JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78M02660R000300030002-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 22, 2005
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: December 17, 1976
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Friday - 17 December 1976
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5. LIAISON Received a call from Dan
Childs, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, cancelling a
tentative meeting set for 2:00 p. m. on 17 December 1976.
6. LIAISON Received a call from Bill
Miller, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, to set meeting
with the SSCI staff on budget authorization for FY-1978. The meeting
is set for Tuesday, 21 December at 11:00 a. m.
Apropos the interest of Representative Larry McDonald (D., Ga.) in
the activities of hostile intelligence services against civilians in the
free West (relayed on 14 December by Dennis Berend, press office):
I talked with Representative McDonald's Research Assistant, Herb
Romerstein, on this and suggested he talk with Bill Hogan, Counsel,
Intelligence Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee, to
learn about the Subcommittee's work with the Agency and perhaps to
appropriately refine Representative McDonald's request to us. I alerted
Bill Hogan on this; he had never heard of Romerstein (nor had Romer stein
heard of Hogan, suggesting Romer stein is new on the Hill), but added that
Representative McDonald - a member of the full Committee and therefore
entitled to be informed - frequently operates on his own. See separate
Memorandum for the Record.
7.1 CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY
8. CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY On
Representative. Charles Diggs' (D., Mich.) request for information on
American "mercenaries" in Rhodesia, I called Jack Brady, Senior
Consultant, House International Relations Committee, to say that we
found we had nothing on that particular subject, that we were ready to offer
Representative Diggs a general background briefing if that were of interest,
and that if Representative Diggs believes information should be sought, we
were ready to refer him to the State Department because of the foreign
policy elements of the information. Brady noted there were no EEIs out for
this kind of information, and that State was the right place to ask that
Representative Diggs inquire.
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25.1 LIAISON I received a call from
Nancy Richards, Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff, requesting
information on the Zimbawe Peoples Army. After discussing the matter
25X1 with I Center for Policy Support, I gave her the information
she requested.
26. RIEFING, I spoke with'Bette Ann Starkey, on the staf
25X1 of Representative Paul G. Rogers (D. , Fla. ), and requested a time early
in January to brief the Representative on th rogram. She 25X1
said she would work out a time and call back.
27. BRIEFING I spoke with Kempton. Jenkins,
Departmen Lo state, w o had heard of the President's request that everybody
turn down the invitation to appear at the hearing on. January 13, 1977 before
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on strategic balance. He said .
he hoped to be able to avoid a formal answer to Senator John J. Sparkman
(D. , Ala.) based on the President's decision.
28. BRIEFING I spoke with Ken Geisen, DIA, with
respect to Senator John J. Sparkman's (D. , Ala.) invitation to appear before
his Committee on January 13, 1977 on strategic balance. He said the Secretary
of Defense, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Director of Defense Intelligence Agency,
Gen. Sam Wilson, and Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. George S.
Brown,, would all join together in one letter declining the invitation based
on the President's guidance.
29. BRIEFING I spoke with Mike Farrell, in the
office of Representative William Lehman (D. , Fla. ), and set 3 January 1977
at 1:00 p. m. to brief the Representative on the program. ? 25X1
Subcommittee Consultant, House International. Relations Committee, with
respect to a proposal to hold a hearing on human rights in Cambodia by
Representative Donald M. Fraser (D., Minn.), Chairman, Subcommittee on
International Organizations. He said that while there was a possibility
nothing definite had been set as yet.
30.1 BRIEFING I spoke with Tom Smeeton, Minority
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Tuesday - .21 December 1976
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Representative Charles Diggs (D., Mich.), Bob Layton, OPRA's chief
for Southern Africa, of the Center for Policy Support, and
I spent an hour in Mr. Diggs' office talking about Rhodesia and South Africa.
The exchange was salutary. (See Memorandum for the Record). I later
called Jack Brady, Senior Consultant of the House International Relations
Committee, and Bill Hogan, Counsel, House Armed Services C6m.rnfttee, to
give therri'the gist of the briefing.
Keith Adkinson, on Senator Sarim Nunn'*s (D., Ga.) Permanent Subcommittee
on Investigations, Senate Government Operations Committee staff investigating
U. S. -Mexican narcotics and weapons exchanges, called to ask
if there was anything more that we might usefully discuss before
the holidays. We decided there probably was not. I promised to get
information from his inquiries back to him as soon as possible. I again
offered to have our files checked for information on the Subcommittee's
sources, should he wish that, but while understanding and appreciating the
offer, he did not accept it.
7. CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY
8. BRIEFING I spoke with Pat Holt, Chief of
Staff, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, and arranged a new time
for the covert action briefing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
The new time is 2:30 P.m., 23 December 1976. I also reminded him that
Assistant Secretary of State, William E. Schaufele, would be attending.
10. I I LIAISON I picked up from the office of
Senator Roman L. Hruska (R. , Neb.) proofs of pictures of he and Director
Bush.
11. BRIEFING C/CGS, briefed
Ed Martin, Administrative Assistant, in the office of Senator M. Kennedy
(D., Mass.), on th problem. He commented that he thought
25X1 we should seriously consider making a public statement on the program which
he thought might help to head off some bad publicity which might arise out
of public disclosure of the program. He asked if we would brief some members
of the staff on the program in order that they have somebody in their office
up-to-date to handle possible inquiries. We told hin-i we would be happy to
brief them at their convenience.
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LIAISON I was unable to reach Frank Slatinshek,
House Armed Services Committee staff, but in his absence met with Bill
Hogan, Counsel for the Committee, and briefed him on the background and
decisions which had been made regarding the reporting of a SIGINT
agreement to the Senate Foreign Relations and House International Relations
Committees.
fill-in on this situation zinc u ing our recent contacts with e Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence.
I also briefed Hogan on my conversation with Bill Miller, Staff Director,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, regarding a budget authorization in
the Senate containing a total figure for all intelligence expenses. (See Memo
for the Record.)
4. LIAISON I met briefly with Representative
Jack Edwards (R., Ala.) and mentioned to him that the Director planned to
contact him as well as Chairman Lucien Nedzi (D., Mich.) on several matters
that were on his mind relating to the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee
before he (the Director) leaves office. (See Memo for the Record.) 25X1
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Wednesday - 29 December 1976
101 1 LIAISON Elliot Maxwell, Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence staff, called to say he was reviewing the CIA
Act of 1949 and wondered what use was made of Section 5(c) of that Act
and whether that Section was still necessary. Maxwell said he would like
to discuss this with me after I had a chance to review it.
11. LIAISON Mike Epstein, Mike Madigan,
and Paula Schwartz, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, visited
Headquarters and reviewed documents relating to the CIA Station in
concerning a Case Act agreement. Rovine was interested in the status
of our conversations with Senate and House committees on this subject,
and I gave him a fill in. In response to his query, I told Rovine that I
did not think it would be a good idea for a joint session when we meet
with Senator Clifford Case (R., N. J.). I told Rovine that I was planning
on getting in touch with Jack Brady, Chief of Staff, House International
Relations Committee, on this subject and would be back in touch with
him tomorrow.
LIAISON In follow-up of my conversation
OGC, I called Art Rovine, Department of State,
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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Thursday - 30 December 1976
LIAISON Ralph Preston, Subcommittee
on Defense, House Appropriations Committee staff, called and said he
had received a message from Chairman George Mahon (D., Texas)
saying that the Chairman wanted to see me. I told Preston that I had
not called the Chairman but that he may be referring to the call from
Mr. Bush, that Mr. Bush would like to meet with the Chairman before
he (Bush) leaves the Agency. Preston said he thought this was a very
good idea and would also like to sit in on this session.
I told Preston that there were several matters that I would like
to discuss with him and it was agreed that I would call him next
Tuesday to set up a meeting. I took this opportunity to discuss with
2. LIAISON Called Howard Liebengood,
Minority Staff Director, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence,
concerning the Edwin Moore case and told him that the Agency was in
the process of preparing a letter to Chairman Daniel Inouye (D., Hawaii)
on this matter and that we were also preparing a damage assessment
which would not be ready for a few days. I explained to Liebengood the
background behind the article in today's Washington Post giving the titles
of the documents found, and Liebengood understood.
I also mentioned that Mr. Knoche is quite disturbed by the letter
that was sent to Theodore Shackle , ADDO, concerning his appearance
Liebengood said the letter was not
meant to have an adverse reaction, they felt it was a courtesy, that he
had not written it but that he would call Mr. Knoche about it (which he did):
25X1 3.1 BRIEFING Met with Jack Brady, the newly
appointed Staff Director of the I-louse Internationalalio ~Gaznaee,
to brief him on the decision whicl'Ffas been made concerning the necessity
to report to that Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
a sensitive intelligence agreement and to discuss with Brady the question
of secure procedures within the Committee for handling such a report.
(See Memorandum for the Record.)
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