SENATORS URGE SWIFT ACTION TO BLOCK NAMING OF AGENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00845R000100160016-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 14, 2010
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: November 21, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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NEW YORK TIM 'S
21 NOVEMBER 1981
Senators Urge Swift Action
To Block Naming of Agents
SpedaltoT e? wYarl l _
WASHIP IGTON, Nov. 20 -The Select
Committee vn Intelligence has urged
the Senate. leadership to act soon on
legislation that would. make it a crimi-
nal offense to disclose the identities of
t:ndercoverintelligenceagents.
In a letter to Howard H. Baker Jr. of
Tennessee, the Senate majority leader,
and Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia,the
minority-leader, the committee unani-
mously asked the leadership to-insure
that therebe no further delay in bring.
ing this vital legislation to the floor of
the Senate fora debate and vote."_
The letter. noted that two weeks ago
the Covert'Action Information Bulletin
published what it said were the names of
69 Central, Intelligence Agency officers
serving in 45 countries..
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