JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP77M00144R000500040011-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 25, 2006
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: October 1, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel
Wednesday - I October 1975
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6. ADMINISTRATIVE Received a call from
Wes Clark, White House staff, who is currently working for John 0. Marsh,
Counsellor to the President. He said Marsh had received m-ny note with the
.attached exchange of correspondence with Representative Bella .Abzug (D. , N. Y
regarding information she has demanded concerning our files on the
case. Clark asked me to review the background on this situation which I
provided him. He said he wanted to talk with Jack Marsh about it, but: a.ls,-)
suggested that we stay in close touch with Steve Blacl hurst, in the Department
of Justice, who was keeping on top of cases like this. I told him I would ask
OGC to do this. Clark was very strong on the position that
the agreement worked out with Representative Otis '.Pike's (D. , N. Y. ) Committee
for the transmittal and handlingiof classified documents was applicable only
to the Pike Committee. I told him I understood and added that we had 1i-made our
offer to Mrs. Abzug and felt that we had to remain with that position,, although
we proposed to check with a number of people, including Representative
Jack Brooks (D. , Texas), on this position.
7. ADMINISTRATIVE Lewis hunter, of GAO,
called to say that the International Division of GAO has a program which he
identified as the "Quick Cognizance Studies Program, " in which members
of GAO prepare studies on the basis of their own research and information
obtained in field contacts with U. S. personnel. He said they were currently
sending two men (Bob Brady and an unidentified individual) to S gain for the
study of that country and wondered if we could arrange a briefing for them
in view of their departure this weekend. Hunter and I talked this natter over
at some length, and I stressed the fact that we had no intention of getting into
any operational information with these representatives, nor would we be a
party to a transmittal of intelligence findings to the Congress or elsewhere
through third parties (like the GAO). He indicated that he understood t:Thew
ground rules and said the information in these studies is retained in GAO
for their own background purposes in planning and programming. I took this
up with who will provide a briefing and will also clear it with
the Director and the DDO.
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