NSC MEETING ON STATE DEPARTMENT AUTHORIZATION BILL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R000700120031-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2004
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: July 24, 1978
• Content Type: MFR

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OLC 78-2002/10
24 July 1978
SUBJECT: NSC Meeting on State Department Authorization Bill
1. Madeline Albright, NSC staff, chaired a meeting on the
issues raised by the State Department Authorization bill in the
Roosevelt Room at the White House at 11:00 a. m. on 24 July.
Present were the undersigned, I OLC; Dwight Mason
and Bob Gi:nzberg, both from State Department, Ben Read's office,
Lex Schnee, State Department Congressional Liaison, Mike Lennon,
White House Congressional Liaison, and Tracey Cole, OMB.
2. House and Senate staffers will meet again at 3:00 p.m.
this afternoon to sift through issues prior to the conference. It was
the State Department's view that with all that has yet to be resolved
prior to conference it is unlikely that Thursday's scheduled meeting
of the conferees will actually occur. (We will know late this afternoon
and will keep you posted.) State indicated that the role of the ambassador
question, Section 119, and the third agency rule question, Section 108,
were only secondary items on their list of priorities even though they
are critical to us.
3. Mason stated that Ben Read has already spoken to Senator
Claiborne Pell (D., R. I.) and Representative Dante Fascell (D., Fla.).
Read intends to talk to Senator George McGovern (D., S. Dak.) about
the third agency rule but suggested we do so as well. State will also
talk to Norvill Jones, Chief of Staff, Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
for Senator John Sparkman (D., Ala.) and Representative Charles Diggs
(D., Mich.).
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4. CIA has agreed to contact Norvill Jones, Senator Pell and
Senator McGovern. On the House side, we have agreed to talk to
Representative Lester Wolff (D., N.I. ), Representative Helen
Meyner (D., N. J.), Representative George Danielson (D., Calif.)
and Representative John Buchanan (R., Ala.). State strongly
recommended that we leave Senator Joseph Biden (D., Del.) alone
since he is dug in on role of the ambassador and a call would be
counterproductive. State also feels that Scott Cohen, in Senator
Charles Percy' s (R., Ill.) office, disagrees with us on role of the
ambassador so that a call to Senator Percy will probably not help.
State feels that Representative Leo Ryan (D., Calif.) is impossible
for them and for us but will likely leave his proxy with Representative
Fascell.
5. Depending on the outcome of today's staff conference,
Madeline Albright suggested that we make our appointments as soon as
possible and get back to her with the results of the calls or visits. She
can then determine whether White House Liaison should weigh in with
some of the members to give us additional leverage. The meeting
broke at 11:30 a. m,
Frederick P. Hitz
Legislative Counsel
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