JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R001200120010-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 21, 2006
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: July 14, 1978
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Couuse!
Friday - :14 Jul), 1978
20. (Unclassified -, RJW) l.,l'sGISLATION Called the house
Guycrument Operations Committee to ask if mark-up had been
completed on 11 July with regard to 11. 10998, "Presidential a Papers" bill. I was informed the Sulacfaaaami ttce mark-up uas coppl etcJ
on 11 July= and that the bill is to be considered by the full
Committee on 19 July.
21. (Unclassified - RJ1V) LEGISLATION Called the Committee
on Human Resources, Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research.
I: spoke with Bob Wenger on S. 2579, the "Biomedical Research" bill.
I asked Mr. Wenger to clarify the procedural steps that the bill.
has gone through. In that regard I informed Mr. Wenger that we had
a request from = ,hairmnn -Harley 0. Staggers, (D., W. Va.), House
Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Mr. Wenger said
that the Senate bill had no companion legislation on the House
side. This technique is used expressly to force the bill to
conference on the Senate side; alter S. 2579 was passed if was
attached as Title IV to S. 200, a bill which would extend funds
for Community Mental Health Centers and the Biomedi cal Research,
passed the same day (26 June) in the Senate. Mr. Wenger informed
me that no conference date is as yet contemplated.
22. (Unclassified - RJW) LEGISLATION Called Pat Norton,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff. I informed
Mr. Norton that Mr. Henry Stanford, President of the University
of Miami, is willing and able to testify before the SSCT on the
intelligence charter legislation. 1 also gave Mr. Stanford's
telephone number to Mr. Norton.
23. (Unclassified. - RJK) LIAISON Called Pamela M. Beer,
who is on the staff of Representative Charles H. Wilson (D., Calif.),
to inform her, per her request, we were sending her an unclassified
chart depicting ULS.a.nd Soviet strategic weapons permitted under
the provisions of the SALT I Treaty.
24. (Unclassified - DFM) LIAISON Called Debbie Steinmeyer,
on the Senate Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Energy, Nuclear
Proliferation and Federal Services staff, to confirm a briefing
for Senator John Glenn (D., Ohio) and two Subcommittee staff
members on 19 July at 2:00 p.m. in the Senator's office. The
briefing will be on a late 1950s accident in a Soviet nuclear
production plant.
25. (Unclassified -- DFM) LIAISON Received. _-call from
rJean Evans, Senate Select Committee on intelligence staff, who
requested a briefing on counterintelligence for the full Committee
for 25 or 26 July or 1, 2 or 3 August.
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Fri-clay -- 1.1 July 1978
2G. (Unclassified D] I) I, I11ISU:v Received a call from
/u(Irc)r 1{atry, Clerk, Senate "elect C onnaittee on [ntelligencc
taff, who said the. Committed would like to heal` from ] xecutive
Branch witnesses on the "spy war" at 3:00 p.m. on 1.8 July. I
said I would check with other ~1;:>einc:i.es and get back to her.
Subsequently, Frederick Ilitz, Legislative Counsel, met with
]till Miller, Committee Staff Director, and Coll :fi..rmed this (late.
27. (Unclassified - DP;1) LIA-1 SC):NN Called Jeff Arnold, on
the staff of Senator Robert Dole (I:. , Kan.) , and gave him
unclassified information. on the connections of a Nicaraguan
terrorist grout with Cubans and Soviet,;. The Senator wanted
lo use this information in conn;cct::ion with a provision in a.
foreign assistance bill aid to `licaragua. Arnold
agreed there would be no att c ibt~t:i on o this information to
C:IA.
29. (IJncl.assificd - DFM) LIAISON Called Lot Cooke,
Senate Select C:6mmYttce on Intelligence staff, and confirmed
with him that new Committee staff member Mike Gai.acel: would
receive a security briefing on 18 July on the SI, TIC and BYE
compar tmen'ts .
30. (Unclassified - DPNI) LIAISON Received a call from
Miller, Staff Director, Senate Select Committee on Inte1:li.--
gence, who said the Committee had invited Ambassador Elliot,
former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, to meet with the
Committee staff to discuss the recent coup in Afghanistan.
Miller. invited NFAC analysts to the di scup;s:i.on which will be
held on 19 July at 10:00 a.m. Miller said one or two Semi tors
might coma, as well.
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31. (Confident:i al - DPM) LTAI SQ,,~" Received a call from
Torn Moore, Senate Select Commit tee nr% T1~t-c~i igence staff,
and discussed at 1 cngth the, stat:u " of,.:aI '=Eo141Y() up Clues olis
or0 Angola .
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i:gisl~Itive Counsel.
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