JOURNAL - OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP77M00144R000600020042-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 5, 2006
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: March 14, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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Friday - 14 March 1975
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10 Called Mrs. Sally Horn, in the office
of Representative Jonathan Bing am, and told her we could arrange for
Carl Duckett to brief the Congressman personally on SALT and related
topics and suggested she come up with several dates that were convenient
to the Congressman and I would check Duckett's calendar. She asked again,
if it was alright for her to sit in on the briefing and I indicated it was not
in view of the subject matter involved. She said she would talk further with
Bingham and be back in touch with us.
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lA? I I Received a call from Jim Oliver,. OMB, 25X1
who was interested in any information I could give him regarding the Budget
Committees since OMB is preparing a response to a request they have received
from GAO reportedly on behalf of the Senate Budget Committee. I reviewed
a good bit of the background on this with Oliver including my conversations
with Guy McConnell, Senate Appropriations Committee staff. I tried to make
the point with Oliver that someone was going to have to get the Budget Com-
mittees and, the Appropriations Committees to agree on their respective areas
of jurisdiction, otherwise OMB and the Executive departments were going to
be caught in the middle between these two groups. I suggested that this might
be a topic for discussion with the Ad Hoc Group being chaired by John Clarke
and I also said I would raise it with Jack Marsh, Counselor to the President..
12 Called Chairman Lucien Nedzi, Intelligence 5X1
Subcommittee, House Armed Services Committee, and told him the Director had
asked me to follow up on the question Nedzi had raised with the Director at a
social gathering last night concerning Representative Michael Harrington's
participation in a "mock trial" in Mexico City last month. See Memo for
Record.
13? Called Jack Maury, DOD Legislative Affai?~X1
to chat with him about the subject o.fnd Senate Budget Committee interest:
in Defense and intelligence matters. Maury recognized this was going to become
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an increasingly difficult problem. He said they are currently dealing with
Andrew Hamilton, of the Senate Budget Committee staff.
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meeting with Guy McConnell, Senate Appropriations Committee staff, to
brief .him on the Iran/Iraq situation. (See Memo for Record)
I talked with McConnell briefly about the rash of inquiries that. are
developing from the Budget Committees anon behalf of the Budget
Committees. McConnell mentioned that Andrew Hamilton, of the Senate
Budget Committee staff, had been in touch with him and requested facts and
figures ooti Agency appropriations. McConnell told me he refused to give
Hamilton this information on the ground he had no obligation to do so. He
also commented that Hamilton is the same individual who approached bin-).
several months ago regarding a story he was doing on the intelligence agencies.
McConnell gave him very little information at the time and did not see his
final product but he said the thrust of his questions indicated his article
certainly was not friendly toward the Agency.
I commented on the report on the Executive Dining Room which we
recently delivered to McConnell. He said since this had been a matter of
interest almost exclusively to Senator Margaret Chase Smith who was defeated
in her bid for reelection to the 93rd Congress, he thought he would try to get
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