JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP77M00144R000800110022-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 12, 2003
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: May 27, 1976
• Content Type: NOTES

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11? LEGISLATION I called the Administrative
Practice and Procedure Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee and
ascertained that no action was planned in the near future one S. 1210, a bill.
which amends the Freedom of Information Act.
12? I LIAISON I called Cliff Hackett,
House International Relations Committee staff, to advise him that on
26 May I had left the paperl kith Jack Brady, on the Committee
staff, who said that he would notify Representatives Stephen J. Solar:.
(R. , N. Y.) and Leo J. Ryan (D. , Calif.) that the paper was available
for them to read since Hackett had been out of the office that day. I
also told Hackett that we had no objection to his reading the paper.
13? LIAISON I called Jack Brady, House
International Relations Committee staff, and told him that I had reviewed
the transcripts of the, briefings of the Subcommittee on. Oversight and that
none of them mentioned the country which Representative Michael Ilarrin.gton
(D. , Mass.) was interested in. Ile indicated that he would refer the matter
to Marian Czarnecki, Chief of Staff of the Committee, upon Czarnecki's
return 1 June.
14. I I LIAISON I called George Kroloff, on
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff, and told him that we had
made a brief check but were unable to determine if we had any information with.
respect to 0 communications /computer law without making a
complete check which would take considerable Cork and ti.rne. I :;ug Yested
that he might want to check with the State Depa:?trnent. I also told him that
we would be happy to take an informal look at his paper on international
communications when he had it ready if he so desired.
15. LIAISON I delivered to the Administrative
Assistant to ena or agues D .-Ion. (D. , Ala. ) an Agency response to an
!inquiry by a. constituent, and orally briefed him on some
additional background on who was mentioned in the inquiry.
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6.1 I LEGISLATION Called J. C. Argetsinger,
Minority Counsel. the Senate Judiciary Committee, to discuss S. 495,
which had been reported favorably by the Senate Government Operations
Committee and referred until 11 June to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
I told Argetsinger that we had obtained a partial exemption on the financial
disclosure provision of S. 495, and that we were hoping to obtain a full
exemption in the Judiciary Committee. He thought this was feasible and urged
us to send in a views letter at the earliest possible date to Senator James
Eastland (D. , Miss. ), Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and to provide,
any back--up supporting material to Senator Roman 1-Iruska (R. , Neb.) and
other sympathetic Senators.
7.1 1 LEGISLATION Called Jim Wenzel,
at the Department of Justice, concerning H. R. 214, which is pending
before the House Judiciary Committee. The bill pertains to access to
financial information and mail covers. Wenzel said the Department of
Justice had sent in a report to the Committee opposing the bill, but the
report did not contain arguments based on foreign intelligence, interests.
He suggested that it would be appropriate for the Agency to make its
objections to the bill known to the Committee.
8. 1 1 LEGISLATION Talked to Bob Carlstrom,
OMB, on II. R. 214, a bill concerning access to financial records and
mail cover. Carlstrom told me that the Administration was opposing
the bill, that the Department of Justice and the Department of the Treasury
had sent letters directly to the House Judiciary Committee in. opposition .
to the bill., but that neither of these letters reflected the foreign intelligence
concerns of the Agency. He said he had no problem with the Agency approaching
sympathetic Congressmen on the Committee to express the Agen.cy's concerns,
and asked that if we did so we send a copy of the relevant mate -ia.:1 to him,
He also suggested I call Ken Lazarus, at the 'White House, who apparently
is working on the Administration's position on. H. R. 214.
9. I I LEGISLATION Called Ken Lazarus, at
/ the White 1- ouse, to discuss H. R. 214. He said that generally the Administration.
was trying a low key approach with the Committee on this bill, but that he
thought the Agency's concerns were valid and that he would have no problem
with the Agency providint a "poop sheet" to those Congressmen who had 25X1
expressed an interest in :?aising the, foreign intelligence interests which are
involved in this 1enislntin~i rliirinee considrernt'ion 1-)v i-h .r 1111 Cnn-,n-,?iShr'r1 7TH.