MEETING WITH JACK MARSH, COUNSELLOR TO THE PRESIDENT - 30 JULY 1976

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SUBJECT: Meeting with Jack Marsh, Counsellor to the President -
30 July 1976
1. I met with Jack Marsh in his office at the White House
this evening to bring him up to date on a number of recent developments.
I advised him of the establishment of the four Subcommittees within the
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Human Rights, the Intelligence
Product, Intelligence Charters, and Budget, and told him of some of the
discussions which have come up in recent sessions with the Select Committee
on topics such as notification to the Committee under Section 11 of S. Res. 400
as opposed to the reporting requirements of Section 662 of the Foreign
Assistance Act, the position taken by Senator Howard Baker (R., Tenn.)
with respect to access to information and Chairman Daniel Inouye's
recommendation that members of the Committee travel to our foreign
field stations whenever possible. I told Mr. Marsh that I thought our
relationships with the Committee and the staff at this point were extremely
good and I was optimistic that this would turn out to be a good oversight
relationship which in the long run could prove to be useful to the Agency in
warding off incursions into sensitive Agency activities by other committees
of Congress.
2. I told Marsh of the recent activities in the House Appropriations
Committee such as the establishment of a separate budget for the Intelligence
Community staff as set forth in Title 8 of the Defense Appropriations bill as
reported out of the House Committee, the investigation of the DDO, Sigint
and other activities by the Staff Investigators and the cuts made by the House
which had been the subject of reclama to the Senate Committee by the Director.
3. I also mentioned to Mr. Marsh our concern about proposed
amendme,its to the Case provision in the Foreign Assistance legislation
having to to with the reporting of international agreements. I told Marsh
that we were examining this issue with concern and with respect to the
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possible requirement for reporting of agreements with foreign
intelligence services under the provisions of this law.
4. I told him that as far as we could determine from the Senate
Select Committee staff, they were "back to square one" in their
consideration of the electronic surveillance legislation (S. 3197). In this
connection, Marsh said I should talk with Tony Lapham, General Counsel,
about the discussion this morning at the ICG meeting with respect to this
legislation.
5. Marsh listened attentively, but without comment or reservation,
to the points which I made, except his comment on the electronic surveillance
legislation.
Legislative Counsel
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