JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R002700020009-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 9, 2005
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: April 11, 1978
• Content Type: NOTES

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Tuesday - 11 April. 1978
26. (Internal Use Only - GMC) LIAISON Took a call from
Kenneth DeGraffenreid, on the staff of the Morgan-Schmitt Senate
Select Committee on Ethics Subcommittee, who gave me the name
of another employee of the Subcommittee's stenographic reporting firm
for whom a TS/SI clearance was requested. I told DeGraffenreid that I
had been informed that it would be necessary for the Agency to review the
investigative reports in these cases and that it would take some time to
have these reports forwarded from their repository in Ohio and processed.
27. (Internal Use Only - GMC) LIAISON Received a call from
Don Sanders, Special Counsel, Morgan-Schmitt Senate Select Committee on
Ethics Subcommittee, who inquired as to the status of the draft Memorandum
of Understanding between the DCI and the Subcommittee. I told Sanders
that it was m understandin that he had discussed desired changes in the
draft with Acting Chief, C&R Staff, and that we would
be forwarding a revised draft to the Subcommittee. Sanders said that he
would like to expedite matters and that if his desired changes had been
accommodated we could save time by having the DCI sign the Memorandum
of Understanding and then forwarding it for signature by Senators Robert B.
Morgan (D., N. Car.) and Harrison H. Schmitt (R., N. Mex. ). I told Sanders
that I would try my best to move this matter along as quickly as pgpssible.
28. (Unclassified - DFM) LIAISON Accompanied Richard Kaufman,
General Counsel., Joint Economic Committee, to a meeting with Maurice Ernst,
D/OER, regarding how the Agency might respond to the letter from
Senator William Proxmire (D., Wis. ) asking for statistics on the Agency's
work on the Soviet economy. We reiterated the Agency's position that we
could not supply budget and personnel figures. Mr. Ernst did offer to list
the areas of speciality of Agency employees studing the Soviet economy.
This was satisfactory to Kaufman. Kaufman agreed that we did not need
to send full answers to Senator Proxmire in his capacity as a Member of
the Senate Appropriations Committee as we did last: year.
29. (Unclassified - DFM) LIAISON Took a. call from Joyce Newton,
in the office of Senator Orrin Hatch (R., Utah). Newton read me a letter
from a constituent expressing concern about DDO personnel reductions. I
explained the DCI's position and specifically denied the charge that
politically hard line employees were being released. in favor of those
with more moderate political views. I also agreed to send her a paper
which had previously been circulated to the press on this subject.
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30. LIAISON Talked several times during the
day with Bill Miller, Staff Director, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
He requested that Mr. Frank Carlucci drop by his office to discuss operational
use of a former Agency employee who was on the staff of a U. S. Senator.
This incident occurred in the early 1960s and the Senator was not made
aware of contacts with the staff member. Miller also referred to a
Washington Star article on a Soviet spy recently arrested in Iran and asked
if this incident was connected with the arrest last year of two other Iranian
officials as Soviet spies. Miller indicated Senator Daniel Moynihan (D., N. Y.)
was very interested in the Edward J. Epstein book, Legend, and had
requested that the Agency make a point by point response to the allegations.
Miller also requested any damage assessments on the book. I discussed
with Miller the request for a compartmented clearance for Hoyt Purvis,
of Senator Robert Byrd's (D., W. Va.) staff. Miller agreed that we could
retract compartmented clearances for another staff member already
representing Senator Byrd in order that we might have only one representative
of each Senator on the Select Committee with access to compartmented
information.
31. 1 1 LIAISON Received a call from Earl
Eisenhower, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, who slid he
had been asked for information about the apparent defection of a Soviet
official at the United Nations. Eisenhower asked for information on this
case and I agreed to look into it.
LIAISON Received a call from Ed Levine,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, who asked me for the figure
in the Agency's FY-1979 budget for a particular program. After checking
with the Office of the Comptroller, I gave Levine the figure. All of this
was done in a manner which did not reveal classified information.
33. I I LIAISON Called Abram Shulsky, Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence staff, to ask for the subject Senator Daniel
Moynihan (D., N. Y.) wants to speak to the Director about tomorrow.
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7? IAISON Accompanied NFIB representatives
to discuss procedure for passing information on liaison arrangements to
Congress. (See Memorandum for the Record. )
8.1 IAISON Received from Thomas K.
Latimer, to Director, House Pe
Intelligence,
and have returned the intelligence report to Don Gregg, SA/DO/O.
9.1 1 LIAISON Diane LaVoy, House Permanent
Select Cornmi ee on Inteiligence staff, called with requests for the
following documents: (a) Procedures for the Production of a National
Intelligence Situation Report - which is an attachment to NFIB-D - 28. 7/1.
(b) DCI Memoranda on Task Force on National Intelligence SITREPS dated
19 August 1976 and 7 September 1976. I passed these requests on to
I NFAC/CSS.
10. LIAISON Received a call from Rhett
Dawson, Senate Armed Services Committee staff, requesting a copy of
the Agency document on Soviet Civil Defense, which he understood has
been declassified down to the Secret level. After checking wit
NFAC/CSS, and with OLC, to determine the
availability of the document as we as clearances held by Mr. Da !son,
I informed Mr. Dawson that the document is currently in the possession
of Larry Smith, Senate Armed Services Committee staff. I also told
him that the more highly classified document (codeword) is available
here at Headquarters should he wish to read it. He then asked if it would
be possible for him to receive his own working copy of the Secret document
and, after checking with NFAC/CSS, I told him that he could.
11. LIAISON Pat Long and Herb Romerstein,
both of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence staff, called 25X1
askin whether it would be possible to shift tomorrow's 10:00 appointment with
PCS/Terrorism, to 1:00 p. m. After checking with
I assured them that 1:00 would be fine.
12. LIAISON Called Herb Romerstein, House
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence staff, to tell him that he had
received his codeword security clearances and to ask him when it would be
convenient for him to receive his briefings. He told me that he had been
briefed the preceding Wednesday, 6 April by Agency security people.
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29. I LIAISON Called Fred Arnold,
o the staff of the House Select Committee on Population, to pass on a
nal piece of information related to his earlier recuest rPcrn-rr14nm f-Hs
30. I LIAISON Took a call from
Kenneth DeUraf eia, on the staff o the Morgan-Schmitt Senate Select
Committee on Ethics Subcommittee. ' DeGraffenreid submitted biographic
information on two employees of a stenographic reporting firm which
the Subcommittee had hired. He said the individuals already held Top
Secret clearances from DISCO. The Subcommittee is requesting Top
Secret and SI clearances from the Agency. I told DeGraffenreid that
I would try to expedite this request.
31. I I LIAISON Received a call from Hal Ford,
Senate Select uo mYi e.nte ligence staff, who informed me he had
assed to John Stewart of the Subcommittee on Science and Space, Senate
Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, the new information
on the cost of the Soviet space program. I thanked him for this. Ford said
he needs a one page biography on Tom Polgar, DDO, for the study the
Committee is doing on the Frank Snepp charges. Specifically, Ford would
like the paper to include Polgar's age, information on citizenship, EOD
date, and major Agency positions.
32. IAISON Called. Martha MacDonald,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, and made arrangements for
the Director andi Acting Legislative Counsel, to meet with
Senator Birch Bayh (D. , Ind.), Committee Chairman, at 9:05 a. m. on
11 April, just prior to Admiral Turner's meeting with the staff.
33. I I LIAISON Received a call from Jean Evans,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, who said he had been talking
with CI Staff, and that a "dry run" of the counterintelligence
briefing planned for the Committee had been postponed. Evans wanted to
know when it could be rescheduled.
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DIA,
called to say that on 5 April, in response to a report in the London
Daily Mail, DIA briefed Representative Larry P. McDonald (D., Ga.)
on the alleged submarine base being constructed at Cienfuegos, Cuba.
He also said that on 6 April they had briefed Representative Paul N.
McCloskey (R., Calif.) on cluster bombs, which had been reported in
The New York Times. He said he felt Representative McCloskey would
issue some sort of public statement on the use of the bombs.
12. (Unclassified - DFM) LIAISON Called Martha MacDonald,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, and received from her the
schedule of Committee hearings for next week.
13. (Unclassified - DFM) LIAISON Called Richard Kaufman,
General Counsel, Joint Economic Committee, to discuss handling of
Senator William Proxmire's (D., Wis.) request for information on the
Agency's work on the Soviet economy. I explained to Kaufman that we would
lea ve to handle this as we did last year, meaning some information could be
provided to the Joint Committee but some would have to be sent to Senator
Proxmire as a Member of the Senate Appropriations Committee. Kaufman
said he would be discussing this matter in his meeting next week with
Maurice Ernst, D/OER, as this formula had not aided the Joint Committee
very much last year. He hopes there will be a way to somehow quxa.ntify
the Agency's work in this field without asking for personnel or budget
figures. I said we would not be able to provide the latter figures to the
Joint Committee but I hoped that some other formula might be worked out.
14. (Unclassified - DFM) LIAISON Called Pat Norton, Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence staff, and reported that we had reviewed the
transcripts of Agency testimony before the Joint Committee on Atomic
STAT Energy o and we had no objection to it being shown to the
Subcommittee on Energy an the Environment, House Committee on interior
and Insular Affairs.
15. (Unclassified - DFM) LIAISON Received a call from Leonard
Weiss, Staff Director, Subcommittee on Energy, Nuclear Proliferation and
Federal Services, Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, who said he
had talked with Pat Norton, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff,
and had been told that I would set up Weiss' review of Agency STAT
documents. Weiss indicated he was anxious to start as soon as possible
and assured me he had clearances. I told him of OLC, STAT
would be handling this and that I would have him call.
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