Reagan to Turn Over Excerpts of Iran-Contra Notes Next Week : Agrees to Second Session With Tower Panel Wednesday

President Reagan will turn over “appropriate excerpts” from his personal notes on the Iran arms- contra aid affair to the Tower Commission before he meets with the panel a second time next week, a White House spokesman announced today.

Deputy Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater said Reagan will meet with the commission next Wednesday at the White House. The panel is investigating the role of the National Security Council in the scandal.

Reagan met with the special board, headed by former Sen. John Tower of Texas, for 75 minutes on Jan. 26, and he offered them a return engagement if they cared to question him further.

Fitzwater said the President’s notes will be delivered before he meets again with the members of the panel, which includes former Secretary of State Edmund S. Muskie and former national security adviser Brent Scowcroft.

‘Appropriate Excerpts’

White House chief counsel Peter Wallison and David Abshire, the special counselor who was named to respond to the various Iran arms investigations, will make available the “appropriate excerpts” to the commission, Fitzwater said.

Abshire met Wednesday with the staffs of the House and Senate Select Committees investigating the scandal in connection with turning over documents. “Any review” of Reagan’s notes “would be in response to requests,” Fitzwater said.

White House Chief of Staff Donald T. Regan first disclosed the existence of the presidential notes to Senate Intelligence Committee investigators. The informal notes are kept to help Reagan with his memoirs.

The White House at first was cool to suggestions that the notes be made available to investigators, but the President later pledged his full cooperation in providing relevant material.

Stokes’ Proposal

In another development related to the Iran-contra affair, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is proposing an air-tight law making sure that Congress is told of every secret CIA operation.

House Intelligence Committee chairman Louis Stokes (D-Ohio) said a “bond of mutual respect and trust” between Congress’ intelligence committees and the CIA has been broken. He referred to the CIA’s 10-month delay in notifying Congress of the Iranian arms sale and the diversion of funds to the U.S.-backed rebels in Nicaragua.

His proposal is sure to touch off a debate over how much the executive branch must tell Congress. Stokes wants advance notice for every covert operation, with 48-hour delays permitted in rare instances. The existing law requires notification of covert operations but was left vague to avoid a confrontation over the executive branch’s right to keep secrets.