the reduction in the SLUC payment, the crediting of the Air America
sale and the addition of a line item on representational expenses included in a
letter from the Chairman notifying us of our appropriation. McConnell said he
thought this was unnecessary since it was well understood by the Director and
the Subcommittee that the Air America proceeds would go into the Agency's account,
that Congress accepted only 90% of all of the SLUC assessments and he thought
it best if the matter of the representation allowance was merely brought up in
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17. I I Met with Jim Davidson, Counsel,
Senate Government Operations Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations,
and furnished him a copy of a letter from George Cary to Chairman
Sam J. Ervin, Jr. (D. , N. C. ), advising him of the Agency procedures for
permitting employees access to their personnel files. We discussed briefly
the Agency's partial exemption from S. 3418, the right of privacy bill. He
said the staff review was not yet completed and he would let me know tomorrow
the outcome of Committee action. He indicated that our, request might not be
favorably received.
18. I Called Jim Kronfeld, Staff Counsel, House
Government Operations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations and Government
Information, and informed him that from my discussion with Jim Davidson
(see item #17 above) --it does not appear that Senator Sam J. Ervin, Jr.
(D. , N. C.) will amend our exemption to include the requirement for rule-
making procedures in section 553 of Title 5, U. S. C. He confirmed that at this
time we not try for a floor amendment in the House since this very well could
open up a full debate on the merits of the A,gency's exemption from most of
the bill. He has not read the Senate bill (S. 3418), but-is quite sure that it is
considerably different than the House version (H. R. 16373). This would give
considerable latitude to the conference committee. Kronfeld is confident that
he can include legislative history in the conference report which would clearly
state that the exemptions in section 553 are intended to apply. We will discuss
this further tomorrow when the exact amendments to be offered by Senator
Ervin on the Senate floor may be known.
19. (Confidential - RJK) In follow up to Mr. Cary's conversation with
David Martin, Senate Internal Security Subcommittee staff, I checked,withE
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cluded that a more thorough review should be made before we seel Cary
called Martin back and suggested that in view of the shortness of time and the fact
that we would like to take a closer look at before having someone in touch
with him, we would prefer not to see him today. Cary suggested that e
told his L_ I address had been passedeyn to us,a.qd there was a possibility
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cc: GEURGE L. C
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DDI DDA DDS&T Mr. Warner
Mr. Thuermer Mr. Lehman
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