A HASSLE OVER 'SPYING' DOCUMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100250048-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 16, 1999
• Sequence Number: 48
• Publication Date: May 6, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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BY Richard' K. Doan
TV and Radio Editor
Broadcasting Co. se TV ne TV ne 1
work aired -
a news doe
mentary Tuesday night o
"The Science of Spying," th
B. F. Goodrich Co. yanked it
scheduled commercials fro
the program on the ground
that. the telecast might "d
harm to the government o l
United States."
The sponsor said it could
In reply, the network said
NBC N
ews tok "fl
oul respon-
sibility" for the Program, off
ing to be put in the position
of d
efendin i
gts Presentations
and felt that the sponsor does
not have to take responsibility
for program content. He de-
clined to say whether goverii-
ment officials were consulted
.
A statement issued by Bat-
ten B
arton Df
,,urstne '& Os-
horn I
nc thed
., avertising
agency for Goodrich, said the
sponsor and agenc
h
y
ad not
'
been permitted to preview the
filmed a__._.._
I the day before its sched- i
riled
showingd
, an had found i
it at that time "entirely differ-
ent from the outline" originally
submitted by NBC to BBDO.
Goodrich had signed up with
the' network to sponsor the
entire Program.
'1.11Y submi-tted- I'll b' `NBC News-,; bi
` Y NBC News
producer Ted Yates the --_ ul
Program
would "explore the scope and th
techniques of the S t _ -I th
-- onry to
l
the recruitmentya
das
n
cie tifi iN
e East training crack gents by the pi
What came out, the agencyfirs
Contended ...--
which "treats a controversial . rep
public issue' in' ? ..
o th
--
e united States, with I
no assurance 'that the govern-
'" i e~PecL to
I I~C pon ?the Prog2ai "
se to this w,
as
that it beli
eved
th
e "fell well within the program broad
outlines" of the n,?in;,,n,
As the nrno..
V1 JaLcl-
views and lit
n -_tle action: There
S'[ rn
WILn Allen,
ullcs, former Central Intel
ignnn., n..._._ -
t real affairs of other nations.
he program discus
d
se
CIA
olvein ,i in Iran. Inds.
alo?,_ ng other places'-.--
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udy.".r
"iicandid, distuurbin , rbi. g a study."
ann ,
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in
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ms' in con-
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finally
a
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t oodrich ha uucu.{
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s snoasor of
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ould not have-been the a
q me Goodrich has
spon
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