JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78M02660R000300030028-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 15, 2005
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• Publication Date: September 2, 1976
• Content Type: NOTES

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Thursday - 2 September 1976
provided a paper to Slatinshek.
23. LIAISON Frank Slatinshek, Chief Counsel,
House Arme ervices omm1 ee, called and said the CIARDS legislation
would be called up on the floor on 10 September.
I discussed the letter which Representative Leonor Sullivan (D., Mo. )
had written to Chairman Melvin Price, House Armed Services Committee,
(which Chairman Price forwarded to us). I said our suggested response has
gone to NSC, which got the original request. Slatinshek said there is a
feeling among some members of Congress that the Administration is playing
games -- deliberately downplaying evidence that there is some activity there
which the members should be aware of so as to justify the giving away of the
Panama Canal. He said he didn't know if this was true or not. He said we must
be honest no matter what NSC says. I told him there was no question that
we would give an honest reply.
Slatinshek also said there is quite a bit of interest in Soviet nuclear
capabilities. There is concern on the Hill that they are not being kept
informed of Soviet testing, that they hear practically nothing from the Executive
Branch on any of this and they wonder why. He said he is directing this question
to us and would like something from us as to the nur.-n.be:r of these tests in. recent
weeks all of which appear to have exceeded the 100 kiloton level. I told hin-1 we
would get him a paper on this. OCI, has been advised and has
24.1 1 LIAISON Mr. Horwitz, Country Director
for Korea, Department of State, called and said he understood we had turned
down a request to appear before Representative Donald Fraser's (D., Minn. )
Subcommittee on International Organizations of the House International
Relations Committee on the subject of human rights in North Korea. Iferwitz
wanted to know if we would reconsider. I told him the Director didn't fee].
there was anything we could add to what the Department has on the subject
and it was better for State to handle it than us. He said the Agency does know
quite a bit on other aspects such as economics, etc. I said I would look
into this and get back in touch. Tom White will handle.
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Friday 3 September 1976
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12. LEGISLATION Discussed with Jim
Davidson, Minority staff, Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations,
Senate Government Operations Committee, and Lyle Morris, on the staff
of Senator John Glenn (D. , Ohio), certain problems with respect to S. 2925
(the zero-base budget review bill) which remained despite numerous changes
to the bill. Further contacts will be necessary as the so-called sunset
legislation is scheduled to come up for floor action later this month.
25X1 13. ILEGISLATION Called Mr. Ronald Kienlen,
Office of Geneia zus , regarding the draft Executive Order on
"Suitability Requirements for Government Employment, " which the Agency
now has for comments. I informed Mr. Kienlen the Agency and the intelligence
Community had extremely serious problems with the draft Order and will be
getting our views to him as soon as possible. Mr. Kienlen said he would
appreciate as much material as possible explaining our position but that
his office hopes to avoid any delays in preparing a final Order for Presidential
approval.
14. LIAISON I talked to Philip Mayhew,
Department of State, who returned my call to Ed Hurwitz, of the Korean
Desk, Department of State, who had asked us to reconsider our position
on not testifying before Chairman Donald M. Fraser's (D., Minn. )
Subcommittee on InternationalOrganizations, House International Relations
Committee, with respect to North Korea. I told him. we did not feel we
should change our previous position against testifying for various reasons
which I discussed with him.
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10. I LIAISON Spoke with Roger France,
on the staff of Representative Bud Shuster (R. , Pa. ), in response to his
request for an Agency speaker. France explained that approximately 50
members of the Chambersburg, Pa. Chamber of Commerce would be
visiting Washington on the 29th of September. He said they would be
visiting the Pentagon and the FBI and had requested an Agency speaker
for their luncheon, which will be hosted by the Congressman. He
suggested that our speaker address himself to the Agency role in
Government rather than the adverse publicity directed toward the
Agency, which the Chamber of Commerce people said they were not
interested in. I contacted the office of Paul Chretien, OTR, determined
that he would be available to speak to the group, and advised France that
we would be able to make a speaker available for the group. France will
call us back when he gets a room number and time for the luncheon.
LIAISON I called Marian Czarnecki,
Chief of Staff, use--International Relations Committee following up on a
previous conversation with him with respect to the request of Chairman
Donald M. Fraser (D., Minn.), Subcommittee on International Organizations,
for an Agency witness at hearings on human rights in North Korea. He said
he had talked to the Committee Chairman, Representative Thomas F. Morgan
(D. , Pa. ), who felt that it was our decision whether to provide such a witness,
25X1 12. ILIAISON I called Bob Boettcher,
on the Subcommittee on International Organizations staff, House International.
ons Com ittee, and told him that after reviewing the matter we had
decided to maintain our position and not supply a witness for Subcommittee
hearings on human rights in North Korea. He said he understood the reasons
for our position and while he would like to have had an Agency witness he
would not press further on the matter.
13. LIAISON I called Rob Roy Ratliff,
NSC staff, and discussed with him the OAG deliberations with respect to
a sensitive CA project which it has been alleged has not been covered in
Presidential findings to date. He stated that while the current omnibus
finding does not specifically mention the project it was included in the
original language of the finding and deleted for sensitivity purposes but
definitely was intended to be included in the overall finding and so under-
stood by the President.
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Wednesday - 8 September 1976
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4. I ILIAISON Spoke with Chip Pickett,
Staff Director, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Subcommittee on
Budget, and he indicated that the Committee, to his knowledge, did not
have possession of the final numbers on the appropriation approved by
the conferees.
5? LIAISON Contacted Ronald Kienlen,
Office of General Counsel, OMB, to obtain background on an Executive
.Order which, according 1o the 7 September Congressional Record
"Daily Digest, " the President was issuing and which would prohibit
the employment of aliens in the competitive service. Mr. Kienlen
assured me that the Executive Order (E. O. 11935) would affect only
the competitive service and not the excepted services.
6.1 LEGISLATION Contacted the Senate
Rules and Administration Committee to determine the status of S. 2925,
the zero-base review bill, which had been referred to that Committee by
the Senate Government Operations Committee after being reported favorably
by the latter in early August. I was informed that Senators Edmund S.
Muskie (D. , Maine) and William V. Roth (R. , Del. ), both of whom. are
pushing S. 2925, were testifying before the Senate Rules and Administration
Committee today and that the Committee hopes to report the bill favorably
very shortly since it is on the Senate calendar later this month.
7. LIAISON I called Pat Holt, Chief of Staff,
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and told him that 39 of the names
on the current foreign service list are ours.
8. I 1 LIAISON Cliff Hackett, House Inter-
national Relations Committee staff, called and stated that at the time we
provided the conclusions to the document on the Italian Communist Party
we had also offered a briefing on the Communist Party and stated that
Representatives Stephen J. Solarz (D., N. Y.) and Michael Harrington
(D. , Mass.) had now requested such a briefing. I told him that the
situation had changed somewhat and gave him some background on the
Panorama article, which he claimed he was unaware of. I then told
him I would look into whether we could provide such a briefing.
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I LIAISON Tom Popovich,
Minority staff, House International RelationsCommitte,e, called and
stated that Representative Charles Whalen, Jr. (R. , Ohio) had requested
to see the document on the Italian Communist Party which we had
previously provided to the Committee. I told him we would either send
it back to Marian Czarnecki, Chief of Staff of the Committee, or provide
it directly and would let,him know.
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Holt that we just wanted to be sure all of Senator Mansfield's questions
were answered. He suggested I talk to Jones on the matter.
10. IAISON I met with Pat Holt,
Chief of Staff, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and briefly reviewed
Senator Mike Mansfield's (D., Mont.) questions posed through Norvill
Jones, on the Committee staff, told
11. LIAISON I met with Karin Lissakers
and Jerome Levinson, both on the staff of the Subcommittee on Multi-
national Corporations, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and gave
to them the background they had requested on the 25X1
I They raised other questions
which I will follow up on.
12. ADMINISTRATIVE - DELIVERIES
I dropped o. at the office of Representative Charles Wilson (D. , Texas)
maps of the Mid East area which we had promised him at a recent briefing.
13. LIAISON I met with Tom Smeeton,
Minority staff, House International Relations Committee, and gave him. the
background on the Panorama article. He mentioned that Representatives
Charles Whalen, Jr. (R., Ohio) and Edward G. Biester, Jr. (R., Pa.)
had indicated unhappiness with the oversight system in the Committee.
I explained some of the problems involved in any oversight situation and
suggested that he convey this idea to anyone he felt should be aware of them.
14. I I LIAISON I called Elliott Maxwell,
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, and told him that I would
be bringing some materials on charters up to him the next day.