REPORTING FOR THE CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100110067-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2010
• Sequence Number: 67
• Publication Date: April 12, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WORCi ESTER GAZET'T'E (MASS. )
12 APRIL 1980
Stansfield T(irner;-director of the. -
Central," Intelligence Agency;. dis
pldakfer- -
aye-'. remarable lack o. und
standing of the press this week.'when
he told : the American Society of
Newspaper Editors in Washington he
couldn't see.why::news organizations
would -object- to theirs.employees
working at the same.``time for the
CIA-
"I am sorry," Turner was-quoted.
as saying, 'I don't understand the'` porters find out, they can' read Amer-- f
connection that you make--between
serving your country and being free..
I think
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bo
you can
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. ? Turner said he has approved us
Serving the country by freely in ing American journalists to'` gather>
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ming its people is th glf thft thei b
eoa oe -.inormaionre tmes,ut the ar--'
American press...It- is. precisely -for ' rangements were never completed s-
that reason that reporters and editors ' He is entitled to ask journalists to -co-
don't want to be-,on the payroll of the operate, although George Bush, who
government =, any government directed the;CIA. in the mid 1970s,
while they are trying to- report the specifically prohibited using journal-
news.- fists to gather information
This is one of the distinctions be If T-urnerfeels such connections
tween our system and that of the So to. be proper, it -is incumbent on the
yiets journalistic profession, as organiza
It is essential for foreign govern ` tions "and `- as, individuals if -. ap..
ments and citizens to be absolutely proached; to make it clear just where
stand. ~- -- ^- =~
certain American :.reporters are..not they
an arm of the-American government r; r :Serving the country isn't the.
This is difficult enough without hav same thing as serving the CIA `- -
ing the head of the CIA,taikirig.about The best" way for journalists to
exilisting newsmen urr intelligence serve America ,is no report inforrna-
gathering:. ;tion fairly clearly and independent
Because the press is freeand' not " ly -- to everyone.
...
affiliated. with the government,-there .{
is a vast amount of information free- f
ly. available to anyone' to'wants it
here.
-Foreign intelligence agencies are
said to--have a relatively easy job
ican publications and listen to A
er-
m
ican radio and television.
`gathering' information;- about the
United -.States because- newspapers
,
magazines, radio and. television make
r so much information available to alL--
If,theCIA wants to know what re-
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