JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R001100030022-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 14, 2005
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: March 15, 1978
• Content Type: NOTES

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4. Called Michael Keeling, on the
staff of Representative J. J. Pickle (D. , Texas) and provided him with
a current status report on the employment application of a constituent
and former Agency employee,
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5. LIAISON Karin Lissakers, on the staff
of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called to reschedule the
briefing which she had to cancel last week. The briefing on the Saudi oil
situation has been scheduled for 22 March at 3:30 p. m. The briefers are
Maurice Ernst and Iwas advis5X1
6. EARING Picked up transcript of the
Director's appearance before the Budget Authorization Subcommittee of the
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on 23 February and delivered it
to IC Staff.
7. 1 LIAISON Saw Chuck Snodgrass, on the staff
of the House Appropriations Committee, who again requested two safes. I
told him we were moving on his request. He also said that he and Ralph
Preston, of the Committee staff, are planning a trip to the West Coast
from 28 March to 1 April to visit Air Force, DIA and CIA contractors
and Vandenberg Air Force Base. This trip is being coordinated by
is the CIA contact. I am keeping
I IIC Staff, informed.
8.1 HEARING Sy Shwiller, on the staff of the
House Armed Services Committee, called to say they were running late
and would not get to the CIA witnesses on the test ban treaty today. He said
the hearing would continue at 10:00 a. m. tomorrow in Room 2118 of Rayburn
House Office Building. After checking with NFAC/CSS, I 25X1
told Shwiller we would be there about 10:30 a. m. He agreed.
9. I LIAISON Received a call from Larry Groner,
in the office of Senator Gaylord Nelson (D., Wis.), who requested a page-size
map of Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq, showing military bases
if possible. After checking with NFAC/CSS, I called Groner back and told
him there was nothing unclassified showing military bases but that I could
send him three unclassified topographical maps. He said that would be fine,
and the maps were forwarded this date.
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10. 1 ` LIAISON Joe Nellis,Chief Counsel,
House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control, called to ask
if we could get him a copy of our statement for the hearing on 20 March
up to him by close of business 16 March. He said that Chairman Lester L.
Wolff (D., N. Y. ) was leaving town and wanted to see it before he goes.
I said we would make every effort we could, but because of the shortness
of time and the amount of work we had to do I doubted if we would be able
to have a cleared statement ready by that time.
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11. I I LIAISON Called Hal Ford, Senate Select
Committee on intelligence staff, regarding the letter received from
Senator Adlai Stevenson (D., Ill.) asking for clearances for two personal
staff members. Ford said although the letter mentions Stevenson's role
on the Committee, the two staff members would not have access to Committee
information.
12. LIAISON Met with Bill Miller, Staff
Director, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, aril informed him of
John Elliff's; also of the Committee staff, request to receive a briefing on
the Epstein book. I told Miller we did not object to briefing Elliff but we
did not want to handle this on a piecemeal basis with various staff members
as they became interested. Miller agreed to this and said that he would
inform Elliff that the Committee as a whole would handle this matter. Miller
said that the Committee probably would look into the case and that any inquiry
would probably be headed by Jean Evans, of the Committee staff.
Miller also informed me that Senator John Glenn (D. , Ohio) had
requested that Dr. Leonard Weiss, Staff Director of the Subcommittee on
Energy, Nuclear Proliferation, and Federal Services, Senate Committee on
Governmental Affairs, be given access to the former JCAE papers now in the
custody of the Select Committee. Miller said the Committee had previously
informed Senator Glenn that he could personally look at them but no one else.
Glenn is now pressing and Miller wants our view on this.
13? ADMINISTRATIVE DELIVERIES Delivered
to Susan M er, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, Headquarters
Instruction Sheet #1106 for HR 1, for Bill Miller, Committee Staff Director-
and personal notes from a briefing regarding fo25X1
Ed Levine, of the Committee staff.
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14. LIAISON Winslow Wheeler, on the
staff of senator Jacob K. Javits (R. , N. Y.), called to request a Saudi
broadcast which took place over the weekend that described the PLO raid
in Israel. FBIS Liaison located it and sent it directly to Senator Javits.
15. LIAISON Charles Dustow, on the staff
of Represen a ive Matt ewJ. Rinaldo (R. , N. J. ), called seeking information
about the International Conferences on Counter-ft?rroris e t
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DeparLment Office for Combatting Terrorism would be able to provide
him with the information he wanted and I provided that office telephone
number to him.
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Les Aspin (D., Wis.) House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
Subcommittee on Oversight hearing from 10:00 a. m. - 12:00 noon. The
subjects of the hearing, were the structure of the CIA in general and the
structure of the DDO in particular. (See Memorandum for the Record.)
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17. BRIEFING Accompanied
NFAC/ORP, and NFAC/CSS, to-the office of Representative
Charles Wilson (D., Texas) to brief the Congressman and House Armed
Services Committee staffer, Ed Powers, on Liberia, Kenya, Rhodesia
and South Africa. The briefing lasted from 4:10 p. m. - 4:45 p. m. and
was conducted in the Committee hearing room (H-218 of The Capitol).
The briefing was conducted predominantly at an unclassified level. Two
officers from the Department of State, Africa Bureau, sat in and
participated in the briefing. Additionally, Noel Holems, on Mr. Wilson's
personal staff, was brought into the briefing by the Congressman.
Mr. Wilson seemed to be quite satisfied with the briefing and Mr. Powers
is now fully aware of our caveats against conducting briefings jointly with
policy-making departments of the U. S. Government.
18. LIAISON Saw Loch Johnson, House
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it to the Committee. He said he understood and that he would be patient.
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19. LIAISON Saw Mike Flannigan, House
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence staff, and told him that
two IC boxes from the Pike Committee collection were available for him
to review at his convenience. Mike said that he would come out to the
Agency at 8:30 a. in. on Monday, 20 March, to look through the two boxes.
20. EMPLOYMENT Received a call from
/Kay Ross, in the office of Representative G. V. Montgomery (D., Miss.),
who requested twelve employment packages, six professional and six
clerical. OLC Registry will handle.
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21. I I LIAISON Hand carried to Tom Latimer,
Staff Director, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the
following: copies of the General Indicator Lists which apply to the Soviet
Union/Warsaw Pact and to China per Latimer's previous request and an
interim. letter in response to Latimer's letter of 8 March requesting
five publications. This interim letter enclosed one of the requested
publications.
22. LIAISON Attended the hearings of the
House International Relations Subcommittee on International Organizations
on Korean-American relations. The hearing lasted from 9:30 a. m. to
5:30 p.m. The results of the hearings were passed to
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23. THIRD AGENCY- Called John Kenney
and William Lynch, Criminal Division, Department of justice, and
discussed the Agency's appearance in executive session before the House
Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control on Monday morning,
20 March 1978, at 9:00 a. m. The hearing concerns alleged illicit narcotics
activities of Lynch and Kenney recently
testified on this matter before the Committee. I explained the
thrust of our testimony and asked if this would present any problems
in view of the Department's on-going investigations. Both replied
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had been provided to CIA. He said he would have to check and would
inform the Committee. I assured him that the Agency was not going
to discuss FBI information at the hearing.
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