JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R001200110020-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 29, 2006
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: July 27, 1978
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal. - Office of Legislative Coiinsel Page 4
Thursday 27 July 1978
J.S. LIAISON Called Tom Smeeton,
I1:iraori.t.y _a::.. onsu .an ouse n .ernational Relations Comm:i.tt.ee,
to discuss several matters related to the briefing on the North.
Korean subversive activities scheduled to be given to the Subcommittee
on Tnternational Organizations on 3 August. Smeeton suggested
that it would be appropriate for Chairman Donald M. Fraser (D.,
Minn.) to make some remarks regard-Mg the proper treatment. of
classified information.
Deputy Staff Di .tcc_tor, house International Relations Subcommittee
on Internat.:ions ~ 0rgani.zai:ions, to ask whether ho could arrange
for Subcommittee Chairman Donald M. Fraser (D. , Minn.) to read a
brief statement that we would prepare on the handling of classified
information and the need to treat the identity of the Agency's
briefer with the utmost discretion when we brief the Subcommittee
on North Korean subversive activities on 3 August. Hershman said
this would he no problem, and I said I would get the statement
to him early next week.
16. LIAISON Ca1.1ed Mike. Iierslrlr.~.n,
17 . LIAI SON Called Paul 0' Connell ,
on the stall o-- the .organ- c I.mi.tt 501-late Select Committee on
Ethics Subcommittee, to pass on two additional pieces of information
which he had asked for du-rine his visit earlier in the day on the
Senate Select Committee on Intell iigence oil study leak.
THIRD AGENCY Took a call. from
Office of Legislative Affairs, NSA, who
sai.c t Iat NSA had informed Mike Epstein, on the staff of the
Senate,- Select Committee on Intelligence, that he was not
authorized to show NSA documents in his possession to staff
members of the Senate Select Committee on Ethics. I told
Jthat we had earlier in the day informed Epstein.
ra. tree Senate Ethics staff fers had received SI brie:fi_ngs,
and thus could be exposed to this compartmented information,
but. that we had specifically cautioned Epstein that this
notification was not meant to imply in any way that we were
authorizing him to show documents which were the property of
another Agency to the Senate Ethics staffers.
,'9. LIAISON Rogene Waite, staffer
on the Subcommittee on International Development House Committee 25X1
on International Relations, called to recta reports
for Eastern Europe, La-tin Amer People's Republic of 25X1
China. Arrangements were made to initiate the
subscriptions and Send them to Ms. Wal te' attention.
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