JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Publication Date: November 30, 1978
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Thursday - 30 November 1978
10. LIAISON Received a call from
Hal Ford, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, and
in response to his question, gave him a status report on the
machine run he had as T' rl i ,,;nyni nations I on
his request to review
and on the letter to the Committee on the
11. I LIAISON Called Ted Ralston,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, and informed
him that the COMIREX publication "Problem Oriented Set
Descriptions" which he had requested were not yet complete
as earlier anticipated and were now expected in late December
or early January. I assured Ralston we would send him a copy
as soon as they were complete.
12. LIAISON. Received a call from
Stan Taylor, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff,
who informed me that Senator Jake Garn (R., Utah) had decided
not to go to Japan in January on Intelligence Committee business
but rather to travel to the Soviet Union in that time frame
to discuss SALT.
LIAISON Accompanied
and meeting with Mike Epstein and
Mike e c of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
staff, regarcli:ng the case. There were five
follow-up questions from e approximately one hour long
discussion.
14. LIAISON
employment for a constituent of Senator
N. Car.) with Jan Coil for Don Sanders,
Select Committee on Intelligence staff.
Left an application for
Robert Morgan's (D.,
both of the Senate
15. I LIAISON Called Cran Montgomery,
Legislative Assistant to Senator Howard Baker (R., Tenn.),and
offered to brief the Senator regarding MIG-23s in Cuba. Bob
Beckel, Congressional Liaison for the White House, had called
me indicating that Senator Baker wanted a briefing and asked
me to get in touch with Montgomery. Montgomery indicated the
Senator would be out of town for another week but asked that
we brief Howard Liebengood, another of Senat9 Baker's aides,
tomorrow. Arrangements were made to do the byiefing at 2:30 p.m.
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IAD/DDO, ORPA/NFAC, and
and , to a meeting with Senate Select Committee
on Intelligence staff members Stan Taylor, Keith Raffel,
Abram Shulsky, Tom Crowley, Catherine Essoyan, Angelo
Codevilla and Spencer Davis regarding Executive Branch
organization and activities to deal with international
terrorism. Taylor explained that this was one of a series
of wrap-up meetings with Executive agencies in connection
with the Committee's study which is nearing completion. A
discussion followed an outline the Committee had previously
sent us. The discussion ended with insufficient time to
discuss possible legislative proposals in the charter or
other vehicle. Shulsky indicated he might come to Headquarters
for further discussions. on this point.
6. JLIAISON Met with Stan Taylor,
Senate Select Committee on 1ligence staff, and discussed
possible itinerary as well as administrative arrangements
for Trip in January with Senator Jake Garn (R.,
Utah).
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7. I I LIAISON Met with Ed Levine,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, who asked
three questions about the memorandum provided him last week
on the case. Levine made clear t this
memorandum was not e one originally mentioned by 25X1
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described the memorandum they are seeking ing written
in the 1971 to 1973 time frame and as rnflnctin2 a chan e
of opinion
9. (Unclassified - DFM) LIAISON Met with Lot Cooke,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, who asked
me for a copy of a computer listing of Select Committee staff
members who hold compartmented clearances. Cooke also
indicated the Committee hopes to get new employees Hershey
Lilly and Dennis Sharon briefed as soon as possible.
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2. I ILIAISON Tom Smeeton, House
International Relations Committee Minority staff, called to
postpone, indefinitely, a current intelligence briefing for
Representative William Goodling (R., Pa.) on Iran, Yemen,
and Afghanistan. Mr. Smeeton explained that Representative
Goodling had been unable to return from Pennsylvania because
of the snow condition.
3. I EMPLOYMENT REQUEST Received a 251
call from Celiauainer, in r e office of Representative James J.
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Blanchard (D.., PIich. who asked toAsetruphankintewi
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a constituent,
I called Ms... Gainer back and confirmed 2:00 p.m. today.
is a pending applicant with the Agency who was'-.in
the was ington area on another matter and wanted to talk to
someone while he was here.
4. LIAISON In response to his call
of 16 November, calle Duane Barnes, Congressional Research
Service, Library of Congress, and gave him some unclassified
information on foreign countries' military foreign language
program. I told him that there is some other information on
1 'fied and that the interested Member
the subject which is c assn
of Congress could contact us directly to request the classified
information. He asked me to pass this information on to
Ned McMahon, of his office, who took over the handling of this
request. Mr. McMahon later called and I gave him the above
information.
Later in the day, I received a call from Matthew Cossolotto,
in the office of Representative Leon E. Panetta (D.) Calif.).
Mr. Panetta is the Congressman interested in the above information
in connection with a report he is doing for the President's
Commission on Foreign Language and International Studies. After
checking with NFAC/CSS, I told Cossolotto that we are pulling 25X1
together some information and would got back to him on how to best
provide it to Mr. Panetta.
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11. 1 I. LIAISON Bill Miller, Staff
Director, senate 5 ieC-E UU71111MCC on Intelligence, met with
the EUR Division Chiefs of Station Conference for approximately
an hour, explaining Congressional oversight and the charter
legislation. Afterward, Miller met with Fred Hitz, Legislative
Counsel, and myself and asked that a full record of the
Kampiles incident be compiled and forwarded to the Committee.
He als cautioned us to look very closely at all aspects
of thel ase as the Committee's investigation had
turned up a number of. unusual incidents. Finally, Miller
advised that Senator Gary Hart (D., Colo.) would probably
assume the Chairmanship of the Subcommittee on Budget
Authorization.
12. LIAISON Received a call
from Jeanette Conner, in the office of Representative
William Broomfield (R., Mich.), who 'requested that their
office be taken off distribution far
I told her I would take care of this or nu T.
as informed.
13. EMPLOYMENT REQUEST Received
a call from Judy,--in-The o: ice of Representative Al Ullman
(D., Ore.), who requested a professional and a clerical
employment application for a constituent. I told her we
would send them to her. OLC Registry was advised.
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