NEWS LEAKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000605620001-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 16, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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RADIO IV REPORTS, 1 NC
4701 VVLLARD AVENUE, CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND 20015 656-4068
PROGRAM First Line Report
WTOP Radio
CBS Network
DATE October 16, 1980 7:23 AM CITY Washington, DC
SUBJECT News Leaks
IKE PAPPAS: Are there Reagan moles at the Defense
Department and elsewhere in the government?
We'll do some digging in a moment.
They began this summer just after the conventions when
the presidential election campaign began in earnest, news leaks
one after the other. Most of them stories that in one way or
another portrayed President Carter and his defense policies
primarily in a bad light.
The big one, of course, was the Stealth airplane leak.
The one about America's new radar resistance so-called invisible
airplane.
Then there was the one about the secret Army report
that said six of the ten divisions based in the United States
are not combat ready.
The list is long and painful for the Carter administ-
Government officials were dismayed by the news leaks.
Congressional investigations were launched into sources. The
FBI started its own probe and so did the Pentagon.
Now a new wrinkle in the election year saga of news
leaks. An apparent campaign of disseminating disinformation
or phony information in an effort to embarrass-President Carter.
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