JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R003200070083-9
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• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 10, 2004
• Sequence Number: 83
• Publication Date: March 2, 1978
• Content Type: NOTES

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Thursday - 2 March 1978
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22. LIAISON Called George Murphy,
in the Senate Office of Classifijod National Security Information, to
tell him that r _J SA/DO/O, had already left for the Hill and
would be attending a briefing in S. 407 in the Capitol and he should
contact Gregg directly for him to go over the necessary material....
23. LTATSON Sam Hoski
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, Staff, called referring to the communications between NSC and the House
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on covert action approval
mechanisms and said he had agreed to furnish the.. Committee with copies
of the first series of Ptesideatial findings signed by. former President Ford.
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Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, regarding our response to
Senator Daniel Inouye's (D., Hawaii) request for information on the
original CIA documents that could not be located in other Executive
department files and. asked if this.was the same matter Senator Lowell P.
Weicker (R., Conn.) was interested. in. He said it was, but that Senator
Weicker was also interested in determi in whether there were documents
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to the Cuban briefing given to Representative Bill Young (R. , Fla. ),
who was also a. joint sponsor. I told her we would be happy to give him a
briefing but it would have to be limited to Members only and we set 8 March,
9:00 a.m., as the time for the briefing,
e an Rudd (R. , Ariz.), called concerning a briefing on
the situation in Cuba, particularly the Soviet military buildup. She said the
Congressman was a co-sponsor on the joint resolution urging President
Carter to take steps to stop the Soviet buildu in 0-1-
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s ease Subcomrruttee, Admiral Bobby Inman, D/NSA, would
probably be asked a number of questions with respect to the Goleta Island.
26. ' BRIEFrNG Carolyn Ramse
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Wednesday - 1 March 1978
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Legislative Assistant to Senator Howard Baker (R., Tenn.), Minority
Floor Leader of the Senate, called saying that Senator Baker had read
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee document reporting that 37, 000
Cuban troops were in Africa and requested a briefing for the Senator
and Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr. (Indep., Va. ). We scheduled the
briefing for 3:30 p.m. this afternoon in the Minority Leader's office.
Mr. Liebengood later called and said that Senators Barry M.
Goldwater (R., Ariz.) and Birch Bayh (D., Ind.) will also attend.
to ask for the clearances of Guy McConnell, Jim a en au-m, and
Pete Bonner, all on the staff of the Senate Appropriations Committee,
which I gave to him.
8. LIAISON Received a call from Ellen
Williams, in the office of Representative John Burton (D., Calif.), who
asked if we could provide the Congressman a map of the Middle East.
I told her I felt sure we had such a map and would be glad to send it
to her, but if I ran into any problems I would be back in touch.
9. I I LEGISLATION Called Dave Barrett,
at the Department of Justice, to check on my request for a 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 on 28 February 1978. Mr. Barrett
said he had not received a transcript, but would notify me when he
does receive it.
10. LEGISLATION Talked with Dave
Barrett, at the Department of Justice, who asked if I had received his
proposed language for S. 1845, the polygraph bill, which he mailed
on 15 February. Since I had not, we made arrangements to have a
courier pick up a copy tomorrow.
STAT .11. LEGISLATION Called George Howe,
at the Civil Service. Commis s ion, about the Civil Service reform draft bill.
He told me it will be introduced tomorrow by Representative Robert N. C.
Nix (D. , Pa.).
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28. HEARING Ed Levine, Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence staff, called with questions for tomorrow's
hearing on covert action. (See Memorandum for the Record.)
29. HEARING Dan Childs, Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence staff, called to say Chairman Birch Bayh
(D., Ind.) would chair the covert action hearing on 2 March and that
Senator William D. Hathaway (D., Maine) would ask about the covert
action study requested last year.
STAT 30. (1 1 HEARING Jim Fellenbaum, Senate
Appropriations Committee staff, called to say the Committee hearing
schedule was still in a holding pattern.
STAT 31. 1' 1 HEARING J Fellenbaum, Senate
/Appropriations Committee staff, called to quest witness lists for
upcoming hearings which I provided by p ne. /
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17.1 CONSTITUENT Received a call from
Lisa, in the office of Representative Stewart McKinney (R., Conn.), who
requested a copy of an Agency study, "USSR Long Range Prospects for
Hard Currency Trade, " for a constituent. I referred her to the DOCEX
Project at the Library of Congress.
18. LIAISON Sent via courier to Chairman
Birch Bayh (D., Ind.), Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Chairman
Edward P. Boland (D., Mass.), House Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence, Chairman George H. Mahon (D., Texas), House
Appropriations Committee, and Chairman Warren Magnuson (D., Wash.),
Senate Appropriations Committee, a 1 March 1978 letter from the Director
regarding a sensitive Agency project.
19. LIAISON Received a call from
Kathy Taylor, Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff, who had a
classified package to send back to the Agency. I arranged for a courier
to pick it up..
20. EMPLOYMENT REQUEST Received a
call from ~=J, in the office of Representative John J. Flynt
(D. , Ga.), who asked for information about the Agency's Summer Graduate
Studies Program. I gave him some general information about the program
but told him that the deadline for this year's program was 1 January 1978.
Later in the day, I was informed by Rosann, Office of Personnel, that
called the Director of Personnel's office and that office is sending an
application form for full-time employment with the Agency.
in the office of Representative James J. Blanchard (D., Mich.), who ___1
asked who the Congressman could write to at the Agency to check into
the status of a Privacy Act inquiry for a constituent. I told her to address
the letter to Lyle L. Miller, Acting Legislative Counsel.
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