JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Publication Date: May 5, 1977
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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Thursday - 5 May 1977
1. LIAISON Jean Evans, Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence staff, called to say that Senator Charles
McC. Mathias (R., Md.) was sending us a letter, through Committee
channels, today (R #7702) dated 28 April on a constituent inquiry
apparently involving an allegation that the Agency was involved in some
action against this constituent. Evans just wanted to alert us to the fact
that this was not some Committee investigation but was merely a
constituent inquiry and hopefully we would be able to deny the allegation
made by the constituent and that denial could be forwarded on to the
constituent by the Senator. I thanked Evans for giving me the back-
ground on this and said we would check, it out as soon as the letter is
received.
4. LIAISON Paul Daly, FBI, called to
discuss the status of security clearances of the House Select Committee
on Assassinations staffers. was advised.
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5. I I LIAISON Called Dan Childs, Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence staff, and discussed. the various options
on budget authorization, including budgetary authority, estimated outlays,
and appropriations.
6. BRIEFING Per request,
I called Caroleen Silver, on the staff of Senator Pete V. Domenici
(R. , N. Mex. ), to confirm the briefing on Zaire for the Senator
for 8:30 a. m. , 10 May. Ms. Silver said that Senators Henry Bellmon
(R., Okla.) and James A. McClure (R.', Idaho) are planning to attend
also and there is a possibility that Senator Robert P. Griffin (R. , Mich.
may join them as well.
7. LIAISON Wanda Dove, of the office
of Representative Dan Daniel (D. , Va. ), called to request general
information on the Agency. An information package was forwarded to her.
9. ADMINISTRATIVE-DELIVERIES Delivered
to Charles Snodgrass, House Appropriations Committee staff, responses to
follow-on questions on composition of Intelligence Community Staff. I
picked up from Snodgrass, additional follow-up questions for FY 78 budget.
10. LIAISON Called James Fellenbaum, Senate
Appropriations Committee staff, to relay for background use, Senator
Daniel K. Inouye's (D., Hawaii) discussion with Admiral Turner, DCI,
regarding proposals for addressing the issue of open budget.
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12. LIAISON I advised Rosemary James,
staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on. Foreign Economic
Policy, that the requested copies of back issues of "International Oil
Developments" for staff member, Ira Nordlicht, would reach the Sub-
committee tomorrow, and that Nordlicht should receive future issues
routinely.
13. BRIEFING I called (Grant) Wayne Smith,
of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Subcommittee on Oceanography,
following up on requests he made for Subcommittee Chairman John Breaux
(D., La.) at our 28 April 1977 briefing of them. See Memorandum for the
Record.
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15. ADMINISTRATIVE -, DELIVERIES
Delivered to the Senate Armed Services Committee a letter from the
Director to Senator John C. Culver (D., Iowa), Chairman of the
Subcommittee on General Legislation, concerning the Soviet civil
defense program. The letter was requested by Senator Culver as a
follow-up to the briefing on 21 April 1977.
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18. BRIEFING Sat in on a briefing of
Senator William L. Scott (R., Va.) and Chuck Conneely, staff member
of the Senate Armed Services Committee, given by I DDI/CPS,
.and DDI/ORPA, in connection with the Senator's trip to Latin
America around the 4th of July. We covered Panama and Chile. However,
due to roll call vote interruptions, the briefing could not be completed and
Senator Scott will call me to arrange another session within the next few
weeks.
20. LEGISLATION Called Jim Jura, OMB,
to discuss Representative George Brown's (D. , Calif.) bill to establish a
National Climate Program. He said that the word has not yet come from the
White House on this bill, and requested that we hold off sending a response to
the Congressman.
21. LEGISLATION Called Ron Kienlen, in
the General Counsel's office at OMB, in reference to a draft Executive
Order on zero-base review which Jim Davidson, on the staff of the Senate
Committee on Governmental Affairs, had mentioned. Mr. Kienlen said
that there was no such Executive Order -- only a memorandum from the
President issued last month and instructions for implementing the memorandum
issued by OMB Director Bert Lance.
22. LIAISON Accompanied the Director to
a meeting with Chairman Donald Fraser (D., Minn.), Subcommittee on
International Organizations, House International Relations Committee, and
Representative Edward Derwinski (R., Ill.), Ranking Minority Member of
that Subcommittee, to discuss the Subcommittee's inquiry into Korean
intelligence activities in the United States. Messrs. Bob Boettcher and
Mike Herschman, of the Subcommittee staff, also attended the meeting.
Following this meeting, the staffers, and I discussed the subject
further at a luncheon meeting. (See Memorandum for the
Record.)
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23. LIAISON Accompanied the
Director andi D/DCI/IC, to a meeting with
Chairman Daniel Inouye (D., Hawaii) and Bill Miller;, Staff Director,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, on the subject of an open
intelligence budget. In response to the Chairman's questions as to which
intelligence budget figure the Director would be willing to make public,
(the figure agreed to by the Select Committee as an authorization figure
or the figure agreed to in the appropriations process or some other
figure), the Director and I suggested that in the interest
of preventing speculation and discussion during the authorization and
appropriation process, they would prefer that the Select Committee use
the final figure agreed to in the House/Senate Appropriation conference
on the NFIP. The Chairman indicated that this suggestion made sense
to him and said that he would propose to make an announcement on the
Senate floor at the time the Select Committee reaches agreement on the
authorization figure; that a classified statement of the authorization figure
has been given to the Senate Appropriations Committee and if the Senate
votes to make the NFIP figure public, the figure coming out of the House/
Senate Appropriations conference will be made public.
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25. LIAISON Tom Dine, Senate Budget
Committee staff, called to inquire about the nature of the Director's
visit to Chairman Edmund Muskie (D., Maine) tomorrow. I told Dine
I was quite sure the Director wanted to talk with the Chairman about his
position on an open intelligence budget in view of the Chairman's interest
in this subject as Chairman of the Budget Committee. Dine said he had
speculated that this was the reason for the Director's visit and appreciated
my confirming it. (The Chairman had asked Dine for a note on this
subject. )
27, I LIAISON Sam Hoskinson, National
Security Council staff, called me about a letter from Senator George
McGovern (D., S. Dak.) as Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations
Subcommittee on International Relations, expressing his interest in
CIA, NSA and other intelligence agencies cooperation do an inquiry his
Subcommittee proposes to conduct into foreign intelligence activities in
the U. S. in connection with the Subcommittee' s jurisdiction over the
Foreign Agents Registration Act and the adequacy of that legislation.
Hoskinson said the President had responded to Senator McGovern,
expressing his cooperation. (Hoskinson is sending me copies of this
exchange of correspondence.)
Z8. LIAISON Called Earl Eisenhower,
Minority Staff Director, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and
confirmed with him a series of briefings at the Agency on 10 May from
8:45 a. m. to 2:00 p.m. and meetings with nd the
Intelligence Community Staff division chiefs on the afternoon of 11 May.
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29. LIAISON Hal Ford, Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence staff, called to tell me he had set up a meeting
for Mr. Robert Bowie, D/DCI/NI, with Senator Adlai E. Stevenson
(D. , Ill.) to discuss generally the production of national intelligence.
Ford said he and Bill Miller, Staff Director, would also attend.
Ford informed me that a meeting scheduled for 4 May to discuss
the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report on the A Team-B Team
exercise had been postponed until 12 May.
30. LIAISON Called Audrey Hatry, Clerk,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, and received from her an
updated list of the membership of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Subcommittees.
31. LIAISON Tom Moore, Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence staff, called to say at Senator Gary Hart's
(D. , Colo.) request, he was considering alternatives to the disclosures
of simply the overall NFIP figure. He said Senator Hart was considering
a scheme to release detailed breakdowns of certain Intelligence Community
budgets, and no release of either the total figure or of sensitive components.
Moore asked for the opportunity to discuss various options with someone at
the Agency. I told him I would check into this.
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34. LIAISON Attended the first meeting of the
DDA Task Force on Guidelines for Relationships with. Former Agency
Employees, chaired by I DDA. Representatives from all of the
directorates, OGC, IG, and DDCI will also participate in the group. The
meeting was organizational in nature with the discussion centering upon the
The next meeting will be convened after members have had
a chance to review existing Agency regulations on conflict of interest and
other sections relevant to the charter of the Task Force.
35. LIAISON Received a call from James
Leonard, GAO, who was calling to see whether the Agency would be able
to give him a briefing on the Soviet BACKFIRE bomber. Based on the
decision made by OWI/DDS&T, I advised Leonard that
we would not be able to give him the necessary clearances and therefore,
could not provide the briefing. I added that OWI had informed his home
office in Dayton. Leonard accepted this gracefully.
36.
Hershman, Deputy Staff Director, Subcommittee on International
Organizations, House International Relations Committee, to advise him
that the list of names he had passed me at a luncheon earlier in the day was
incomplete. He agreed to provide some data on each of the individuals on
whom traces had been requested and a new request will be picked up from the
Subcommittee on 6 May and forwarded for action to.the SA/DO/O- and the
Office of Security.
37. ADMINISTRATIVE DELIVERIES I delivered
a letter from the DCI to Representative John Flynt (D., Ga. ), Chairman,
House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, expressing the DCI's
desire to cooperate with the Chairman in pursuit of the Committee's
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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Thursday - 5 May 1977
2. (Unclassified - CM) CONSTITUENT Mark Levinson, of the office
of Senator Edward Kennedy (D., Mass. ), called to say the information on
FBIS which I left for him on 3 May, was probably not sufficient for the
constituent's inquiry. I suggested that Levinson send us a letter giving more
details of the request, which I would pass on to FBIS for its reply. He said
he would let us know about that suggestion.
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