JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82M00345R000700010033-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 2, 2006
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: June 30, 1977
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Thursday - 30 June 1977
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5. (Internal Use Only - CM) CONSTITUENT Dem Cowles,
of the staff of Senator Mike Gravel (D., Alaska), called on behalf
of I. of Fairbanks, a U. S. citizen who claims that STAT
personal photographs that he had taken were taken away from him
when he returned to the U. S. from Russia two years ago, and that
he had also suffered the interception of his mail; he thinks the FBI
and CIA did it. Ofurther claims that he has been denied STAT.
access to his files, despite FOIA requests. He now has read that
a class action suit is being brought against CIA alleging invasion .
of privacy, and would like to join the suit. I told Cowles that the
story sounded bizarre, and he agreed. I noted that CIA has no
border responsibilities or internal security functions. I recommended
that he contact the FBI and the Customs Service, and said I would
check our L'OIA records to see if had made a request to STAT
CIA. I also suggested that he check with the Justice Department
on any suits pending against the CIA. He said he would do so.
6. (Unclassified - CM) LIAISON Per his request, forwarded
some maps of the Middle East to Nicholas Soarnes, in the office of
Senator Mark I-Hatfield (R. , Ore. ). I promised to have two more for
him in a day or so.
-rand hoped to have Me erK s letter, responding to Mr. Tony
Laphaxn"s, General Counsel, letter on the
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Agency case, completed sometime next week.
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