JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R002800030013-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 2, 2006
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: October 25, 1978
• Content Type: NOTES

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JOURNAL
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Wednesday - 25 October 1978
1. (Internal Use Only ME) FOIA I called Ms. Cahill,
in the office of Senator William D. Hathaway (D., Me..), to give
her a status report on the Privacy Act request of a constituent,
and former applicant,
Ms. Cahill asked severa questions which was able-to answer
and thanked me for the information. I asked and she said
there was no need fora written response because she had all
the information from my call in order to send a _
response t
2. (Internal Use Only - ME) FOIA I called Mr. Peter
Knight, in the office of Representative Newton I. Steers, Jr.
(R., Md.), regarding the Congressman's inquiry on behalf of
a student requesting information on Americans who were indicted
and convicted of espionage, especially during the 1960s. I
apologized for our inability to fulfill the request for
bibliographies and related materials advising him that I had
searched out several, areas of the Agency and no one has such
a compilation and it would require time-consuming research to
come up with the material requested. I suggested and he agreed
that the best place-to check out for this information would be
the Congressional Research Service and the Department of Justice.
He offered that he had sent a similar letter to eight other
Agencies (including the Department of Interior) but didn't
really expect to get much from this approach. I asked and
he confirmed that no written response is necessary on this
request.
3. (Unclassified - LLM) LIAISON Bob Beckel, White House Special
Assistant for Congressional Liaison (House), called to suggest
that we participate in a legislative group he will chair in
anticipation of the submission of a SALT Treaty to the-Senate.
Also, arrangements were made with Becke'l.'for the reporting
of SALT7related briefings on the Hill.
4. (Internal Use Only - LLM1) LIAISON Talked to Sam Hoskinson,
NSC staff, to seek advice on the handling of the Senate Foreign
Relations Subcommittee on International Operations request concerning
foreign intelligence services. It was recommended that at this
juncture Robert Lipshutz, Counsel to the President, call Chairman
Birch Bayh (D., Ind.), Senate Select Committee on Intelligence,
rather than write him on the need for the Committee to assert
jurisdiction in a sensitive area.
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Ho Committee on Intelligence staff, in connection with thJ Icase and he said they would be happy to send us a
le lc indicated their res onsibility for our declassi-
fication of matters relating to This is a requirement
that OGC has to fulfill for the Justice apartment.
6. LIAISON J. J. Hitchcock, State
Departmen , called to advise that he would like to get together
a group to work on a standardized Memorandum of Understanding and
asked if I had any objections. I reminded him that at our
conference there was "hot uniformity of agreement on the desirability
of doing this but I could see no harm in trying to put together
a standardized agreement.
8. LIAISON Received a call from
Represe a ive us is inquiry
to the Agency about I had
previously called t ngressman s o ice an offered to have
a representative brief the Congressman in detail. I informed
Congressman Murphy that the Director would shortly be sending
him information on the functions of these offices but renewed
the earlier offer for a briefing if that would be helpful. He
was very cordial and indicated the matter had been brought to.
his attrition by a constituent.
9. LIAISON Received a call from
Hal Ford, Je1IaL eie Committee on Intelligence staff, and
arranged for him to visit Headquarters tomorrow to review
cablps related to the South Vietnamese evacuation of Kontum
and/Pleiku in 1975.
10. LIAISON Talked with Walt Ricks
,
Senate st-LUL.L IL e on intelligence staff, regarding the visit
of Senator Robert Morgan (D., N. Car.) on 30 October.