JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP77M00144R000600090013-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 15, 2005
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: July 15, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Tuesday - 15 July 1975
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1. (Internal Use Only - LLM) Had several conversations during the
day with Donald Williams of the FBI, ncernin.g the Agency's and the.
Bureau's replies to the request of Chairman Frank Church (D. , Idaho) and
Vice-Chairman John G. Tower (R., Texas) on the files of members of
the Senate Select Committee. In response to my query, Mr. Williams said that
no CIA material was involved in their replies and I reviewed the references
to FBI material involved in our proposed replies.
2. (Unclassified - LLM) George Berdes, consultant to Chairman
Clement Zablocki's (D., Wisc.) House International Relations Subcommittee
on Internal Security and Scientific Affairs, called to request a briefing of the
Subcommittee by Mr. Duckett on the afternoon of 23 July 1975 in the context of
the Vladivostok accords. Mr. Berdes said that the Subcommittee had found
previous such briefings by Mr. Duckett to be most helpful and I told him
we would see what arrangements could be made.
3. (Internal Use Only - LLM) Called Joseph Murray, International
Division of the = ,concerning his earlier calls on
Agency informatio . conc rn ng the ffe tiveness of control of nuclear material
and told him that on two of the topics, we would have to refer him back to
ERDAn.d on the third, on which we do have some information, we would
prefer to deal directly with the House International Relations Committee.
Mr. Murray had no problem with this response, but requested a letter from
us which he could show to the International Relations Committee which
had levied the requirement on GAO. I then explained this would not be
necessary as we had already discussed this with Marian Czarnecki, Chief
of Staff, Committee on International Relations and Murray agreed..
4. (Internal Use Only - LLM) Called Emerson Brown, State Department,
and he agreed that State's response to the request of the Multinational Corporations
Subcommittee, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, for information on Gulf Oil
Corporations' political contributions in Korea would not be extended to the CIA.
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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Monday ?- 14 July 1975
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1. (Internal Use Only - RC) I went over the transcript of the Dirc-c:t.or's
appearance before the Post office and Civil Service Subcommittee on. Postal.
Facilities, Mail and Labor Management with Messrs. George B. Gould and
Michael F. Cavanagh, on the staff of the Subcommittee, The idea was to
sanitize and correct the transcript for publication. (See Memorandum. for
the Record dtd 14 July 1975. )
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about the Director's appearance before the Post Office and Civil Service
Subcommittee on Postal Facilities, Mail and Labor Management. He was
referred to me by Walt Elder. I gave him a general run--down of the FBI
aspects of the Director's testimony.
3. (Unclassified -- LLM) Jim Oliver, OMB, called to advise that
pursuant to Mr. Cary's request of 16 June 1975, the Agency will be exempt
from the requirement of preparing inflationary impact: studies on proposed.
legislation. Oliver said this was an informal exemption and is similar to
the exemption extended to all other parts of the Executive Office as the
inflationary impact requirement was intended to apply only to agencies with
large programs.
4. (Unclassified - LLM) Called Elmer Henderson, Staff Director
of Representative Jack Brooks (D. , Texas), House Government Operations
Subcommittee on Legislation and National Secu.rity,to advise him of the late
receipt of Brooks' 8 July letter concerning Henderson said
he did not think any problem would be caused by a reasonable delay in the
receipt of our reply which is :otherwise due tomorrow, but asked if I would
talk to Mr. William Jones, General Counsel, House Government Operations
Committee, on the matter.
5. (Unclassified - LLM) Called William Jones, General Counsel,
House Government Operations Committee,concernin.g the above letter of
8 July from Representative Jack Brooks (D. , Texas), and he was very under-
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Thursday - 10 July 1975
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7. (Unclassified - DFM) Called Gary Clary, Administrative
Assistant to Senator Strom Thurmond (R. , S. C. ), regarding the Senator's
bill, S. 1395, to insulate armed forces medical personnel from. malpractice
suits. About a month ago I had asked Clary to see if the Senator might be
willing to add CIA physicians to this bill, but had received no response from
Clary. He said he had mentioned it to Senator Thurmond but had not received
a final response and would ask him again. I told Clary I would ask Mr. Cary
tq call the Senator to promote such a move.
8 . (Secret - GLC) First thing this morning, I received a call from.
Chairman Lucien Nedzi (D., Mich.) expressing further concern over the
articles reporting on Searle Field' s, of House Select Committee st:a.ff,
memorandum of what he saw in Agency files about CIA "infiltration" at the
White House. He said he would like to review the material seen by 'Field
and Jack Boos, House Select Committee.staff, at headquarters when they
visited here. I told him l would be happy to bring the material to him, and
have Walter Elder, of the Review Staff, go up to talk to him about it this
morning if he wished. Elder and I subsequently m,-net with the Chairman at:
10:00 a. m. in his office. He reviewed the material and could find no logical
basis for the conclusions stated in Field's memorandum. He then asked if
it would be possible for us to release the text of the page of the summary of
the 13 August 1973 document that contained references to the detailed Agency
personnel to the White House staff. Elder and. I agreed to look into this, but
expressed some concern about including names of individuals especiall, i
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We talked to Mr. Nedzi about seeing Representative Robert W.-Kasten
(R., Wis.) on this since Kasten had made a number of public statements
based on Field's memorandum and staff briefings on this subject. Mr.. Nedzi
suggested that we leave this in his hands for the moment and we gladly
acceded. He also commented that he planned to talk to Searle Field on the
subject. A short time later, Nedzi contacted me and asked to look at the
material again because of references Field in.ad.e to statements in the
documents pertaini view of another con mitment that I had,.
I left this matter in Mr. Elder's ands.
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Thursday - 10 July 1975
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10. (Confidential - GLC) In the absence of John Marsh, Counsel
to the President, I talked to his Assistant, Russell Rourke, and filled
him in on our conversations with Representative Lucien Nedzi (D., Mich.)
regarding press allegations about information assimilated by Searle Field,
of the House Select Committee staff , alleging Agency "infiltration" of the
White House staff. I told Rourke that Mr. James Wilderotter, White
House staff, had been in touch with Mr. John S. Warner, OGG, on this
subject this morning and Warner had LDX'd to Wilderotter a page from
the summary of the 13 August 1973 document which apparently was a basis
for erroneous statements by Field in his memorandum. I told Rourke that
we were working on the sanitization of this page for Nedzi and would be in
touch with him later as the situation developed.
I also told Rourke that before entering the hearing with the House
Post Office and Civil Service Committee this morning, Mr. Colby had
flatly denied the allegations of Agency "infiltration" of the White House.
We agreed to keep in touch on this subject.
11 . (Unclassified - GLC) Mike Rosenbaum, in Representative
Patricia Schroeder's (D., Colo.) Denver office, called regarding my letter
of 2 July 1975 to Representative Schroeder concerning her request for
information about I and the general
nature of their duties and responsibilities. Rosenbaum as ked for a. reference
to the statute involved which was the basis for our exemption under the
Freedom of Information Act for protection of intelligence sources and
methods. I gave him the code citation to Section 102 (d)(3) of the National
Security Act as amended and to Section 6 of the CIA Act of 1949 as amended.
12 . (Unclassified - GLC) Accompanied the Director to a briefing of
the House International Relations Committee on the
Bob Ellsworth, Assistant Secretary of Defense for
ISA, also participated in this briefing.
13.. (Unclassified - DFM) Took a call from Mike West, on the staff
of the House Armed Services Committee. West inquired whether Agency
materials are routinely sent to fh? rT t;r,nal Archives as are the older docu-
ments of other Government agencies. I replied that the Agency had its own
storage facilities and that documents were reviewed after a ten--year period
and some were routinely destroyed. I told West that certain materials do
find their way to the National Archives, such as the CIA materials used by
the Warren Commission, but that this is the exception and not the rule..
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