JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R002400040008-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 29, 2006
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: May 25, 1978
• Content Type: NOTES

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7. LIAISON On the advice of
NFAC/CSS, I called Dick Lieberman, House Appropriations Committee
staff, and told him the Agriculture and Related Agencies Subcommittee
could openly publish the Soviet grain estimate figures supplied to him. I
warned him that any explanation of the method of reaching the estimates
would have to remain classified. He was very grateful and said that the
intent was not to challenge the CIA figures but to indicate that the Department
of Agriculture did not need to increase its own estimating force.
8. IAISON Ed Levine, Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence staff, called with a minor question regarding
After checking with
SA/DO/O, I gave Levine a response which satisfied him.
9. LIAISON I called Charles Snodgrass,
House Appropriations Committee staff, to ask if he needed anything
further regarding a sensitive matter. He said no, that the Committee
expected to meet on 31 May to mark up the intelligence budget and would
deal with the matter at that time. He called later to say the mark-up
day had been changed to 1 June.
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LIAISON I responded to a call from
nodgrass, House Appropriations Committee staff, to Tom White,
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OLC. Snodgrass wanted us to know that Chairman Birch Bayh (D. , Ind. ),
Senate- Select Committee on Intelligence, asked for all four S&I Team studies
dealing with Angola and had received them. Snodgrass said that the
House Appropriations Committee was interested in knowing what the Senate
Select Committee was doing regarding Angola. I told him that the Senate
Select Committee had done a study which the CIA was currently reviewing.
11. LIAISON Ed Levine, Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence staff called to ask if the Operations Directorate
had issued a notice to replace told him I would check. '
12. IAISON Catherine Wilson, House
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence staff, called requesting the
names of the witnesses for the 31 May hearing by the Subcommittee on
Oversight on the subject o I told her that the witnesses would
be CAS, andi Special Assistant for the Coordination
of Foreign Narcotics Information.
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