U.S. DIPLOMAT ZORTHIAN DEFECTS TO JOURNALISM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000300180069-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 7, 2004
• Sequence Number: 69
• Publication Date: September 11, 1968
• Content Type: NSPR

THE WASHINGTON POST
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Bar?y~Zorthia,n, U.S:'mission 1 Henry Cabot Lodge,-Gen.
spokesman in Sadgon who
waged 'a usually, friendly
countor?in,surgency war with
newsmen ['here for 52 months,
ha's defected from the Govenn?
meetto journallism.
':Although Zorthian would
not:com.ment on the report, it
Was '1darned yesterday that he
:,would soon leave Federal serv.
ice after 20 years to take a
management post with Time
magazine.
The 47-year-old Zorthian
,,had been 'reported earlier as
going to either the Fletcher
School of Diplomacy at Tufts
University or the Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology.
Zorthian hats held a variety
of posts with the U.S. I'nforma?
tien Agency and the -Voice of
America. But it was in Saigon
from easrly 1964 that the Arme.
inian?born Zorthian won his
gmeartest... ... prominence '~ as
Maxwell D.. Tayior land Ells-
'w'orth Bunker..
In Vietnam where the. Ad.
ministration's credibility gap
yawned to its widest, Zorthian
was credited by most news-
men with consummate skill in.
presenting the U.S. mission in.
the best light he could.
Zor?Uhian is known to have'
wanted a'n -ambassadorial post,
after' hds Saigon. 'service, but;
began considening a:va?rlety o;f;
other' offers when'. ,,none be,.
came available.,
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