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104-10146-10221 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (3/2/1978)

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              Journal - Office of Legislative Counsel                       Page 8
              Thursday - 2 March 1978


                     30. (Secret - PLC)  LIAISON  Elliott Brown, staff of the House Select
              Committee  on Narcotics Abuse and Control, called to alert me to the article
              by Jack Anderson on illicit drug trafficking in Ecuador in today's
              Washington Post. He  said the article may focus broad congressional attention to
              the problem. Brown will get back to me to arrange the meeting with Chairman
              Lester Wolff (D., N. Y.) to discuss the Agency's field report on the subject
              which Chairman Wolff had requested earlier.

                     31. (Secret - PLC) LIAISON  Bill Ashbaugh, OGC, called seeking
              guidance to respond to a call received from an investigator with the Office of
              Security operating under DOD credentials. The individual entered on duty
              with the Agency in October 1974 and:had been a police officer with the Memphis
              City Police Department, during which time he was an eye-witness to the Dr.
              Martin Luther King assassination. A staff member of the House Select
              Committee on Assassinations had contacted the individual through DOD and
              was to interview him in the Committee offices within the hour. I told Ashbaugh
              that Gary Cornwell, Deputy Staff Chief of the Committee, was in my office
              and I would discuss the matter with Cornwell and call him back. I explained
              to Cornwell that the individual is actually an Agency employee and came on
              board in 1974. Cornwell agreed that the interviewer need not be aware of the
              Agency connection and I explained that we would instruct the individual to
              respond fully to the questions asked by the staffer, but to stay strictly within
              his Defense cover, Cornwell fully agreed and said no notation will be made in
              the Committee files on his present CIA connection. Ashbaugh was notified and I
              requested that he instruct the individual to maintain his cover during the
              interview.

                    32.  (Unclassified - PLC) LIAISON Peter Regis, House Judiciary
             Committee  staff, called and asked that a meeting be arranged sometime next
             week. for him to go over the notes he made from his review of CIA documents
             on alleged Nazi war criminals residing in the U.S. which we have been holding
             due to their classification. He will call me to set up a definite time.

                    33. (Unclassified - GMC) LIAISON   Took a call from Beverly Lumpkin,
             staff of the House International Relations Subcommittee on International
             Organizations, regarding the sending of a courier to pick up a narrative
             summary  of material which the Subcommittee would like to have reviewed for
             public release under procedures established in the Memorandum of Understanding.
             A courier was arranged and picked up the summary.

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