PRESIDENT REAGAN SIGNS SPY BILL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01070R000100240018-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 18, 2007
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: June 23, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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RADIO TV REPORTS, INC.
PROGRAM
Eyewitness News at 5:00
June 23, 1982 5:30 PM
President Reagan Signs Spy Bill
S T A T I O N W D V M T V
Washington, DC
J.C. HAYWARD: In a ceremony at CIA headquarters today,
President Reagan signed into law legislation making it illegal to
expose the indentities of US spies. And the President praised
the agency as the silent service whose work is not appreciated
and not rewarded.
Eyewitness News correspondent Kent Jarrell reports.
KENT JARRELL: President Reagan was taken on s short
tour of CIA headquarters, and addressed several hundred under-
cover agents inside the building, away from cameras and report-
ers. Outside, the President was applauded by hundreds of other
CIA employees.
The President urged special vigilance because the Soviet
Union, suffering from internal decay, feels the need for
imperialistic expansion and foreign adventure. And he praised
CIA employees as heroes of a grim twilight struggle.
PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN: It is upon your intelect and
integrity, your wit and intuition that the fate of freedom rests
for millions of your countrymen and for many millions more all
around the globe. You are the trip-wire across which the forces
of repression and tyranny must stumble in their quest for global
domination. You, the men and women of the CIA, are the eyes and
ears of the free world.
JARRELL: The President, again to applause, signed the
legialstion making it a federal crime to dislose the names of
secret agents. The penalty, up to ten years in jail and up to a
fifty thousand dollar fine.
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The American Civil Liberties Union criticies the law as
an unconstitutional imfringement on the right of free speech.
The President called the legislation a vote of confidence in the
CIA by the American people.
JARRELL: I'm Kent Jarrell, Eyewitness News.
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