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_. eurnal - Office of 2gislative Counse! & Meta oth Wednesday - | December 1974 ‘5, (Unclassified - DFM) LIAISON In the absence of Elliot Maxwell, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, I informed his secretary, Michal Shafer, that Maxwell should be in contact. with DOD concerning a visit to their facilities in Los Angeles and San Francisco.and we will arrange visits to our facilities. Ms. Shafer said she would pass the message to Maxwell. ra 6. (Secret - DFM) LIAISON Called Danny Childs, Senate Select Committee on Intelligerice staff, concerning our discussion yesterday regarding Reserve release letters and the possibility of a letter from Chairman Daniel Inouye (D., Hawaii) stating Committee approval of this release and asking that procedures be set up to transmit future approvals. I told Childs that I thought the Agency - would oppose establishing such procedures and asked if we could discuss this before the letter is sent.- Childs then alerted Bill Miller, Staff Director, to expect a call. , 7. (Confidential - GLC) FAA BRIEFING “Accompanied the Director to a briefing of the Defense Subcommittee, House Appropriations Committee, on the 16 November 1976 Presidential finding. (See Memorandum for the Record, ) , 8. (Confidential ~ GLG) LIAISON In the company of Mr. Carpentier, ‘met with Richard Sprague, Chief Counsel, House select Committee on Assassinations, to provide him with comments on the Kessler article of 26 November 1976 and to discuss several related matters. (See Mr. Carpentier's Memorandum for the Record. ) 9. (Confidential - PLC) LIAISON At the request of 5 German Desk/DDO, for her response to a cable from the Munich Base, I called Dick Kimmel, Document Control Specialist for the Joint Atomic Ener gy Committee, to determine the distribution of a Committee publication of a statement by former Comrnissioner Dixie Lee Ray, Atomic Energy Cornmission, on 6 August 1974 on uranium enrichment, Kimmel said the publication was of an open hearing and was given standard distribution including the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. was so advised and will cable the field. </é6é9>
404-10147-10100 eo an @ . ae Mo . € CIA INTERNAL USE ONLY | | 71- C0298 /8 Addendum to Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel 2 Tuesday - 15 March 1977 _ 4. (Unclassified - GLC) LIAISON During the course of the . day, I spoke twice to Richard Sprague, Counsel, Jiouse Select Committee on Assassinations, to tell him that I would have | o Pate with Admiral Turner his question about access to information on Santos Trafficante but I wanted him to know that certain information relating to the John F. Kennedy assassination had been released by | our Freedom of Information people in response to several Freedom : of Information requests ‘and that I was sending copies of that material: to him today. I also mentioned that the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Church Committee had had access to the type of information he was desirous of seeing and the results of their inquiry into this matter had been contained in the Church Committee's interim report on assassinations, Sprague said he was aware of that report. Later in the day, I called Sprague to tell him that I had talked with the Director. The Director felt that in view of the President's serious concern about the proliferation of sensitive intelligence information he (Turner) did not feel that he could grant the Committee staff access to any of the material in Agency files until suitable clearances had been obtained and secrecy agreements had been executed, Sprague did not quarrel with this decision and thanked me ''for my efforts." “ GEORGE L. CARY T 6 Legislative Counsel ce: - , DDCI Mr. Grinwiss Ex. Sec. DDI DDA DDS&T Mr. Falkiewicz Mr. Lapham SA/DO/O Ic Staff Comptroller NIO CIA INTERNAL USE gNty K//2S
04 f01a7A0116 Js TRA FELIC Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Page 2 Thursday - ~ 17 March 1977 , 5. (Confidential - DFM) LIAISON Called Tom Moore; Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, to ask about Committee action on the House Select Committee on Assassinations request for Senate Select CUriPativee on “Intclupence’s TAOS BPP nto s Trafficante. Moore said the Cornmittee had met on this matter and had decided not to provide the Agency materials to the House Committee. Moore said that the more difficult problem concerned Committee materials not supplied by the Agency but which related to Agency operations. Moore said he would be reviewing this material and within the next ten days or so would provide us copies of this material with a request that we make , recommendations on what should not be provided the House Committee. 6. (Internal Use Only - PLC) LIAISON Delivered to Ron McCluskey, Staff Director, House Post Office and Civil Service Subcommittee on Retirement and Employee Benefits, Agency pamphlets on the Agency's cooperative and-summer intern programs which he had requested for certain of his associates who had expressed interest in Agency employment. I told him he could call Robert Bell, Personnel Officer, if he had any further questions. 7. (Internal Use Only - PLC) LIAISON Called Bob Hull, Department of State, and inquired as to whether reemployed Foreign Service annuitant can have their annuity recomputed under the Foreign Service law. He said that a Foreign Service annuitant who works in Government service after retiring from State can have such a recomputation te include all of his U.S. employment provided he is then on recall as a Foreign Service. se officer. The question came up during Mr. Lyle Miller's meeting with Bill Jones, Administrative Assistant to Representative Jack Brooks (D., Texas), whe .is looking into the eligibility of further retirement benefits for reernployed anmuitants in Government. 8. (Internal Use Only - PLC) LIAISON Met briefly with| | a CIARDS retiree who is now employed on the House Government Operations Committee staff, and gave him a copy of the paper explaining the eligibility of further retirement bencfits for CIARDS retirces reemployed in Gove rimont which Ron McCluskey, Staff Director, House Post Office and Civil Service Subcommiltec on Retirement and Eraployce Benefits, had requested. J informed him that the Civil Service Cormmission had not yel made its decision as fails review of its policy rewarding the cligibility of recmployod CIARDS Aspses antitants for further retirement benefits.
04 t04a7A0119 Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel Tuesday - 8 November 1977 __ 37. (Confidential - PG) LIAISON Received a telephone call from Michael Glennon, Legal Counsel, Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on International Operations, who was following up ona request he made on4 November for a copy of the secrecy oath which . former DCI Richard Helms had signed. I told Mr. Glennon that I was checking this out with the appropriate elements of CIA and hoped to .. 7 have an answer for him by the following day. ae. (internal Use Only - PG) LIAISON Spent the better part os of the ‘afternoon in the Coordination & Review staff conference room with -" Michael J. Hershman, Deputy Staff Director, Subcommittee on _. International Organizations, House International Relations Committee. ae : ' Also present were DDO representatives Evalina Vidal, {| | Cops ... ., (for only the beginning of the meeting) and/| | We discussed... .- : the Subcommittee's request to make certain CIA information public .-.- 0 . and Mr. Hershman gave us a summary he had prepared for the use of — - Members at upcoming public hearings. Mrs.[  _| will review the _ _ summary and sanitize it as necessary. The remainder of the session © '. Was spent in an exchange of views as to CIA's role in ongoing — _ Congressional investigations of ROK/KCIA and related subjects. 39. (Internal Use Only_'- RIK) LIAISON Spoke with Lot Cooke, on the staff of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, concerning William R. Harris, a consultant with the Committee who also works for the Rand Corporation. Since Harris has already been briefed at Rand on compartmented clearances, it will not be necessary for himto = = __ receive a briefing on them at this time. Jack Williamson, So/ DCL, has been advised. . . Cooke also requested the clearances held by Professor G. Robert , _ Blakey,. Chief Counsel and Director, House Select Committee on mo Assassinations, and Gary Cornwell, of the staff, because they wish to review a sensitive Committee document, After checking with Dan Godar, — OS, I advised him that they had their proper clearances for reviewing the documents. | . - . 40. (Unclassified - RSG) LIAISON Spoke with Betsey Wolf, House rs ithes ssinations staff, and offered to send to her a copy of the document she reviewed here yesterday. The document was an index of Freedom of Information Act exemptions on documents _ involving the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. a. a aa 7 - 38 Ln | a _ 4H INTERNAL USe Oily
404-10147-10128 OLC 77-1971 16 May 1977 Idd - Bkoote MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT: Telephone Conversation with Mr. Kenneth Brooten, Former Assistant Counsel, House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) . 1. On ll May 1977, the Office of Legislative Counsel received a telephone call from the office of Representative Henry Gonzalez (D., Texas) asking that this office contact Mr. Brooten, who is now practicing law in Florida. It was stated that he had information of interest about the House Select Committee on Assassinations. The undersigned responded to this request but was unable to reach Mr. Brooten until this date, since he was out of town. 2. I reached Mr. Brooten in his office in Florida and identified myself to him as representing the Office of Legislative Counsel of the CIA. I reminded him of the last time we had met in December 1976 when he was still a member of the HSCA staff. He said that he recalled that meeting. Mr. Brooten stated that he had been receiving "dribbles of information", which he termed as third hand and hearsay, indicating to him that someone who purported to represent CIA was making general inquiries 7 about the modus operandi of Mr. Richard A. Sprague, the former Chief aaa Counsel of the HSCA. When I learned the intent of his call, I asked . Mr. Brooten for his permission to have my secretary monitor the conver- sation so that we could have an accurate transcript. He agreed to this. The purpose of his contacting us was to offer his views on how Sprague and his people had operated in the past and would operate in the future. I declined his offer. When I mentioned that Mr. Sprague was no longer with the Committee, Brooten answered most emphatically by saying Sprague “hired most of the people on that staff except me." I responded that the HSCA was George Cary's and my account and that I knew nothing about any such inquiries nor would I even know why such questions would be asked, 3. We ended the conversation on a pleasant note and I tried to leave the impression with him that we would not be contacting him further on this matter. Wiyalés © (tte Dougyas T. Cummins Chief, Coord¥nation and Review Staff Office of Legislative Counsel ‘ o i \riginal - OLC Subject 1 - OLC Chrono _1 - t. to DDCI (lew Lapnany 1 - OGC (Morrison) 1 - SA/DO/O 1 - 1G (Leader) 1 ~ Dir/OS — 2R2/23 OLC:DTC:hms (16 May 1977) ({MMEIPEN TIAL tessa
(iota pete the oF wef Ye ; ok . oe . SE CR ET a ae 1 MCG ase Toe HENGHANDUM FOR: Gifice of the Legislative Counsel | NTA So SA/ADDO. | FROM : Raymond A. Warren . Chief, Latin America Division | ~ SUBJECT — . - “Allegation by a. Senior Cuban Diplomat ~ Concerning the Role of Cuban Exiles in | the Assassination of President Kennedy = 7 1. According to. a fairly reliable source, a’ senior ‘Cuban diplomat stationed abroad made certain charges in late. September 1977 concerning the alleged role of Cuban exiles in the assassination of President. John F. Kennedy. This diplomat made these allegations to his colleagues in the course of an. official meeting in his embassy. The. | diplomat said, among other things, that Cuban exiles such_as former Cuban Air Force officer D i az Lan (fnu) and others had been involved in the assassination of President Kennedy. The diplomat referred to the assas- Sinaticn in the context of a security lecture in which he claimed that counter-revolutionary. activities by Cuban exiles have increased in recent months. He said that. recent information had. arrived implicating D i az in the Kennedy - assassination. The diplomat did not mention any’ other: Cuban exiles by name or provide any further details. He did not. identify the source of his information, although . citlecene | cur source nad the inpression that the dipiv ct's attegs tions were based on a recent cable from the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 2. This division has no other factual information concerning the diplomat's allegations.’ We believe that the basis for the diplomat's statement was, probably, an: article which appeared in the New York "Daily News" on 20 September 1977. This article quoted Maritza Lorenz as saying that she, Orlando Bos ch, Frank. Sturgis, Pedro Diaz Lanz, two unnamed Cuban calie bruthers and Lee Harvey CO s woa kb do igincd ani - ry ‘ . Oe WARNING NOLTICE SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED ae “SECRET -B2, INPDET . | CL BY: 912034
14-00000 ¥ ’ +O +. wig sel a assassination squad which went to Dallas to assassinate. President Sennedy.-: be know of .no information in our - files Lo substantiate that allegation, = 3. nD ijaziéisa ‘former chief of the Cuban Rebel’ . Air Force.: Ne is not nor is there any record that he - has ever been an Agency. asset » although he could have been debriefed by us after he left Cuba. 7 4, ‘There have ‘been various press articles in the past alleging that Loo r-enz was a CIA agent. She is not an agent or employee of this Agency nor is there . any information indicating that she ever was an agent or employee of this Agency. §. The above information may be passed in part or in its entirety to the House Select Committee. on Assas- sinations,. The FBI has already been informed of the significant details in this matter. Is/ George V. Lauder Raymond A. Warren | DDO/LA/GOG/CI0S/ __jsrew (1 November. 1977, X9194) ‘Distribution: | Orte & ; ~ Addressee LA/COG/Chrono - C/LAD — - Originator SA/ADDO (Benson Grayson) Ls “IG Staff. (Scott Breckinridge Hold rao
ry [tostora7orst] a) SECRET 2 August 1978 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD FROM: Raymond M. Reardon Security Analysis Group SUBJECT: Use of Drugs in the Yuriy Nosenko Case l. On 1 August 1978, Thomas A. Ryan, DDO/SE Division, was interviewed regarding any possible use of drugs by the Agency during the interrogations of Yuriy Nosenko. Mr. Scott Breckinridge, Principal Coordinator for HSCA Matters, was present during the interview. Mr. Ryan provided the following information. 2. Ryan became directly involved in the Nosenko case in approximately April 1964. He participated in the debriefing sessions and later in the hostile interrogations which took place at Clinton, Maryland. He was directly involved with the handling of Nosenko until_ea 1965 when Nosenko was moved to the installation at Ryan never saw Nosenko while he was at although he did see the Security logs and the medical reports which were forwarded to SE Divi- Sion from time to time. 3. Ryan was certain that during the Clinton phase of the debriefing and/or interrogation no drugs were administered to Nosenko. Furthermore, he has no reason to believe that any drugs, other than routine medicines, were administered to Nosenko while he was being held at 4. Ryan mentioned that Paul L. Dillon and Sally Downey, who are still with the Agency, would be logical persons to _ interview concerning the possible use of drugs on Nosenko. He said that Dillon is currently stationed at the Special aining Center and that Downey is currently assigned to He also mentioned that John McMahon who, along with Ryan, was one of the two principal interrogators of Nosenko. at Clinton, may still be associated with the Agency in a contract capacity. Raymond M. Reardon SECRET CL BY 007472
[fogt0nar-t0133}, Bae ne ee A jas TERNAL USE ONLY JA INTERNAL boc ONLY Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel . Page 4 Monday - 16 May 1977 14. (Unclassified - DTC) LIAISON Called Kenneth Brooten, former Assistant Counsel, House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), regarding a call received from the oilice vz Repeese¢iuidiive Henry Gonzalez (D., Texas) asking that this office contact Mr. Brooten. It was stated that he had information of interest about the HSCA. (See Memorandum for the Record). 15. (internal Use Only - PG) LIAISON Telephoned Robert Boettcher, Staff Chief, Subcommittee on International Organizations, House Committee on International Relations, to advise him that I had acquired two telephone numbers for John Richardson, former Seoul station chief, whom Boettcher and Michael Hershman, Deputy Staff Chief, wished to interview in Guadalajara, Mexico. We agreed on a few minor matters before I made the call, with Boettcher confirming that they would like to interview Richardson in Guadalajara over the weekend of 21-22 May. Iagreed to try and work this out with . Richardson. 16. (Secret - PG) LIAISON Met with Michael Epstein, on the staff of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and William G. Miller, Staff Director, as agreed, at Headquarters Building from approximately 10:00 a.m. until circa 2:00 p.m. Files were made available by the DDO for their perusal and | CEA/JIK, gave a briefing on the KCIA. This was followed by'a lively discussion focusing on how information concerning the alleged corruption of U.S. officials should be used. Miller had to leave the meeting early and said he would return at the first convenient time to continue his review of the files. Epstein said he would be getting in touch with me (or Don Massey) in the near future to continue his review and check on several require- ments he has left with Evvy Vidal, SA/DO/O.
404-t04a7-10142 SEGRET HSC Aljss_ INTERNAL USE ONLY wpe ADDENDUM TO JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL Wednesday - 26 October 1977 1, (Confidential - RJK) LLAISON David Bushong, Ed Levine and Walter Ricks, of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, met with Ted Shackley, ADDO, | ILA/DDO,| SA/DO/O and Harry Piper, LA/DDO, to continue discussions on the Committee's Panama investigation, Many of their questions were answered on the spot and the remaining questions are being researched and will be responded to shortly. 2. (Unclassified - RIK) LIAISON Spoke with Tom Moore, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, who confirmed that Senator Gary W. Hart (D., Colo.) would be able to meet with the Chief of Station, ‘Teheran at 3:00 on Thursday, 27 October, in the Senator's office. Margaret, on the Iran desk, was advised and she will inform the Chief of Station, This is a personal meeting and no Office of Legislative Counsel representation is required. 3. (Secret - DTC) LIAISON Professor G. Robert Blakey, Chief Counsel and Staff Director, House Select Committee on Assassinations, met with me and officers from the DDO to examine D records on "Bayo-Pawley Action."' (See Memorandum for the Record. ) 4. (Secret - PG) LIAISON Received a telephone call from Michael J. Hershman, Deputy Staff Director, Subcommittee on International Organizations, House International Relations Committee, who was calling to confirm a meeting scheduled for the morning of 27 October. I said that this was still on and we agreed that we would discuss: an interesting report which had reached the Subcommittee through a source other than CIA; the current security situation in the Subcommittee; and two press clippings which are believed (possibly incorrectly) to represent leaks from the Subcommittee, 5. (Confidential - PG) LIAISON Martha Talley and Barbara Rowan, researchers on the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, spent the afternoon in the C&R conference room interviewing one former Seoul station chief and the current incumbent. Ms. Talley reported that the interviews had been productive. 2094 . EX import CL BYR FAL. grea hor 5 BES ;  JNTERNAL USE ONL
40d t0487-10144 fe JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL | | | INTERNAL USE ONLY | | Sunday - 30 October 1977 (Unclassified - RSG) LIAISON Met with House Select _ Committee on Assassinations staff members Elizabeth Palmer, Patricia Orr, Jonathan Blackmer, and William Triplett, at Agency Headquarters to review sanitized DDO material relating to the Bayo-Pawley Action. Staffer notes were classified and retained for review by DDO. Legislative Counsel ec: O/DDCI Mr. Grinwis 5 Ex. Sec, DDA DDS&T Mr. Lapham Mr. Hetu SA/DO/O Ic Staff Compt NFAC INTERNAL USE ONLY
« . ot « € REPLY REQUESTED | Paty ia | A lL To : O/SA/DDO/O FROM: arms | SA/C/LA SUBJECT: Department of Justice Request to Release Information on Antulio RAMIREZ Ortiz to House Select Committee on Assassinations SPEED LETTER REF: | FBI Report of Theodore N. Goble, 28 July 1961 (DBF-84088) The information contained in the last paragraph on page one and the first paragraph on page two of reference may not be released to the committee because it -apparently was obtained through liaison. The information is repeated from CSCI-3/765,713 which in turn was based on a report from Santiago de Cuba (HKSA-171, 25 April 1958). The information in HKSA-171 was passed to the Department of State at some time because the last two paragraphs on page two and the __ paragraph on page three of reference, information on Ramirez from the Department of State repeates the information quoted from HKSA-171 and should not be released either. - $6 GR ATONE SEGNHATURE RETURN TO ORIGINATOR FORM USE PREVIOUS 5-67 1831 EDITIONS /
(toetotarcots7} a re ; ow * INTERNAL USE ONLY JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL Sunday - 30 October 1977 (Unclassified - RSG) LIAISON Met with House Select ; Committee on Assassinations staff members Elizabeth Palmer, Patricia Orr, Jonathan Blackmer, and William Triplett, at Agency Headquarters to review sanitized DDO material relating to the Bayo-Pawley Action. Staffer notes were classified and retained for review by DDO. , “GEORGE L, caret Legislative Counsel ccs Ex. Sec. DDA — DDS&T Mr. Lapham Mr. Hetu SA/DO/O Ic Staff Compt NFAC INTERNAL USE ONLY 5322/19
404-10147-10164 a4 ff prt SECRET OL RECORD COPY Wyse? [oc ¢BAg0e | 1 August 1978 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT : HSCA Interest in Nosenko 1. Ray Reardon of the Office of Security has been interviewing Agency employees connected in some way with the handling of Nosenko during the period of his confine- ment, to see in particular if any drugs had been administered to him. One employee, Tom Ryan of SE Division, was not interviewed as he was awaiting interview and deposition by HSCA personnel; as he was deposed last week Ray and I inter- viewed him today. In essence, he recalled no such use; Reardon will do a separate memo on that point. Zz. We had heard that Ryan had been told that he might be called to testify at public hearings, and asked him if he minded telling us what the interests of the HSCA investigator were. He stated that he was asked about the treatment of Nosenko, including the question of drugs. One general question was asked about the question of bona fides, which he avoided answering by saying that any answer would have to be a long one, and that what he felt at different times would be different; the questioner did not persist. 3. One swallow does not make a spring, but this may be an indication that the HSCA is now focusing on the treat- ment of Nosenko, rather than the issue of bona fides. So far as Ryan is concerned, he is under ‘integrated State cover and would be unable to testify at public heaggngs without severely complicating his future service. S.D. Breckinridge \ Distribution: Orig. - OLC/Subj 1 - OLC/Chrono 1 - SA/DDCI 1 - C/CI Staff 1 - C/SE Division 1 - Mr. Shepanek 2/673