COMMENTS ON THE NEWSPAPER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01495R000600120003-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Document Release Date: June 30, 2005
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: September 26, 1973
• Content Type: MF

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ember 1973
MEMORANDUM FOR:
Director of Central Intelligence
THROUGH
:
Deputy Director for IntelligenceL.
FROM
z
Director of Current Intelligence
Caements on the Newspaper
. Attached is a mid bag of NBC Staff reactions
to the newspaper. The objections are the ones we an-
ticipated, and which I think we should take quite
seriously: the difficulty readers will have, in treat-
ing this format as a serious intelligence product, the
possible subordination of analysis to reportage, and
security.
2. tit these cents say to me is that we should
not undertake the newspaper without an explicit and un-
equivocal expression of approval from the President and
Kissinger. With that in hind, we should then attempt to
brief each reader in detail on what we propose to do.
.th such an education, I believe most of this small
group would begin to see the advantages--some of the
comments are of the sort .l understand what you're try-
ing to do but those other follows won't". But without a
Presidential endorsement we should not let ourselves be
carried away by our own enthusiasm for the project.
STAT
RIB LEHMAN
Director of Current Intelligence
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