JOURNAL -OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP77M00144R000400010017-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 29, 2004
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: September 22, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Monday - 22 September 1975
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4. LIAISON In the company of 25X1
met with Representative Dante Fascell (D. , Fla. ) concerning the
Comptroller General's letter to the Director of 9 September 1975 requesting
"any and all information possessed by the Agency on the Mayagucez incident
and other documents. " It was explained that in the interest of limiting
the unnecessary proliferation of sensitive Agency information, we have
for more than a quarter of a century preferred to deal directly with
the committees rather than with them through the GAO and that we thought
that any change in the method of operation should await the findings of the
Select Committees who obviously will be faced with the problem of which
institutions or committees of Congress should be provided access to the
various types of information possessed by the Agency. Mr. Fascell was
understanding of our position, was of a disposition to call off the GAO
in this instance, at least until the issue is resolved, and in general said
he was supportive of GAO assuming a greater role in support of the
Congress. Mr. Fascell will talk to GAO and will then advise us of his
decision.
5. LIAISON In response to his call to OGC,
I called , in the General Counsel's office at NSA, and gave him
Congressional Record cites to the June 1974 debate on the Proxmire open
budget proposal.
6. BRIEFING Accoin.oani.ed I I and 25X1
EA/VNO, to meet with Robert Schick, of Senator Hugh
Scott's (R. , Pa. ) office, to discuss IndoChinese refugees. Mr. Schic_lc' s
main concern was what would happen to Vietnam and Cambodian refugees
who returned to their home countries; would they be subjected to reprisals
or death. He was also interested in what needed to be done about the
Laotian refugees on Thailand who might wish to come to the United States.
7. THIRD AGENCY Called J. J. Hitchcock,
Department of State, on the declassification of an. agreement between RLG
and the USG on integration of Meo forces into FAR.. I said the declassification
would probably create foreign relation problems for the USG but the Agency
cannot by itself object to its declassification. Whereas our rr re:thod of doing
business may be disclosed, but at this time it is not sufficient to bar
declassification. He said the foreign relations uroblerri was for State to
decide and asked if the declassification v..oulci create a heartburn for us.
I replied in the affirmative but said the heartburn was not sufficient and
nainrrul enough for us to ask that. it not b d classifi d I said this decision was
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