JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP77M00144R000500030003-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 11, 2003
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: October 15, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal- Office of Legislative Counsel page
Wednesday - 15 October 1975
19. LIAISON Frank Slatinshek, Chief Counsel,
House Armed Services Commit 7e, called and said the Committee has just
received a letter from Chairman Pike giving them a series of questions
on what reports the Agency has given them on covert action operations.
Slatinshek said he would like eitherl or me to stop by to see
him and talk to him about it..
Slatinshek said some members have expressed an interest in. going
to the People's Republic of China and asked me if I knew who he could get
in touch with other than the State Department. I told Slatinshek I thought
the PRG had a liaison officer in Washington whom I thought he could talk
to and that I would be back in touch about it.
I told Slatinshek that the Senate Select Committee has gotten. on to
some of our documents having to do with committee briefings. It relates,
to Chile, Cuba, and a number of other topics. I told him the Director had
provided t SC some statistics but the Committee has now come back
and asked to look at our Journals. I told Slatinshek, as he knew, we also
write memoranda for the record on our briefing sessions; our Journals
only indicate who accompanied the Director to the briefing, the date, the
time, and then references the Memorandum for the Record. I said I expect
that if they look at our Journal items they will then want access to our .-
memoranda, but that is where we would draw the line. These memoranda
are usually prepared in lieu of a transcript and are privileged Committee
documents in our custody. Therefore, the Select Committees would have to
direct any requests for them to the oversight committee concerned. I told
him that this is the way Guy McConnell, Senate Appropriations Subcommittee
on Defense, and Edward Braswell, Chief Counsel, Senate Armed Services
Committee, feel about them and asked Slatinshek if he agre i-liit with
philosophy. He said he did indeed and asked if we had gotten
kind of request from the House Select Committee. I told him not. as such;.
but they have asked about covert action. Slatinshek said the House Select.
Committee asked them how many times we have reported to them and were
they satisfied.
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