ANOTHER CIA LEAK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000100390006-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 6, 2004
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: October 29, 1979
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

Approved For Release 2004/10/28: CIA-RDP88-01314R00
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ON N FACE - /. 29 OCTOBER 1979
PERISCOPE
ANOMEN CM LEAK
the CIA: a KGB spy within its own ranks.
Information Bureau, a publication that specializes in revealing the
names of CIA operatives. Although the document contains no
major revelations about American intelligence operations, the
agency is particularly worried because it originally was sent
anonymously to a British publication. called The Leveller. Anony-:
mous mailings of stolen documents is a tactic that has often been
used by the KGB, the Soviet espionage agency. The theft of the
secret document therefore raises a specter that has long haunted
The Central Intelligence Agency is investigating the leak of a highly
secret memo that fell into the hands of agency critic Philip Agee.
The eighteen-page document, written by former CIA director
William Colby and titled "Perspectives for Intelligence, 1976-
1981, was printed in the latest issue of the Covert Action
Approved For Release 2004/10/28 : CIA-RDP88-01314R000100390006-7