MEETING WITH BILL MILLER, STAFF DIRECTOR, SENATE SELECT COMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE ON 4 JANUARY 1978

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R000900040030-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 2004
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: January 4, 1978
• Content Type: MFR

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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Meeting with Bill Miller. Staff Director, Senate Select Committee
on Intelligence, on 4 January 1978
1. U Met with Bill Miller, Staff Director, Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence, and covered several subjects.
a. I told Miller of my discussions with Audrey Hatry, SSCI staff, regarding
the release of an unclassified Agency study on Soviet civil defense . Miller
thought it would be a good idea for us to release this through Senator John
Culver's (D., Iowa) Subcommittee on General Legislation, Senate Armed
Services Committee, which is the way we hoped to handle it.
b. I asked Miller about the scope of the SSCI investigation into the leak
of the SSCI oil study in the New York Times. Specifically I asked whether this
would include all Congressional staff members to whom the SSCI showed the
study, in addition to SSCI members and staff, and Miller said it would. Miller
also said we would receive a letter from the Chairman after the inquiry is
finished.
c. I told Miller the Director would be out of town from 31 January to
7 February and therefore would not be able to appear at the tentatively
scheduled hearings of the Subcommittee on Secrecy and Disclosure on the
use of classified information in court. Miller said he believed those hearings
would slip for a month anyway. I asked Miller about his meetings with
Mr. Robert Bowie, D/NFAC, mentioned in Chairman Inouye's letter of
21 December and he indicated that they simply discussed Bowie's view
that not enough consideration was given to Agency views in opposition to
SSCI conclusions.
d. I raised with Miller the statement Senator Birch Bayh (D. , Ind.) had
made in Morocco that all Senators had access to all Committee information.
Miller said this was not exactly so as Senator Inouye.has normally personally
briefed other members when they have asked for information which the SSCI
maintains. Miller did state that the Committee's budget report was available to
all members but only one or two reviewed it. He also stated that Senator Dennis
DeConcini (D., Ariz.) had reviewed some SSCI-held material on the drug
connections of Panamanian government officials.
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e. Miller said the Committee has not yet received formal notice of
the Carlucci nomination and wants it as soon as possible. Miller said
the Committee would also want a summary of the FBI background
investigation.
f. Miller said Chairman Inouye was making a private trip to India,
Hong Kong and Korea, departing about 15 January. Miller said he would
check with Inouye to see if he wanted any Agency briefings. I emphasized
we would welcome any opportunity to"brief the Chairman. Miller also
said Inouye would be taking a trip in the spring to the Middle East as
Chairman of the Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Senate Appropriations:.
Committee. Miller said Inouye would visit all major capitols in the region
and he would accompany the Chairman.
g. I raised with Miller the subject of the Committee's inquiry on foreign
intelligence activities in the U.S. I reminded Miller that the Director had
hoped to transmit this answer orally and had in fact discussed it with
Chairman Inouye . Miller indicated he strongly felt it important that we
go on the record on this to demonstrate this was a matter of concern and
that a rigorous accounting of the problem was being made.
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