COPLEY NEWS CHAIN DENIES EMPLOYES WORKED FOR CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000100330022-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 12, 2004
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: July 8, 1977
• Content Type: NSPR

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, Penthouse Magazine charged ?-.'Vranlc Price:"his security consult-
today that 23 employes of Copley; gathering for the FBI in San Di intelligence-
-News Service had yvorked simultane- '~" -14 THE: MAGAZINE- ,said that the
: ously for the CIA and that the service'
,"for years was operated .in signifi- relationship between Copley- and the
cant part as an arm of the Central government was Inspired by a meet-
IntelligenceAgency."` ??. ;:: ing between Copley and President .
Copley News Service: executives Dwight Eisenhower "for the purpose
said there was no truth4n the. allega= of supplementing CIA activity
tions. They were preparing a detailed Charles-. Ohl, Copley's executive
rebuttal based on the full'. article' news editor and--- managing editor.
released today..mo t ` fFN Bmd_ in a telephone: interview yester-
:The charges' were made in an, anti-1day:. "We never"- have had any: con-.
.cle in the August. issue: of the maga-_ nection with: the CIA. " A spokesman
zine'; writtem by Joe,:Trento; 29,., an at-, Copley "s. San. Diego: heqdquarters
unsuccessful candidate last year in?a., laid'he?-had'not?seen