ADDENDUM TO JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Publication Date: March 13, 1978
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ADDENDUM TO JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Monday - 13 March 1978
I. I LIAISON Called Sherry Towell,
Chief Clerk, Senate Select Committee on Ethics, regarding an admini-
strative matter related to a security clearance request for an Ethics
Committee staffer.
2. LIAISON Took a call from Larry
Sulc, Minority staff, House International Relations Subcommittee on
International Organizations, who said that he wanted to visit Head
quarters to write his own summary of "old" documents. I told Sulc,
this would be acceptable provided that Michael Hershman, Deputy Staff
Director of the Subcommittee, knew about the visit.
Later in the day, Suic visited Headquarters to review "old"
material and prepare an information summary for review and clearance
for public release. Sulc said that Chairman Donald M. Fraser (D., Minn.)
was still promising to raise the matter of the Subcommittee staff's alleged
unauthorized possession of a transcript of an Agency document with us.
Sulc also said that he was only vaguely awarf a y new understanding
between the Subcommittee and the Devartment of Fustice.
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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Monday - 13 March 1978
I LIAISON Per her earlier request,
I had deliver the following publications to Betsy Keyes,
on the staff of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence:
Chief of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments, World
Shipbuilding: Facing up to Overcapacity, Directory of the Cuban Govern-
ment and Mass Organizations, Cuban Party and Government Leadership,
and a wall chart of the Chinese Communist Party Organizations. I also
informed Ms. Keyes that the wall chart on CPSU Central Committee:
Executive and Administrative Apparatus was on order and would be forwarded
to her in a couple of weeks.
2. LIAISON I accompanied
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to a meeting with Joe Nellis, Chief Counsel, House Select Committee on
Narcotics and Drug Abuse Control, and Bill Lawrence, Chief of Staff of
the Committee. The purpose of the meeting was to give them our responses
to information previously provided by the Committee. (See Memorandum for
the Record, OLC 78-1108.")
3. LIAISON I called Paul Michel, Department
f Justice, and discussed with him the leak problem connected with the
1House International Relations Subcommittee on International Organizations
and gave him additional details as we know them regarding specific leaks.
4. LIAISON Sent by courier to Thomas K.
Latimer, Staff Director, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,
a copy of the entrance on duty Secrecy Agreement (see OLC 78-1022/a).
5. LIAISON Sent by courier to Thomas K.
Latimer, Staff Director, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,
fourteen articles from "Studies in Intelligence" that he requested in his
letter of 3 March 1978 (see OLC 78-0910/a).
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I LIAISON Took a call from Dave
Melocik, CongressionalReelations, Drug Enforcement Administration,
who indicated he had received a written request from the House Select
Committee on Assassinations for any and all files on He called
me to seek the true identity so that he might process is request. I
indicated I would call him back later in the day with further thoughts on
this matter.
19.1 LIAISON Called Ken Klein, Senior
Counsel, House Select Committee on Assassinations, to indicate that
Office of Security files o ere ready for review. Klein
indicated he would visit the Agency tomorrow to conduct this file
review.
House Select Committee on Assassinations staff, visited Headquarters
to review Agency material.
LIAISON Spoke to
NSA,
on the secure phone, concerning the House International Relations
Subcommittee on International Organizations (Fraser Subcommittee)
request for access to NSA material. I also sent him a copy of the
Attorney General agreement with the Subcommittee.
22. LIAISON Called Paul Michel, Department
,~f Justice, to be assured that any CIA originated information made
~+' available by Justice to the House International Relations Subcommittee
on International Organizations (Fraser Subcommittee) is appropriately
sanitized according to CIA's criteria and he assured me that this would be
the case. I advised
23. LIAISON Called Barbara Allen, in the office
of Norvill Jones, Staff Director, Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
and provided her with number of the Foreign Service List. She will pass
this number on to Mr. Jones.
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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Monday - 6 March 1978
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1. LEGISLATION Spoke with Irving Jaffe' s
secretary, at the Department of Justice, regarding Jim Conley's call to
Mr. Jaffe on Friday, 3 March. She said he had not been able to return
Mr. Conley's call and was now out of town. I relayed that Mr. Conley
was interested in whether Justice has proposed an amendment to the
Federal Tort Claims Act to cover constitutional torts overseas, and if
so what reception it received on Capitol Hill. She said she would check
and call me back.
2. GISLATION Called Mr. Bob Hull,
at the State Department, to ask him about the provision in H. R. 10691,
the International Development Cooperation Act, which provides.that an
AID employee who is on the foreign service retirement system may have
his annuity based on a "high-one" instead of the high three consecutive years.
He said the State Department would probably submit an amendment that would
broaden the provision to include all foreign service officers.. He asked me
if I found anything else objectionable in the bill, and I mentioned a few sections
I felt. would have an adverse impact on the Agency.
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3. LEGISLATION Called George Howe, at
the Civil Service Commission, and asked him for copies..of the CSC draft
reform bill. He said the bill was available, and if I sent'a courier over I
could have as many copies as I needed.
4.1 EMPLOYMENT Received a call from
Mr. Dolan, in the office of Representative Joseph D. Early (D., Mass.),
who requested a professional employment package for a constituent.
OLC Registry will forward the material.
5. LIAISON Received a call from Susan,
in the office of Representative Robert L. Livingston (R., La.), who asked
for a copy of the National Basic Intelligence Factbook. A copy was
forwarded this date.
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5. LIAISON Sent by courier to Thomas. H.
Latimer, Staff Director, House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence, for his information, a copy of recent correspondence between
the Director and the Attorney General intended to establish procedures for
reporting violations of federal law as required by 28 U. S. C. 535.
26. LIAISON Sent by courier to Loch Johnson,
House Permanent Select Committee; on Intelligence staff, the NPIC/IEG
Spot Cable Distribution List for his use and retention.
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I) LIAISON Received a call from
on the staff of the Ad Hoc Select Committee on Energy, requesting
an employment application; (professional) be sent to her. OLC Registry was
advised.
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Aspin (D., Wis.), Subcommittee on Oversight, House Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence, a letter (OLC 78-0474/2) dated 6 March 1978
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28. LIAISON Called David Bushong, Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence staff, who told me that he still needed
one final item he had requested in connection with the Committee inquiry
29. LIAISON Received a call from Don Sanders,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, who indicated that he
completed the report he had worked on last fall
the Senate Select Committee on Ethics, of which he is Chairman, for
9 March to discuss leaks on Panama and he needed the damage assessment
he had previously asked me for no later than 8 March.
and would give me a copy of the report tomorrow. He also
indicated that Senator Adlai Stevenson (D., Ill.) had called a meeting of
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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Tuesday - 7 March 1978
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1.1 ~ ADMINISTRATIVE - DELIVERIES Sent
to Elliot axwe Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, and Walt
Sheridan, on the staff of the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific
Research, Senate Committee on Human Resources, the unclassified
10th release of the BLUEBIRD/ARTICHOKE documents.
2. LIAISON House Select Committee on
Assassinations staffers visited Headquarters to review Agency material.
3. LIAISON Met with Michael Goldsmith,
Bob Genznian, Howard Leap, all of the House Select Committee on
Assassinations staff conducting the Kennedy phase of the investigation,
who raised several problems they are having with a number of requests.
(See Memorandum teal
4. LEGISLATION Received a call from Bob
Carlstrom, OMB, concerning my request for amendments to the Federal
Tort Claims( Act proposed by the Department~us~icre in November 1977.
Mr. Carlstrom said he had no reco rrc o any such amendments and assumed
the Justice letter referring to them was in error and actually meant
September 1977 amendments.
LIAISON Ms. Diane Williams, on the
House Government Operations Committee staff, called to request a copy
of the "Freedom of Information Act Annual Report to the Congress for
the Year 1977" which was sent to Thomas O'Neill, Speaker of the House.
After checking with I informed Diane that I would send
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6. ) HEARING Attended a House Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence hearing on the FY 1979 CIA budget.
(See Memorandum for the Record.)
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13. ADMINISTRATIVE DELIVERIES
Delivered to Susan M Wler, Senate Select Committee, on Intelligence staff,
Headquarters Instruction Sheets 1103 and 1090 for HR 22 and HR 1, respectively,
a note., forwarding FY-1979 NFIP Budget-Related quality of analysis initiatives, an,
a note forwarding correspmdence between the Director and the Attorney
General regarding reporting violations of federal law as required by
28 U. S. C. 535, all for Bill Miller, Committee Staff Director; a blind
memorandum on Agency search into allegations of d a COPY 25X1
of the original correspondence forwarded by Earl. Eisenhower, of the
Committee staff, for him; a letter from the Director regarding a request
that Agency employees meet with Pat Norton, of the Committee staff, to
discuss handling of espionage cases under present law and under S. 2525
for Senator Walter Huddleston (D., Ky. ); a blind memorandum on ICBM force
survivability and a blind memorandum on SS-20 Ballast.question for Ed Levine,
of the Committee staff; and personal notes taken by Mike Epstein and
Jean Christoff, both of the Committee staff, addressed to Mike Epstein.
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3. LIAISON Sam Hoskinson, NSC staff,.
called concerning a letter from Chairman Donald Fraser (D., Minn.),
House International Relations Subcommittee on International Organizations,
requesting a meeting with the President for the purpose of obtaining
access to NSA documents in connection with Chairman Fraser's investi-
gation of I recommended an interim response, not referring to the
President for the time being, and brought Hoskinson up-to-date on the exchange
of correspondence between the DCI and. Deputy Secretary of Defense Duncan.
I then calle NSA, who was unaware of the request
from Chairman Fraser and indicated his understanding of the agreement
between the Attorney General and Chairman Fraser for access to Justice
material, specifically excluding the Department of Defense, i. e., NSA.
The problem bothering NSA apparently centers around the Subcommittee
staff problems.
4. LIAISON Alerted Bill Miller, Staff
Director, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, that we would
be meeting personally with Senator James Abourezk (D., S. Dak.)
to review material on the USS Liberty matter as the Senator had
rejected our proposal to forward the. material to the Select Committee
for the Senator's perusal. .
5. LIAISON Discussed with Mike Epstein,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, the conclusions he had
reached as a result of his investigation of CIA/FBI cooperation concerning
the0 that there wasn't any bar to investigation but there could have
been an honest misunderstanding arising out of a conversation between
the.. CIA and an FBI officer.
6. LIAISON In response to a request.of
yesterday from I called Marianne, in the office of
Senator Joseph R. Biden (D., Del. ), and asked if we could obtain copies
of a study released by the Senator entitled "Western European Communist
Parties in 1977. " Marianne said she would get the copies for me and I
arranged to have a courier pick them up.
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24. LIAISON Receiveil a call from
Steve Emerson, Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff, who said that
his subscription to the on the Middle East and North
Africa had suddenly stoppe o im would correct the matter for him
and asked that he call me if he did not start receiving the publication within
the next few days.
25. LIAISON Called Fred Barron,
Department of Justice, and spoke to him about the agreement between
Justice and the House International Relations Subcommittee on Inter-
national Organizations regarding the handling of material and expressed
certain concerns we still had with respect to the passage of information
to that Subcommittee.
27.1 1 LIAISON Sam Hoskinson, NSC staff,
called and asked if we had determined whether the Director wanted to
participate in the preparation of a response to Representative Donald M.
Fraser's (D., Mimi.) letter to the President. After discussing the
matter with the Director, I called Hoskinson back and told him that the
Director felt the matter should be handled by DOD.
28. LIAISON Bill Miller, Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence Staff Director, called to alert us to aproblem
with respect to Senator Lowell P. Weicker's (R., Conn re uest. to the
Director for an investigation into certain aspects of the problem.
I told him I appreciated the call and we would take action right away.
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34. LEGISLATION Called the Senate
Committee on Governmental Affairs to check on the status of S. 2596,
a "Presidential Papers" bill. I spoke with Chris Burnstein, who indicated
that nothing to date has been scheduled with regard to the bill. Ms. Burnstein
indicated that the person on the Committee who will be handling the bill
is Ira Shapiro.
STAT 35, LEGISLATION Called John Seivert,
at the Department of Justice, to discuss their proposed amendments to the
Federal, Tort Claims Act. The amendments would establish disciplinary
procedures against employees who violated the constitutional rights of
any person. Seivert said that Justice is not enthisiastic about the
bill, but it is necessary so that the main amendments to the Federal Tort
Claims Act (those which would substitute the Government rather than the
employee as a defendant) would be passed by Congress. I outlined our
problems with the procedures for him, including comments on the
Director's summary termination power and our problems regarding
disclosure of confidential or sources and methods information during the
hearings. He said the Department of Justice had recognized this when
they drafted the legislation, and they will be responsive to our comments.
STAT 36. LEGISLATION Talked with Jack Perkins,
the Department of Justice, concerning the proposed amendments to the
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Federal Tort Claims Act. Mr. Perkins briefly went into the background
of why Justice had proposed these amendments and indicated that they
were not enthusiastically supporting the amendments.
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37. EGISLATION Called Bob Carlstrom,
OMB, in response to their request for oral comments on the Department
of Justice proposed amendments to S. 2117, the Federal Tort Claims Act
amendments. I gave him the gist of our problems, and he asked that we
forward a letter outlining our concerns.
38. LEGISLATION Called Bob Lockhart,
Deputy General Counsel to the House Post Office and Civil Service Com:nittee,
to find out what witnesses were testifying tomorrow on the Civil Service`
reform bill.
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27. I I LEGISLATION Took a call from Bob
Ravin, in thee, f i~ ce of-Gener Counsel at the Department of Defense,.
concerning an editorial in the 27 February New York Times. The editorial
stated that the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence had proposed
an "Agee-type statute" to protect the names of intelligence agents.
Mr. Ravin wanted to know what this was. I pointed him to the correct
section of the intelligence charter bill, S. 2525.
28. LEGISLATION Called Jim Stimpson,
OMB, to tell him that our comments on HEW's comments on our views letter
on S. 1893, the biomedical and behavioral research bill, was being signed
by the Director and would be in the mail on Monday. He informed me
that Senator Edward Kennedy (D., Mass.) had introduced a new bill,
S. 2579, which deals with the same subject, and that OMB would be
sending it around for comments in the near future.
In response to my question, Mr. Stixnpson said that the Civil.
Service Commission would probably be proposing a new physicians pay bill.
29. LEGISLATION Called Bob Carxstroxn,
OMB, concerning a letter from the Department of Justice which. referred to
November L977 amendments to the Federal Tort Claims Act: I told
Mr. Carlstrom we had not seen these amendments, and he promised to
forward a copy of them to us.
30. I ILIAISON Called Jim Bush, House
Permanent c nisra 7nnelligence staff, to confirm that the DCI
would be available on 8 March 1978 for the NFIP wrap-up at 0900 hours.
31. LIAISON Sent by courier, to Mr. Thomas K.
Latimer, Staff Director, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,
a letter dated today concerning whether the DCI had in fact ordered an
investigation of the possibility that someone in the CIA had leaked
information o
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