CBS NEWS TO ALLOW JUDGE TO SEE TAPES IT HADN'T TELEVISED

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CBS News to Allow
Judge to See Tapes
It Hadn't Televised
By PHILIP SHENON
After a long court fight, CBS News
said yesterday that it would permit a
State Supreme Court justice to view
portions of a videotaped interview with
two fugitive gunrunners that have not
been televised..
The justice, Thomas B. Galligan of
Manhattan, will see the tape before the
trial of one of the suspects, George Gre-
gary Korkala, CBS News said. The
trial is scheduled to begin May 24.
CBS News said yesterday it might
still take legal action to prevent the
tapes from being turned over to the"
Manhattan District Attorney's office,
which had sought them for use in the
trial.
Segments Were Televised
Se meats of the interview with Mr.
Korkala and Frank E. TeroiL why
were convicted in absentia on weapons
?Md__1goaVMM_U - r, at)De2red on
"60 Minutes" in 1981.
In February, the Appellate Division
of State Supreme Court.ruled that CBS
News must permit Justice Galligan to
review the tapes. He would then deter-
mine, the court said, whether any of the
tapes should be turned over to prosecu-
tors.
The court said that prosecutors were
entitled only to portions of the tapes
that would be needed to rebut argu-
ments made by Mr. Korkala during the
trial.. CBS News did not appeal the deci-
sion.
Citing First Amendment press free-
doms, CBS News has said it was not re-
quired to turn over tapes that had not
been televised. While agreeing to per-
mit the judge to see them, CBS News
said it might still try to block him from
requiring any tapes to be given to
prosecutors.
The case was taken to the appeals
court after the District Attorney sub-
poenaed the tapes last summer.
Justice Galligan will view the tapes
of the interview, which took place in
Beirut in October 1981, in a CBS screen-
ing room. "The tapes never leave the
possession of CBS News," said Ann L
Morfogen, a spokesman for CBS News:.
Mr. Korkala was extradited to the
United States last year from Spain and
will be retried-' on weapons charges.
Mr. Terpil remains at large.
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