JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-00957A000100030041-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 2, 2006
• Sequence Number: 41
• Publication Date: October 2, 1974
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Wednesday - 2 October 1974
1.1 1 Called NSA, and informed
O im of the status o , which. protects the constitutional rights of
Federal employees. He felt assured that we both were adequately covered
b exemption. He informed that he had been attending the hearings on
2820, which establishes procedures for wire tapping in Government.
He hoped that the bill did not move since NSA would be seriously affected.
I informed him that the Senate Judiciary staff had, advised me that the bill had
little chance of being reported out but that there was always the possibility
that Senator Gaylord Nelson (D. , Wis.) or others could introduce the
substance of the bill as an amendment on the Senate floor to other legislation.
3? A;ter a discussion with
OCI, I called Ray Haddox, INR, State Department, in response to his call
yesterday. (See item #10, 1 October 1974 Journal.) I informed Haddox that
the two publications were prepared by the Agency and were available only
through the Government Printing Office and further that no other CIA similar
publications were available through the GPO. Haddox said he would inform
Representative G. William Whitehurst1s (R. , Va. ) office that no other CIA
publications were available through the GPO and that this should close out
the request.
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4. Kempton Jenkins, Deputy Assistant
Secretary, Congressional Relations, Department of State, returned my
call of yesterday and I explained to him the problem of section 28 to the
(Foreign Assistance Authorization bill, S. 3394, on limitation on expenditures
in Laos, and what would appear to be a simple solution of incorporation similar
to that which was used in the conference report in connection with a similar
provision in previous Defense Procurement Authorization bills. It was agreed
that I would send him the relevant material so he could evaluate whether
State would have any problem making the necessary representation to
Chairman Thomas Morgan and Representative Peter Frelinghuysen, House
Foreign Affairs Committee.
Jenkins said he was reviewing the check list on the State Authorization
bill prior to a session with Chairman Wayne Hays (D., Ohio) and asked if
I could review with him our work with the Foreign Affairs Committee and
Representative Hays on this provision, which I did. Jenkins is fearful that
this work may be undone in the wake of the revelations on Chile.
5. harles Meissner, Professional Staff
Member, Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations, Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, called. We tentatively set up a briefing on the
international oil problem for Senator Charles H. Percy's (R. , Ill. }
Committee and personal office staff, on an unclassified level, for
8 October at 2:30 p. m. Meissner will call us early next week and let us
know where we will meet. Scott Cohen, Executive Assistant to Senator Percy,
will be in attendance unless he is in New York with the Senator on U. N.
delegation business.
Pthe Hughes amendment to the Foreign Assistance Authorization bill, Si3394,
which may be taken up today, which would prohibit covert actions except upon
a finding in a report to oversight committees by the President. I told
McFarlane we were busy pulling together background material and possible
arguments for our Senate committees; that there was a certain appeal to the
proposition since it parallelled actual practices and commitments by the
Administration but that on the larger questions concerning the encroachment
upon the President'-s constitutional authority, there is a need for some guides,
particularly in light of the current atmosphere of conciliation. McFarlane
had not heard of the amendment and said he would get it to Scowcroft's
attention and let us know the results.r
6. Called Bud McFarlane, NSC, concerning
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Met with Guy McConnell, Senate Appropria-
tions Committee staff, and
terminate any contacts with U. S. business as part of the Educational Aid Fund
promotion and told him of our plans to have someone brief the Senate Internal
Security Subcommittee staff on the influence which Soviet intelligence has on
the Cuban DGI. McConnell had no problems with either of these items.
I briefed McConnell on the action that was taken on the Senate floor on
fit' ie Abourezk and Hughes amendments.
I talked further with McConnell about our plans to include a line item
in our FY 1974 budget for representational expenses.
18. Met with Scott Cohen, Executive Assistant 25X1
to Senator Charles H. Percy (R. , Ill. ). Cohen noted that with regard to our
conversation of last week with Glenn Reed for information concerning
Middle East oil prices, etc. , that he (Cohen) has identified Reed as a
volunteer, part-time intern for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
As for yesterday's request from Charles F. Meissner, who is Senator Percy's
staff man on the Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations, Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, Cohen suggested that I might want to talk to Meissner.
Meissner's request is one that was made on his own and did not come from
Senator Percy.
19. Winslow Wheeler, on the staff of
Senator Jacob K. Javits (R. , N. Y. ), called to cancel a request that he had
made for FBIS reporting on former Attorney General Ramsey Clark's
visit to North Vietnam in August, 1972.
20. Mailed a copy of Mr. Colby's
13 September 1974 statement at the Fund for Peace conference to Tom Fenton,
in the office of Representative Michael Harrington (D., Mass. ), per his
request.
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21. (Unclassified - PLC) Called Hilda Schreiber, OMB, and discussed
with her the applicability to CIARDS of the recently passed increase in the
annuities of retirees under the Civil Service System prior to October 1969
4f (P. L. 93-273). I explained that we have been receiving a number of inquiries
from CIARDS retirees and I thought had perhaps previously discussed
this with .her. She said she had no specific recollection of any discussion. She
could not now clear the adoption of the change for CIARDS without reviewing
the specific proposal in detail; however, at this point, informally, she could
see no objection. She was quite sure a similar provision is included in the
amendments to the Foreign Service Retirement System now pending in Congress.
I alerted her that this amendment would be among our amendments to CIARDS
which we will be submitting to OMB shortly after the new Congress convenes.
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GEO E L. C .
Legislative Counsel
cc:
O/DDCI
Ex. Sec.
Mr. T.h . r
EA/DDO DDI DDA DDS&T Comptroller
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