JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 8, 2006
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• Publication Date: March 13, 1978
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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Monday - 13 March 1978
1.1 LIAISON Per her earlier request,
I had deliver the following publications to Betsy Keyes,
on the staff of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence:
Chief of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments, World
Shipbuilding: Facing up to Overcapacity, Directory of the Cuban Govern-
ment and Mass Organizations, Cuban Party and Government Leadership,
and a wall chart of the Chinese Communist Party Organizations. I also
informed Ms. Keyes that the wall chart on CPSU Central Committee:
Executive and Administrative Apparatus was on order and would be forwarded
to her in a couple of weeks.
2. LIAISON I accomanied j~DJD O,
to a meeting with Joe Nellis, Chief Counsel, House Select Committee on
Narcotics and Drug Abuse Control, and Bill Lawrence, Chief of Staff of
the Committee. The purpose of the meeting was to give them our responses
to information previously provided by the Committee. (See Memorandum for
the Record, OLC 78-1108. )
3. LIAISON I called Paul Michel, Department
of Justice, and discussed with him the leak problem connected with the
House International Relations Subcommittee on International Organizations
and gave him additional details as we know them regarding specific leaks.
4. LIAISON Sent by courier to Thomas K.
Latimer, Staff Director, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,
a copy of the entrance on duty Secrecy Agreement (see OLC 78-1022/a).
5. LIAISON Sent by courier to Thomas K.
Latimer, Staff Director, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,
fourteen articles from "Studies in Intelligence" that he requested in his
letter of 3 March 1978 (see OLC 78-0910/a). MORUCDF Pages 1-5:7,8;and 10
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18. I I LIAISON Took a call from Dave
Melocik, Congressional Relations, Drug Enforcement Administration,
who indicated he had received a written request from the House Select
Committee on Assassinations for any and all files on He called
me to seek the true identity so that he might process is request. I
indicated I would call him back later in the day with further thoughts on
this matter.
19. IAISON Called Ken Klein, Senior
Counsel, House Select Committee on Assassinations, to indicate that
Office of Security files oni ere ready for review. Klein
indicated he would visit the Agency tomorrow to conduct this file
review.
20. LIAISON Betsy Wolf and Dan Hardway,
House Select Committee on Assassinations staff, visited Headquarters
to review Agency material.
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21. LIAISON Spoke tol I NSA,
on the secure phone, concerning the House International Relations
Subcommittee on International Organizations (Fraser Subcommittee)
request for access to NSA material. I also sent him a copy of the
Attorney General agreement with the Subcommittee.
22. I LIAISON Called Paul Michel, Department
of Justice, to be assured that any CIA originated information made
available by Justice to the House International Relations Subcommittee
on International Organizations (Fraser Subcommittee) is appropriately
sanitized according to CIA's criteria and he assured me that this would be
the case. I advised
23.1 LIAISON Called Barbara Allen, in the office
of Norvill Jones, Staff Director, Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
and provided her with number of the Foreign Service List. She will pass
this number on to Mr. Jones.
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LIAISON On a referral from
sent background information on the Agency
to Jen Madsen, a constituent of Representative James Leach (R., Iowa).
LIAISON Received a call from Ed Levine2,5X1
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, in response to my earlier
call to the Committee about a closed session of the Senate which Senator
Adlai Stevenson (D., Ill.) had requested. Levine elaborated on Stevenson's
request for examples of leaks he could cite in the closed session.
Levine asked me if we had received the questions he drafted on the
I case and I said we had. Levine said he would like
our responses on is as soon as possible as several Members of the
Committee were intensely interested in this case. I agreed to try to set
up a briefing for him on this tomorrow and was later able to confirm a
meeting for an SE Division/DDO representative for 11:30 a. m. tomorrow.
26. LIAISON Called Catherine Essoyan,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, who verified 20 March at
2:00 p. m. for a briefing of the Committee staff on LA Division/DDO
anti-terrorism activities. Stan Taylor, Angelo Codevilla, and Abram
Shulsky, also of the Committee staff, will also participate.
27. LIAISON Called Bill Miller, 25x1
Staff Director, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, to alert him that
Bill Ashworth, of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff, had asked
the Agency for personnel and budget figures on two Agency components
and that we had referred him to the Committee. Miller confirmed that
this was the proper way to handle this and said that he knew Ashworth
personally and would talk to him if he called. I told Miller there was
some remaining qonuon on how the Agency should respond to the
Committee on th reductions questions. Miller verified my belief 25x1
that a number of Senators on the Committee were interested in these
responses, not only Senator Malcolm Wallop (R., Wyo.). Miller repeated
his earlier statement that the way to handle these would be to file written
responses which would close out the Committee's interest.
28. LIAISON Called Audrey Hatry, Clerk, 25x1
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, who agreed to send me
transcripts of recent Agency briefings of the Committee on the CIA budget
and covert action. These were received later in the day.
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Monday - 13 March 1978
34. LEGISLATION Called the Senate
Committee on Governmental Affairs to check on the status of S. 2596,
a "Presidential Papers" bill. I spoke with Chris Burnstein, who indicated
that nothing to date has been scheduled with regard to the bill. Ms. Burnstein
indicated that the person on the Committee who will be handling the bill
is Ira Shapiro.
35. 1 LEGISLATION Called John Seivert,
at the Department of Justice, to discuss their proposed amendments to the
Federal Tort Claims Act. The amendments would establish disciplinary
procedures against employees who violated the constitutional rights of
any person. . Seivert said that Justice is not enthisiastic about the
bill, but it is necessary so that the main amendments to the Federal Tort
Claims Act (those which would substitute the Government rather than the
employee as a defendant) would be passed by Congress. I outlined our
problems with the procedures for him, including comments on the
Director's summary termination power and our problems regarding
disclosure of confidential or sources and methods information during the
hearings. He said the Department of Justice had recognized this when
they drafted the legislation, and they will be responsive to our comments.
36. I I LEGISLATION Talked with Jack Perkins,
at the Department of Justice, concerning the proposed amendments to the
Federal Tort Claims Act. Mr. Perkins briefly went into the background
of why Justice had proposed these amendments and indicated that they
were not enthusiastically supporting the amendments.
37. EGISLATION Called Bob Carlstrom,
OMB, in response to teir request for oral comments on the Department
of Justice proposed amendments to S. 2117, the Federal Tort Claims Act
amendments. I gave him the gist of our problems, and he asked that we
forward a letter outlining our concerns.
38. LEGISLATION Called Bob Lockhart,
Deputy General Counsel to ta House Post Office and Civil Service Committee,
to find out what witnesses were testifying tomorrow on the Civil Service
reform bill.
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39. I I LIAISON In response to a letter 25X1
from Rita Argenta, staff of the House Armed Services Committee, I called
her and advised her of the status of the security clearance for all
staffers of the Committee. In response to my question, she stated
that Louise Ellis and William Short, of the Committee staff, had both
retired. A request to Special Security Center is being made to delete
their names.
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ADDENDUM TO JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Monday - 13 March 1978
1. I LIAISON Called Sherry Towell,
Chief Clerk, Senate Select Committee on Ethics, regarding an admini-
strative matter related to a security clearance request for an Ethics
Committee staffer.
2. LIAISON Took a call from Larry
Sulc, Minority staff, House International Relations Subcommittee on
International Organizations, who said that he wanted to visit Head-
quarters to write his own summary of "old" documents. I told Sulc
this would be acceptable provided that Michael Hershman, Deputy Staff
Director of the Subcommittee, knew about the visit.
Later in the day, Sulc visited Headquarters to review "old"
material and prepare an information summary for review and clearance
for public release. Sulc said that Chairman Donald M. Fraser (D., Minn.
was still promising to raise the matter of the Subcommittee staff's alleged
unauthorized possession of a transcript of an Agency document with us.
Sulc also said that he was only vaguely aware a y new understanding
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