JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 16, 2007
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: February 3, 1978
• Content Type: NOTES

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Friday - 3 February 1978
1. (Unclassified - ME) LIAISON/FOIA Received a call from
Vince Versage, on the staff of Senator Spark M. Matsunaga (D., Hawaii),
on behalf of a constituent who wants information from both CIA and FBI
on electronic surveillance equipment and techniques that might be
available to him under the Freedom of Information Act. I gave Mr. Versage
the name and address for sending such inquiries to the CIA by letter.
3. (Unclassified - RSG) LIAISON Took a call from Harriet Hunt,
office of Representative Fortney Stark (D. , Calif. ), who inquired again
whether the Congressman's personal staff could tour the CIA. I suggested
that such a visit might be possible for a large organized group, according
to our letter of tours, and she counted that such a group might be the
Congressional Staff Club. We both agreed that using the Congressional Staff
Club as host organization may be politically sensitive on the Hill in view of
the fact that it represents only employees of the House, not the Senate.
Hunt agreed to call me back with any further suggestions. She also indicated
she would call to inform me whether Representative Stark, and MIT alumnus,
would attend the MIT visit to CIA, 8 February 1978.
5. (Unclassified - RSG) LIAISON Called James Wolf, House Select
Committee on Assassinations staff, to coordinate a draft of agreements
reached at yesterday's meeting regarding the Committee's access to Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence transcripts of testimony by former Agency
employees.
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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Friday - 3 February 1978
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6. (Unclassified - RSG) LIAISON Betsy Wolf, G. Robert Blakey,
Gary Cornwell, Michael Goldsmith and Dan Hardway, House Select
Committee on Assassinations staff, visited C&R Staff to review Agency
material.
7. (Confidential - LLM) LIAISON Spoke with Bill Miller, Staff
Director, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and covered the areas
of interest of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee
relating to the ownership of Air Taxi and asked that he let us know if there
is any feeling that we are not cooperating since we are bending every
effort to be as responsive as possible.
I also asked him if he understood the full picture regarding the
treaties between the DCI, the Secretary of State and the President concerning
the role of the ambassador and the various implementing instructions. I
said we wanted to make sure that he did so that he would be in a position
to correct any misimpression caused by today's New York Times story.
Later in the day, Miller called indicating the story had caused some
controversy and it was agreed we would send down to him copies of the
four messages which constituted the complete instructions.
I talked with Miller and urged that he do whatever is possible to
file the Committee report on Ambassador Carlucci, which was approved
unanimously, as we were looking towards a swearing-in date of 8 February
and there has to be time for Senate action and processing of the papers
in the White House. Miller promised to do what he could and later advised
the report had been filed.
8. (Confidential - LLM) LIAISON Called Tom Latimer, Staff
Director, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and asked
if he needed anything further to understand the instructions that have been
issued concerning the role of the ambassador. He thought it would be
a good idea to have a complete set of the instructions and they were
provided later in the day.
9. (Internal Use Only - LLM) LIAISON In the absence of Bob
Thomson, White House Congressional Liaison staff, talked to Regina
Mellon explaining the bind we were in in meeting our target of the
swearing in of the DDCI next Wednesday. She said she would see what
she could do, including the turn around time for processing the papers
within the White House.
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Friday - 3 February 1978
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10. (Unclassified - BAA) LIAISON Anne Harley, Library of
Congress, called and requested a map of Liechtenstein for the Senate
Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust & Monopoly. She said any size
we had would be alright. I said I would check and be back in touch.
11. (Internal Use Only - THW) LIAISON I called Frank Potter,
on the staff of the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Subcommittee
on Energy and Power, and told him we had collected the documents on
NUMEC provided to the former Joint Atomic Energy Committee and told
him that he and Pete Stockton, also on the Subcommittee staff, were
welcome to review the documents here at Headquarters at their con-
venience. He said he would talk to Stockton, who will get back to me
with a date.
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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Friday - 3 February 1978
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14. (Unclassified - ELS) BRIEFING Took of
the Comptroller's Office, down to see Jim Bush, on the staff of the House
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, to return transcript of
January 20 CIA briefing and to discuss certain deletions of sensitive
material. Bush was agreeable to almost every deletion requested and said
he would try them all with Representative Bill D. Burlison (D., Mo.).
Very cordial meeting.
15. (Unclassified - ELS) HEARINGS I received from the Resource
Management Staff (formerly the Intelligence Community Staff) a DoD note
indicating that the House Appropriations Committee wishes to have the
Director testify on the NFIP at 10:00 a. m. on 11 April, and have a CIA
hearing at 10:00 a. m. on 13 April. I called Chuck Snodgrass, on the staff
of the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, to check on the information
(which is correct but tentative) and to ask if the 11th date could be changed as
it is a Tuesday. Snodgrass said he would check with Ralph Preston, of
the Subcommittee.
16. (Unclassified - ELS) HEARINGS At the request of the
Resource Management Staff, I called Dan Childs, on the staff of the Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence, and asked if the Airborne Mix hearing
set for 1400 hours on 23 February and the Quality of Analysis hearing set
for 1400 hours on 7 March could be switched. Resource Management Staff
will recommend that the Director participate in the Quality of Analysis
hearing and wish it to be first of issue oriented hearings. Another reason
for switch is that Quality of Analysis is currently on same day that CIA
appears before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and
appropriate witnesses may not be available for both at the same time.
Childs said switching could be a problem but he would look into it.
17. (Unclassified - ELS) HEARINGS Dan Childs, on the staff of the
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, confirmed that State of Intelligence
briefing scheduled for 9 February and State of the World scheduled for
February 10 are both cancelled. He was uncertain whether any attempt
would be made to reschedule.
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Friday - 3 February 1978
18. (Confidential - MMP) BRIEFING Accompanied Hans
Binnendijk, Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff, and Bert H.
Cooper, Congressional Research Staff of the Library of Congress, to a
briefing in NFAC/CSS office. NFAC/CSS, has written a
memorandum on this briefing on the air balance in the Middle East.
There were no outstanding questions and Mr. Binnendijk fully understood
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22. (Unclassified - MMP) LIAISON Tom Smeeton, on the staff of
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was referred to me by Tom
OLC. Mr. Smeeton said that the Committee staff is preparing a
paper on Rhodesia and has made some statements about the Marxist and/or
radical Marxist support currently being given to guerrilla forces in
Rhodesia. He wanted to know if this characterization was accurate.
After checking wit NFAC/CSS, who referred me to Bob
ORPA/ Africa, in ormed Mr. Smeeton that his characterization
was accurate in that the support the guerrilla forces were receiving was
a curious mix of Cuban, Soviet and Chinese. This satisfied Mr. Smeeton's
needs.
23. (Internal Use Only - MMP) BRIEFING Based on referral from
OLC, I called Dorothy Fosdick, in the office of Senator
Henry ackson (D., Wash.), to make sure that I had a full grip on her
briefing needs. She told me that she had already discussed this with us,
but I persuaded her to repeat it for me. By way of preparing Senator
Jackson for his trip to the People's Republic of China, he wants a briefing
on the Cambodia-Vietnamese border situation, the Horn of Africa, and
PRC and Soviet involvement in both. This has been set for 1400 hours
on 7 February 1978 in 135 Russell Senate Office Building. I have reconfirmed
this requirement with NFAC/CSS. 25x1
24. (Unclassified - MG) BRIEFING Received a call from Linda,
Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff, who asked what would be the
level of classification for the briefing of the Committee on 10 uary on
foreign military presence in Africa. After checking withi NFAC /CSS; x1
I called Linda back and told her that the briefing would be at the compartmented
level.
25. (Secret - THW) LIAISON Calle DIA, and told 25X1
him of the two new DOD intelligence reports we a iscovered in our search
of material on the G. William Miller nomination to the Board of Governors
of the Federal Reserve System and obtained from him permission to quote
the relevant information from the two reports in our classified letter back
to the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs.
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26. (Unclassified - THW) LIAISON I attended a luncheon for
Representative Paul Simon (D. , Ill.) at Agency Headquarters, hosted
by Jack Blake, A/DDCI. (See Memorandum for the Record.)
27. (Internal Use Only - THW) LIAISON Hans Binnendijk,
Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff, called to thank us for
setting up the meeting between him and members of ORPA/NFAC
to discuss the Middle East air balance.
28. (Secret - THW) LIAISON Bill Miller, Staff Director, Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence, called and with respect to the role of
ambassador documents asked whether any of them were coordinated with
the Department of State in advance, if not, why not, and whether we pro-
posed to now show them to State. After discussing the matter with Ted
Shackley and Eloise Page, of the DDO, I called Mr. Miller back and said
that the State/CIA agreement, as well as the DCI's supplemental cable,
had been fully coordinated with State in advance and that the third cable,
which was in two parts, was not coordinated as it was procedural in
nature and fully consonant with the State/CIA ageement with the DCI's
supplemental cable. I added that the procedural cable had been given
to State today.
Acting Legislative Counsel
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ADDENDUM TO JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Friday - 3 February 1978
(Unclassified - GMC) BRIEFING Accompaniel
of OER, to a briefing of Grenville Garside and Dan Dreyfus, STAT
of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. The subject
of the briefing was the Chinese energy situation. Chairman Henry M.
Jackson (D., Wash.) is scheduled to visit the PRC later this month.
2. Confidential - GMC) LIAISON Took a call from Beverly Lumpkin,
on the staff of the Subcommittee on International Organizations, Committee
on International Relations, and discussed several matters related to the
Subcommittee staff's requests for review and declassification of so called
"old" material.
3. (Unclassified - PLC) LIAISON Professor G. Robert Blakey,
Chief Counsel and Director, House Select Committee on Assassinations,
called inquiring as to the status of the letter fromi to STAT
Bill Miller, Staff Director, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, ..and
I told him that it should be ready by the end of the day. He said he would
come out tomorrow at 10:00 a. m. and I would meet him to review the letter.
He asked that I also make available the Ramirez translation for his review.
4. (Confidential - DFM) LIAISON Hal Ford, Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence staff, was at Headquarters to review a computer
list of DDO dissemination from Vietnam for the period September 1974
to April 1975. I informed Ford I did not yet have the study done by
formerly of the IC Staff, on reporting from Vietnam 2 5)
but hoped to have it next week.
5. (Confidential - DFM) LIAISON Received a call from Loch
Johnson, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence staff, who
said he had not been able to review yesterday all the Studies in Intelligence
that he had requested, but would return next week to finish. He also
asked when he would receive the document on ITT/Chile he had requested
and I told him I hoped I would have it for him Monday. Johnson also asked
me the total number of analysts in NFAC, broken down to the number at
Headquarters and the number in the field. Johnson also asked me for
information on the field assignments, e. g. , length of tour.
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Friday - 3 February 1978
6. (Confidential - DFM) LIAISON Called Angelo Codevilla,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, and set up a meeting for
him this afternoon wit EUR/DDO, on EUR Division 25X1
reporting practices. This is in connection with Codevilla's planned
quality of intelligence study.
7. (Confidential - DFM) LIAISON Tom Moore, Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence staff, called in reference to this morning's
New York Times article regarding the agreement between State and CIA
on the role of the Ambassador. I referred him to the 28 November 1977
DCI letter to Chairman Daniel K. Inouye (D., Hawaii) on this subject.
After reviewing this letter, Moore called back to say there were other
cables including one with cryptonyms used to report when an Ambassador
had been briefed on a particular subject. Later in the day, I sent, by
courier, copies of all four cables on this subject.
8. (Unclassified - DFM) LIAISON Received a call from
Ed Schallert, on the personal staff of Representative Les Aspin (D., Wis.),
who switched the briefing for the Congressman from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. on
7 February. The briefing concerns SALT II verification capabilities.
10. (Unclassified - DFM) LIAISON Received a call from
Julie Romero, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence staff,
for Dick Giza, also of the Committee staff. Romero said Giza wanted
to have a session next week on DDS&T in-house evaluations. She also
informed me that Representative Charles Rose (D., N. Car.) wanted to
visit the Agency on the morning of 9 February for a briefing on OTS or
NPIC. I told Romero I would be in touch with Dick Giza on Monday
morning to work out the details.
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11. (Unclassified - DFM) LIAISON Called Diane LaVoy, House
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence staff, and gave her the
information she requested about the Special Assistant to the DCI for
Warning. I also told her that the IC Staff had been changed so much by
the recent Executive Order that it made no sense to provide her a copy
of an organizational chart she requested. She was agreeable to this.
12. (Unclassified - DFM) LIAISON Received a call from Hal Ford,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, who told me the Committee
would be meeting next week and would take up the issue of the release of a
statement on the A Team-B Team report. Ford said the published
statement would be the same as that which was reviewed by the Agency
last year except for a few grammatical changes. He agreed to send me
a copy.
13. (Unclassified - YTF) LEGISLATION Dave Barrett, at the
Department of Justice, called to talk over our differences in the amendatory
language for S. 1845, the polygraph bill. He said he would be sending over
a new amendment and would like to meet with me sometime in the future.
14. (Unclassified - RLB) LEGISLATION Prepared and sent to
Pat Norton, on the staff of the Senate Select Committee on Intelli ence 25X1
a letter and suggested changes, prepared in conjunction wit
OGC, relating to various sections of Title II of the draft intelligence charter
legislation.
15. (Unclassified - RLB) LEGISLATION Received a call from
Ray Konan, in the Office of General Counsel at DOD, who alerted me to
a provision in Title I of the draft intelligence charter legislation relating
to the definition of "special activities, " which Mr. Konan said he had
discussed inconclusively with Elliot Maxwell, o A-h- ' taff of the Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence. F- I 25X1
Acting Legislative Counsel
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