JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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May 3, 1977
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Contacts - 16 Approved For Release 2005/11/23 : CIA-RDP80-00941A000300 4 1-6 - 20 Ins - 0 Outs - 10 CONFIDENTIAL JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL Tuesday - 3 May 1977 1. LIAISON Received a call from Rick Grawey, House Government Operations Subcommittee on Manpower and Housing staff, who inquired as to whether we had received a formal letter from the Civil Service Commission advising that it has reversed its policy denying Civil Service retirement benefits to reemployed CIARDS annuitants. I told him that we had not yet received it; however, Mr. Tinsley, Civil Service Commission, has advised the Agency that the policy has been reversed and he is working out certain details which he hopes to complete very shortly. Grawey said that Tinsley promised him a copy when it is completed and he will continue to press Tinsley for its issuance. 2. LIAISON Received a call from Craig Pettibone, Civil Service Commission, who furnished further references to decisions of the Comptroller General concerning reemployed annuitants. Pettibone noted that Mr. Tinsley, Civil Service Commission, has reversed the Commission's policy and reemployed CIARDS annuitants will be eligible for Civil Service retirement. They are, however, reviewing existing policy by which Foreign Service annuitants have been found immediately eligible for Civil Service retirement benefits without having to wait the five-year qualifying period as Mr. Tinsley had mistakenly thought was required in our earlier discussions. If the Commission finds that this policy must be continued, it will be applied to reemployed CIARDS annuitants and they will not have to be in the system for five years to qualify. He will let me know when their decision is made. 25X1 Appmvpci Releas~~~~~~CIA-RDP80-00941 A000I Approved Release 2005/11/23 : CIA-RDP80-00941A000300040021-6 1 -1 Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Tuesday - 3 May 1977 Page 2 4. LIAISON Called DIA, for his reaction if we grant compartmented clearances to William Jackson, personal staffer to Majority Whip, Senator Alan Cranston (D., Calif. ), since this would be a change to Agency policy denying clearances to other than permanent staff members of committees. We discussed the broad responsibilities of the leadership of the Congress and the overriding need for compartmented clearances for those personal staff members whose assistance is required. I felt that the proposal was sound and concurred fully on. behalf of DIA and other elements of the Community within Defense. I told him that this requires the approval of the Director and we would pass his concurrence along in our recommendation to him. 5. LIAISON Received a call from John Butcher, GAO, concerning GAO's survey of Privacy Act requestors soliciting their comments on the manner in which agencies handled their requests. Butcher said they will have to indicate in their report that CIA felt it could not provide the names of requestors to GAO and, therefore, did not participate in the survey. He asked if this would present any problems. I told him that we did not consider it proper to provide these :names and we would stand by our decision. 6. LIAISON Debbie, of the office of Representative Clement J. Zablocki (D. , Wis. ), called requesting information for a constituent, about the Agency. An information package was forwarded to her. 7. ADMINISTRATIVE-DELIVERIES I left information on FBIS for Mark Levinson, in the Congressional office of Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill (D., Mass.), in response to Levinson's request of 29 April 1977, on behalf of a constituent. 25X1 25X1 ftLUrJ Approved ForIReleaQ TIAI -RDP80-00941 A000300040021-6 Approved or Release 2005/11/23 : CIA-RDP80-00941A000300040021-6 rn, %I Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Tuesday - 3 May 1977 Page 3 8. ADMINISTRATIVE-DELIVERIES I delivered a classified document to Dorothy Fosdick, of the staff of the Senate Government Operations Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, for which she signed a receipt. 9. LIAISON At I OLC, request, I met with F. Keith Atkinson, of the staff of the Senate Government Operations Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations -.-Senator Sam Nunn's (D., Ga.), man--to discuss Senator Nunn's and Atkinson's interest in possible hearings on the impact on and problems for the Intelligence Community arising from recent Congressional action--.legislation, hearings, investigations. Staffer William Gallinaro, sat in. See Memorandum for the Record. 10. LIAISON I left word for Richard Kaufman, General Counsel of the Joint Economic Committee that we had some classified publications for him (from OER). They are to be delivered on 4 May at 1500 hours at Kaufman's office. 11. LIAISON Apropos the request of 29 April 1977, from Susan Reilly, of Senator Edward Kennedy's (D., Mass.), office,for what information on Air Asia that CIA is making available, I asked Reilly if she would send a letter to Mr. George Cary, Legiclative Counsel, to which we could respond. She said that she would do so. 25X1 25X1 13. ADMINISTRATIVE - DELIVERIES Delivered to George Pickett, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, a letter from D/DCI/IC, regarding programs and issues to be addressed in the FY 78-79 by the Information Handling Committee. Approved For Release jlRDP80-00941 A000300040021-6 W Approved F pr Release 2005/11/23 : CIA-RDP80-00941A000300040021-6 eau wa.rP, TIAL Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 4 Tuesday - 3 May 1977 14. ADMINISTRATIVE - DELIVERIES Met with Mike Epstein, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, and delivered to him a letter from Admiral Stansfield Turner to Senator William D. Hathaway (D., Maine) regarding the open budget hearings. 15. LIAISON Met with Evelyn Chavoor, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, and informed her of a change in the number of a records control schedule recently submitted to the Committee. I also informed Chavoor that the Agency had received approval from the National Archives and Records Services for the destruction of approximately 8, 000 additional cubic feet of files and that this made establishment of Senate Committee procedures for approving destruction all more imperative. 16. LIAISON Met with Barbara Chesnik, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, and gave her copies of decisions in certain FOIA cases where the issue of the Director's sources and methods authorities was litigated. I asked her if she was planning to visit Headquarters to review Agency maps as Audrey Hatry, Chief Clerk, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, had suggested. She said what she really needed was a gazateer, not maps. I agreed to see whether the Agency produced one. 17. LIAISON Discussed with Hal Ford and Ted Ralston, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, the scheduled 4 May Committee meeting regarding the Subcommittee on Collection, Production and Quality study of the A Team-B Team exercise. I again told Ford it would be impossible to have the Director's comments to the Committee before the meeting but agreed to obtain a letter from Mr. Robert R. Bowie, D/DCI/NI, to Senator Adlai E. Stevenson (D., Ill.) explaining the delay. 18. LIAISON At his request, I sent a copy of the unclassified "National Basic Intelligence Fact Book" to Dr. L. K. Johnson, on the staff of Senator Frank Church (D., Idaho), Approved For RDP80 jffNTf4 119 u'~ v CONEI E T1AL Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 5 Tuesday - 3 May 1977 19. LIAISON Met with Elliot Maxwell, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, and asked him if he had finished his review of the separate security agreements covering compartmented information which the Office of Security wants staff members to sign. Maxwell said he had finished and that he was suggesting a few changes. He said he would find the material and get it to me in the next couple of days. I also asked Maxwell if he would speak to a Mid-Career course on 17 June at 10: 00 a.m., and he agreed. 20. LIAISON Accompanied C/CCS, and OLC, to a meeting with Bill Miller, Staff Director, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, to discuss an anticipated Chicago Sun Times expose on certain Agency cover arrangements. I reminded Miller that the Agency was eager to give briefings to new Committee members Daniel P. Moynihan (D., N. Y.), James B. Pearson (R., Kans.) and Richard G. Lugar (R., Ind.), and Miller said he would try to set these up. I informed Miller of my discussions with Elliot: Maxwell, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, on separate compartmented security agreements and of the fact that the Agency had an additional 8, 000 to 10, 000 cubic feet of material ready for destruction, pending Senate Select Committee on Intelligence approval. 21. LIAISON Per his request, I mailed the Agency publication entitled "The International Energy Situation: Outlook to 1985" to Bill Brobst, on the staff of Representative Allen E. Ertel (D. , Pa. ). 25X1 Approved For kelea ' V E T' A-RDP80-00941A000300040021-6 Approved F~ " " IETIAL Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Tuesday - 3 May 1977 Page 6 22. LIAISON Cindy Stoll, in the office of Representative Anthony Beilenson (D. , Calif.), called requesting a copy of the publication, The International Energy Situation: Outlook to 1985." I said I would put one in the mail for her. 25X1 24. LIAISON Susan, in the office of Representative Samuel Devine (R., Ohio), called and we set up an appointment for Wednesday, 4 May, at 9:30 a. m. for to see Mr. Devine. 25. BRIEFING Ed Dietel, in the office of Senator Pete Domenici (D. , N. Mexico), called to reschedule for 10 May, 8:30 a. m. , the briefing for Senator Domenici on the situation in Zaire and the Soviet's interests in Africa. No staff will be present, and Dietel will let us know what additional Senators will be in attendance. 25X1 25X1 Approved For R leae?~6~ -RDP80-00941 A000300040021-6 Approved F Release 2005/11/23 : CIA-RDP80-00941A000300040021-6 Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 7 Tuesday - 3 May 19 7 7 28. LIAISON Stewart Janney, on the staff of Senator Howard Baker (R. , Tenn.), called with a question on his personal clearances. He said that he had worked on former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's staff, where he had compartmented clearances, until Inauguration Day. He has recently joined Senator Baker's staff and the Senator has written a letter to the Department of Defense requesting a reinstatement of Janney's clearances. I told Janney that there was no requirement for a separate CIA clearance since this Agency would recognize the clearance granted by DOD. 29. LIAISON Received a call from __ I who said that he had been contacted F by a James Leonard of the Dayton office of the GAO. Apparently, Leonard is seeking an Agency briefing on the Soviet Backfire aircraft. Leonard was attempting to determine whether he could get an ad hoc compartmented clearance for the briefing. I told we would look into the matter and be back in touch with him. I learned later that Leonard had also requested this briefing through the Office of Weapons Intelligence /DDI. 30. LIAISON Called Peggy Papp, Legislative Assistant to Representative Manuel Lujan (R. , N. Mex.) to get her date of birth and social security number. I explained to her the reason for this was to obtain a one-time clearance for her so that she could be briefed on a sensitive constituent matter by 31. LIAISON Per her request, I mailed a copy of the publication "USSR: Impact of Recent Climate Change on Grain Production" to Suzanne Boisclair, Library, Office of Technology Assessment. 32. LIAISON OLC, and I met with Philip A. Lacovara and John W. Nields, Jr., of the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, in George Cary's office today. This meeting was follow-on to one which had, taken place on. 20 April and was used. principally for discussion of guidelines and. other agreements for the conduct of our business with the Committee. (See Memorandum for the Record). 25X1 25X1 25X1 25X1 Approved For Rel aset?c~1d1~/~ RDP80-00941A000300040021-6 Approved For kelease 2005/11/23 : CIA-RDP80-00941A000300040021-6 ~~G~dL aim Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Tuesday - 3 May 19 77 Page 8 33. LIAISON Called Dr. William Fitzgerald, Staff Member, Office of Technology Assessment, to introduce myself and to suggest to Dr. Fitzgerald that our office would. be proper for contacts between OTA and the Agency. We scheduled. a meeting for 13 May 1977 to discuss the Materials Resource Program of OTA. This call was prompted. by a letter from Dr. Fitzgerald to CPS/DDI, in which Dr. Fitzgerald suggested that OTA could benefit from Agency capabilities to present briefings on the International Materials Resources. This letter, which evolved as a result of a professional relationship, was sent to me from Dr. Fitzgerald. requested a copy of the unclassified study on ''Prospects for Soviet Oil Production''. A copy was sent to him. 25X1 25X1 25X1 Legislative Counsel c c: DDCI Ex. Sec. DDI DDA DDS&T Mr. Lapham Mr. Hetu SA/DO/O IC Staff Comptroller NIO Approved For elease t23: j j01 A-RDP80-00941A000300040021-6