JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 18, 2005
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• Publication Date: May 16, 1977
• Content Type: NOTES

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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Monday - 16 May 1977
2. LIAISON Received a call from Lana,
of the office of Representative Samuel S. Stratton (D., N.Y.), requesting
employment information for a constituent. A secretarial employment
package was forwarded to her by I of this office.
3. LIAISON Jim Matthews, of the office
of Senator Harrison A. Williams (D., N. J.), called to request a copy
of an Agency publication, "Prospects for Soviet Oil. Production. " A
copy was forwarded to him.
4. LIAISON John Swanner, Staff Director,
House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, called regarding
information in a publication entitled "Review of the News" in their
April 27 and May 4 editions concerning information reportedly found
in Orlando Letelier's briefcase involving members of Congress.
Swanner asked me if I could check and see if the Committee should look
into these reports. I told him that this appeared to be a purely domestic
matter but I would check and be back in touch with :him.
5. LIAISON Scott Cohen, Executive
Assistant to Senator Charles Percy (R., Ill.), called on behalf of
the Senator and said that the Senator would like to look at the information
we have on several world leaders whose names he will provide. The
Senator then wants us to get with him to go over this information.
is following up on this.
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6. LIAISON Called :Representative Daniel
Flood (D., Pa.) to tell him that we had talked with Charles Snodgrass,
House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee staff, about the workmans
compensation type payments made to disabled participants in the Bay
of Pigs or survivors of such persons and that if he (Flood) had any
questions about this program, which is a very complicated one, we would
be happy to meet with him. Mr. Flood was extremely pressed for time
and asked that I check with Henry Neil, Staff Assistant, House Appropriations
Subcommittee on Labor, Health, Education and Welfare, to be sure he was
informed. I told the Congressman that we had briefed Neil on this subject
and later found that this was not the case. (See follow-up
item on this.)
8. LIAISON Called Danny Childs, Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence staff, to check with him on procedural
aspects of the Select Committee's authorization process. Childs said
that a classified letter would be going to the Senate Appropriations Committee
this afternoon with copies to the other intelligence oversight committees
and to the DCI. In response to my question, Childs said that the open budget
issue will not be taken up as part of the Committee" s action in reporting an
authorization bill to the full Senate. This issue will be raised at a later
time. Consequently, there will be no dollar figure in the Committee's
report or bill.
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9. LIAISON In response to the request
of Warren Nelson, in the office of Representative Les Aspin (D., Wis.
I arranged forl Congressional Support Staff, office
to put him on distribution for the publication, "International Oil
Developments: -Statistical Survey." The room number is 439 Cannon
House Office Building. This publication is unclassified and comes
out bi-weekly.
10. FBIS In response to his request, I
called FBIS and ordered a subscription to the Asia/Pacific and Western
Europe and Eastern Europe books for Ray Werner, in the office of
Senator John Glenn (D., Ohio), room 204 Russell Senate Office Building.
13. LIAISON Received a call from Grover
Smith, personal staff of Senator John Sparkman (D., Ala. ), who inquired
about the availability of a CIA briefing officer to talk to a group of
OTR /DDA, was notified and has scheduled the talk on the Hill for either
23 or 25 May at 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. Grover Smith was notified. He will
arrange for a suitable room and confirm a specific date.
foreign policy students from the University of Alabama.
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14. LIAISON Called Kenneth Brooten,
former Assistant Counsel, House Select Committee on Assassinations
(HSCA), regarding a call received from the office of Representative
Henry Gonzalez (D. , Texas) asking that this office contact Mr. Brooten.
It was stated that he had information of interest about the HSCA. (See
Memorandum for the Record).
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16. LIAISON Met with Michael Epstein, on the
staff of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and William G.
Miller, Staff Director, as agreed, at Headquarters Building from
approximately 10:00 a. m. until circa 2:00 p. m. Files were made
available by the DDO for their perusal and I
gave a briefing I This was followed by a lively discussion
focusing on how information concerning the alleged corruption of U. S.
officials should be used. Miller had to leave the meeting early and said
he would return at the first convenient time to continue his review of the
files. Epstein said he would be getting in touch with me (or
in the near future to continue his review and check on several require-
ments he has left with SA/DO/O.
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19. ADMINISTRATIVE DELIVERIES
At the request of I delivered to Ed Dietel, Intern in the office of
Senator Pete V. Domenici (D. , N. Mex. ), unclassified material on
Soviet Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa, per his earlier request.
-111 a.G uu rei .y znls l.nxormation to Brian Bennett, of Mr. Dornan's office.
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21. LEGISLATION Called Jim Jura, OMB,
concerning Representative George Brown's (D. , Calif.) bill establishing
a National Climate Program. Jura said that the White House has decided
to oppose the bill and asked that we forward for clearance correspondence
concerning the bill.
22. LEGISLATION I called Tom Smeeton,
Minority Staff, House International Relations Committee, and asked him
if he had any background on the three sections in F.I. R. 6884, the International
Security Assistance Act of 1977, having to do with restrictions on assistance
to Zaire and countries that violate human rights and which would require that
the President seek to insure South Korean cooperation with U. S. probes of
South Korea. Mr. Smeeton said those three sections remained in the bill,
which is awaiting floor action in the House. He further indicated he had no
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in the bill after it passes the House.
24. LIAISON Called Helen Fletcher,
secretary to Jack Swigert, Executive Director, House Committee on Science
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meet with Swigert tomorrow at 11:00 a. m. in his office to discuss the proposed
Agency briefing of Chairman Dale Milford's (D., Texas) Subcommittee on
Aviation and Transportation Research and Development and possible subjects
of interest to other Subcommittees. This is a follow-up to the Director's
luncheon with Representative Olin E Teague (D., Texas), Chairman of the 25X1
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26. BRIEFING Called Jack Ticer,
Senate Armed Services Committee staff, and confirmed the Soviet civil
defense briefing of Chairman John C. Stennis (D., Miss.) and Frank
Sullivan, Chief Counsel, to be given by DDI/OSR, in
Senator Stennis' office at 9:00 a. m. tomorrow. Called Rhett Dawson,
of the Committee staff, and arranged for and me to brief
him following
briefing of the Chairman. This is a detailed follow-up
to the information I had given to Dawson last week,
I asked Dawson if he could give me a rundown of the authorization
figures on Defense intelligence programs in the Defense Authorization
bill as reported by the Senate Armed Services Committee. He said he
would dig them out and get them to me in a day or two. The figures
were requested by OLC, for the Intelligence Community
staff.
27. LIAISON Called Jackie Johnson, in
the office of Representative William F. Walsh (R., N. Y. ), and discussed
further with her the Boyce/Lee trials in Los Angeles. Ms. Johnson was
trying to respond to a constituent who had written Representative Walsh
expressing concern about espionage against the U. S. No further action
is required.
28. LIAISON Anne Karalekas, Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence staff, called to inquire about the status
of the Select Committee's request for information on incidents reported
to the Intelligence Oversight Board. I told her we had not yet heard from
the White House on the matter and she indicated the Committee may want
to deal directly with the White House on this.
29. LIAISON Talked to Bill Miller, Staff
Director, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and Danny Childs,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, regarding the Committee's
work on the Budget Authorization bill. At the end of the day Childs was
able to give me on the secure phone a broad outline of the Committee's
action on the President's budget request.
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30. I I LIAISON Talked to Pat Carroll and
Nancy Willing, White House staff, Colonel Stephen Harrick, Office of the 25X1
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs, and Paul Daly, FBI,
to obtain details on congressional tours at their facilities.
and I have an appointment to see Ms. Willing at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, 18 May,
at the White House.
31. LIAISON Spoke with Bob Pugh and Brian
Atwood, in the office of the Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional
Relations, to close the loop on the intelligence interests in the Derwinski
amendment by obtaining legislative history protecting; sources and methods.
Atwood, Doug Bennett's, Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional
Relations, Deputy, indicated he understood our problem and would be in
touch with ACDA and let us know the results.
33. LIAISON On the call from Stan Frederick,
in the office of Senator Walter Huddleston (D. , Ky. ), for "The Impending
Soviet Oil Crisis 1977" paper, I told him it was available only in classified
form and that a copy was in the possession of the Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence if Senator Huddleston had a personal interest.
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LIAISON Spoke to Ed Dietel, intern in the office
of Senator Pete V. Domenici (D. , N. Mex. ), about the unclassified material
on Africa that we provided today, which is to be used on a nonattributable
basis.
35. LIAISON Dick Kaufman, Joint Economic
Committee staff, called to indicate a problem in scheduling the Committee
briefing for 22 June. It was rescheduled for 23 June at 10:00 a. m. , confirmed
on Admiral Turner's calendar and the Congressional Support Staff has been
advised.
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36. LIAISON Mike Van Dusen, House
International Relations Committee staff, called to check on some last
minute arrangements in connection with this morning's scheduled briefing
of the Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East.
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38. LIAISON Jerry Levinson, Senate Foreign
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about to come out with a new study on Saudi Arabian oil and that we would
be willing to brief the Committee on the study. After checking with
Congressional Support Staff, I told Levinson that no such study
was in the mill and that there must have been some misunderstanding but
that we could brief Levinson on the subject anyway if he so desired. He
asked that we brief him and Ira Nordlicht, Senate Foreign Relations
Committee staff. The briefing will be on Wednesday, May 18, at 2:00 p.m.,
in Office of Economic Research, office.
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