JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 16, 2004
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• Publication Date: November 14, 1978
• Content Type: NOTES

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9.1 IFOIA As promised, I called
Mr. Norman Shapiro, in the office of Representative William
Moorhead (D., Pa. to let him know that a final response
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interest to Mr. Shapiro. He was most pleased with the
Agency's quick response.
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10. LIAISON Stuart Jones, in the
office of Representative Robert Duncan (D., Ore.), called
to request information about the availablity of unclassified
Agency publications for the Congressman. Since he already had
a DOCEX listing of Agency publications, I suggested that he
select those that the Congressman had an interest in and we
would be happy to send them to him:
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, and told him I
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to review Soviet ICBM deployment between 1970 and 1975.
LIAISON Called Ted Ralston,
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LIAISON Received a call from
5X1 Mike Epstein, Senate Select committee on Intelligence staff,
who said the Committee would concluding limited
investigation
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14. I I LIAISON Called Jan Novins,
on the stall of the enate deign Relations Committee, who
gave me the names of the Senators traveling with Senator Robert
Morgan (D., N. Car.) to Europe. This information was cabled
to the field.
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following individuals An effort to alert them to the
25X1 Bill Miller, Senate Select Committee
on Intelligence staff; Guy McConnell and Pete Bonner, Senate
Appropriations Committee staff; Norvill Jones, Senate Foreign
Relations Committee staff; Loch Johnson, House Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence staff, in the absence of Tom Latimer
and Mike O'Neill, also on the Permanent Select Committee staff
but were out of town; Ralph Preston and Chuck Snodgrass, House
Appropriations Committee staff; Jack Brady, House International
Relations Committee staff; and Frank Sullivan, Senate Armed
Services Committee staff. No problems were encountered.
16.E BRIEFING While meeting with Frank
Sullivan, Senate Armed Services Committee staff, he asked for a
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in touch with him on this.
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18. J ILIAISON Spoke with Mr. Dennis
Taylor, Leg-aLrvUcounse-L .roz- House Minority Leader John J.
Rhodes (R., Ariz.). Taylor and I will meet for coffee some
time during the week of 6 November 1978.
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a number of classified documents for return to 25)
enate Appropria ions Committee staff, and, at his reauest. ok
11.1 1 LIAISON Visited Jim Fellenbaum,
12.1 I BRIEFING Called Senator Lawton Chiles'
(D., Fla.) orrice i o owing up on the Senator's request for a
briefing on MIG-23s in Cuba. The Senator will request the briefing
when he returns to Washington, D.C. NFAC/CSS was informed.
13.E (LIAISON Called Chuck Snodgrass,
House AnDronriations Committee staff- and asked him if he would
FREDERICK P. HITZ
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12. BRIEFING Jim Fellenbaum, Sc.,71
A ro riations Committee s aff, relayed a request from George
Patten, Legislative Assistant to Senator Lawton Chiles (D., Fla.),
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about Soviet MIG-23s in Cuba. The Senator apparently has an
urgent need for this information. On advice of
NFAC/CSS, I called Patten and told him we would be happy to provide
any information there is to the Senator and asked if it was urgent
enough to consider sending someone down to Florida. He said he
would call back.
13. LIAISON Received a call from
Duane Andrews, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
staff, who requested a briefing for himself and Martin Faga, also
of the Committee staff, on the numbers of supergrades in the
Intelligence Community. They.are commencing a study of this
subject as a result of the 1979 budget hearings. The meeting
is set for 9 November with representatives from the Office of
Personnel and the Comptroller's office.
14. LIAISON DIA, called
to alert us LLne LU4_L Ln . ry Smith, Senate Services
Subcommittee on Research and Development staff, is no longer on
that Subcommittee staff and is now on the personal staff of
Senator Gary W. Hart (D., Colo.).
161. LIAISON Met with Tom Latimer
and Loch Johnson, House Permanent e ect Committee on Intelligence
staff, in response to their follow up request in connection with
some of the basic essentials relating to the 1 November 1978
Presidential Finding. Latimer is not confident that they could
obtain approval of a reprogramming request in the near future
because of the absence of Members.
25X1 it. LIAISON Met with Jack Brady,
Chief of Staff, House nternationa elations Committee, in response
to his request in connection with some of the basic essentials
relating to the 1 November 1978 Presidential Finding. He foresaw
no problems.
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1 LIAISON Met with Jim
Fellenbaum, Senate Appropriations Committee staff, in response
to his request in connection with some of the basic essentials
relating to He
seriously questioned the reprogramming, aspects o t e proposal.
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send out to requesters (at a cost of $11.80 for copying
charges), Mr. Garvey asked that I put all this in a letter
to Mr. Gradison and they in turn would send a copy to
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17. 1 1 LIAISON I called the office
of Representative Bill Gradison (R., Ohio) and spoke with
Mr. Andy Garvey about the Congressman's recent letter to
Mr. Frederick P. Hitz indicating that the Agency had made
T nse to written requests for information b
After explaining to Mr. Garvey that we are unable
to locate a written request and that there is a package of
material relating to the subject of UFOs that we regularly
way. to handle the inquiry.
so that could make direct contact
with the Agency. we agree at this would be the best
18.1 1 FAA ALERT I alerted the
following of the Bill
Miller, Senate Select Committee on n e , Jim
Fellenbaum, Senate Appropriations Committee staff; Norvill
Jones, Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff; Tom Latimer,
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence staff; Chuck
Snodgrass, House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee staff;
and Jack Brady, House International Relations Committee staff.
(See Memorandum for the Record.)
19. I I LIAISON In a conversation with
Sam Hoskinson, NSC staff, I learned that Chairman Birch Bayh
(D., Ind.), Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, had made
a commitment to meet with Senator George McGovern (D., S. Dak.)
to assert that jurisdiction of the intelligence aspects of his
SAVAK inquiry resides in the Senate Select Committee. This
commitment was precipitated by a meeting between Robert Lipshutz,
Counsel to the President, and Chairman Bayh today.
21 October 1978.)
20. LIAISON Called-Joseph
Frumkin, on the staff of Senator ohn Heinz III (R., Pa.)
and confirmed the narrow parameters that the Agency will
respond to the GAO letter to the Agency inquiring as to the
extent to which research is conducted on the Soviet Union. GAO
is conducting the inquiry at the request of Senator Heinz. NFAC
is preparing the response. (See Memorandum For the Record dated
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