'CIA EXCEPTIONS NECESSARY'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100030146-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 2, 2011
• Sequence Number: 146
• Publication Date: February 18, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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INDIANAPOLIS NEWS (IN)
18 February 1980
The Cen. Intelligence Agency avoid that. but we would have the
should be allowed to `rinak ,tteptiors" latitude to make exceptions."
to its general policy against using the-.:?_- - He also said the Soviet Union's inva-
paid services of newsmen or university .;.=. sion of Afghanistan has put the Rus-
professors, according to agency direc-. sians on the propaganda defensive for
-tor Starsfield Turner-.-, - - - . ? the first time in decades.
Turner made the comment- at a: - Turner said, ".. , for the first time
private luncheon preceding a. speech since World War II, the Soviet Union is
Saturday to a gathering sponsored by really on the defensive about something
Sen. Birth Bayh, D-Ind., and a number they have done.
of veterans' and. other military-service "They got away with ? the Berlin
related organizations. Blockade, they got away with Hungary,
Bayh chairs the Senate's Select Com- they got away with Czechoslovakia, but
mittee on Intelligence:. ~