JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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Wednesday - 16 February 1977
General Counsel's' office at OMB, to inquire as to they status of the draft
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Executive order entitled, "Standards of Ethical Conduct for Government
Officers and Employees. " Mr. Kienlen said his office had been given the
draft order last Friday with no warning and had farmed it out to Government
agencies for comments right away. He noted that the process of pulling
together all the comments and finalizing the order might be a slow and
cumbersome procedure. I informed him we were drawing up a comments
letter and anticipated having it to him tomorrow.
2. 1 - JEC) LEGIS ATION Along with Tony Lapham,
General Counsel, and
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OGC, I met with representatives
of the Departments of Justice, State, Defense; NSA; and the IC Staff to
discuss forthcoming electronic surveillance legislation. (See Memorandum
for the Record. )
3. - YTF) LEGISLATION Called the House Post
Office and Civil Service Committee to find out the status of the President's
recommendation for a pay raise for Federal officials. I was told that the
two resolutions disapproving the pay raise would not be released by the
Committee, virtually assuring the pay raise will become effective on
20 February.
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office of Senator Wendel R. Anderson (D., Minn.), nc
y for a corequested
some broc:'Eures on the Agency for a constituent of theirs. I said I would
put them in the mail for her.
--c~vuu d. ca?t zrom
Bill Hoga., use Armed Services Committee, concerning the
breakfast briefing set for this Friday morning, 18 February. Hogan
requested that another breakfast briefing be scheduled for the following
Friday, 25 February, since not all of the Members, including the
Chairman, will be able to attend. The scheduling of another breakfast
was cleared with Mr. Knoche's, ADCI, office, and I called Hogan back
to confirm arrangements.
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6. I IPLC) LIAISON Paul Daly, Legislative
son concerning a letter the FBI received
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from Mr. Robert Ga.rnbin.o, Director of Security, concerning a
conversation that former Director Colby had regarding the Kennedy
assassination. Mr. Daly asked that I check as to whether this
information had been provided to the Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence since the Committee had made a request covering this
information from the FBI a while back. After checking with
I called Daly back and informed him that the information
had been provided to the Committee.
7 - PLC) LEGISLATION Mike Klipper,
on the staff of Senator Charies McC. Mathias (R. , Md. ), called and
1. told him I. saw no reason for me to discuss
anything with the attorney since we :Fully understand the purpose of
the bill. Klipper said he will so advise Kairys that the Committee
will be asking for the. Agency's comments on the bill.
8.1 - PLC) LIAISON Walter Sheridan,
staff member, Senate: Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative
Practice and Procedure, called and requested a copy of the
memorandum which former Director Colby refers to in his letter to
a New York City health official which we provided to the Subcommittee.
I told Sheridan that the memorandum was now under review for release
together with othe r lat d Agency documents and he should be hearing
from us shortly. as advised and indicated that
the review is near completion.
9. I I- PLC) LIAISON Called Rita, secretary
to Bill Hogan, Counsel, House Armed Services Committee, and requested
that a letter be prepared from Chairman Melvin Price (D., Ill. )
requesting that the Agency destroy three boxes of Committee material.,
consisting of reporters' notes of the Watergate investigation. She said
she would have the letter ready for me tomorrow.
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10.1 M) ADMINISTRATIVE DELIVERIES I took
Trace information on to the Senate Government
Operations Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, where staffers
F. Keith Adkinson and William Gallinaro made notes from the information
but did not keep a copy. We agreed that the trace data would be
available for their further review if they wished it.
E. - CM) LIAISON I participated in arrangements
for Richar au man eneral Counsel, Joint Economic Committee,
to meet with C/DU of OER, at 3:00 p. m.,today
in I office, but did not 'sit in.
1?. I DFM) LIAISON Spoke with Anne Karalekas,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, several times regarding
Admiral Stansfield Turner's confirmation hearings. Ms. Karalekas
informed: me that the financial statement had been received from
Admiral Turner; that his entire hearings are not expected to go beyond
22 February; and that John Marks, from the Center for National Security
Studies, Susan Kokinda, from the U. S. Labor Party, and an unidentified
spokesman from Common Cause, had requested to testify regarding the
nomination.
13. I DFM) LIAISON Received a call from
Marty Gold, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, regarding
the Committee's inquiry into the intelligence stake i We
reviewed again the Committee briefing on 1.1 February 1977 from C /LA
Division and I agreed to bring the Station's operating directive, some
material provided by DDI, and information on other Directorates'
involvement in or him to review on 17 February.
1'1. DFM) LIAISON Danny Childs, Senate
Select Committee on Intel ligence staff, called to request a briefing for
himself and Bill Miller, Staff Director, Senate Select Committee on.
Intelligence, on the Reserve Release of which the Committee was
notified by letter of 1 February 1977.
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15. DFM) LIAISON Mike Epstein, Senate
Select Committee on n e igence staff, called to ask if the Agency
had prepared the official DCI. Nominating Statement signed by
President Carter. Apparently some peculiar language was used
in it and Epstein wanted to know if it had any particular significance.
I told. Epstein I was certain it was prepared by the White House and
he agreed to direct his :inquiry there.
17. 1 - DFM) LIAISON Called Spencer Davis, Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence Press Spokesman, to ask him about a
statement in an 11 February 1977 Newsday article regarding the possibility
of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence holding hearings into the
outbreak of the swine virus in Cuba in 1971. The article cited an unnamed
Committee source. Davis said he was not the source and that he had
heard no discussion of the possibility of hearings on the subject.
18. DFM) LEGISLATION I called Stan Taylor,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, to tell him that the
Securities and Exchange Commission was drafting an amendment to
proposed regulations on corporate reporting procedures and that we want to
delay providing him suggested amendments to S. 305, a bill which would
accomplish the same purpose as the regulations, until we receive the
SEC amendment. I told him I thought we would have the amendment next
week and would be in touch then. This arrangement was satisfactory to
Taylor.
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19. DFM) LIAISON Received a call from
Ted Ralston, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, regarding
ersation he had with ho headed the NIE "B Team."
ad mentioned DDO "Blue Stripe" reports which the "B Team" had
use in reaching its conclusions. Ralston asked for access to these
"Blue Stripe" reports.
20. RJK) LIAISON Received a call from
Martha MacDonald, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff. She
indicated that Messrs. Walter Ricks, Martin Gold and Mike Madigan,
of the Committee staff, will be traveling to on 23 February and
return on 28 February. They are planning to meet with our people while
they are there. Martha MacDonald gave me the flight numbers and
arrival and departure times, which I will pass on to SA/DO/O.
21. RJK) LIAISON Janet, on the staff of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called to ask for the procedure
for granting compartmented clearances. I explained the procedure to her
and pointed out the policy of limiting compartmented clearances to only
those Committee staff members who have a need for access to that type
of information.
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C/Support Staff/IC, to a hearing before the House Appropriations
Defense Subcommittee on the IC supplemental and FY 78 budget. A
transcript was taken and there are a number of follow-up actions.
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24. LLM) LIAISON Frank Sullivan, Chief
Counsel, Senate Armed Services Committee, called to ask if I knew
why Admiral Stansfield Turner wanted to remain on active duty status.
I told Sullivan that I am sure the Admiral. has good reasons but that I
would prefer that he talk. to the Admiral or his staff directly and I
provided the telephone number for this purpose.
Special Assistant to the ADCI, was advised.
25. - LLM) LIAISON Walt Ricks, Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence staff, called to determine what was bothering
us concerning the staff review I reiterated the points I
made in my conversation with Bill Miller, Staff Director, and Ricks
was in total agreement with them and volunteered that he would not make
the trip I if it had anything to do with the areas which I had
described as being of;.t of bounds.
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Mr. Lapham
Mr. Falkiewicz
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Comptroller
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2. BAA) LIAISON Received a call from the
office of Senator az orne Pell (D., R.I.), requesting brochures
and an application for employment with the Agency for a constituent.
I said I would put them in the mail.
3. I I- CM) 13RIEFING I reported to
Elly Vogtmann, Staff of Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on the
starting and ending times of our briefing in the 9 February 1977
executive session hearing of the Subcommittee on African Affairs.
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4. I I- CM) I3RIEFING Barbara Allen,
staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, asked if the transcript
from our briefing in the 9 February 1977 executive session hearing of
the Subcommittee on African Affairs was ready for Senatorial review.
I said that it was. She then said Senator Charles H. Percy (R., Ill. )
had asked if he might have a staffer read the report with him. I
noted our reluctance to extend the opportunity to personal staffers;
she said Senator Percy's first choice was Charles Meissner, staffer
of the Committee itself, who claims clearances through Top Secret, 25X1A
SI, Q, and TK. Our records reflect that: he is at least cleared
through Fop Secret (the classification of the briefing), and
Acting Legislative Counsel, approved Meissner's perusal of the
transcript. I so advised Ms. Allen.
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1. - BAA) LIAISON Representative Claude
Pepper I). Fla.), called and requested an employment interview
for After checking withi
I called Mrs. Bedell, in the Congressman's office, and told
her an appointment had been arranged forl to meet with
on Friday, 18 February, at 10:00 a. m.
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10.1 1 DFM) LIAISON Took a call from
Ed Schallert,in the office of Representative Les Aspin (D. , Wis. ).
Schallert asked about the percentage of the Soviet GNP which
goes to agriculture. He said he had a figure for the Soviet Union
(20. 4 per cent) and a figure for the United States and wanted to know
if they were strictly comparable. I offered to have someone to call
him if it could be handled on an unclassified basis.
Center for Policy Support, subsequently arranged for of
OER,to call Schallert.
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Took a ca l.
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rom era itchford, on the staff of House International
Relations Committee. Pitchford said a number of members of the
Committee had inquired about the allegations that the Agency was
responsible for the swine flu outbreak in Cuba and Pitchford requested
an Agency letter to the Committee on this subject. I informed Pitchford
we had already prepared a letter for the Senate Select
Committee on this subject and I would deliver a copy to him. I did so
later in the day.
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Delivered o John 6aize,on the staff of House Agriculture Committee,
a China at:Las and a DDI unclassified publication on 1975 Chinese
agricultural performance. Baize had requested the material earlier
in the week for Representative W. R. Poage (D., Texas).
13. DFM) LIAISON Talked to Ann Karalekas,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, several times regarding
Admiral St.ansfield Turner's confirmation hearings. I arranged for the
General Counsel Conflict of Interest letter to be delivered to the
Committee early on 18 February.
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Delivered 11. Moore, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
staff, the material recently released under the Freedom of Information
Act concerning Lee Harvey Oswald and an index to all the Oswald
material released thus far.
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15. DFM) LIAISON Met with Bill Miller, Staff
Director, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, on several
matters. I told Miller that the Agency would prefer to postpone
his requested briefing on a recent Reserve Release. Miller
already understood the reasons and agreed to the postponement.
He did, however, seek my assurance that the postponement was
no reflection on the Committee, and I assured him it was not.
Miller agreed to speak. to the Mid-Career course on 25 February at
10:00 A. M. I informed Miller that Mr. Knoche, A/DCI, would not
be able to conduct the Z3 February NFI:P briefing of the Committee
because of a White House meeting but that D/DCI/IC,
would be the Community spokesman. Miller agreed to tis arrangement.
I delivered to Miller, a blind memorandum on thel
published by Forum World Features, a letter to the Committee from
Robert Gambino, Director of Security, oni
who will be working on Senate Select Committee on Intelligence business
for the Government Printing Office, Records Control Schedule 31 - 76
and the letter to Chairman Daniel K. Inouye (D., Hawaii) from
16.1 - DFM) LIAISON Discussed with
Spencer Davis, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff,
the 11 February article in Newsday regarding the swine fever
allegations. Davis had not seen the article. Davis gave me a
copy of another letter sent from which
I offered to relay to Clayton McManaway of the State Department.
I had previously sent McManaway considerable material from
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I delivered to Dan Childs, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff,
a list of the members of the NIE "B Team" and discussed with him
the final remaining follow-up item from the 8 February briefing of the
Committee on budget authorization. This concludes all remaining
items from that briefing. I also delivered to Childs a substitute page
on proprietaries for tae Committee's copy of the FY 78 budget book.
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19.1 DFM) LIAISON Called Marty Gold,
Senate Sel'ec Committee on Intelligence staff, at home to inform
him that we would prefer that he make administrative arrangements
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20. DFM) LIAISON Met with Evelyn Chavoor,
Senate Selec omml ee on Intelligence staff, who asked me questions
regarding the amount and source of Agency material ready to be
destroyed after Senate Select Committee on Intelligence clearance.
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Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, and told him that our people
would meet with him to discuss the subject of American companies violating
export controls in the shipment or transhipment of restricted goods to the
Soviet Bloc on Friday, 24 February at 4:00 p. m. He indicated that he and
Mark Gitenstein, also of the Committee staff, would be coming out and I
have advised SA/DO/O, to expect them at that time.
22. RJK) LIAISON Spoke to IPS 25X1 A
concerning letters written by Mr. Bush on 5 June 197 and Gene F. Wilson,
IPS, on 24 June 1976, to Mr. John William Ward, President of Amherst
College, in connection with his FOIA request. Senator Edward Kennedy
(D., Mass.) has requested copies of these letters and Carol indicated that
Mr. Wilson has no difficulty with our providing the Senator with copies of
them. Caroline Croft, on the Senator's staff, is handling the matter for him
and I told her we would put them in the mail to her.
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I sat in on a briefing of the Intelligence Community budget given to
Bill Hogan, Counsel, House Armed Services Committee, by
D/IC/OPBD and OPBD/PBDD.
left with Hogan a copy of a paper prepared by the IC Staff which
explains where each intelligence expenditure is included in the
Defense budget. Hogan also asked for a copy of the book of charts
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which used during; his previous briefing and Mr.
g a copy.
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men ionp c to Hogan in response to his inquiry, that Senator
Daniel K. Inouye (.D. , Hawaii), Chairman, Senate Select Committee
on Intelligence, responded to Representative Phillip Burton's
(D. , Calif.) letter to the Committee re uesting an investigation
Chairman. Inouye
in forme r, Burton that the Committee was conducting an investigation
and he would be furnished a copy.
24. 0- PLC) ADMINISTRATIVE DELIVERIES Left
with Frank Sullivan, Chief Counsel, Senate Arm. ces Committee,
a copy left for
James Smith, staff member of the Committee, a paper justifying need
for not publicly dif;closing; the Agency's overall budget figure. The
latter was requested by Mr. Smith as a rationale to support the budget
figures for several years which were previously furnished to the
Committee.
25. PLC) LIAISON Met with Jim Gehrig, on
the staff of the Subcommittee on Science and Space of the Senate
Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences, in response to his
request for a briefing of Senator Adlai E. Stevenson (D., Ill. ),
Subcommittee Chairman, on U. S. foreign space programs. Gehrig
requested the briefing in view of Senator Stevenson's new responsibilities
as Chairman and will let rap know when it can be set up.
DDI/CPS, was advised.
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the "Top Secret/Sensitive" classification which is widely used with
congressional briefings in compartmented data. I agreed with
that this would not necessarily be wise from a congressional relations
point of view. I have been in touch with SA-D/DCI/I~5XlA
and IC Staff, in an effort to Locate any document which
authorizes the current classification standard, recalling that former
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probably discussed this matter before USIB in the 1960's.
27.1 -1 LLM) LIAISON Accompanied
andE - =1 up , to a substantive intelligence session with
House Minority Leader John J. Rhodes (R. , Ariz.) and was able to
cover a number of matters pending before the House. It was his opinion
that we should delay at least a couple of weeks on contacting the House
Select Committee on Assassinations to work out a Memorandum of Under-
standing for access to our material, during which time it will be deter-
mined if the Committee will be permanent or not. On centralizing
oversight in the House, he felt that Speaker of the House Thomas O'Neill
(D., Mass.) would be the dominate figure and recommended a session
between the Speaker and Admiral Turner, after Admiral Turner is
confirmed.
28. I LLM) LIAISON Walt Ricks, Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence staff, called to determine if we had lined up
a speaker' for the Mid-Career Coumae 6n'25 February and I told him
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