JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 25, 2006
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• Publication Date: April 11, 1978
• Content Type: NOTES

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1. (Unclassified - NDL) LIAISON Per her request, I mailed
to Carolyn Tennyson, in the office of Senator Paul S. Sarbanes (D. , Md. ),
a copy of the Agency publication entitled "Korea: The Economic Race
Between the North and the South. "
2. (Unclassified - MG) BRIEFING Called Louis Hunter, GAO,
and confirmed the briefing for tomorrow of John Van Desander, Philip
Phibeau, and Steve Syriala, GAO, on oil exploration prospects in Mexico.
3. (Unclassified - MG) EMPLOYMENT Received a call from
Bart Johnson, Administrative Assistant to Representative Charles E. Bennett
(D., Fla.), who asked if we could set u an employment
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I called Johnson's office and left a message that an interview had been
scheduled for tomorrow, 2:00 p. m.
4. (Unclassified - MG) Dennis Causey, in the office of Senator
Paul Laxalt (R. , Nev.), called to thank me for sending him -a map of the
USSR he had recently requested showing major petroleum deposits, pipeline
systems and refineries.
5. (Unclassified - MG) BRIEFING Steve Syriala, GAO, called to
confirm the briefing he will be receiving tomorrow at Headquarters on oil
exploration prospects in Mexico.
6. (Unclassified - KJS) BRIEFING Jim Przystup, on the staff of
the House International Relations Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific
Affairs, called to request that the briefing set for Thursday, 13 April, on
developments in Cambod' Vietnam and Laos, be changed to Monday,
April 17, at 1:30 p. m. I ce, I checked with
INFAC/CSS, office. NFAC/CSS, called me
back to let me know that Monday would be o. k., and I called Jim
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7. (Unclassified - MMP) LIAISON Accompanied NFIB representatives
to discuss procedure for passing information on liaison arrangements to
Congress. (See Memorandum for the Record.)
8. (Confidential - MMP) LIAISON Received from Thomas K.
Latimer, Staff Director, House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence,
9. (Confidential - MMP) LIAISON Diane LaVoy, House Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence staff, called with requests for the
following documents: (a) Procedures for the Production of a National
Intelligence Situation Report - which is an attachment to NFIB-D - 28. 7/1.
(b) DCI Memoranda on Task Force on National Intelligence SITREPS dated
19 Au ust 1976 and 7 September 1976. I passed these requests on to
I I NFAC/CSS.
10. (Unclassified - MMP) LIAISON Received a call from Rhett
Dawson, Senate Armed Services Committee staff, requesting a copy of
the Agency document on Soviet Civil Defense, which he understood has
been declassified down to the Secret level. After checking with
NFAC/CSS, and withi LC, to determine the
availability of the document as well as c earances held by Mr. Dawson,
I informed Mr. Dawson that the document is currently in the possession
of Larry Smith, Senate Armed Services Committee staff. I also told
him that the more highly classified document (codeword) is available
here at Headquarters should he wish to read it. He then asked if it would
be possible for him to receive his own working copy of the Secret document
and, after checking with FAC/CSS, I told him that he could.
11. (Unclassified - MMP) LIAISON Pat Long and Herb Romerstein,
both of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence staff, called
askin whether it would be s s ' le to shift tomorrow's 10:00 app 25 1
I to 1:00 p.m. After checking wit
assured them that 1:00 would be fine.
12. (Confidential - MMP) LIAISON Called Herb Romerstein, House
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence staff, to tell him that he had
received his codeword security clearances and to ask him when it would be
convenient for him to receive his briefings. He told me that he had been
briefed the preceding Wednesday, 6 April by Agency security people.
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13. (Unclassified - ME) FOIA/LIAISON I called Ms. Mikki Staab,
in the Falls Church office of Representative Joseph F. Fisher (D., Va. ),
I apologized to Ms. Staab for not sending a copy of a second
response of 23 March 1978 t and offered to send it along
to her.
14. (Unclassified - MDC) LIAISON I I DIA, called
to find out what clearances were held by Thomas B an enship, of
Columbia Reporters. After checking, I informe hat he
holds a Top Secret clearance with the Departmen se.
15. (Unclassified - ME) FOIA/LIAISON I called the office of
Representative Robert F. Drinan (D. , Mass.) and spoke with Mr. Arthur
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Wolfe. I asked Mr. Wolfe the date of previous correspondence, 25X1
but although he stated that he had been told of a previous re uest to us,
he was unable to furnish the date. However, he will advise 25x1
that the Agency is processing the request at hand and he will receive
acknowledgement from our FOI people.
16. (Confidential - MMP) LIAISON Called Loch Johnson, House
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence staff, to ask him about his
recently concluded European trip. He said that both he and Representative
Les Aspin (D., Wis.) came back highly enthusiastic about what they saw
and learned. He sai ha- h as sure t epresentative Aspin would be
pleased to lunch wit !hand myself at some future
date to discuss the benefits and observations they had made from the trip.
17. (Confidential - MMP) LIAISON Received a call from Louis Hunter,
International Division, GAO, with regard to an appointment the wish to
set up for Joseph Di Geor io, International Division, GAO, anc wI 25X1
The purpose of the meeting is apparently to 25x1
find out which of the documents that the GAO team saw during a trip to
several countries in the Western Hemisphere could be released to them.
I told Mr. Hunter that I would get back to him the following morning.
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18. (Confidential - THW) LIAISON Called Frank Sullivan,
Staff Director, Senate Armed Services Committee, and alerted him
to an item in the NID on Panama. He appreciated the call.
19. (Confidential - THW) BRIEFING Called Hans Binnendijk,
on the staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Foreign
Assistance, and set up a briefing for him at Headquarters on 13 April,
at 9:15 a. m. , on the impact of the arms embargo on the military
readiness and NATO role of Turkey and the military balance in the
Agean Sea. 1OSR, will do the briefing.
20. (Unclassified - THW) LIAISON Linda Bates, in the Roswell,
New Mexico district office of Senator Harrison H. Schmitt (R., N. Mex.),
called with a request from a Professor Bowen of the University of New
Mexico at Roswell. Professor Bowen had asked if she could set up a
conference call for a class of 30 students to discuss the organization of
the CIA, employment needs, etc. I told her that I thought such a set up
would be very difficult to handle and suggested that she ask Professor
Bowen to put his questions in writing and perhaps we would be able to
be responsive in that fashion. I also said I would send her some brochures
on the CIA which they could use to answer some of the questions.
21. (Unclassified - THW) LIAISON Called Chuck Snodgrass, on the
staff of the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, and in his absence
spoke to Marsha and asked her to tell Mr. Snodgrass that we had no objections
to Dempsey Mizelle, on the staff of the Subcommittee on State, Justice,
Commerce and Judiciary, sitting in on the hearing scheduled for 3:30 p.m.
on 12 April concerning 25x1
22. (Confidential - THW) LIAISON Called Dick White, Admini-
strative Assistant to Representative Dale Milford (D., Texas), and asked
him if he could forward to us the best set of coordinates Representative
Milford has on the World War II aircraft in Greenland. He said he would
check into it and call me back.
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26. (Internal Use Only - GMC) LIAISON Took a call. from
Kenneth DeGraffenreid, on the staff of the Morgan-Schmitt Senate
Select Committee on Ethics Subcommittee, who gave me the name
of another employee of the Subcommittee's stenographic reporting firm
for whom a TS/SI clearance was requested. I told DeGraffenreid that I
had been informed that it would be necessary for the Agency to review the
investigative reports in these cases and that it would take some time to
have these reports forwarded from their repository in Ohio and processed.
27. (Internal Use Only - GMC) LIAISON Received a call from
Don Sanders, Special Counsel, Morgan-Schmitt Senate Select Committee on
Ethics Subcommittee, who inquired as to the status of the draft Memorandum
of Understanding between the DCI and the Subcommittee. I told Sanders
that it was m understanding t at he had discussed desired changes in the 25x1
draft wit Acting Chief, C &R Staff, and that we would
be forwar Ing a revise ra to the Subcommittee. Sanders said that he
would like to expedite matters and that if his desired changes had been
accommodated we could save time by having the DCI sign the Memorandum
of Understanding and then forwarding it for signature by Senators Robert B.
Morgan (D., N. Car.) and Harrison H. Schmitt (R., N. Mex.). I told Sanders
that I would try my best to move this matter along as quickly as possible.
28. (Unclassified - DFM) LIAISON Accompanied Richard Kaufman,
General Counsel, Joint Economic Committee, to a meeting with Maurice Ernst,
D/OER, regarding how the Agency might respond to the letter from
Senator William Proxmire (D., Wis. ) asking for statistics on the Agency's
work on the Soviet economy. We reiterated the Agency's position that we
could not supply budget and personnel figures. Mr. Ernst did offer to list
the areas of speciality of Agency employees studing the Soviet economy.
This was satisfactory to Kaufman. Kaufman agreed that we did not need
to send full answers to Senator Proxmire in his capacity as a Member of
the Senate Appropriations Committee as we did last year.
29. (Unclassified - DFM) LIAISON Took a call from Joyce Newton,
in the office of Senator Orrin Hatch (R., Utah). Newton read me a letter
from a constituent expressing concern about DDO personnel reductions. I
explained the DCI's position and specifically denied the charge that
politically hard line employees were being released in favor of those
with more moderate political views. I also agreed to send her a paper
which had previously been circulated to the press on this subject.
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30. (Confidential - DFM) LIAISON Talked several times during the
day with Bill Miller, Staff Director, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
He requested that Mr. Frank Carlucci drop by his office to discuss operational
use of a former Agency employee who was on the staff of a U. S. Senator.
This incident occurred in the early 1960s and the Senator was not made
aware of contacts with the staff member. Miller also referred to a
Washington Star article on a Soviet spy recently arrested in Iran and asked
if this incident was connected with the arrest last year of two other Iranian
officials as Soviet spies. Miller indicated Senator Daniel Moynihan (D., N. Y.)
was very interested in the Edward J. Epstein book, Legend, and had
requested that the Agency make a point by point response to the allegations.
Miller also requested any damage assessments on the book. I discussed
with Miller the request for a compartmented clearance for Hoyt Purvis,
of Senator Robert Byrd's (D., W. Va.) staff. Miller agreed that we could
retract compartmented clearances for another staff member already
representing Senator Byrd in order that we might have only one representative
of each Senator on the Select Committee with access to compartmented
information.
31. (Unclassified - DFM) LIAISON Received a call from Earl
Eisenhower, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, who said he
had been asked for information about the apparent defection of a Soviet
official at the United Nations. Eisenhower asked for information on this
case and I agreed to look into it.
32. (Unclassified - DFM) LIAISON Received a call from Ed Levine,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, who asked me for the figure
in the Agency's FY-1979 budget for a particular program. After checking
with the Office of the Comptroller, I gave Levine the figure. All of this
was done in a manner which did not reveal classified information.
33. (Secret - DFM) LIAISON Called Abram Shulsky, Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence staff, to ask for the subject Senator Daniel
Moynihan (D., N. Y.) wants to speak to the Director about tomorrow.
Shulsky indicated the subject was the possible defection of a Soviet United
Nations official. Later on the secure phone, Shulsky informed me that
txrhila fiPnnfnr Mn rniha.n was at the TTN_ he knew the official and this was
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34. (Unclassified - HMS) EMPLOYMENT REQUEST Received a
call from of Representative Joseph Ammerman's (D., Pa.)
office, requesting a pro essional employment application. I told her we
would send her one. OLC Registry was advised.
35. (Confidential - HMS) LIAISON Per Donald Massey's, Assistant
Legislative Counsel, request, I sent via courier an answer to one of the
follow-up questions of Mr. Frank Carlucci's testimony on the Agency's
special activities budget to Ed Levine, of the Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence staff.
36. (Unclassified - HMS) LIAISON Received a call from Janean Mann,
in the office of Representative John Buchanan (R_ _ Ala. ). reauestiny
37. (Unclassified - JEC) LEGISLATION Called Alan Coffey,
Associate Counsel, House Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative
Law and Governmental Relations, and told him that a courier would be
delivering the statements on financial disclosure legislation which he had
requested. Later in the day I visited Mr. Coffey and we discussed the
hearings held that day by the House Rules Committee on financial
disclosure legislation.
38. (Unclassified - JEC) LEGISLATION Met with Ira Goldman
and Karen Kaub, on the staff of Representative Robert McClory (R. , Ill. ),
to discuss financial disclosure legislation. I also left a copy of proposed
amendments to H. R. 6954 with Ms. Kaub and asked her to determine if
the Congressman would be willing to introduce the amendment if necessary.
Earlier in the day I had phoned Mr. Goldman to tell him that several papers
concerning financial disclosure were available at the House Permament
Select Committee on Intelligence.
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39. (Unclassified - ELS) HEARING Attended the House
Appropriations Committee hearing on the National Foreign
Intelligence Program (NFIP) 1979 budget with the Director and
Program Managers of the NFIP. (See Memorandum for the Record.)
40. (Unclassified - MG) EMPLOYMENT In response to her
earlier call, called Clara Terry, in the office of Representative
Robert S. Walker (R., Pa.), and informed her that on 9 March
we had sent a letter with a -1-mi- L"31 and brochures to the
Congressman's constituen but perhaps it had been
lost in the mail. I told her we were orwarding another one.
41. (Unclassified - RLB) LEGISLATION Attended a meeting
of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence regarding
financial disclosure legislation.
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