TIME MAGAZINE'S CIA CONNECTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000300150015-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 14, 2004
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: February 1, 1978
• Content Type: NSPR

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THE WASHINGTON POST
I February 1978
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Time Magazine's CIA connection
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On the front page of the Jan. 5 Post
You ran a story about the testimony of
Morton H. Halperin before the over-
sight subcommittee of the House Intel-
ligence Committee concerning the rela-
tionship between the CIA and Ameri-
can news media. Mr. Halperin's testi
mony, as reported in the story, strongly
Implied that Time magazine ran a story
on the Allende regime in Chile that. was
influenced by a false briefing from
CIA. That is not true.
We have checked with the editors
and correspondents involved-'in the
Oct. 19, 1970 cover story on. Allende,
and they report the following: .
As is customary, files were requested
from many South American capitals, as
well as from Washington and other cit.
ies around the world. The editors also
studied a substantial amount of exist-
ing material from other sources, such
as newspapers and magazines.
- As part of this process, Jerry Hanni?
source worth interviewing, a practice-
ber of interviews, including one with
CIA. Hannifin. regarded the CIA as a
.
spondent of Latin American affairs in what we did with the Allende piece. i
our Washington bureau, set up a num- DONALD M. WI SON, j
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that is commonplace in Washington. 1
and throughout the world. Indeed,
other correspondents have testified be.
fore the House oversight subcommittee
that it's often useful to approach CL4.
for information. {
r Our final story reflected the judg
ments of our editors and the correspon-
dents who worked on it and bad-noth-.
Ing in particular to do with the CIA
briefing.. . .
.To,enter the realm of conjecture for'
a moment, it would not surprise me if,
some CIA official might attempt to take
credit for a paragraph or a thoughts
that appeared in the Time story. It does]
surprise me that Mr. Halperin assumed"
that just because Time requested and]
received a briefing from CIA (false on
not), its story would be necessarily col-i
ored by that briefing. Like other repu-i
table news organizations, we try andl
weigh the full range of information)
from many sources and come up with at
.
reasoned and responsible article
That's
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