TALKING POINTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88B00443R000502380004-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 11, 2011
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: June 6, 1986
• Content Type: MISC

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- Spent billions--recruited thousands.
- Built American intelligence capabilities to an unprecedented capability.
- We can cover the world every day, know the details of the weapons the
Soviet Union has targeted at us.
- We know the terrorist organizations and how some governments support
and use them as an instrument of foreign policy and we are frequently
able to warn of and defeat planned and attempted attacks on innocent
civilian and American installations around the world.
- We understand and are able to follow how the Soviets and the Cubans
and other Soviet allies and proxies extend their power and influence,
destroy freedom and try to perpetuate oppressive regimes in Latin
America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
- In the dangerous world in which we live this capability is a priceless
asset essential to the safety of our citizens and the security of our
nation.
- Over recent months and years, even as we build and improve this
capability, it has been damaged and diminished by the public disclosure
of sensitive classified information.
- Every intelligence capability we have has been damaged--our photographic,
our electronic, our communications, the people and the intelligence
services of other countries who provide us with information.
- Media reports show the Soviets and other countries, the terrorist,
narcotics and spy organizations around the world how to deny us the
information our country needs, how to hide weapon development and
deployment from our cameras, where to secure and reroute their
communications, how to frustrate our electronics. They jeopardize
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the lives and safety and cause to turn away from cooperation with us
people and other nations who share our values and purposes. Unless
we can cauterize this hemorrhage of legitimate secrets we will soon
imperil our safety and our position in the world.
- It's the task of our government and my special duty to accomplish
this with the assistance of the other senior officers of our
government.
- The National Security Act makes me legally responsible for protecting
intelligence sources and methods.
- Three things are needed to accomplish this:
1. We need to plug the leaks at the source. That means stronger
and more effective discipline in the handling of sensitive
information in our government and investigation and penalties
for those who violate their trust.
2. It requires closer cooperation with the media to avoid or mitigate
jeopardy to lives and our nation's security from the sensitive
information which will continue to leak out or otherwise become
available.
3. It requires enforcement and perhaps strengthening of the legal
protection Congress provides for information critical to national
security.
- All of us support and applaud the function of the media and the
ingenuity and diligence of reporters in exposing inefficiency,
waste and corruption and bringing our people the information they want
and need for their self government.
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