SENATE FAVORS PENALTIES FOR NAMING SPIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404490025-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 6, 2010
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: March 18, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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The.Senate resolved that issue yes-
.terday, voting 55-39 to approve a ver-
sion that would allow a journalist to
be convicted only if a jury-had rea
son to believe that the identification
of an agent would disrupt intelli-
gence operations. A final vote on the'
legislation was delayed, probably.,. -
until today.
A competing version, recommend-
ed by the Senate. Judiciary_?Commit-
,_tee and Sgn. Joseph Biden'(D;-Del:).
r would have gone further'-; requiring a
,jury to conclude that a reporter ?in-
Qruce.-Sanford ;a Sigma Delta [lit;" or the CIA" without specifically iden
attorney, calledahe bill "arude,- tifyirgclandestinreagents?;
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operations. 1blany of those;u ho sup sary incurSion:~ntathe liberties of 311,
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