CIA SHOULDN'T EMPLOY JOURNALISTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100110040-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2010
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: April 18, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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SALEM OREGON STATESMAN
18 April 1980
rjA siiouidn't
employ journalists .
CIA, Director Stansfield Turner insists that, if, a suitable
occasion presents itself, he will authorise use of American
journalists overseas as CIA' agents.He i wrong --;.-
This practice; eliminated by George-Bush-when he was-.
CIA director, should not have been revived_.,ZL-
Turner had a full-scale argument with'U.S:.newspaper edi-
tors on this issue in Washington, D.C. last week. Neither side
.came away convinced
Turner argued. that a journal ist,.in supplying information
to-CIA, does not need to slant -the news he or she writes. He-
.contends that a journalist has the same patriotic obligation as
any other-citizen to assist his country-when the CIA decides
.Reis in a position to provide useful intelligenc6.about another
:country..
-.;TURNER IS OPERATING WITH pre-Watergate reason-
It isn't enough to be "clean" these days. In this suspicious
age, it is essential to sustain the appearance of being clean.