JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Publication Date: April 4, 1977
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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Monday - 4 April 1977
1. LIAISON I forwarded a copy of
the January 1977 issue of the "National Basic Intelligence Factbook"
to Thomas Smeeton, House International Relations Committee staff,
per his request.
2. LIAISON Sent to Bob Sutter, CRS,
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wall size maps of China, Asia and the World, per his earlier request.
3. LIAISON Sent to Jon Holstine, House
International Relations Committee staff, a copy of the Indian Ocean Atlas,
per his earlier request. Holstine also requested a copy of an Agency
publication entitled "Maps of the World's Nations" focusing on the
East Asian area. I told him that this publication had only been prepared
for the Latin America area and he asked that he be put on a waiting list
for the East Asian booklet when it was completed.
4. I IFBIS Jeff Strandberg, in the office
of Senator Dale Bumpers (D., Ark.), called and requested a sub-
scription to the FBIS Daily Report on the Soviet Union. The room
number is 6243 Dirksen Senate Office Building. FBIS is handling.
5. LIAISON Left for Bill Hogan, Counsel,
'House Armed Services Committee, a suggested reply for the Committee's
response to an inquiry from Representative John J. Rhodes (R., Ariz. )
concerning
I discussed with Mr. Hogan's secretary scheduling of a briefing
of the Subcommittee on Intelligence and Military Application of Nuclear
Energy for the past two years which was
requested during the last Agency briefing of the Subcommittee. Mr. Hogan
will call me to confirm arrangements, probably not until after 18 April.
6. BRIEFING Received a call from Keith
Adkinson, Senate Government Operations Permanent Subcommittee on
Investigations staff, to tentatively set up Thursday afternoon, 7 April,
for Senator Sam Nunn's (D., Ga.) briefing on the Agency's activities in
combatting illegal narcotics trafficking. I checked Mr. Shackley's, ADDO,
office and advised Adkinson that it can be arranged. Adkinson will confirm
with Senator Nunn.
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7. Met briefly with Jim Cline,
General Counsel, House Judiciary Committee, and Skip Endrus, House
Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship and International
Law. Cline said a meeting will be held tomorrow at 2:00 p. m. in Room 2141
Rayburn Building to discuss the Committee's investigation of Immigration
and Naturalization Service's handling of the immigration of alleged Nazi
war criminals. There will be representatives from the Justice Department,
I&NS, and the State Department and he asked that I attend. I confirmed
to him the Agency's position in this matter and that we would have little
to offer. He said he completely understood but felt that I should attend
to listen in and see how the Agency fits into this problem, if at all.
8. I I LIAISON Received a call from
Ted Kazy, House Post Office and Civil Service Committee staff, inquiring
as to the pay and retirement status of a CIARDS annuitant reemployed on
the Hill. He said he was calling on behalf of an annuitant who is applying
for a position. I explained the existing policy and that the Civil Service
Commission now has the matter under review.
9. LIAISON Charles Snodgrass, House Appropriations
Defense Subcommittee staff, called and said that Representative Jack Edwards
(R., Ala.) would be going on the trip to China from 7 through 14 April and
I indicated the Director's interest
to have us brief these members, and Snodgrass is going to talk to Mr. Edwards
and find out if he has time for a briefing before he goes. Bill Wells, DDO,
and DDI/CPS, have been alerted.
10. IAISON Called Dan Childs, Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence staff, and said the Director would like to
make the session on 7 April a session with Chairman Daniel K. Inouye
(D., Hawaii), Vice Chairman Barry Goldwater (R., Ariz.) and himself
because he was having a session with the President on 6 April. Childs
said this posed problems for him because of budget timetables. (I have
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11. LIAISON Called Earl Eisenhower, Minority
Staff Director, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, about the Micronesia
statement and told him was talking to Bill. Miller, Staff Director
of the Committee. Eisenhower said he had talked to Senator Barry
Goldwater (R., Ariz.) this morning about the statement, and that the
Senator was going to do everything he could to get the sentence taken
out of the statement. He said Senator Jake Garn (R. , Utah) was getting
his letter to all members today. He agreed with us that the sentence did
not contribute anything to the overall impact, and it posed serious problems
for us and State Department.
I also talked with Eisenhower about S. 305, and he said he talked
with Howard Liebengood, of the Senate Minority Leader's office, to elicit
support for our request for an amendment to the bill. I said it had been suggested
that we' get In touch with Senator William Proxmire. (I).., Wis.) but the gerleral
feeling was we should have our Senators who have a mutuality of Committee
interest carry the water for us. Eisenhower said he agreed with that approach,
and I have indicated that I will get in touch with Senator Adlai Stevenson
(D. , Ill. ).
I also talked to him about the 7 April session before the Committee and
told him had talked to Bill Miller. I said the Director would be
talking with the President about this on 6 April. Eisenhower was sympathetic
to the Director's situation and also concerned about the sensitivity of the
information involved and that he was already trying to see if the session could
be put over until after the Easter recess as Senator Goldwater would be away.
The Director and Mr. Knoche were advised.
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12. I LIAISON Talked with Norvill Jones, Staff
Director, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, about our meeting with
Chairman John Sparkman (D., Ala.) and Senator Clifford Case (R., N. J.).
He understood that the bulk of our presentation on covert action, especially
the detailed information, would be given off the record, but I am preparing
a short statement the Director could give on the record which would indicate
the status of the programs by finding dates. With respect to the Case Act,
he said he did not feel that this should be completely overlooked, but agreed
that we could advise the Senators that this was a matter which was looked at;
which we discussed with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence;' and is being reviewed by the current
Administration. When this review is completed, we will be back in touch.
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13. LIAISON Called Sam Hoskinson, National
Security Council staff, to tell him that the correspondence that went to the
White House on the Case Act had been a memo from Mr. Knoche to Jerrold
Schecter, NSC staff, as well as to Robert Lipshutz, Counsel to the President.
He was unaware of the memoranda, and I sent him a copy. He said he would
do what he could.
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LIAISON Based on the advice of
OGC, I called Wanda Armstrong, on the staff of Representative
Bauman (R., Md. ), indicating that we had been in touch
and were providing
the assistance we could.
outcome.
Ms. Armstrong was very pleased with this
15. LIAISON Jeff Porro, on the staff
of Senator Howard M. Metzenbaum (D., Ohio), called on referral
from the Department of State for such information the CIA may have
on foreign equity in the U. S. , including deposits in U. S. banks. The
concern is the amount of leverage OPEC countries may have on U. S.
banks, etc., which was stimulated by a Jack Anderson column referring
to a CIA report identifying some $34 billion-in this category. I explained
that generally we did not have precise information on, the U. S. side of
the equation but we would see what we can provide on capital flow.
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17. :::F::JLIAISION Accompanied[
SA-D/DCI/IC, and O/DCI, to a meeting
with Bill Miller, Staff Director, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence,
and Elliot Maxwell, also on the Committee staff, to discuss the Committee's
draft legislation. I made a number of constructive
suggestions, which were received. with the. understanding that they were
personal statements and did not represent any official views. I addressed
the problem areas, making the Congress a statutory client for intelligence
production and specifying categories for reporting as opposed to the fully
and currently informed formula on the basis of its impact on foreign
collaborators. Maxwell was receptive in both areas but in the latter
only if there is a prior commitment to report the specific topics covered
by the language in the bill. Maxwell indicated that the NSA charter, of
some 42 pages, would be available sometime during the last week in
April and the CIA charter by the middle of May. It is clear that all the titles
of the bill,. including entity charters, will not be ready by Miller's target
date of 1 May, and concentrati_O11 on Title I as a separate bill will result.
I informed Miller that the DCI would be meeting with the President
on 6 April to discuss matters related to the 7 April session requested by
the Committee to discuss sensitive collection operations. Under these
circumstances, I suggested that the DCI meet with the! Chairman and Vice
Chairman on the 7th to discuss the outcome in lieu of the scheduling of
a full Committee session. Miller said he would raise this possibility
but indicated the outcome would depend on Admiral Turner's views on
providing such information to the Committee. I said that I thought the
President's attitude was vitally important.
I explained to Miller that some staffers in the Committee had
suggested that we be in direct contact with Senator William W. Proxmire
(D. , Wis.) on S. 305, a bill to expand reporting requirements for publicly
held corporations and to outlaw certain payments to foreigners by U. S.
corporations and other presons. Miller felt very strongly that this
would be the wrong approach; that we should continue to work only through
the Members of the Select Committee who are also on the Senate Banking,
Housing and ' Urban Affairs Committee, and Senator Adlai E. Stevenson
(D. , Ill. ), who had also focused on the legislation and had raised the
problem with the bribery section was the key Member.
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18. LIAISON Took a call from Eleanor Holmes,
in the office of Representative Charles Whalen, Jr. (R., Ohio). Holmes
said that the Congressman was on a radio talk show and that he had been
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information I could give her on the subject and I explained the allegations in
the Washington Post and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
investigation and pending report, but did not discuss any of the activities.
19. LIAISON Talked with Evelyn Chavoor,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, about the Committee's
29 March letter forwarding an inquiry from an official of the Irish Americans.
The official alleged that the FBI and CIA were conducting illegal surveillance
of Irish Americans. I asked Chavoor if the Committee wanted Admiral
Stansfield Turner to respond for the FBI, in addition to the CIA. She replied
that the Committee would send a separate letter to the FBI.
20. I I LIAISON Bob. Sutter;, of the Congressional
Research Service Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division, called to
ask for some biographies of Chinese leaders and city information on China
for a briefing his chief is to do on 5 April 1977, for Senator John Culver
(D. , Iowa). Sutter agreed that his chief would citeCIA as the source of the
material, but asked that we not report our contribution independently to
Senator Culver's office. CPS, took on the job of collecting
the requested material.
21. BRIEFING I called Doug Brown, of the
office of Senator John Culver (D. , Iowa), to report that a courier was on the
way with material on China which Jim Lilley, NIO for China,
agreed to get to Senator Culver after Lilley brimmed him on 1 April 1977.
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DDI DDA DDS&T Comptroller
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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Monday - 4 April 1977
1. LEGISLATION Called Dan Wall,
Legislative Assistant to Senator E. J. Garn (R. , Utah), to check on
the status of S. 69, a bill to amend the Export Administration Act.
He said that mark-up will be completed this week and that he expects
Senator Adlai Stevenson (D., Ill. ) to offer an amendment concerning
section 107 of the bill which would require reporting transferring of
technological information to foreign countries to the Secretary of
Commerce.
2. LIAISON Talked with Helen Wise,
of the Subcommittee on Energy of the Senate Governmental Affairs
Committee, in regard to a report on Nuclear Proliferation and
Safeguards which ORPA., would like to see. She
referred me to the Office of Technology Assessment and that office
is forwarding a copy of the report.
GEORGE L. CARY :
Legislative Counsel
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Ex. Sec.
Mr. Lapham
Mr. Hetu
DDI DDA DDS&T
SA/ DO/ O
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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Monday - 4 April 1977
1. I BRIEFING Accompanied I ORPA, 25X1
to a briefing of Senator George McGovern (D., S. Dak.) on the situation in
Cuba in response to the Senator's request prior to his travel to Cuba on
5 April 1977. Bob Dockery and John Ritch, Senate Foreign Relations
Committee staff, also attended the briefing. Senator McGovern asked several
questions on operational matters and he was politely referred to the Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence for answers. He was also told that we had
provided this information to the Select Committee. The briefing also
covered Cuban activities in Africa and Cuban interests in establishing normal
ties with the U. S.
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