REAGAN SIGNS SECRECY BILL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01070R000100240030-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 18, 2007
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: June 24, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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PROGRAM CNN2 News STATION WMAR-TV
CNN Network
DATE June 24, 1982 1:30 A.M. CITY Baltimore, Md.
Reagan Signs Secrecy Bill
NEWSMAN: President Reagan took a short hop to Langley,
Virginia today to visit the headquarters of the CIA. It was
there the President signed into law a measure making it illegal
to identify American undercover agents. President Reagan also
took the time to laud the efforts of the CIA, calling its members
heroes of a grim twilight struggle.
PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN: History shows that it is
precisely when totalitarian regimes begin to decay from within,
it is precisely when they feel the first real stirrings of
domestic unrest that they seek to reassure their own people of
their vast and unchallengeable power through imperialistic
expansion or foreign adventure.
So, the era ahead of us is one that will see grave
challenges and be fraught with danger. Yet it's one that I
firmly believe will end in the triumph of the civilized world and
the supremacy of its beliefs in individual liberty,
representative government, and the rule of law under God.
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