ADDENDUM TO JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Publication Date: March 24, 1976
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ADDENDUM TO JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Wednesday - 24 March 1976
2. ADMINISTRATIVE I called Jii-n Oliver,
OMB . and discussed with him the purpose behind his request to ,fact.
lams, Comptroller, for information to be provided to "a Muskie
Subcommittee." I expressed my concern over material being. provided to
Senator Edmund Muskie's (D., Maine) Subcommittee (at this ti-rne it is
unknown which Subcommittee) and alerted Oliver to the issue concerning
Senator Muskie' s Budget Committee. Oliver assured me that no
classified material would be passed to Senator. Muskie and if there came a
time when classified material was requested, he would consult wit-11 the
Agency and would either sanitize the document or delete it from the
package.
Oliver then requested copies of the two recent letters which we have
sent to Senator Muskie concerning the budget issue and they have been
sent.
3. ADMINISTRATIVE Called Melinda.
Hopkins, in the office of Senator Alan Cranston (D., Calif.), and told
her we had sent the Senator this morning a letter from the Director
to Senator Cranston and a copy of a letter from me to Chairman Edmund
Muskie, Senate Budget Committee. I told her I hoped this was satisfactory.
She said the letters had not yet arrived, but if there was any problem, she
would call be back.
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Tuesday - 23 March 1976
5. (Unclassified - DFM) LEGISLATION Hilda Schreiber, called to inform me that the President's message on the elimination of the.
one percent bonus from Civil Service annuities was to be issued tomorrow,
and that our proposal to amend CIARDS in accordance with [:he Presidential
message should be delivered to Congress tomorrow.
6. (Unclassified -DFM) LEGISLATION George Gilbert
called to ask whether we had submitted a report on sources and methods
legislation, and I replied that it was being sent to OMB today. I asked Gilbert
what he knew of Administration plans for Senate Rules Committee action on
S. Res. 400 and relayed our plan to send a letter and tentatively to have a
spokesman testify. After checking with Mike Duval, at the White I-louse,
Gilbert called back and said the White House had no plans to offer testimony,
but there was no objection to our sending a letter or submitting testimony.
7. (Unclassified - WPB) LEGISLATION Called George Gilbert,
to tell him that the Agency had no problem with a State Department
report on S. Res. 351, a resolution which encourages the President to
negotiate anti-terrorist agreements with other governments.
9. (Internal Use Only - WPB) LIAISON Received a call from
Tom Smeeton, House International Relations Committee staff, who asked
for position papers which reflect the Agency's views on the establishment
of new congressional oversight committees.
10. (Unclassified - WPB) LEGISLATION Received a call from Tom
Marrum, at the Department of Justice, who was working on a views letter on
S. 2927, Senator Lloyd Bentsen's (D. , Tex.) bill to protect the identity of
intelligence personnel. He wanted to know what the Agency's position on this
legislation was. I told him I would be working on it later in the week, and
would get back to him at that time.
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Tuesday - 23 March 1976
22. (Internal Use Only - PLC) LEGISLATION Called Hilda Schreiber,
QUB$, -rrt1 inquired as to the status ofMB! ,osition to Mr. Colby's proposal
to amend CIARDS to require a spouse's participation in the determination to
waive survivor benefits. Ms. Schreiber stated that the Civil Service
Commission has no objection to the proposal as concerns CIARDS but they
are firmly opposed to the proposal for Civil Service retirees., She stated
that OM ad not yet finalized its position, however, indications are OMB
will be against the proposal. Q'- asic policy is to keep all. Federal
retirement programs uniform wherever possible and to make exceptions
for any one system only when clearly warranted. She doubted that this
proposal warrants an exception. She will call me on OMB's final position
as soon as possible. I again alerted her to the several other proposed amend-
ments to CIARDS which do not present any problems and would be sending to
OMB for clearance shortly.
GE GE L. CAR
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19. LEGISLATION Took a copy of our
letter on H. R. 12080 to Hilda Schreiber fl Ms. Schreiber read
the letter over and said that it looked fine to her but that she would
like us to hold off taking it up to Representative David Henderson
(D., N. Car.) until she could check it out with Arnold Donahue at OMB,
who was not in the office at the moment. She promised to call back as
soon as she received word.
2L I LIAISON Called Steve Daniels,
Minority Staff, House:: Government Operations Committee, and inquired
as to whether he was aware of any pending legislation to relax the time and
other stringent provisions in the recent amendments to the Freedom of
Information Act. (F- I OGC, had heard through Justice sources
that Representative Andrew Maguire (D., N. J. ), was preparing such a bill but
did not want the word out as yet). Daniels said he would let me know if he
becomes aware of any proposed legislation. I mentioned Representative
Paul McCloskey's (R. , Calif. ) comments early in this session to introduce
legislation to relax the law and that he had apparently dropped the ball.
Daniels mentioned that Representative McCloskey is anxious to introduce
legislation to establish a statutory classification program; however, Daniels
has been trying to talk him out of it since he feels that Representative Bella
Abzug (D. , N. Y. ), will run with it to suit her own purposes. Daniels is
aware of the Agency's interests and said that he would be available to assist
us when such legislation is proposed.
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Tuesday 23 March 1976
14. (Unclassified - THW) LIAISON I called Clark McFadden,
on the staff of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and mentioned
to him. the problem we had with Section 110 of H. R. 12203 (Foreign
Assistance Appropriations) and told him that we hoped to get somebody
to sponsor an amendment from the floor to strike that section and asked
if he could help us develop support for striking the section. I also gave
him the arguments why the section was out of place in. the Foreign
Assistance Appropriations Act. He said he would pass the information
on to the Chairman of the Committee, Senator John. C. Stennis (D. ,. Miss. ).~ 25X1
15. (Unclassified - RJK) BRIEFING I accompanied
OTR, to a briefing about the Agency given to approximately .30 high school
students from the congressional district of Representative Hamilton. Fish, Jr.
(R., N. Y.). Mrs. Hoffman, on the Congressman's staff, made the
arrangements and expressed the appreciation of the students, their teachers,
and the Congressman, who stopped by for just a moment after the students
had left and spoke with and myself.
16. (Internal Use Only - RJK) LIAISON Met with Denis Neill,
AID, to discuss the status of certain key amendments to H. R. 12203 and
passed the information on to who was meeting elsewhere on
17. (Unclassified - RLB) LEGISLATION Called Reginald Jones,
at the Civil Service Commission, to notify him that we would be taking
our letter on H. R. 12080 (Civil Service merit bill) to ONiB er today.
I read to him the portion of the letter in which,we mentioned that the
CSC was aware of our concerns. Mr. Jones said he fully concurred
in our letter and said that he would call over to I-Iilda Schreiber, OMB,
to let her know.
18. (Unclassified - RLB) ADMINISTRATIVE - DELIVERIES
In order to expedite the process of clearance of our letter to
Representative David Henderson (D., N. Car.), regarding H. R. 12080,
I delivered a copy of the letter to Mrs. Dorothy Mayo, at the Civil
Service Commission.
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Monday - 22 March 1976
20. (Unclassified - WPB) LEGISLATION Called Hilda Schreiber,
]y. and asked what position the Department of Justice and the FBI were
taking on the Hatch Act amendments in conference. She said that the
Administration was staying away from the conference committee because
the Administration was opposed to the bill and did not want to have it
suggested that various agencies could live with the bill if certain changes
were made. I told her that we had an opportunity to approach the I-louse
Post Office and Civil Service Committee to inform them that we would prefer
to continue to be covered by the Hatch Act. She called me back later and
gave me the go-ahead provided I make it clear that we oppose the bill in.
general.
21. (Unclassified - WPB) LIAISON Mike Bird, Economist on the
Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation, called and asked for economic
statistics--namely, the gross fixed investment as a share of GNP for six
developed countries: " After checking with OCI, I fold Mr. BijSX1
I would get back io him first thing in the morning with the figures.
22. (Unclassified - BAA) LIAISON Called Dennis Beal, in
the office of Senator Lawton Chiles (D., Fla. ), and told him that we
were sorry but neither Mr. Bush nor General Walters would be able
to speak to the 2, 600 lawyers and wives at Law Day in Lakeland, Florida,
because of conflicting schedules. Beal thanked me for returning the
call.
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Friday - 19 March 1976
9. (Unclassified - RLB) LEGISLATION Called Hilda Schreiber,
OMI- to inform her that we would be preparing very early next week a
letter to Representative David Henderson (D. , N. Car.) stating the
Agency's position on H. R. 12080 (the Civil Service merit bill).
Ms. Schreiber reiterated that things were moving very quickly on
the bill and agreed with our course of action. I promised to keep
her informed of further developments.
10. (Unclassified - DFM) LEGISLATION Called the Senate Rules
Committee and spoke with John Coder-, of the Committee staff. He informed
me the Rules Committee had been granted an extension in their deadline on
S. Res. 400 until 5 April, and that the resolution had been concurrently
referred until 29 March to the Judiciary Committee. He indicated the
Rules Committee would hold a hearing probably on. 31 March, but that no
firm plans had yet been formulated for it.
11. (Unclassified - DFM) LEGISLATION Called J. C. Argetsinger,
Senate Judiciary Committee staff, regarding the referral of S. Res. 400 to
that Committee. Argetsinger said the Committee was unanimously opposed
to giving up any oversight of FBI to a new intelligence committee, and that
the Committee had sought the referral of the resolution in order to record
its opposition. Argetsinger doubted that the Committee would look at any
other issues in the resolution, but he felt the Rules Committee would give
their objection full consideration.
12. (Unclassified - WPB) LEGISLATION Spoke with Tom Greene's
secretary, House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee staff. She
said Greene could not keep our appointment for today and wondered if I
could see him Monday, 22 March at 11:00 a. m. I said this would be fine.
13. (Unclassified - SK) LIAISON Received a call from Debbie in
Representative Andrew J. Hinshaw's(Ts'., Calif.)) office, requesting general
information about the Agency- for a constituent. I forwarded a: package of
related material to them.
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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Tuesday - 16 March 1976
1. (Unclassified - JMD) LIAISON After checking with the
Director's office, I called Mildred Ward, Secretary to Senator John
Stennis, and arranged for the Director to meet with. the Senator on
1 April 1976 at 2;p. m. EA/DCI, was advised,,.:
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3. (Unclassified - GLC) BRIEFING Accompanied the Director
to an all-day briefing of the House Appropriations Committee, Defense
Subcommittee. (See Memo for the Record.)
4. (Unclassified - RLB) LEGISLATION I called Mr. Thomas H.
Countee, Jr., OMB, to discuss our position on. 5.1864 (Federal Energy
Information Bill). I informed Mr. Countee that we had not yet received
a request from Congress for comments on the bill but that we had dis-
cussed this with committee staffers and that we would be submitting
our comments. Mr. Counitee informed me that the White House was
strongly opposed to the bill and would welcome having our input. Iz
order'to expedite the process, Mr. Countee suggested that we send
our proposed comments as soon as possible to him directly.
5. (Unclassified - PLC) LEGISLATION Picked up from Ben Cooper,
Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs staff, a letter from the
Chairman to the Director requesting Agency comments on S. 1864, an energy
bill.
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Wednesday - 24 March 1976
4. (Unclassified - RLB) LEGISLATION I discussed with
Reginald Jones, Civil Service Commission, what transpired during
discussions between Civil Service people and the Subcommittee on
Manpower and Civil Service staff, House Post Office and Civil Service.
Committee, concerning H. R. 12080 (the Civil Service )-nerit bill).,
Mr. Jones said that it was agreed that the Subcommittee should deal
directly with the excepted agencies to clear up the problems related
to application of I-I. R. 12080 to those agencies. Mr: Jones reiterated
that it was CSC's position that they not be given responsibility for
dealing with the excepted agencies under the provisions of H. R... 12080
and particularly the national security agencies.
5. (Unclassified - RLB) LEGISLATION Talked with Hilda
Schreiber OMB, regarding our proposed letter and amendment on
H. R. 12080 that we were ready to send to Representative David Henderson.
(D. , N. Car.). Ms. Schreiber said that Arnold Donahue, ON[B, had a
few problems with the amendment we were proposing. Basically, OMB's:
position is that we should make every effort not to appear that we are
attempting to exclude ourselves from the basic theoretical provisions
of the bill regarding "merit. " Ms. Schreiber also commented that in
OMB's opinion our chances for having our proposed amendment accepted
by the Subcommittee on Manpower and Civil Service, House Post Office
and Civil Service Committee, would b e strengthened if we phrased it in
line with OMB's suggestion. After discussing OMB's proposals with
Mr. Cary, OGC, it. was agreed that
we could not accept s suggestions but that we probably could work
out a compromise with OMB tomorrow morning.
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6. (Internal Use Only - RJK) LIAISON I spoke with Dave
Schmidt, on the Survey and investigations staff of the House Appropriations
Committee, to request additional biographic data from him about four
members of the staff: Charles G. Haynes, Richard F. McEli.ece, _
Williston B. Confer, Jr. , and Andrew J. Shannon. These four staffers
will be meeting with the Comptroller's staff on the subject of Angola.
Mr. Schmidt called back a short time later and provided the information..
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