CIA'S WHODUNIT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100160112-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 23, 2000
• Sequence Number: 112
• Publication Date: December 14, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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ciplined for.leakin stories to diseredit -
econ Deputy: Obviously, the men who were disciplined.
Raborn: That's too simple.
i First Deputy: Or a relative.
l'TIA s Whodunit 1#.aborn: Absolutely not. It would have to be one ,of their
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Gentlemen, I am shocked by your gullibility.
First Deputy: I think you must be right, Admiral. Silly of us.
JAMES.A. WECHSLER Raborn: ((ri ruptly) NOW, which one of you recommended that
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cons`T&rs a campaign by some of his own staff to discredit hire. ght the matter up . .
The admblal's concern is over high-lever leaks of information Raborn: Are you suggesting I leaked the story about de
critical of his administration. He has already exiled one top aide noting men who leaked stories to discredit me?
i to the field and others may follow.-From Newsweek's Periscope. Second Deputy: Of course not.
a ? =:_, _ First Deputy: We seem to be going around in a vicious circle.
Following' is an undocumented version -of an unrecorded Raborn: (grimly) Perhaps I am. Now let us start over.
exchange between Admiral Raborn and two', top aloes Ihortly rticles appear in print clearly designed to injure my reputation.
after delivery of this week's edition of Newsweek. - - hey cast doubt on my ability to run CIA. They are based on
Admiral Raborn: All right, this is it. I m `fed up. lets that came from within our own intelligence system.
First Deputy: What is it, sir? Second Deputy: Well, half-truths, sir-
Raborn: Don't act naive. You've seen this, thing in Newsweek. Raborn: Thank you. Let me continue. I was led to believe
Second Deputy: What thing, sir? I never read magazines e had found,the sources of the leak. We acted promptly and
until after dinner. They disagree with me.. cisively, as I assured the President at the time.
Raborn: Now, please, don't both of you pretend you don't First Deputy: Exactly.
know what I'm talking about. (He throws the marked page Raborn: And soon thereafter we find that we caret even keep
across the desk). Go ahead, read it and refresh your recollections, i crct the fact that we've done something to preserve secrecy
First Deputy: (after reading) That certainly is a nasty item. out what we've done to preserve secrecy.
j Second Deputy:. Who could invent something like that? Second Deputy: Those certainly are the facts.
Raborn: Let's not play games. You know we've had too It
many leaks around here. Now we have a leak about the leaks. Raborn: Do you think all this helps to maintain public con-
And the way things are going, there'll be a leak about my raising ence in our secret operations?
hell about the leak about the leaks. First Deputy: It certainly doesn't. It's an insult to our intelii.
* ncc, if I may say so. But this isn't the first time we've had
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probably try to be seen reading Time. Probably fire someone.
First Deputy: Or The National Review. Raborn: ~T,1~,hats just what we did the first time. That's what
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subscriber. Kaborn: Don't we have any privacy. What would J. Edgar
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First Deputy: I agree. Moreover, from my own experience, First Deputy: Well, frankly sir,. we have reason to believe
I would deduce that the man who gave this out would be careful h s under surveillance by the FBI. He used to be one of our
i , n overseas.
not to be seen readin
Newsweek H
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Raborn: Why?
Raborn:.That's just how another leak would start
Raborn: How can you make certain? ktAborn; Don't We have any Second Deputy: First, of course, we'll make an immediate Second Deputy: Oniy_one_agent, but we're hesitant to com-
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