PROBE REPORTED SEEKING 'LEAK' AT STATE DEPARTMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300210031-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 2, 2000
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: March 31, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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Probe Reported
Seeking 'Leak' at
State Department
BY the Associated Press
n investigation is reported
underway at 'the State Depart-
ment on how some secret infor-
matioil-T'eached-?the-press con-
cerning-H-am-r d-University
Prof. r.-Sfuarf-Hughes. ?' --
Hughes , was disclosed last
week to have been the-subject
of FBI-requested messages from
the State Department to its Mos-
cow and Paris Embassies, ask-
for a special watch on his activ-
The messages bore a class
fled, or secrecy, label, but th
gist of what they said appeare
in some published accounts.
G. Marvin Gentile, deput
1T)o= artmant'n cnmIrify 1 %i ^
was reported to have been give
the responsibility for' the sacu
rity leak inquiry.
It was understood that this wa
part of a broader probe an
pounced by Secretary of State
Dean Rusk at a news conference
Friday. ' Rusk -said the investi-
gation would extend into who
procedures should be follows
concerning messages a b o u
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