JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R003400070090-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Sequence Number: 90
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative,Counsel
Tuesday - 29 August 1978
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4. (Internal Use Only - GMC) THIRD AGENCY Called
Theodore Heavner) Bureau of Intelligence Research, State
Department, to ask whether he could supply us with a copy
of a CIA document found in State Department files during
the Department's search for material relevant to a request
for information by the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee
on International Operations. I told Heavner that we had been
unable to recover this document from our own files. We made
arrangements for J. J. Hitchcock, of his staff, to drop the
document off at Agency Headquarters the following day. I
then asked Heavner whether there had been any new developments
with regard to the plan of action agreed upon at the inter-
agency meeting held on 25 August to discuss problems raised
by certain other requests made by Committee Legal Counsel
Michael Glennon. Heavner said that the Department had asked
Glennon to formulate his latest oral request in writing but
that Glennon had not yet done so.
5. (Internal Use Only - PLC) LIAISON Called Tim Ingram,
Staff Director, House Government Operations Subcommittee on
Government Information and Individual Rights, and confirmed a
mentinfy for ?00 a.m. Thursday, 31 August, in his office with STA
OGC, to discuss the Agency's scheduled testimony
s relationships with the Department of Justice for the
handling of criminal cases involving national security information.
6. (Unclassified - MDC) LEGISLATION Spoke with
Mr. John Kaul, FBI, regarding Civil Service Reform Act. Mr. Kaul
had spoken with a member of Senator Patrick Leahy's (D., Vt.)
staff-and learned that the "Leahy Amendment" which expanded the
reach of the Special Counsel was not intended to reach expected
agencies,e.g., CIA and FBI. I told Mr. Kaul that this office would
j'oin'-FBI in encouraging conferees to include such a statement in
the conference report.
7. (Unclassified --RJK) LIAISON Called A
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, on STA
Deputy Legislative Counsel, instructions, and requested t at
(Unclassified - RJK) LIAISON Called Jason Cooke,
House International Relations Subcommittee on Inter-American
Affairs, to advise him that we were forwarding, per his request,
two Agency classified publications to him. The first deals
with illegal migration in the Caribbean and Latin America, and
the second deals with arms sales in Latin America.
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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel.
Tuesday - 29 August 1978
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16. (Unclassified - MG) LIAISON Per his request, sent
ado Jim Thessin, Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff, a copy
of a Confidential document entitled "USSR: The Gas Industry
Through 1985," with the request that he return it when he no
longer needs it.
17. (Unclassified - MG) LIAISON Per a discussion
Forr International Relations Committee staff, had
withi NFAC/CSS, sent via courier a copy of an STA
article entitled "U.S. Reconnaissance Satellite Programmes"
from Aviation Week.
STA
FREDERICK P. HITZ
Legislative Counsel