JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78M02660R000300060064-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 22, 2004
• Sequence Number: 64
• Publication Date: February 19, 1976
• Content Type: NOTES

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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Thursday - 19 February 1976
the congressional oversight issue. (See Memorandum for the Record. )
mark-up session of the Senate Government Operations Committee on
1. (Unclassified - DFM) LEGISLATION Attended the first
.He said he would raise the issue with the Senator, and we would talk more
feel the Committee had focused fully on the implications of such a requirement.
told him we shared Senator Nunn's concern on this matter.and did not
handles Government Operations Committee work for. Senator Sam Nunn
(D. , Ga.. ). Senator Nunn had raised the question of how the intelligence
budget could be kept secret with an annual authorization requirement. -1
2. (Unclassified - DFM) LIAISON Called Jeff Record, who
about it at tomorrow's mark-up session.
Extension of Remarks of the' Congressional Record regarding protection
Representative William Broomfield's (R., Mich.) statement in the
. 3. (Unclassified - WPB) LIAISON Tom Srneeton, on the House
International Relations Committee staff, called to bring to my attention
of intelligence sources and methods. .
accompanied Bob Mantel, Steve Bryan, and Geoffrey Kemp, on the
4. (Unclassified - THW) INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING I
staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to a briefing on Iran
held in office, OCI. The briefing began at 0950 hours
questions. I told them that the briefing was not the forum for discussions
on operational matters and said that I would be back in touch with them
and lasted until shortly after noon. The staffers were satisfied with
the substantive intelligence briefing and asked some operational type
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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Thursday - 19 February 1976
9. LIAISON In further follow-up
concerning Senator Charles Percy's (R., Ill.) request for a briefing on
mercenaries in Angola, I advised Scott Cohen, Executive Assistant
to the Senator, of additional information we heard of Americans
in Angola and assured him that we had no connection with them.
10. LEGISLATION. Called Keith Kennedy,
Legislative Assistant to Senator Mark Hatfield (R., Ore.), to determine
how close in the case of American clergy the Director's 11 February
public announcement was to the spirit or letter of the Senator's bill
(S. 2784) to limit CIA use of clergy. After some discussion, Kennedy
felt that the volunteering of information without the Agency initiating
contact would be acceptable.
11. BRIEFING 'Accompanied the Director to
the annual briefing of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. See Memo
for the Record.
12, LIAISON Called the secretary to Mr.
Herb Roback, House Armed Services Committee staff, and gave her the
title of the book, "OSS: The Secret History of America's First Central
Intelligence Agency.-" I told her it was written by R. Harris Smith and
published in 1972. I said if Mr. Roback had any further questions, he
could call me. I also told her that we were sending Mr. Roback a copy
of the "Brady Rule" case this afternoon.
13. I BRIEFING Pat Holt, Chief of Staffer Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, called and asked if Carl Duckett, DDS&T,
could come before the Committee with Ambassador Robert McCloskey,
Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations, and Lawrence
S. Eagleburger, Executive Assistant in the Office of the Secretary of State,
on Tuesday, 24 February at 10:00 a.m. to discuss the Moscow Embassy
situation. Holt agreed that Mr. Duckett would be expected to speak only to the
technical aspects and State would handle everything else. Holt agreed and
said they would put out a notice that "State Department and CIA officials"
would appear, but he didn't know yet how they would cover the subject in
the notice. After checking with Mr. Duckett and the DCI, this meet: ng
was confirmed.
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