JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 14, 2006
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: August 31, 1977
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Wednesday - 31 August 1977
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37. (Internal Use Only - PLC) LIAISON I met with Tom Latii r,
and Mike O'Neil, of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
staff, and discussed the request from the House Post Office & Civil
Service Subcommittee on Compensation and Employee Benefits for the
Agency to testify on 29 September on proposed legislation to abolish all
early retirement programs. I explained that CIARDS is a management
tool and has always come under the exclusive jurisdiction of the House
Armed Services Committee. I urged that the House Select Committee
exercise exclusive jurisdiction. Latimer said he would discuss this
with Chairman Edward Boland (D., Mass.) when he returns after Labor
Day. He suggested that the Director write a letter to Subcommittee
Chairwoman Gladys N. Spellman (D., Md.) explaining the Agency's need
to retain CIARDS. He asked that it be shown to him for review before it
is sent.
I gave Latimer a copy of the written summary on the newly found
Agency documents on projects ARTICIIOKE and BLUEBIRD, and that we
would be sending the Chairman a letter informing um the ongoing
investigations by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the
Senate Human Resources Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research.
I gave Latimer a copy of the 15 August draft of the proposed Executive
Order and mentioned that a copy had also been provided to the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence. He made no comment. I doubt that the Committee
will formally undertake this matter at this time.
Later in the meeting I was joined b OS. He 25X1
delivered two letters from the Director of Security. One certified security
clearances for Latimer and his secretary, Jeanne M. McNally. The other
certified the Committee's storage facilities to house compartmented intelli-
gence. We discussed the future handling of security processing of Committee
personnel. Latimer said no staff member will come aboard until fully cleared.
I briefed on the status of H. R. 5383, the Age Discrimination bill,
and that the Agency would be reviewing its impact on current policy to force
retirement at age 65 if the bill becomes law. I left a copy of the bill and the
amendment.
At the request of I mentioned the call from the D. C.
Public School System suggesting the Agency inform the Hill of -recent reaction
to NPIC personnel instructing Ballou High School students since the Page
School System comes under the jurisdiction of the D. C. Government. Neither
Latimer nor O'Neil felt there would be any adverse Hill reaction to the
program.
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7. LIAISON Called Clara Buchanan., Senate;
Foreign Relations Committee staff, in connection with the Committee's
request for compartmented clearances for Frank Ballance, Staff Director
of the Subcommittee on Foreign Assistance. I told her that his background
investigation is too old to meet DCID 1/14 requirements and requested that
the Committee obtain an updated background investigation for purposes of
receiving Agency compartmented clearances. She said that someone
from the Committee would contact the Department of Defense to initiate
the background investigation.
8. LIAISON Forwarded via courier one
copy of 'World Steel Mar et Continued Trouble Ahead" to Jon Keyserling,
in the office of Representative Mendel J. Davis (D., S. Car.), per his
earlier request. Before sending the publicat on, I called Keyserling to
inform him that the publication is "for Official'Use Only."
9.
LIAISON Called Bill Miller, Staff. Director,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and Walt Sheridan, Senate Human
Resources Subcommittee on Health & Scientific Research staff, to advise
them that some additional materials had been located on the ARTICHOKE
anndE BLUEB rams which had previously been reported
Church an ike Committees. I indicated that while I was not intimately
familiar with this new material it did not contain names of individuals
involved but did contain some additional facts and details regarding these
two programs. I suggested that we make this material available to them,
in the same way we were making MK'U documents available for their 25X1
review. I added that a 14-page summary of this material had been prepared
and that I would send them a copy of this document
this afternoon.
Miller indicated that Elliot Maxwell, of the Select Committee staff,
who is reviewing the MKULTRA documents, should be the one to receive
the summary and Sheridan asked that I send the summary to him directly
since he has been reviewing documents for the Subcommittee. I told both of
these staff members that the Director would undoubtedly be sending a letter
to their Chairmen advising them that arrangements had been made for their
respective staffs to have access to these materials.
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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Friday - 26 August 1977
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2. LIAISON Delivered to Elliot Maxwell,
4-2 to Select Committee on Intelligence staff, and Walter Sheridan, staff
of the Senate Human Resources u commi ee on Health and Scientific
Research, blind memoranda concerning the new find relating to
Projects ARTICHOKE and BLUEBIRD.
3. LIAISON Stopped by to see G. Robert
Blakey, House Select Committee on Assassinations, and obtained from him
copies of FBI summary investigative reports on Select Committee
staff personnel and a copy of his signed secrecy oath. I hand-carried the
FBI reports to Robert Gambino, Director of Security, and the secrecy
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