JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 23, 2004
• Sequence Number: 75
• Publication Date: February 28, 1978
• Content Type: NOTES

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Tuesday - 28 February 1978
8. LEGISLATION Attended the House
Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights hearing on
H. R. 10400, the FBI charter legislation, at which Attorney General
Griffin Bell was the witness. (See Memorandum for the Record.)
9. LEGISLATION Called Dave Barrett,
at the D :nartment a Justice, to ask if OLC could get a copy of the full
transcript of Attorney General Griffin Bell's testimony at the House
Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights hearing on
H. R. 10400, the FBI charter legislation, held earlier in the day. He
said he would check into it. Mr. Barrett also indicated that it is his
impression that the bill will not be going anywhere this session.
10. LIAISON Received a call from Hal Ford,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, who said he had reviewed
last week 1974 and 1975 intelligence disseminations from Saigon Station
and had asked that 40 - 50 of them be sent to the Committee office. I
agreed to check into this with the DDO. Ford said he still wanted to
see Tom Polgar, DDO, again as one of the last steps of the Committee's
investigation of the Frank Snepp, former Agency employee, charges, but
he would have to let me know suggested date and time.
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11. LIAISON Received a call from Jean
Christoff, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, regarding a
scheduled meeting she and Mike Epstein, also of the Committee staff,
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were to have tomorrow with former Agency employe
I asked Christoff to call
directly on this as Mr. was with at that time.
She agreed and I was later info rme t at the meeting would take place
at Agency Headquarters on 3 March at 10:00 a. m.
12. LIAISON Called Ted Ralston, Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence staff, regarding the 27 February letter
from Chairman Birch Bayh (D., Ind. ),to the Director requesting
unsanitized copies of memoranda previously supplied to the House Select
Committee on Intelligence, Chaired by Representative .Otis G. Pike (D. , N. Y. ).
Ralston said the issues raised in Chairman Bayh's letter need not be addressed
specifically by the Director, that the Committee was only asking for
unsanitized copies of the documents enclosed. I told Ralston many of these
were over, five years old and appeared to be very informal and I therefore
suspected it would take some time to locate them all. Ralston indicated this
was fine. nrll
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33 LIAISON Per STAT
Office of egis a i.ve .ounse , request, sent by courier to Thomas K.
Latimer, Staff Director, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,
five charts on the Organization of Intelligence Community Under New
Executive Order (1386-78) and four charts on the Organization of Intelligence
Community Under.New Executive Order (1385-78). These charts were promised
to Mr. Latimer b Executive Assistant/DCI, per
a telephone conversation.
34. LIAISON Sent by courier to Loch Johnson,
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence staff, four approval-flow
c arts.
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OMB, with regard to H. R. 10400, the FBI charter legislation. I indicated
that our position on section 3 of the bill is clear, that any provision
addressing the issue of personal liability of employees for constitutional
torts should track S. 2117, the Administration's bill to amend the Federal
Tort Claims Act. With regard to the issue of a criminal standard for all
FBI investigations and the issue of H.R. 10400's overlapping with Title V
of S. 2525, the intelligence charter legislation, I indicated that we would
be attending the hearing on H. R. 10400 at which Attorney General Griffin
Bell would testify to determine the Department of Justice's views on issues.
I indicated that I would be talking to Dave Barrett, at the Department of
Justice, about the bill. Mr. Carlstrom said he had an advance copy of
Attorney General Bell's testimony which he would make available to our
office.
36. LEGISLATION Spoke with Dave Barrett,
at the Department of Justice, regarding H. R. 10400, the FBI charter legislation.
He indicated that Attorney General Griffin Bell's testimony before the House
Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights would be open-
ended, viz.,.Attorney General Bell would not take a final position on the bill.
If pressed Mr. Barrett said that Attorney General Bell would say he does not
like the bill as written. With regard to the bill's overlapping with S. 2525,
Mr. Barrett indicated that Justice is working on a two-track mentality, viz.
S. 2525 addresses the FBI's intelligence activities and H.R. 10400 addresses
the Bureau's day-to-day operations other than foreign intelligence and
counterintelligence. He said frankly that he does not take the bill seriously.
He informed me that Senator Edward Kennedy (D., Mass.) is pressing for
full Judiciary Committee hearings on the issue of an FBI charter (not
specifically H. R. 10400) at the end of April as a means of airing the
problems associated therewith.
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21. LIAISON Larry Ellsworth, Senate Select
Committee on Ethics staff, called on 16 February and requested that to
expedite handling of their next request dated 16 February that a CIA
courier pick up this letter. This was done on 17 February. Subsequent
telephone discussions were held on 21 February with Judith Schneider,
staff research coordinator, who agreed to limit the scope of their request
regarding Items 28 and 29. Called Schneider on 27 February to set up
a meeting Friday, 3 March, for her to review documents relating to
their 16 February letter. has bt;c~n a_chrised
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LIAISON Met with Michael Hershman,
and Beverly Lumpkin, on the staff of the Subcommittee on International
Organizations, House Committee
on International Relations;
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Hershman and Lumpkin le summaries of information excerpted from
Agency documents v?ach they wished to have approved for public release.
Hershman said that an agreement between the Subcommittee and the
Justice Department that would lift, the stand-down on provision on new
material was about to be signed. (See Memorandum for the Record on
problems relating to the Subcommittee' s upcoming public hearings.)
24. LIAISON Called Molly Williamson,
Research Director, House Select Committee on Population, to arrange
a meeting by Chairman James H. Scheurer (D., N. Y.) and
NFAC/NIO for Political Economy. I suggested Friday.
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