JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Publication Date: April 28, 1977
• Content Type: NOTES

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Thursday - 28 April 1977
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21. LIAISON The Director advised me
of a call he had received from Chairman John Stennis (D., Miss.),
Senate Armed Services Committee, about a briefing of the Committee
on the naval situation. With Chairman Stennis' acquiescence, the
Director declined the invitation.
22. LIAISON Met for a half an hour with
the Director to discuss current topics and procedures.
23? LIAISON The Director call to advise
me of a call e a received from Chairman Olin Teague (D., Texas),
House Science and Technology Committee, requesting a briefing on the
world ener situation. The briefing is to be given in the Chairman's
office. d uis arranging a suitable date with the Committee
staff.)
24. LIAISON Following up on our
conversation yesterday about CIA contacts with American news media,
I told Bill Miller, Staff Director, Senate Select Commit .ee on Intelligence,
that the policy I had described was "a so ezng app~+1.e wiz'"' zo
former Director Bush) to all U. S. news personnel -- unless specific
arrangements were made with the top officials of the media organization.
Miller mentioned that there is considerable pressure on the Committee
and within the Committee to apply this policy to American citizens
accredited to foreign news media also. (Chairman Daniel Inouye
(D., Hawaii) is one of those who supports this position.) I told Miller
that I thought this was taking things too far but the Deputy Director later
said he thought we would have no problem in accepting this further
limitation.
25. LIAISON Called Stan Taylor, Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence. staff, and confirmed his meeting for
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explained to Taylor what new information we had or him and he said
Mike Epstein, also of the Committee staff, might attend.
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30. LIAISON Met with Bill Miller, Staff
Director, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and discussed with
him the problems the Office of Security will face in attempting to rid its
files of improperly collected and retained information. I briefed Miller
on the scope of the problem, the new guidelines to be issued on the
retention of material, and the impoundment procedures currently utilized
by OS. Miller appreciated the problems involved and said he could see
that the problems could take years to resolve.
I reminded Miller that Admiral Turner was prepared to brief the
Committee on the issue of SALT verification and Miller said the Committee
would probably ask for a briefing around the middle of May.
I delivered to Miller a copy of the Director's statement of today
'before the Subcommittee on Energy and Power, Committee on Interstate and
Foreign Commerce and copies of the unclassified report Prospects for
Soviet Oil Production.
I informed Miller that we were once again prepared for him to visit
a sensitive Agency facility, and Miller is still interested in making such a
trip. No date, however, was set for the visit.
Miller informed me that the mark-up on the intelligence budget
had been postponed until after the sessions on the open budget.
31. LIAISON Met with Jackie Johnson, in the
office of Representative William F. Walsh (R., N.Y.), and discussed with
her a current inquiry on the Boyce-Lee espionage case. I agreed to get
back to her with more information.
32. LIAISON Picked up from Lot Cooke,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, the second half of the
transcript from Admiral Stansfield Turner's 18 April briefing of the
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on covert action and sensitive
intelligence collection.
33. LIAISON Picked up for Bill Bader,
SA/DCI, a copy o the newest version of the Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence charter, from Elliot Maxwell, on t ems'
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19.. (Unclassified - MG) LIAISON Sent by courier to Anne Karalekas,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, letters to Chairman
Daniel K. Inouye (D. , Hawaii), Senate Select Committee on Intelligence,
enclosing; classified and unclassified answers to questions submitted by
the Chairman's letter of 23 Februa-ry 1977.
20. (Unclassified - MG) LIAISON Sent by courier to Elliot Maxwell,
Select Committee on
Senate Intelli nce staff, a memorandum from
a.t1t 'co ec"'f~he subject of CIA
21. (Unclassified -- RLB) LEGISLATION Spoke with Dan Wall,
Legislative Director to Senator Jake Garn (R., Utah), regarding our
obtaining a copy of the portion of the S. 305 mark-up transcript containing
remarks by Senator Adlai Stevenson (D., 111.). Mr. Wall provided us a
copy of this material and said further that Charles Marinaccio, Special
Counsel, Senate Como-nittee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, was
planning to complete his draft Committee report on S. 305 by COB tomorrow.
He suggested we call Mr. Marinaccio tomorrow if he had not contacted us
by then.
22 April.
22. (Unclassified - YTF) LEGISLATION Called Ms. Phoebe Felk,
OMB, and asked her for an extension on our views letter on the Civil
Service Commission's proposed legislation on the employment of the
physically and mentally handicapped. She granted an extension to Friday,
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17. (Internal Use Only - LLM LIAISON Accompanied STAT
SA-D/DCI/IC, and O/DCI, to a meeting STAT
with Bill Miller, Staff Director, Sena ct Committee i nce
and Elliot Maxwell, also on the Committee sta ; to iscuss the Comm1 ee s
draft legislation. I made a number of constructive
suggestions, which were received with the unders'tandng that they were
personal statements and did not represent any official views. I addressed
the problem areas, making the Congress a statutory client for intelligence
production and specifying categories for reporting as opposed to the fully
and currently informed formula on the basis of its impact on foreign
collaborators. Maxwell was receptive in both areas but in the latter
only if there is a prior commitment to report the specific topics covered
by the language in the bill. Maxwell indicated that the NSA charter, of
some 42 pages, would be available sometime during the last week in
April and the CIA charter by the middle of May. It is clear that all the titles
of the bill,: including entity '; charters, will not be ready by Mille.r's target
date of 1 May, and concentration on Title I as a separate bill will result.
I informed Miller that the DCI would be meeting with the President
on 6 April to discuss matters related to the 7 April session requested by
the Committee to discuss sensitive collection operations. Under these
circumstances, I suggested that the DCI meet with the Chairman and Vice
Chairman on the 7th to discuss the outcome in lieu of the scheduling of
a full Committee session. Miller said he would raise this possibility
but indicated the outcome would depend on Admiral Turner's views on
providing such information to the Committee. I said that I thought the
President's attitude was vitally important.
I explained to Miller that some staffers in the Committee had
suggested that we be in direct contact with Senator William W. Proxmire
(D. , Wis.) on S. 305, a bill to expand reporting requirements for publicly
held corporations and to outlaw certain payments to foreigners by U. S.
corporations and other presons. Miller felt very strongly that this
would be the wrong approach; that we should continue to work only through
the Members of the Select Committee who are also on the Senate Banking,
Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, and Senator Adlai E. 'Stevenson
(D., Ill.), who had also focused on the legislation and had raised the
problem with.the bribery section was the key Member.
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