JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82M00345R000700020088-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 2006
• Sequence Number: 88
• Publication Date: May 2, 1977
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Monday - 2 May 1977
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(Internal Use Only - GLC) LIAISON Walt Elder, Intelligence
CommJhity staff, called to say that Mr. John McCone, former DCI,
will be in town next Monday and was interested in knowing when then
Representative Jerry Ford (R., Mich.) had been briefed on the presence
of offensive missiles in Cuba. At that time (1962) Mr. Ford was a
member of the Special Group which handled intelligence appropriations
for the House Appropriations Committee.
29. (Unclassified - GLC) LIAISON Talked with Col. Steve Harrick,
DOD, with further reference to the request he had received from the
House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct for clearances on a
number of the Committee staff members. He indicated that DOD has
been formally asked to grant clearances to three members of the staff,
but has been informally advised that there will be about 15 others
involved. Harrick said DOD would be just as happy to have these
clearances run by the FBI as I suggested if this procedure is feasible
to the Committee. I told him we would look into it.
I also talked to Harrick about the granting of compartmented
clearances to congressional staff members. I told him that as he knew,
we had held the line in not granting these clearances to the personal
staff of members, limiting these clearances only to staff personnel
of congressional committees. I discussed the problem of staffers
working for members in leadership positions and the possibility of
granting clearance to one staffer for each congressional leader.
Harrick said he did not think DOD would have any great difficulty with
this if we felt such a procedure was desirable. I told him that I would be
raising this with the Director and would let him know.
I reviewed with Harrick existing procedures and plans for dealing
with the House Select Committee on Assassinations and the House
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct and Chairman Donald Fraser' s
(D., Minn.) Subcommittee on International Organizations, House
International Relations Committee.
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