JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP77M00144R000500120003-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 3, 2003
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: November 11, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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Tuesday - 11 November 1975
5. ( - LLM) BRIEFING Spoke with
Jack Brady, house International Relations Committee staff, and lie
agreed with the ground :rules which we were attempting to work
out with Leslie Yates, Subcommittee on International Resources, Food
and Energy staff, House International Relations Commnmittee, in connection
with a briefing on Angola. Our briefing would. concern itself exclusively
with substantive intelligence information; that Representative Charles
Diggs (D., Mich.), Chairman of the Subcommittee, would rule out of
order any questions relating to CIA operational activities including
covert action and standard conditions that apply to protection and
utilization of classified information imparted during the. briefing.
These ground rules were acceptable to Brady.
6. ( - LLM) BRIEFING Spoke with Leslie Yates,
Subcommittee on International Resources, Food and Energy staff,
House International Relations Committee, and. laid out the ground rules
in connection with the briefing of the Subcommittee tomorrow on the
situation in Angola, bordering countries, and Soviet and C h rte aid.
She said their principal interest related to the possibility of refugee
problems in Angola which r nay require U. S. assistance. I said I did
not want our people to be placed in the middle by a. member raisin; a
question on covert action or Agency operations, but. recommended that
Chairman Charles Diggs (I). , Mich. ) indicate that this is not a proper
forum for such discussions and refer the matter to Chairman Thomas
Morgan (D., Pa.) and the Subcommittee on Oversight.
Subsequently, Ms. Yates called. saying that Chairman Diggs wanted.
to invite the "Africa Group," consisting of some 15 member:s,who have a
strong interest in African matters. I pointed. out that since this was to be
an informal session, we wanted to be assured. that no member would feel
free on procedural grounds to discuss classified information which could
not be revealed under Committee rules if it was a formal session and
I received such assurances. On that basis and in response to her query,
I told her that widening the audience would not affect the substance of
our briefing. I also recommended that our intelligence briefing be
separated from the group's session with Edward Mul(-,Ilty, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of African Affairs, State Departir.ent, and she
agreed. Messrs. Bill Parmenter and OCT, and 0
OER, will pr:-~sent the briefing at 4:30 p