COURT BLOCKS PUBLICATION OF INSIDE LOOK AT CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000100500010-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 5, 2004
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: April 19, 1972
• Content Type: NSPR

ST. LOUIS GLOBE DE24OCRAT
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STAT
WICKS IOU lic
promising not to disclose in-
formation that might jeopar-
dize national security.
Marchetti was employed by
the CiA from 1959 to 1969,
serving at one point as ex-
ecutive assistant to the agen-
cy's deputy director. After
resigning, he published a nov-
el called "The Rope Dancer"
about an employe of the "Na-
tional Intelligence Agency."
In affidavits submitted to
Bryan, high-ranking CIA
officials, including director
Richard Ilelms, said the CIA
hats received advance copies
of an article. entitled ? "Twi-
lit ht of the Spooks", written
by Marchetti for publication
in "a magazine with nation-
wide circulation."
The CIA officials said they
also have obtained a copy of
an outline for a book about
the CIA, written by Mar-
chetti and purchased by "a
leading publishing house in
New York."
THE JUSTICE Department
did not disclose the names
of the publishing house and
the magazine. However, late
Globe-Demorat Washington
Post News Service
WASHINGTON - The Jus-
tice Department has obtained
.a temporary court order pre-
venting a former agent of the
Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA) from publishing a mag-
azine article or book about
the CIA's intelligence-gather-
ing activities.
The broadly-worded court
order, signed by U.S. Dis-
trict Court Judge Albert ?V.
Bryan Jr. ip Alexandria, Va.,
also requires the former
agent, Victor L. Marchetti, to
return to the CIA all docu-
ments and other property lie
.obtained while e m p l o y e d
there.
t..--1t1 addition, -Marchetti was
ordered to submit any man-
uscript or other writing about
the CIA - "factual, fictional
or otherwise" - to the agen-
cy for examination at least
30 days before its release.
THE ACTION was based on
the theory that Marchetti had
breached a contract lie
sinned as a. CIA employe,
lpi641 7 7,-
Tuesday night, Aaron Latham,
an associate editor of Esquire
magazine, acknowledged that.
Marchetti recently wrote an
article entitled "Twilight of
the Spooks" for Esquire.
Latham said that about two
weeks ago, Esquire returned
the manuscript without pub-
lishing it at Marchetti's , re-
quest, after Marchetti told
tsquite he had signed a con-
tract with the publishing
house of Albert A. Knopf to
do a book about the CIA.
4 Copies of the magazine ar-
ticle and book outline were
submitted to Judge Bryan by
the CIA for his private ex-
amination. The CIA said that
age nt_Robert P. B. Lehmann J
of New York City obtained
the manuscript from "a con-
tideitial source" on March
12. No reason was given for
the month-long delay before
the court action.
With the manuscripts was a
/CIA deputy director's analy-
sis of the ways he feels the
article jeopardizes current
intelligence sources -and meth-
ods. =- ,
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