SCHORR IS SOURCE OF LEAKED REPORT CBS NEWSMAN TELLS OF OFFER FROM VOICE PUBLISHER

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 23, 2004
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• Publication Date: February 14, 1976
• Content Type: NSPR

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?~_ ~ .1 1 ' cerrir;g ivlr. Sr;hr,n was issuccl the renort for publication after
is OL The Village Voice pubiishecl;
--i I t",;~ text of the report''i lliu}3_I t]1iS eyenirl' by the rope^rter'3F 1tS `]lighli~rhts were extensively
!, 7 K EP I1 (! a special 2":1-pane cornntittee: reported by CBS mews," was
11.t1 surd- "The Reporter's Committee) "entirely mine."
{ flit! I p:E'rnent this week. ivlr. Felker:
for Thomas-B: Morgan, editor! or the Freedom of the Press[ Richard Salant, the head off
of ti a Voice, had previously de-1 agreed to accept from Daniel, CBS News, said today t" at t.hef
CBS Newsman Tells of Offer ci:ned to answer. any questior.s Schorr. the proceeds, if any,' network had had no krowledoei
r. about how the report came'into from the publication, if it or_.- of Mr Schorr's efforts, and CBS;
MM Voice t'trbiish?r curred, of fne Pike committee said in a statement that iti
t^eir possession' would have no further
Mr. Schorr said today that report on the same terms as commend
5re` :al :o ?rhe New York T:mes.
WAS.-IINGTON, Feb. 12-15a-
niel Sc: aorr, a Washington c:or-
reslordent for CBS News dis
closed today- that he hadI pro-
vided a cagy of the secret
report by the House Select
Committee- on Intelligence to
The Village Voice, ?a weekly.
N-:v York newspaper that pub-
lished published the document:
last Wednesday..
In a three-page.statement re-
leased today, Mr. Schorr also
said that an unnamed interme-
i
diary had 'relayed to him an
offer from Clay Felker, publish-
er of The Voice, that a "sub-
stantial contribution" 'would be
made- to' aid the work. of the
Reporters Committee: for the
F1Edom or the: Press if The
Voice rece vi e 3 the-ttocumerit.
Mr. Schorr said that hhe felt
an obligation to- identify him-
self "as- the rewspsper's source
for the 338-page' document be-
"
cause
misleading impressions"
r had, been '.created in recent
r ews renort? . about the means
by wnic:-r Tre: Voice obtained
The CBS newsman, who
h
adds coveed the H
rouse com-
mittee's investigation for a year
and who reported- extensively
on the panel's. findings last Jan.
2G, said that he'reached hs his
decision to arrange for the re-
port's publication after he came
to believe that he was "possibly
th
e sole posseof' th d
ssr- oeo-
cument outside the
Goveri-
frn..4
The N.ouse"commi.ttee voted
tun, out the Full. House of Re-
presentatives :.voted, on Jan.29
to Vvithhold the report from the
public after fears - were ex-
pressed on the floor- that the
report dontained? sensitive in-
formation that woull damage
national security.
At that point, U7. Schorr said,
"I felt myself confronted With
an inescapable decision of jour-
nalistic conscience,", and even-
tually decided that, with much
of. the report's contents already
disclosed in news accounts, "I
could not be the one responsib-
le for suppressing" its full. pub.
lication. .
in arrn~ina for the report's! any donatlonto he used in de- on the matter because of they
publication, he had enlisted the fense of the First Amendment, possibility of a Federal invest!-i
"confidential cooperation" of We put Mr. Schorr in touch Amendment Cation of the circumstances sur
the Freedarr o th e cooperation" a with an attorney familiar with rounding the report. s publica-
~'.'ahsingtoa-based organization publishing so that Mr. Schorr Lion.
that attempts to deega - could make his own publication The network said that, be
journa blems arrangements. irir. Schorr said cause CBS news policy requir