JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP77M00144R000500120008-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 3, 2003
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: October 15, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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19. ( - GLC) LIAISON Frank Slatinshek, Chief Counsel,
I-louse Armed Services Committee, called and said the Committee has just
received a letter from Chairman Pike giving them it series of questions
on what reports the Agency has given them on covert: action. operations.
Slatinshek said he would like either I I 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 blic of Clz n Std asked me if I knew who he could get i
in touch with other than the State Department. I told Slatinshek I thought
the PRC 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 the SSC 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 agreed with this
philosophy. He said he did indeed and asked if we had gotten. the same
kind of request from the House Select Committee. I told him not as such;
but they have asked about covert action. Slatinshek said the I-louse Select
Committee asked them how many times we have reported to them and were,
they satisfied.
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