SENATE FAVORS PENALTIES FOR NAMING SPIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000605700011-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 2010
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: March 18, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WVASHiNGTON 4- The Senate Ported that version expressed dissat Americans a czhe,4eaI shiame`zts.
cleared' the way ' Sest erday fora israction with,t,. te
p "'tt a e`tltat cvas_ that most peoplef mpfy don't unde
provaof legislation under. -which approved. stand why
journalists and government officials Charles I`ovitz ?presid nt ofSigma Biden saifederal'' prosecutors
coald~be jailed or fined for publicly Delta Chi
, an organization of journal-.;; should be required to show that a
disclosing the names of covert Amer ifs, said it was. uncoil itutional and - reporter deliberately set out to "im-
ican intelligence agents - ,would have a chillingeffect-on the?
ate intelli-
he- proposal is strongly supported reporting of U.S.. amt vties,.overseas :gence opera tionsAnother
supporter
by President Reagan- as a? means of This bill strikesa[_$h'e,rigfirofAmeii ;r of the stricter:standard; Seit: Daniel
preventing terrorist attacks on CIS cans to monitor tlteirgoverrtment. J P. Moynihan (D.; N:Y.), said.- "We are
'cnts overseas. But it has been f 'Jack Landau; director, of -the Re not enacting this bill io ease the?
condemned by some'senators, jour- porters Committee for Freedom of. `burden of US attorneys ~_.
nalism societies anrt thus American
.Civil Liberties Union; as a direct at
The Agent Identities Bill, approved
by the House last fall, was firstproY
CIA officers such?as Philip Agee be-
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glows for the rosecution.and 'ailing. ?'"''4^Y' ca,cu sear tear a
p ) a reporter might be prosecuted 'for
of news reporters acid authors for ^. exposing -CIA abuses. Recently, for
identifying agents oethei:.sources. example,.. the New York: Times de
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a campaign to limit or abolish .1 and jailing of news people for pub-., Biden said.
covert operations by the CIA. lishing information which is a di -
Lut the debate has broadened since sect, immediate and irreparableinlu-, Shortly after the rote, Sen._John
hen, and enacttnenr..of the measure ryto the national security and does' Chaffee(R., R.L), sponsor pf "the rosectrver-
has been delayed for months by dis- nor;perrrtit prosecutions fcit;disclos >,. sign that was approved, said the leg:
' of islatiojournnadlists riot ho ex
agreement over how difficult it ing''tnformation . whtch. i ;-merely;lion
should be for a'prosecutor-to build a embarrassing or causessoine discom-; mp w ex sed ille>
case against a reporter who nameda. fortto the_go~-ernment " =a gat or improper actions -the t
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