JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R003100080026-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 10, 2005
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: March 20, 1978
• Content Type: NOTES

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Monday - 20 March 1978
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15. LIAISON Called Bill Miller, Staff Director,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, to see if he had any objection
to our sending to Representative Les Aspire (D., Wis.), House Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence, the study sent to the Senate Select Committee
Vin October 1977 on Miller said by all means do send
it but to omit references to the Senate Select Committee.
I later arranged with Miller to meet with Agency and Department of
Justice representatives at 10:30 a. m. on 22. March regarding a Justice
Department position against providing a Congressional document to an
FOIA requester.
M. LIAISON Received a call from Jean Evans,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, who said Pat Norton, also
of the Committee staff, was considering the possibility of open counter-
intelligence hearings in May related to Committee charter questions. Evans
asked our opinion of whether the following questions could be dealt with in
open session: the scope and nature of the threat of foreign intelligence and
security services, the kinds of activities needed in response to the threat
and the extent to which these activities impact on rights of Americans
provisions in the Committee proposals. Evans said he was also looking
for recommendations on whether there should be an Agency or FBI spokesman
or both..
17. LIAISON Met for a half. an hour with
Richard Haas, an American who is working with the International Institute
for Strategic Studies in London. Haas is preparing a study for the Institute
on the increased Congressional role in foreign policy and national defense
questions and its meaning for U. S. allies. One part of his study will be a
section on intelligence and Haas asked me several questions about
Congressional oversight of intelligence. He had previously talked with
both of CSS/NFAC, on providing substantive
information to Congress. Everything I told Haas was unclassified.
18. EMPLOYMENT REQUEST Received a
call front in the office of Representative Berkley Bedell
(D. , Iowa), who requested he be sent a professional application.for
employment. OLC Registry was advised.
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19. LIAISON Per his request, sent to Bill
Vaughan, on the staff of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade,
publications on steel problems of Less Developed Countries. Mr. Vaughan
wanted this information for Representatives William A. Steiger (R., Wis.)
and Charles A. Vanik (D., Ohio) who are attending a meeting in Geneva on
this subject.
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20. ) LIAISON Senator Lawton Chiles (D., Fla.)
was briefed at his request on the People's Republic of China b James
Lilley, National Intelligence Officer for China, ORPA, and 25X1
OSR. The briefing went well and the briefers answered all
the questions raised by the Senator.
21. LIAISON Jim Bush, on the staff of the
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, called to ask if we
'could supply him with examples of things the Agency has made public such
as press releases on current events, publications of intelligence products,
etc. I said I would look into it.
22, LIAISON Received a call from Jaynie
Victor, in the office of Representative William C. Wampler (R., Va.), on
behalf of a constituent, requesting a copy of the "Report to the President
by the Commission on CIA Activities in the United States, " by Nelson A.
Rockefeller, Chairman, in July 1975. After checking, I called Ms. Victor
back and advised her that the constituent could obtain a copy by writing to
the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office,
Washington, D. C. 20402. She thanked me for the information.
23. LIAISON Received a call from Jay
Killeen, on the staff of the Speaker of the House of Representatives,
Thomas P. O'Neill (D., Mass.), requesting two publications: "World
Steel Market Continued Trouble Ahead" and "World Shipbuilding: Facing
up to Overcapacity. " These were sent to him via courier and he was so
advised.
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24. ( LIAISON Sent by courier to Thomas K.
Latimer, Sta irec or, House Permanent Select Committee on
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negence, i g additional details on
25? LIAISON Mike Flannigan, House
Permanent a ec Committee on Intelligence staff, came by my office
and reviewed two boxes of Pike Committee materials which had come
from IC Staff holdings. He was searching for (10 December
1975) Memorandum from SA-D/DCI/RM, to
V the Field covering a purc on Military n e igence During an International
%.~jthe document directly from IC Staff. Once acquired, I will pass theu~jC
document on to Mike Flahxdgan for eventual passage to Diane LaVoy, of
the Committee staff.
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26. LIAISON Dick Giza, House Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence staff, called asking for the CIA
publication that was referred to in the 20 March 1978 Jack Anderson column.
After checking with NFAC/CSS, I told Dick that there was no
such publication (on U. S. oil usage statistics and, furthermore, the figures
cited in Anderson's column are inaccurate). I added that, in any event,
any figures that CIA might publish on U. S. oil usage or reserves are based
on Department of Energy statistics rather than our own knowledge or
analysis. This fully satisfied Mr. Giza.
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27. LIAISON Called Thomas K. Latimer,
Staff Director, House Permanent -Select Committee on Intelligence, to set
up the following interviews that he had requested: (1) Thursday, 23 March 25X1
at 1600 hours at Headquarters with Sayre Stevens and 25X1
-Jail of NFAC/CSS, to discuss NFAC generally; and (2) Friday
24 March at 0930 hours at 1724 F Street, N. W., with 25X1
Director, NITC, to discuss NITC. These times and p ces were agreeable
to Mr. Latimer.
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