JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Publication Date: October 10, 1978
• Content Type: NOTES

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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Tuesday - 10 October 1978
25X1 1. LIAISON Per his request, I sent
to Fred Smith, Administrative Assistant to Representative
Lawrence P. McDonald (D., Ga.), the following publications:
"Directory of USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs Officials",
"Directory of Soviet Officials Volume II: RSFSR", and "USSR
Institute of the United States of America and Canada."
25X1 2. LIAISON Sent via courier to
Jean Evans and David Shaw,' on the staff of the Senate Select
~Jommittee on -Intelligence, their classified notes taken on 5 October
v of their review of CI Staff files on The notes were reviewed
25X1 by I of OLC. 5XI
25X1 3? LIAISON Len Parkinson, on the
staff of the Senate Appropriations Committee, called and cancelled
the luncheon scheduled for noon today with Mr. Hitz. He will call
to set something up next week.
25X1 4. LIAISON Peter Sullivan, on the staff of
the Senate Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on XX
Investigations,,called inquiring as to the status of the Subcommitt'C'1s
request for two.. CIA foreign availability reports on the 0 case.
He asked for the dates of the reports if they could not be released.
25X1 After checking with I _j OER, I informed Sullivan that a
final decision on re ease had not yet been made and gave him the
dates of the documents (22 June 1978 and 28 August 1978).
25X1 5. ADMINISTRATIVE - DELIVERIES Delivered
letters, giving notification of the compartmented clearance program,
to the principal staff members of several Committees and Subcommittees
of concern and discussed follow-on procedures. The following were
contacted: Jack Ticer, Senate Armed Services Committee; Bill Hogan,
House Armed Services Committee; Jim Wilson, House Science and
Technology Subcommittee on Space Science and Applications; John Stewart,
Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Subcommittee on Science,
Technology and Space. Each was requested to repare and submit a
listing of staff members granted SI, TK or =clearances for our check
against CIA Community indices.
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25X1 11. LEGISLATION On the matter of
H.R. 12171, the Federal Accounting and Auditing Act of 1918,
I spoke with Larry Hammond, Department of Justice and Robert
Carlstrom, OMB. Both OMB and Department of Justice are preparing
letters to the Senate outlining the Administration's position on
this legislation. I informed Messrs. Hammond and Carlstrom that
the Director strongly endorses any action they did for the
affect of delaying Senate consideration of the bill without
full committee consideration, and that we did not want to high-
light our specific intelligence-related concerns.
25X1 12. LEGISLATION Spoke with Mr.
David Minton, Executive Director, House Committee on Post Office
and Civil Service, on the Civil Service Reform legislation. I told
Mr. Minton we noticed that the print of the bill in the Congresssional
Record did not include certain language in the bill as passed by
the House, which related to the authority of the proposed Special
Counsel to receive allegations involving intelligence information by
whistle-blowers. Mr. Minton explained this was deliberate. However,
he. agreed the language in the conference report meant only that
such allegations would be passed to the Intelligence Oversight
Committees through the Special Counsel, and not that the Special
Counsel would himself conduct reviews of such allegations.
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NIO/Near East. and South Asia/NFAC,
both of CSS/NFAC, to a substantive intelligence briefing of the 25X
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Senator Barry Goldwater
(R., Ariz.), Committee Vice Chairman, and 12 staff members attended.
Ames discussed the recent fighting in Lebanon and its implications,
some broader Middle East questions relating to the Camp David
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25X1 14. LIAISON Met with Mike Epstein,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, who referred to
25X4 a recent publication by the International Commission of Jurists
(ICJ) and its American counterpart, The American Counsel of the
International Commission of Jurists. Both of these organizations
publicize human rights violations.
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25X1 16. LIAISON Met with Don Sanders,
Senate Select Committee on intelligence staff, who said a
I constituent of Senator Robert Morgan's (D., N. Car.) was
applying for employment with CIA and Senator Morgan wanted to
informally put in a good word for the applicant. The applicant's
25X1 name is I told Sanders I would make sure
a note to this effect was put in the applicant's file.
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V Senate Select
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LIAISON Talked with Ed Levine,
Committee on Intelligence staff, who postponed .
briefing on 17 1 until 12 October.
25X1 18. LIAISON Received a call from
Ted Ralston, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff,
ho said he would like to set up a meeting at NPIC sometime
Vnext week regarding SALT. Ralston said Bill I.liller, Staff
Director, Abram Shulsky, Steve Flanagan and Ed Levine, all of
the Committee staff, would. also participate. Ralston would
like a discussion of each weapons system to be covered under
SALT II and a'discussion of each of the approximately 40
"monitoring tasks" in the SALT II Treaty.
25X1 19. LIAISON Sent copies of the
January .through March issues of the bi-weekly Agency
publication entitled "International Oil Developments" to
Jean Rosenheim, Senate Select Committee on Ethics staff, per
the request of Mike Waterhouse, Congressional Research Service,
Library of Congress.
25X1 20. LIAISON Dick Giza, House
Permanent Select Committee on intelligence staff, called
requesting a briefing for himself and Pat Long, also of
the Committee staff, on Intelligence Community methods of handling
of SALT verification. After checkin with F- I NFAC/CSS,
25X1 we set the briefing, w:ii,}j:.. Chief,SALT Support Staff,
NFAC, for Monday, 16 October 1978 at 1500 hours.
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STAT 26. FOIA Received a telephone call
from Ms. Laura St. George, in the district office of Senator
Patrick J . Leahy D . V t . ) oncerning the administrative appeal
STAT filed by 1: -1 After unsuccessfully trying to
obtain in ormation immediately, I promised Laura that I would
have it checked out and call her back with whatever information
STAT I could develop as to when might receive a response
to his appeal. I called Laura in a half hour to advise that
I had been told every attempt would be made to finalize the appeal
in a month. I also mentioned that had been in touch ST q'
with the Agency early in September and at that time he was advised f
that no date could be given. I also mentioned that we are usually
quite reluctant to take cases out of order, but becauseoff;~ STA
STAT 0 situation, we would make an exception, especially iew
of her call to us. Laura was most appreciative that this would end
the matter for her.
STAT 27. LEGISLATION Called Margaret
McKenna, Deputy Counsel to the President, to advise her of the
status of H.R. 12171, the action we had taken with respect to
Senate leadership and suggested that if indeed they had consti-
tutional concerns they should be thinking of expressing them
through Frank Moore, Assistant to the President for Congressional
Liaison, or any way they think would be appropriate. She appreciated
our keeping her advised and said she had initiated a review on the
basis of my previous call.
STAT 28. LEGISLATION Called Earl Eisenhower,
/Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, to explain our problem
and to ask his assistance and said I was sending up appropriate
comments. for his perusal and possible use.
FREDERICK P. HITZ
Legislative Counsel
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