ADDENDUM TO JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Publication Date: January 25, 1978
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ADDENDUM TO JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Wednesday - 25 January 1978
LIAISON Peter McGough, GAO, called to
say that ar es Wolff, who had a large role in the GAO report on
Defense Reconnaissance /Intelligence Assets had been informed by
DIA that his clearances would be withdrawn as of 31 January. McGough
asked what I knew about it. I told him that when I found out about WolffWs
clearances, I reported them to the Special Security Center who in turn
ran them back to DIA. Since these clearances had apparently been
granted on a,temporary basis over nine months ago, and since the study
was now pretty we.completed, DIA was probably withdrawing the
clearances as rapidly as possible. I told McGough that we had not
requested the withdrawal.
2. I LIAISON Bruce Van Voorst, in the
office of Senator Frank Church (D., Idaho), called requesting a briefing
for the Senator on the Horn of Africa affairs. They want the briefing
on Friday, 27 January at 2:40 p. m. I passed this to the Congressional
Support Staff.
3.' 1 LIAISON Valerie Pantell, in the office
of Representative Robert K. Dornan' (R., Calif.), called requesting an
urgent briefing for the Congressman with someone from CIA familiar
with Africa. The Congressman recently returned from Africa where he
has talked with Ugandan refugees and has important information. This
was passed to DDO.
4. LIAISON Called Tom Latimer, Staff
Director, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and explained
to him the problems we were having in obtaining the memoranda from
William Sullivan, FBI, to Former Director Richard Helms, which he
had requested in a 17 January letter to George Cary, Legislative Counsel.
I explained I believed I would have them for him early next week.
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12. (Unclassified - DFM) LIAISON Received a call from Stan Taylor,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, who said Senator Jake Garin.
(R., Utah), in preparation for a planned trip to Geneva, would like a
briefing from NFAC, on the SALT talks. This was set
up. for 25 January at 8:00 at Headquarters. Later, however, Taylor
called back to say because of health problems, Senator Garn had
cancelled his trip to Geneva and the briefing. Taylor also asked me
about a constituent of Senator Garn's, who had been
rejected for employment with the Agency. is embittered by his
rejection and is a arently discussing a suit against the Agency. In this
connection, IIhas asked for another letter stating the reasons for
his past rejection.
13, LIAISON Called Loch Johnson, I-louse
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence staff, regarding his request
for a briefing by DDO, on the Agency media programs. We
discussed his requirements and set the briefing for 26 January at 1:00 p.m.
I also discussed with him Tom Latimer's, Staff Director of the Committee,
request of 17 January for two memoranda, from FBI officer William.
Sullivan to former Director Richard Helms. Johnson gave me additional
background on the documents and I explained we were having trouble.
locating them.
14. LIAISON Received a call from Don Sanders,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, who had seen the Director's
28 November 1977 letter to Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D. , Hawaii), Chairman
of the Committee, transmitting the new working agreement for State and
CIA overseas. I agreed to discuss it with Sanders on my next visit to the
Committee. Sanders asked specifically for the effective date of the
instruction and for a new copy of the enclosure stating the Cormnittee's
copy is difficult to read.
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Select Committee on Intelligence staff, to obtain clarification of his request
for information on a specific covert action program. Levine elaborated
on what he wanted.
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Tuesday - 10 January 1978
18, LEGISLATION Attended a hearing
held by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Subcommittee
on Legislation on proposed legislation to govern electronic surveillance
for foreign intelligence purposes, at which the Director testified. (See
Memorandum for the Record.)
-19.1 LIAISON Called Stan Taylor, Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence staff, and arranged for Keith Raffel,
Mike Epstein, Catherine Essoyan, also of the Committee staff, and himself
to meet with DDCI-designee, Ambassador Frank Carlucci, at 2:00 p. m.
I also escorted them to. the meeting and introduced them to Ambassador
Carlucci. After the meeting, Taylor picked up from me a copy of
Mr. Carlucci's financial statement. I told Taylor that the General Counsel
had determined there was no conflict of interest regarding Mr. Carlucci's
financial statement but that we would wait to deliver the letter stating this
until the official nomination letter was sent to the. Congress from the White
House. Taylor said that was fine.
20.1 LIAISON I called Martha MacDonald,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, and arranged for Bill Miller,
Staff Director, to have lunch with the Director on 17 January at 1:00 p. m.
21. LIAISON Called Norvill Jones, Senate Foreign
Relations Committee Staff Director, in connection with the request of
Keith Raffel, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, to review
the transcript of former Director Helms' testimony before the Committee
on 5 May 1971. Jones said he would prefer to handle the distribution of
the transcript and asked me to send it to him and he would take the matter
up with Raffel. I agreed to send the transcript to him tomorrow and so
informed Raffel.
22 LIAISON Received a call from Jeanne
McNally, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence staff, who
said Tom Latimer, Staff Director, was awaiting a graph he had been
promised showing U. S., intelligence expenditures over several years. He
needs the graph in connection with open budget hearings.
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23. LIAISON Called Bill Miller,
Staff Director, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, regarding his
earlier commitment to set up a briefing of Chairman Daniel K. Inouye
(D., Hawaii) in preparation for the Chairman's planned personal trip
to India, Hong Kong and Korea. Miller said the Chairman had been ill
and his doctor has recommended he cancel his trip which he has done.
24. I I LIAISON Escorted Hal Ford, Spencer
Davis and Catherine Essoyan, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
staff, to meetings with C /FR Division, L_ -1
former DDO employee, and Scott Breckinridge, from the Inspector
General's office, on the Frank Snepp case. Ford had also asked to see
from the Inspector General's office, again but he was
not available today.
27. (Unclassified - DFM) LIAISON Met with Elliot Maxwell,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, who said he had been
invited to join a group from the American Publishers Association
which is touring Cuba in February. Maxwell said he would like to go
but would not if this would be a problem for the Community. I said
I would check and let him know.
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28. LIAISON Met with Mark Gitenstein,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, who said Senator Joseph
Biden's (D., Del.) hearings on the use of classified information in court
had been postponed until the end of February or first of March.
29e LIAISON Met with Dave Bushong,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, who gave me additional
requests regarding his inquiries into drug trafficking by senior Panamanian"
officials.
30. ADMINISTRATIVE DELIVERIES
Delivered to Lot Cooke, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff,
two letters, the first was a letter from George Cary responding to
Chairman Daniel K. Inouye's (D., Hawaii) letter (Q#1280) requesting
/'an analysis of Intelligence Community capability to monitor a new SALT
treaty, and the second was a letter from George Cary to Chairman
Inouy's letter (Q#1070) regarding the Richard Helms matter.
31. LIAISON Sent to Sam Hoskinson,
.National Securi~Tcl , COPIU~l communications between the
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Agency on the
Helms case, per Mr. Hoskinson's and Mr. George L. Cary's
conversation.
32. LIAISON Sam Hoskinson, NSC staff,
called indicating that he would have a session Friday, 13 January, on
statutory charters at Bill Miller's, Staff Director, Senate Select Committee
on Intelligence, request. I filled Sam in on the status of our dialogue with
the Senate Select Committee and provided some preliminary views.
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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Monday - 9 January 1978
1. 1 1 LIAISON Talked with Keith Raffel,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, who said he was
reviewing 1971 Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings and
1-.-noted that DCI Helms testified before the Committee on 5 May 1971 on
Raffel said he called the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
office and they said the transcript was held at CIA. Raffel asked to
see the transcript and I agreed to look into it.
2. I LIAISON Talked with Mike Epstein,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, who informed me that
he would be traveling tomorrow afternoon to I to meet with
I I I told Epstein
we would like to have him meet with knowledgeable Agency officers before
he makes the trip and we agreed on such a briefing for tomorrow at
'11:00 a. m.
I told Epstein that DDO employee who Epstein
had asked to interview, was and therefore was not
readily available. Epstein said he had he fight be returning
soon and asked me to check into that.
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D/OS, and OS, to a briefing of Thomas Latimer, Staff
Director, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Pat Long,
Mike O'Neil and Dick Giza, all of the staff, on the status of attempts in the
Community to de compartmentalize certain information. The discussion
covered the program to reduce the classification of TK material in order to
give it wider distribution. Latimer requested a copy of one document which
we agreed to provide. The briefing was offered in the 28 December 1977 DCI
letter to Chairman Edward P. Boland (D., Mass.) on decompartmentation.
After the meeting, I discussed with Latimer the issue of document
destruction and whether the Select Committee wished to become involved in the
Agency's document destruction program. Latimer asked if the moritorium
had been imposed by the Pike Committee and I told him it was my understanding
it was strictly at the request of Senators Michael J. Mansfield (D. , Mont. )
and Hugh Scott (R. , Pa. ). Latimer said that if the Pike Committee was not
involved in the establishment of the moritorium he saw no reason for the
Committee to become involved at this point. I assured Latimer that the
matter had been thoroughly examined by the Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence and by the Archivist of the U. S. I also reported to Latimer on
Mr. Ted.Shackley's, ADDO, briefing of Representative Norman Mineta
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