ADDENDUM TO JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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ADDENDUM TO JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Friday - 25 April 1978
4. (Unclassified - ELS) LIAISON At the request of OTR,
I invited. Chuck Snodgrass, House Appropriations Committee staff, to speak
to the Senior Seminar at 10:30 a. rn. on 19 May. He accepted, subject to any
last minute crisis, such as the impending birth of his first child, due after
11 May.
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Tuesday - 25 April 1978
15. LIAISON Called Mike O'Neil, Chief
Counsel, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, to establish
that he would speak to the CIA Mid-Career Course on 2 June from 1500
until 1615 hours.
16.1 LIAISON Called Ed Greissing, Senate
elect Committee on Intelligence staff, and told him the years E. Drexel
Godfrey was Director of OCI. Greissing had asked for the information in
connection with Godfrey's appearance in open session before the Committee
today on intelligence charters.
their office had .received a request for a CIA employment application for
a constituent. I agreed to have an application sent directly from the Agency.
Chestnut indicated her office did not need a copy of our letter to the
constituent.
17.1 LIAISON Received a call from Joyce
Chestnut, in the office of Senator Sam Nunn (D., Ga.). Chestnut said
18. LIAISON Called Geryld Christianson, 25X1
in the office of Senator Claiborne Pell (D. . R.I.). in regard t equest
of last week for CIA information on 25X1
which were originated by the State Department and that I would check
with State and ask them to provide the documents or provide them myself
if that was State's preference. Christianson said this arrangement would
be fine.
I told Christianson that t e Agency i have some documents
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19. LIAISON Called Chris Lay, Legislative
Assistant to Representative Steven Symms (R., Idaho) and told him the
Agency had no information at an unclassified level on Soviet research into
lasers and into other exotic weapons. I again stated our willingness to
offer the Representative a briefing on the subject and Lay said he would
let me know if the Congressman was interested.
20.
LIAISON Received a call from Mike
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Epstein Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, who said a man
named
claiming past CIA employment was applying for
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a position with the Committee. Epstein asked me to verify his employment.
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21. LIAISON Called Hal Ford, Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence staff, to ask about the background of the new
Committee request to .see all. NIEs for the past year. Ford said this was
Bill Miller's, Staff Director of the Committee, idea and I should check
with him. Ford said his impression was that this was not intended to be
a formal quality of intelligence study but merely to get an appreciation for
a year's NIEs and to see how they compared to previous ones in format,
subject, content, etc.
22. I
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LIAISON Called Jean Evans, Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence staff, to ask him what the Committee
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plans were regarding[ I
I cited an interest
in other Committees interviewin
nd told Evans we were
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trying to develop a comprehensive policy. Evans said I should talk to
Bill Miller, Committee Staff Director, and Earl Eisenhower, also of the
Committee staff, about this but indicated he thought the Committee plans
depended entirely upon the Agency's response to the Committee request
for a report on Edward J. Epstein's book Legend.
/-J. I I1.,1.A15ViN 1 eceived. a can from
Martha MacDonald, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, who
indicated Senator Charles Mathias (R., Md.) was interested in touring
NPIC an She asked me to set this up with Mrs. Graves on
the Senator's personal staff. I expressed reservations about handling
this through other than Committee channels and said I would talk to
Mac Donald about this in person.
24.1 I EMPLOYMENT Received a call from
Susie Williams, in the office of Senator Robert Dole (R., Kan. ), requesting
a professional employment application for a constituent. I told her one
would be sent to her. OLC Registry was advised.
25. EMPLOYMENT Received a call from 25X1
Nancy Newcomer, in the office of Representative William Goodling (R., Pa.),
inquiring for a constituent about the status of his employment application.
After checking with the Office of Personnel, I called Nancy and told her
that they could not find the constituent's letter of about a month ago and
that it was probably with letters regarding the advertisement in the New
York Times for employment opportunities with CIA because that was the
address which the constituent said he had sent his letter to.
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