JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2006
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• Publication Date: January 6, 1976
• Content Type: NOTES

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Tuesday - 6 January 1976
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10. HEARINGS-ANGOLA Senator Dick Clark
(D. , Iowa), called to advise that he planned to have a press conference today
to announce hearings on Southern Africa, particularly Angola, by his Sub- STAT
committee on African Affairs. Secretary of State, Henry A. Kissinger,
Secretary of Defense, Donald H. Rumsfeld and Director of Central
Intelligence, William E. Colby will be asked to appear. The hearings are
tentatively scheduled for 19-23 January. Kissinger will be the lead-off
witness. The Director's office has been notified.
11. I ILIAISON I took a call from Joseph Honan, STAT
Academic Director (232-7062) of the Washington Center for Learning
Alternatives. Honan said he was responsible for organizing weekly seminars
for 35 college students in the area who are interning with the Executive and
Legislative Branches of the Government. He asked if the Agency would be
interested in speaking to this group to present its views of the Agency against
the backdrop of current publicity. I said I would call back or have someone
else call. I passed this lead on to Pat Taylor, of the IC Staff, for action STAT
and she said she would call Honan.
12. BRIEFINGS INTEL I spoke with Jim Cline,
of the House Judiciary Committee staff about his earlier request for a briefing
on OPEC for some of the staffers on the Committee. He said he was not
certain what the interest was on the part of the staffers, and he would get
back to us.
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14. LIAISON Kelly Simpson, OGC/DOD,
called wanting to know if the CIA had provided any information to GAO
on their investigation of the Mayaguez incident, Simpson said. their
office had now been requested to provide information. I explained our
situation and suggested that he talk to Mike Hornblow, NSC staff,
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Acting Legislative Counsel
Mr. Thuermer
Mr. Parmenter
IC Staff
EA/DDO
Compt.
15. LIAISON Called Scott Cohen,
Executive Assistant to Senator Charles Percy (R., Ill. ), concerning
certain letters he had forwarded involving several foreign embassies
and emigres. He explained he had forwarded them to us in li. rht of the
interest of The letters were sent t
to determine continued interest.
16. I LIAISON Kempton Jenkins, State
Department, called to discuss press inquiries concerning Secretary of
State Kissinger' s statement on 23 December on briefing approximately
25 members of Congress on Angola. I told Jenkins that I would send him.
a list of those members and committees we had briefed, with the
understanding that he would keep this confidential and. Jenkins will send. 25X1
us a listing they have compiled to determine if we have any ob7jection to
its public release.
O/DDCI
Ex. Sec,
DDA
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Mr. Warner
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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Thursday - 8 January 1976
1? FOIA Called Mary, in Representative
Goodloe E. Byron's (D., Md.) office, in regard to her call of yesterday
inquiring as to the status of the Freedom of Information request of
Mr. R. J. Harrington. After checking with All, IPS, and Ellen, DDO/FIO,
I informed Mary that Harrington's case should be completed within the next a7
few weeks and that we would notify their office when a final Agency response
was sent to Harrington by the Agency's Information and Privacy Coordinator.
2. PRIVACY Called Tom Melia, in the office
of Representative Bob Krueger (b. , Tex. ), in response to his call on
behalf of their constituent, John J. B. Miller, who had. submitted a reque T
under the Privacy Act to the Agency. I confirmed to Melia that Agency
records were negative concerning Miller. He indicated he would so advise
Mr. Miller and did not feel any further action was necessary. STAT
3. INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING Sue Huck, in
the office of Representative Larry McDonald (D. , Ga. ), called and requested
that the briefing of the Congressman on Soviet labor. camps be switched to
27 January. was advised. STAT
4. I I-LIAISON. Took a call from Ken Barnes,
in the office o Representative Toby Moffett (D. , Conn. ). Barnes had seen
a pamphlet recruiting Vietnam veterans to fight as mercenaries in Angola.
and asked if the Agency had anything to do with the pamphlet. After checking,
I informed him we did not. STAT STAT
5. I I LIAISON Called David Martin, on the staff
of the Subcommittee on internal ecurity, Senate Judiciary Committee, I STAT
asked Martin if the Subcommittee's study which included maps of Soviet slave
labor camps had ever been published, and he replied that it had. He offered
to give me two of the three volumes of the study, and I arranged to pick them up.
6. LIAISON Took a call from Don Hoye, in the
office of Fepresentative. Dan Daniels (D. , Va. ). Hoye asked about the law which
Mr. Co1b} had mentioned in that morning's "Today Show" appearance. I informe(
him the la,v was the Foreign Assistance Act of 1974, and there followed a general
discussion on the inadequate state of the law regarding disclosure of classified
informatio.-i.
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Tuesday - 13 January 1975
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1, ADMINISTRATIVE - DELIVERIES Delivered
to Sue Huck, in the office of Representative Larry McDonald (D. , Ga. ), her
ERTS photograph of Magadan USSR. Huck bad. loaned us the photograph in
hopes we could identify Soviet labor camps on it, but we were unsuccessful. S AT
2, LIAISON Picked. up from David Martin,
Subcommittee on Internal Security staff, Senate Judiciary Committee, one of
three parts of a Committee study on USSR labor camps. STAT
3.1 1 ADMINISTRATIVE - DELIVERIES Delivered
to the office of Emilio Daddario, D/OTA, an STIC study entitled, Views on
Emerging Areas of Science and Technology Potential. Im ortant to National
Securit. I will pick up the study from Mr. Daddario when. he ha.s finished
with it. STAT
4.1 LEGISLATION Picked up from Bob Mantel,
Subcommittee on Foreign Assistance and Economic Policy staff, Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, a copy of the Clark amendment on Angola. STAT
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LIAISON Ted Van Gilder, on the staff
of Representative William S. Cohen (R., Maine), requested an. unclassified
analysis on the various oversight proposals which have been put forward
in Congress recently. provided an excellent summary and
I called Van Gilder an told him we would put it in the mail to him today. STAT
6. LIAISON I met with. Representative Charles E.
Bennett (D., Fla.) in his office to discuss the referral of a constituent's
inquiry and action the Agency has taken and plans to take in this matter.
I told him that we hope to have a resolution shortly. He expressed his
appreciation for the briefing. (See Memorandum for the Record. )
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Tuesday - 20 January 1976
14.1 LIAISON Talked with Clark McFadden,
Counsel, Senate Armed Services Committee, and Edward Braswell, Chief
Counsel of that Committee, about their respective travels in Europe and
the Middle East. Both had contacts with our Station chiefs in various
locations and were more than satisfied with the sessions they had with them.
Braswell noted that the COS' he talked with seemed to be particularly
shaken by the Welch assassination and were taking rather stringent:
precautions for their own personal safety. Braswell expressed deep concern ove
the revelations which have been made by Philip Agee and expressed several
suggestions of action that might be taken concerning hi.m.
Braswell and I talked about the upcoming Senate Government Operations
Committee hearings on Congressional oversight of the intelligence community.
We compared notes and Braswell said he was not sure where. Senator John
Stennis (D. , Miss.) would come- out on the jurisdiction, but he said that he
(Braswell) will strongly recommend that Senator Stennis go on record in
favor of criminal action against anyone who reveals sensitive information
(intelligence sources and methods). He is not sure Senator Stennis will push
this, but he will certainly recommend to the Chairman that he do so. STAT
15. HEARING Jim Michie, enate Judiciary
Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure staff, called and
asked that I request a review of two items of information excised from the
declassified 1963 IG report since the information is included in. other
declassified Agency documents. After a discussion. twit IG Staff, I called Michie back and informed him that one of the items could be included
in the IG report and I would.be giving him a revised page. STAT
16. CONSTITUENT I called Margaret
O'Brien in Representative Gilbert Gude's (R., Md.) office, in response to
her earlier call to discuss proposed legislation to protect the identity of STAT
Agency personnel. We chatted about the problems being faced and the
absence of an effective legal deterrent. She requested the information for
response to a constituent inquiry. STAT
17. PRIVACY Called Lee Dugas, in the
office of Senator Herman E. Talmadge (D. , Ga. ), and discussed the letter
from the Senator forwarding a request of a constituent who is a minor. I
told Dugas I would proce ss the requesi. out of the fo.rn-ial Privacy Act channels.
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14.1 LIAISON Met with Craig Roberts,
to discuss a LHL
on the staff of Representative Jack F. Kemp (R. , N. Y. ),
speech which Representative Kemp would like to make. I told Roberts
I would have some of our colleagues review it for their comments as well.
15. I I BRIEFING A group of students from
Sterling. College, Sterling, Kansas, who were sponsored by Representative
Keith G. Sebelius (R., Kansas), visited Headquarters for a briefing by STAT
Paul Walsh, A/DDI. They were greeted at the reception desk by
I and escorted to the DDI conference room, where the STAT
briefing took place. Coordinator for Academic Affairs,
also assisted with plans for the briefing. Mel Thompson, Representative
Sebelius' Administrative Assistant, was most appreciative of Agency STAT STJ
responsiveness to the group.
16. I I LIAISON a former
Agency employee now with the Congressional Budget Office, called to ask
a few questions about her clearances while employed with the Agency.
After checking with the Office of Security, I called her back, answered
her questions, and advised her that Charles Barden, of the Congressional
Budget Office. staff, had been designated the point of contact for security STAT
matters with the Agency.
17.1 HEARING Met with Jim Michie,,_ Senate
Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure staff,
and reviewed several declassified Agency documents furnished to the STAT
Subcommittee which will be exhibits to the Subcommittee's report.
18. I I LIAISON Called Duke Short, Senate Judiciary
,Internal Security Subcommittee staff, and confirmed arrangements for him
to meet with Rumania f 1. at a loca
next Thursday, 29 January to iscuss p e executive session testimony
before Senator Strom Thurmond (R. , S. Car. ). See memo for the record.