JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78M02660R000300030041-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 29, 2006
• Sequence Number: 41
• Publication Date: July 1, 1976
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal Office of Legislative Counsel Page 3
Thursday - 1 July 1976
9. (Unclassified - THW) CONSTITUENT I called Carole Gray,
in the Falls Church district office of Representative Joseph L. Fisher
(D., Va.), and apologized for the delay with respect to the inquiry from
their constituent, I told her I would have a letter to her
in a day or two.
10. (Unclassified - THW) LIAISON I called Pat Holt, Chief of
Staff, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and thanked him for allowing.
us to. review the 6 March 1973 transcript of the testimony of former
Director Helms and told him that we had some problems that we would
work out with the Department of State and the Department of Justice.
He said he had no problem with that procedure.
12. (Unclassified - THW) LIAISON I called J. J. Hitchcock,
INR/State Department, and told him that we had minor problems with
the transcript of former Director Helms, which we believe we could
work out with the Department of Justice in order to allow the release
of the transcript. I told him that Justice had the opinion from the State
Department's letter that State was leaving the release of the report up
to us. Hitchcock said that this was not so, that State would probably still
object to its release regardless of what the Agency felt. It was decided
that we would get together with Hitchcock to discuss the matter before we
sit down with Justice on an in-depth declassification review. Hitchcock
said he would also like to be present when we discussed details of saniti--
zation with Justice. I GC, was advised and will handle the
follow-up in this matter.
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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Friday - 2 July 1976
1. (Unclassified - RLB) LIAISON Spoke with Mr. James Spencer,
GAO, to ascertain exactly what documents regarding Soviet capabilities
in the field of chemical warfare he still wanted to receive following the
briefing at Headquarters on 29 June. We discussed his earlier under-
standing with and Mr. Spencer stated that he was still
interested in receiving a certain DIA Top Secret study, which, based
on sensitive CIA information contained therein, DDO determined should
not be provided to GAO. Mr. Spencer also is unsatisfied with the
restrictions placed on his use of another Secret-level DIA paper.
I agreed to check with Dick Liberman, on the staff of the Senate
Appropriations Committee, who has been following this matter and
relay to him our position on provision of additional documents to GAO.
2. (Unclassified - RLB) LIAISON Contacted Ms. Karen Press,
on the staff of Representative George Miller (D., Calif.), regarding her
earlier request for information on killings in South Vietnam and Cambodia
following their takeover by Communist forces. I informed her that although
the Agency did have certain sketchy information on this matter, the ambiguous
and inconclusive nature of the data would be better dealt with in a personal
briefing of the Congressman rather than in providing him a written assessment,
Ms. Press said she would check with the Congressman to see if this would
be amenable to him.
3. (Unclassified - NDL) LIAISON Per his request, I mailed to
George Armstrong, on the staff of Representative John M. Ashbrook
(R. , Ohio), a copy of the Agency publication entitled "International and
Transnational Terrorism: Diagnosis and Prognosis. "
4. (Internal Use Only - WPB) LEGISLATION Torn Szneeton, on the
Minority staff of the Hous i.ttee, called and
said he would like to get together next week to discuss oversight bills in the
House, because Representative William Broomfield (r-., Mich.) was interested
in submitting a realistic oversight proposal which was acceptable to the Agency.
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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Friday - 2 July 1976
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12. (Unclassified - RJK) LIAISON Received a call from Andrea,
on the staff of Senator Jesse Helms (R. , N. Car. ). She was interested
in finding out information about an organization known as the "World
Strategic Institute" or the "Strategic Institute" with offices on K Street
downtown. After checking with the library, I called Andrea back and
said that since it appeared to be an American organization, our Agency
did not have responsibility for it but as a courtesy we had checked and
could find no unclassified information about it. She said she suspected
this might be the case since she was uncertain of the title but she
appreciated our checking.
13. (Unclassified - LLM) LIAISON Called the office of the
Executive Clerk at the White House and Catherine Finley confirmed
that the President had signed Mr. Knoche's commission as Deputy
Director of Central Intelligence and that it was on its way to the State
Department for co-signing.
14. (Internal Use Only -- LLM) LIAISON Bill I-Iogan, Counsel,
House Armed Services Committee, called to alert us that a briefing of the
Special Subcommittee on Intelligence would be scheduled soon after the
recess to get a substantive intelligence update and to consider a request
from the House International Rela io,s -Qmirnittee on what the Agency
has on the activities in the United States of the Hogan will 25X1
get back to us with the definite day and time. Messrs. OCI, 25X1
and0 DDO/EO, were alerted.
15. (Unclassified - LLM) LIAISON Bill Miller, Staff Director,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, called to report that he would be
away for the weekend and where he could be reached if anything important
came up.
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