JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
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• Publication Date: October 10, 1978
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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Tuesday - 10 October 1978
1. LIAISON Per his request, I sent
to Fred 11L__1_, Assistant to Representative
Lawrence P. McDonald (D., Ga.), the following publications:
"Directory of USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs Officials",
"Directory of Soviet Officials Volume II: RSFSR", and "USSR
Institute of the UnitedStates of America and Canada."
2. LIAISON Sent via courier to 25X1
Jean Evans and David Shaw, on the staff of the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence, their cla ified notes taken on 5 October
of their review of CI Staff files on The notes were reviewed 25X1
by of OLC. 25X1
3. LIAISON Len Parkinson, on the 25x1
staff of tiie ejia Committee, called and cancelled
the luncheon scheduled for noon today with Mr. Hitz. He will call
to set something up next week.
4. LIAISON Peter Sullivan, on the staff of 25X1
the Senate Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on
Investigations, called inquiring as to the status of the Subcommittee's
request for two CIA foreign availability reports on the Q case. 25X1
He asked for the dates of the reports if they could not be released.
After checking withi OER, I informed Sullivan that a 25X1
final decision on release had not yet been made and gave him the
dates of the documents (22 June 1978 and 28 August 1978).
5. ADMINISTRATIVE - DELIVERIES Delivereifxl
letters, giving note ication of the compartmented clearance program,
to the principal staff members of several Committees and Subcommittees
of concern and discussed follow-on procedures. The following were
contacted: Jack Ticer, Senate Armed Services Committee; Bill Hogan,
House Armed Services Committee; Jim Wilson, House Science and
Technology Subcommittee on Space Science and Applications; John Stewart,
Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Subcommittee on Science,
Technology and Space. Each was requested to prepare and submit a
listing of staff members granted SI, TK or BYE clearances for our check
against CIA Community indices.
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11. LEGISLATION On the matter of
H.R. 12171, ing and Auditing Act of 1978,
I spoke with Larry Hammond, Department of Justice and Robert
Carlstrom, OMB. Both OMB and Department of Justice are preparing
letters to the Senate outlining the Administration's position on
this legislation. I informed Messrs. Hammond and Carlstrom that
the Director strongly endorses any action they did for the
affect of delaying Senate consideration of the bill without
full committee consideration, and that we did not want to high-
light our specific intelligence-related concerns.
12. LEGISLATION Spoke with Mr. 25X1
David Minton, Executive Director, House Committee on Post Office
and Civil Service, on the Civil Service Reform legislation. I told
Mr. Minton we noticed that the print of the bill in the Congresssional
Record did not include certain language in the bill as passed by
the House, which related to the authority of the proposed Special
Counsel to receive allegations involving intelligence information by
whistle-blowers. Mr. Minton explained this was deliberate. However,
he agreed the language in the conference report meant only that
such allegations would be passed to the Intelligence Oversight
Committees through the Special Counsel, and not that the Special
Counsel would himself conduct reviews of such allegations.
13. LI m d 26X1
NIO/Near East and South sia AC, 25X1
both of CSS/NFAC, to a substantive intelligence briefing o the
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Senator Barry Goldwater
(R., Ariz.), Committee Vice Chairman, and 12 staff members attended.
discussed the recent fighting in Lebanon and its implications, 25X1
some broader Middle East questions relating to the Camp David
accords, and the current domestic situation in Iran. 25X1
then gave a brief rundown of other items of current interest
using photographs.
14. LIAISON Met with Mike Epstein,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, who referred to
a recent publication by the International Commission of Jurists
(ICJ) and its American counterpart, The American Counsel of the
International Commission of Jurists. Both of these or anizations
ublicize human rights violations.
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LIAISON Met with H
oward Liebengood,
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Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker's (R., Tenn.) s
showed him a 6 October National Intelligence Dail
taff, and
article
regarding Nicaragua. Lie engoo had previously asked that we
bring intelligence about Panamanian:. activities vis-a-vis
Nicaragua to his attention. He was most appreciative.
16. LIAISON Met with Don Sanders, 25X1
Senate Select Committee on intelligence staff, who said a
constituent of Senator Robert Morgan's (D., N. Car.) was
applying for employment with CIA and Senator Morgan wanted to
informa in a good word for the applicant. The applicant's
name i I told Sanders :[ would make sure 25X1
a note to this effect was put in the applicant's file.
17. LIAISON Talked with Ed Levine,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, who postponed
the scheduled briefing on Guatemala City station until 12 October.
18. LIAISON Received a call. from
Ted Ralston, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff,
who said he would like to set up a meeting at NPIC sometime
next week regarding SALT. Ralston said Bill Miller, Staff
Director, Abram Shulsky, Steve Flanagan and Ed :Levine, all of
the Committee staff, would also participate. Ralston would
like a discussion of each weapons system to be covered under
SALT II and a discussion of each of the approximately 40
"monitoring tasks" in the SALT II Treaty.
19. LIAISON Sent copies of the
January through arcs 1977 issues of the bi-weekly Agency
publication entitled "International Oil Developments" to
Jean Rosenheim, Senate Select Committee on Ethics staff, per
the request of Mike Waterhouse, Congressional Research Service,
Library of Congress.
20.1 1 LIAISON Dick Giza, House
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence staff, called
requesting a briefing for himself and Pat Long, also of
the Committee staff, on Intelligence Community methods of handling
of SALT verification. After checking with NFAC/CSS,
we set the briefing, with .. _7~Chief,SALT Support Staff,
1978 hours.
NFAC, for Monday, 16 October at o
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21. LIAISON Called Mike O'Neil,
Chief Counsel, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,
to discuss what he could expect when on the Agency's reporting
to the Committee on its liaison relationships. I told Mr. O'Neil
that we would have an overview and background paper for him at
least in draft prior to the end of next week and that the rest
of the area divisions in the DDO would prepare a paper along the
lines of the Africa paper already submitted. I added that the
questions that he had Thomas Latimer, Staff Director, pose would
be addressed in the follow-up papers.
23. EMPLOYMENT REQUEST Received a
call from minor , Lfice of Representative Doug
Walgren ID. Pa.), requesting an employment interview be set
up for The interview was set for 1.2 October at
10:30 a.m.
24. LIAISON Received a call from 25x1
Peter Hall, in the Birmingham office of Senator James B. Allen
(D., Ala.), asking the following question: Does the CIA have
jurisdiction over people living in England? When I asked him what
prompted this question he told me it was for a school project.
I told him I would call him back. Before I could return his 25X1
call he called me and I transferred the call to
of our office.
25. LIAISON Per his request, sent 25x1
to Charlis Morrison, in e o ce of Senator William V. Roth, Jr.
(R., Del.), a copy of the publication "The Soviet Economy in
1976-77 and Outlook for 1978."
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26. FOIA Received a telephone call 25x1
from Ms. Laura St. George, in the district office of Senator
Patrick J. Leahy (D., Vt.), concerning the administrative appeal
filed b After unsuccessfully trying to 25X1
obtain in orma ion imme is e y, I promised Laura that I would
have it checked out and call her back with whatever information
I could develop as to when might receive a response 25X1
to his appeal. I called Laura back in a half hour to advise that
I had been told every attempt woul,1 he macla In finalize the appeal
in. a month. I also mentioned that had been in touch 25X1
with the Agency early in September an at a time he was advised
that no date could be given. I also mentioned that we are usually
quite reluctant to take cases out of order, but because oflI 25X1
11 situation, we would make an exception, especially in view 25X1
of er call to us. Laura was most appreciative that this would end
the matter for her.
27. LEGISLATION Called Margaret 25X1
McKenna, Deputy ounse. President, to advise her of the
status of H.R. 12171, the action we had taken with respect to
Senate leadership and suggested that if indeed they had consti-
tutional concerns they should be thinking of expressing them
through Frank Moore, Assistant to the President for Congressional
Liaison, or any way they think would be appropriate. She appreciated
our keeping her advised and said she had initiated a review on the
basis of my previous call.
28. LEGISLATION Called Earl Eisenhower, 25x1
Senate Select committee on n elligence staff, to explain our problem
and to ask his assistance and said I was sending up appropriate
comments for his perusal and possible use.
FREDERICK P. HITZ
Legislative Counsel
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