RUMBLINGS FROM DEEP UNDER GROUND

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000300160050-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2004
• Sequence Number: 50
• Publication Date: June 2, 1977
• Content Type: NSPR

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Animals..-.=The--CIA-.`: once
-.dug a tunnel' under East Ber-
telephone line. The agency even dug_a
'.-.quarter-mile tunnel? under _its .own
property- in Langley to provide a- secret
entrance to the complex. At the- agency,
;.?going underground'.: is, more.- than--a
metaphor, writes Aaron Latham in his.
new;.: dazzling- novel"Orchids :for Moth.
i;:And?.there's.a hot .big-CIA story
"the--works at CBS wit11?people leaking
;.,stuff. about-it-all. over the.piace. At the.
f moment, . no ? one .knows, whether the
.material ;will, on _"60 Minutes,'
,' "tiVho's_VVho,Wor.ruA-as- an hour doeu .
;,=.mentary special;. but:it:will- be seen this
month. Dan Rather leas written and nar-.
` `rated the- program,. to-be-called.'-Inside
the.:. CIA," with::.: David.:' Buksbaum
`A .producing:.
;, .Rather suspectsthe-leaks about Cher
P program.. have-.to-: do 'vrith competitors.
..:;who-,tried' desperately- -to get the show
"for themselves: Says -Dan, "It's been a
_~rvidous struggle and' we. won. .We don't
always twin.". It took .three years to s
cure permission for. the.program and-it
= _ will surely-be a. milestone in its consid-
,.. eration of ',director Sta3nsfleld Turner
,and the--supersecret? agency.I.
No matter' the::. name under 'which
CBS presents the footage, it will be the.
first time the CIA has ever let a camera
``into its buildings -, a very big first for
- CBS television:. .The CIA had- the right
of "security- review'.."-of the- raw film
and then only. pictorially, not editorial-I
ly.. The single coneession: to censorship
was. that. the CIA might. cut out persons
In the.. footage; if' any "spy" were acci-
denta1ly - photo ?raplied. -Not* -,a r single;
r word of "Inside. the-. CIA" will be cut._-
The CIA is really
gency recentl -oosehing.up; The
y-replaced its misleading
rectional signs in. Virginia- to simple
ones reading "The CI.A.':-The agency
also has granted.'acess to .Time maga--
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