JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00941A000600050015-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 4, 2006
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: July 11, 1978
• Content Type: NOTES

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Tuesday - 11 July 1978
1. LIAISON Called Pat Swygert,
General Counsel, Civil Service Commission, and asked for help on
a technical amendment to the Civil Service reform bill to assure
that the Agency is not included under the merit pay system. I
referred him to previous favorable action in the Senate and to
Ted Kazy's, Minority Staff Director, House Post Office and Civil
Service Committee, request that this amendment be accomplished at
the request of the Civil Service Commission rather than the
Intelligence Community because of the amendment's general
applicability. Swygert said he was sure he could take care of the
matter and would let me know the outcome.
LIAISON Called Howard Liebengood,
Office of [=e Minority Floor Leader of the Senate, and discussed
several amendments of interest to us in the State Authorization
Bill. Liebengood is quite sure that Senator Howard H. Baker
(R., Tenn.), one of the conferees, would be sympathetic to our
concerns and would take appropriate action. On the role of the
Ambassador amendment, he said the Senator had asked him to check
it out with Bill Miller, Staff Director, Senate Select Committee
on Intelligence, because the Senator was concerned and Bill Miller
had advised Liebengood the amendment would cause us no problem.
I explained why we did not see eye to eye with Bill Miller on this
issue. I promised to send Liebengood a talking points paper for
use with Senator Baker.
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6. (Unclassified - RJK) LIAISON Called George Berdes,
staffer on the House International Relations Committee, to
tell him that our people continued to believe that the
Egyptians did not have certain Soviet aircraft, as reported
in various media publications. Berdes appreciated our
response, indicating that people had written to Chairman
Clement J. Zablocki (D., Wis.) about this matter and that
he felt obligated to check it out.
7. (Unclassified - RJK) LIAISON Senate Foreign
Relations Committee staffers, James Thessian and Steve Emerson,
visited Headnnartprs for a briefing Mexican oil
25X1 situation. NFAC, provided the
briefing, which went very well.
8. (Unclassified - ELS) LIAISON Attended lunch and
briefing on Soviet intelligence operations with Charles
Snodgrass. staffer on the House Committee on Appropriations.
NFAC/CSS, was host.
9. (Unclassified - ELS) LIAISON Set up meetings for
Ambassador Andrew Steigman, Director of National Intelligence
Tasking Office, with Dan Childs and George Pickett, Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence staff; James A. Fellenbaum
and Guy G. McConnell, Senate Appropriations Committee, and
James 0. Bush, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,
scheduled for 17 July at 1000, 1030 and 1130 hours, respectively.
Fellenbaum will confirm.
10. (Unclassified - SF) LIAISON Received a call from
Randy Manella, in the office of Representative Gary A. Myers
(R., Pa.), requesting a copy of the lower court decision in
Higgs vs. Schlesinger, docket number 72-6272, reference number
411US963. This decision was appealed to the Supreme Court.
Stephanie, OGC Library, who is very familiar with the case
will handle.
11. (Unclassified - SF) EMPLOYMENT REQUEST Received a
call from Schelly Reid, in the office of Representative Goodloe E.
Byron (D., Md.), requesting a professional employment package be
sent to her. OLC Registry was advised.
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12. 1 LIAISON Cliff Fowler, GAO,
called and requested that another meeting be arranged between
representatives from his office and the Agency to discuss
further the changes to GAO's draft report on NUMEC. We
will shoot for sometime next week.
13. LIAISON Accompanied Stan Taylor, 25x1
Abram Shuls y and at erine Essoyan, all of the Senate Select
Committee on Intelli once staff, to a meeting wit F_ _1
25x1 regarding the committee's
preliminary in in s on international terrorism. Don Gregg
25X1 also attended. Taylor reviewed
the Committee's preliminary conclusions from its study and
asked for our comments. Principal conclusions included that
each U.S. Government entity involved does a good job
individually in carrying out its responsibilities to combat
international terrorism but that the entities do not work
well together; the inter-Agency working group is only directed
toward responding to incidents, it does not take a preventative
approach; there is a lack of leadership problem, as most
entities look toward NSC for leadership but NSC looks to State.
Complicating this is the fact that there have been five
different leaders of the inter-Agency group in two years.
Finally, there have been no simulations of terrorist incidents
which the staff feels would very much aid the inter-Agency
group when they are confronted with actual terrorist incidents.
14. (Unclassified - DFM) LIAISON Called Susan Mahler,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, and asked her
to see how many of the 43 unclassified reports on Soviet
defense spending, which had been sent to the Committee for
distribution to Senators, were still available. I offered to
make up the difference. Forty-three studies had apparently
been received by the Committee before the letter explaining
they were to be distributed to Senators and they were
subsequently passed around to the Committee staff.
15. I LIAISON Received a call from
Bill Miller, Staff Director, Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence, who requested that an Agency spokesman brief
the Committee this week on three topics: "spy war," i.e.,
exchan e of Soviet and American agents: the discover of the
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the Ana o y c arans y case.
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17. (Unclassified - LLM) LIAISON Accompanied the
Director and Fred Hitz to a meeting with Senator Barry
Goldwater (R., Ariz.) in which the Director thanked the Senator
for his help on the floor on the role of the ambassador
provision in the State authorization bill and reviewed the
troublesome aspects of the Case Act amendments also being
proposed and exchanged views on the intelligence organization
involving the Resource Management Staff and the National
Intelligence Tasking Center, (See Memorandum for the
Record written by Mr. Hitz.)
and I attended a mark-up hearing on Civil Service Reform at
2:00 p.m. in Cannon House Office Building. 25X1
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19. Received a call from Holly
Brown, Special Assistant to Senator John H. Chafee (R., R.I.).
She said the Senator would like to set up another breakfast
meeting with the Director and would like to bring some other
members with him. (This had been arranged earlier by letter
from the Director to the Senator.1d her I would get some
REDERICK P. HITZ
Legislative Counsel
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