JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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CIA-RDP80-00941A000500030015-2
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RIPPUB
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5
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June 23, 2006
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15
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January 13, 1978
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Approved For Release 2006/06/23: CIA-RDP80-00941AO00500030015-2 Q Approved For Release 2006/06/23: CIA-RDP80-00941AO00500030015-2 Approved For Release 2006/06/23: CIA-RDP80-00941A000500030015-2 SECRET -INTERNAL USE ONLY Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Friday - 13 January 1978 6. (Unclassified - RJK) LIAISON Winslow Wheeler, in the office of Senator Jacob Javits (R. , N. Y. ), called requesting information on General Maxwell Taylor's report on the Bay of Pigs. After checking with a number of Agency sources, I called Wheeler back and suggested that the National Archives Research Service recently made available to the public portions of reports by General Taylor to President Kennedy on the Bay of Pigs. I provided him with the name and number of the NARS individual to contact. 7. (Unclassified - ABS) FOIA On advice o 25X1 Acting Chief, Coordination and Review Staff, OLC, atnu er Checking with responsible officers in OTS and ODD of DDS&T, called Walter Sheridan, on the staff of the Senate Human Resources Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research, to advise him that CIA had no objection if Ms. Jean Fitz-Simon, Department of Justice, reviewed the Subcommittee's files on drugs even though the files contain classified CIA material. (See Memorandum For the Record. ) 9. (Confidential - GLC) LIAISON Talked with Ira Goldman, on the staff of Representative Robert McClor (R Ill h called because of the difficulty he had experienced in his contacts with Carl Hurst, of the FBI, and Steve Harrick, OSD regrar security I later talked with Hurst and y 25x1 DD/OS, and we believe we have worked out the proce ure for Goldman to request his Top Secret clearance but this procedure is being confirmed by the FBI with the House Judiciary Committee before we go back to Goldman. 10. (Unclassified - GLC) LIAISON I was unable to reach Bill Hogan, Counsel, House Armed Services Committee, at his office but I contacted him at home to determine his desires regarding the release of the latest edition of our annual report on Soviet defense expenditures. Hogan said the Committee would like to handle this lication as they have in the past and I advised him that ub NFAC/CSS, would 25x1 get advance copies of the item to him on Monday afternoon. Regular distribution would be made on Tuesday and the Committee would probably release copies of the report early Tuesday morning. 1NTEMT&-k L u iL r Approved For Release 2006/06/23: CIA-RDP80-00941A000500030015-2 Approved For Release 2006/06/23: CIA-RDP80-00941AO00500030015-2 SECRET Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 3 Friday - 13 January 1978 11. LIAISON Attended the first meeting of the White House Liaison group for the second session of the 95th Congress at the White House this afternoon. The meeting was principally concerned with preparations for budget submissions and the group was addressed by James McIntyre, Director of OMB. 1Z.1 I LIAISON Spoke with Fred Barron, in the Attorney General's office, and Mike O'Neil, Chief Counsel, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, in the interest of assuring that the loop was completely closed on the subject of further dealings with the House International Relations Subcommittee on International Organi- zations. 13. EMPLOYMENT Received a call from Mary Kay Anderson, in the office of Representative Andrew Jacobs (D. , Ind. ), who requested that an employment package be sent to their Indianapolis district office for a constituent. OLC Registry will handle. 14. LIAISON Received a call from Steve Emerson, Senate For lations Committee staff, who asked when his subscription to the Daily Report on the Middle East would begin. After checking with iaison, I called Emerson back and told him it would be 24 January. 15. LIAISON Met with John Atkisson, General Counsel, House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight, and showed him a Secret intelligence report of 1972 dealing with an international meeting concerning the establishment of a uranium cartel. I told Atkisson that the report would have to be sanitized if he wished CIA to make a formal response to Chairman John E. Moss' (D., Calif. ) request for such material. Atkisson said he was not interested in the details of how the material was acquired and would be very happy to have a sanitized version. He understands that even the sanitized version will be classified. Atkisson indicated a deep knowledge in the meeting which was the subject of the report. He also said that the State Department and the Department of Energy have been asked to report to the Committee on this subject but have not to date. SECRET Approved For Release 2006/06/23: CIA-RDP80-00941AO00500030015-2 Approved For Release 2006/06/23: CIA-RDP80-00941AO00500030015-2 SECRET Journal - Office of Legislative Co~unseUSE ONLY l Friday - 13 January 1978 Page 4 16. (Unclassified - ELS) LIAISON Dick Giza, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence staff, called and said Representative Charles Rose (D. , N. Car.) is interested in meeting wit IC Staff, to discus I las soon as it is complete . I am passing this to IC Staff. 25X1 17. (Unclassified - MMP) LIAISON Craig Fenno, in the office of Representative Barber Conable (R. , N. Y.), called with a battery of questions about KGB activities and personnel in the United States. I told Fenno that the FBI was the appropriate agency to question about the number of KGB "agents" in the United States and the degree to which they may have increased subsequent to the establishment of detente. I explained the separation of CIA and FBI charters and jurisdictions. He thanked me and said that he would contact the FBI. 18. (Internal Use Only - MMP) LIAISON Called Col. Steve Harrick, DOD, and told him that our analysts would like to obtain a copy of the classified transcript from the 3 August 1977 hearing before the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel on NATO posture and initiatives. He said that he was reasonably confident that he could supply it to us and would get it over to me as soon as possible. 19. (Internal Use Only - MMP) BRIEFING Keith Gardener, in the office of Representative Paul Simon (D., Ill. ), called to request a luncheon /briefing for the Congressman. Subjects for coverage would be: (1) political and economic motivations behind foreign countries' establishment of nuclear capabilities; (2) implications and consequences for U. S. policy deriving from foreign establishments of nuclear competence; and (3) CIA's coverage of international issues with particular reference to human rights. I talked to and she said that this could be handled and that one of the senior officers within NFAC could host the luncheon. 20. (Unclassified - DFM) LIAISON Called Jeanne McNally, secretary to Tom Latimer, Staff Director, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and told her the Agency needed to again review the transcript of the Director's 30 November testimony. She agreed to send it to me. 11 CRET INTERNAL USE ONLY. Approved For Release 2006/06/23: CIA-RDP80-00941AO00500030015-2 Approved For Release 2006/06/23: CIA-RDP80-00941AO00500030015-2 INTERNAL USE ONLY Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Friday - 13 January 1978 Page 5 21. (Confidential - DFM) LIAISON Called Ed Levine, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, and told him that the former Chief of 1who he had asked to meet with, regarding the Frank Carlucci nomination, had retired and would be in Florida until about the first of February. I said there was a possibility we could get in touch with him through one of his children but could not guarantee it. Levine said he was not sure how to proceed now and would have to +1,in1- al-,.,,,+ if 22. (Unclassified - ASS) FOIA Mark Vanderlist, office of Representative Clarence D. Long (D. , Md. ), called in regards to obtaining a copy of the declassified two volume CIA study on the "Rote Kappelle". Since this study is obtainable through the National Archives, I provided Mr. Vanderlist with the necessary mailing address and telephone number. 23. (Unclassified - SF) LIAISON Per her request, mailed to Donna Lavigne, on the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Energy, Nuclear Proliferation and Federal Services, an unclassified Agency publication entitled "International and Transnational Terrorism, 1976. " e-JGE&AGE L. CAR Legislative Counsel cc: O/DDCI Ex. Sec. DDA DDS&T Mr. Lapham Mr. Hetu IC Staff SA/DO/O Compt. 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