JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R003400040091-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 13, 2004
• Sequence Number: 91
• Publication Date: April 5, 1978
• Content Type: NOTES

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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Wednesday - 5 April 1978
4. LIAISON Received a call from Michael
Hershman, Staff Director, House International Relations Subcommittee on
International Organizations, who advised me that someone the Subcommittee
had'interviewed in the course of its investigation had recently produced
what appeared to be a Secret Agency cable, which he allowed his questioners to
transcribe. Hershman asked if we would take a look at this material
to see if it did contain information from one of our documents. I told
Hershman that if the material proved to be genuine, we might be interested
in learning who gave it to him. Hershman said that he thought he would be
able to tell us. (Comment: Hershman appeared to be referring to the
document that Thomas Smeeton and Larry Sulc, Minority Staff, told us
about last month. Smeeton and Sulc had said that the Subcommittee would
eventually be raising the matter with us. )
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25X1 5. LIAISON Called Mike Glennon,
Legal Counsel, Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Internnationa
Operations, to inquire as to whether he had finally received all of his
sanitized notes. Glennon said that he had received them.
I also told Glennon that material concerning his recent
request for information
ready for review at his convenience.
had been assembled and was
Glennon said that he would be back
in touch with me to make an appointment..
8. LIAISON Mike O'Neil, Chief Counsel,
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, called to ask me about
the status of our outstanding reporting on liaison relationships. (He was
referring to the November 1977 request from the Committee for the DCI
to report on the Agency's world-wide relationships with foreign services. )
I told him that we (the Intelligence Community as well as the Agency) are
presently working out guidelines and procedures for handling this sort of .
request and that I hoped to be able to discuss a working paper on this subject
with him within the next week. He indicated that the Committee is unhappy
with our lack of responsiveness on this issue, but also seemed to understand
the fact that we regard this as a particularly sensitive issue. I promised
Mr. O'Neil that I would get back to him as soon as I had something meaningful
in hand to discuss with him.
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Tuesday - 4 April 1978
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25X1 N FAG / CSS, and ORPA, to a current intelligence brie ing
of Senator Howard Baker (R., Tenn.). Howard Liebengood, of the Senator's
staff, sat in on the briefing.
I then discussed with the Senator his request for compartmented
clearances for Bill Hildenbrand and Jim Cannon, both of his staff, and
he indicated that he was quite sure that both he and the Majority Leader,
Robert Byrd (D., W. Va.) would support the Director's policy of providing
compartmented clearances only to committee staff personnel and those
of the Majority and Minority Leaders' offices and that no further compartmented
clearances would be required. I told Senator Baker that I would look into
the possibility.
25X1 11. LIAISON Deanne Seimer, DOD
General Counsel, called indicating that she was being pushed by journalists
to release attachments to her letter to Chairman Edward Kennedy (D., Mass.),
Senate Human Resources Subcommittee on Health & Scientific Research,
concerning MKULTRA which included certain CIA documents which she felt
could be sanitized or declassified for release. I said I would look into the
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25X1 12. LIAISON Called Michael Hershman,
Deputy Staff Director, House International Relations Subcommittee on
International Organizations, to ask if the Subcommittee was still interested
in interviewing the four former Agency employees it had previously asked
about. Hershman said that this was indeed the case. I told him that we would
begin making the appropriate arrangements. I asked Hershman if he knew
of any particular problems that Subcommittee Chairman Donald Fraser
(D., Minn.) might have on his mind when he meets with on
6 April. Hershman said that he believed Chairman Fraser would raise
the issue of Subcommittee access to NSA material.
25X1 13. LIAISON Spoke with Gerri Hall, on the
staff of Representative Larry Pressler (R. , S. Dak.), and provided her with
information contained in an Agency employment ad that appeared in the
"New York Times" on 2 April. She said a constituent had inquired about it.
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