CARTER GIVEN OATHS ON 'LEAKS'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000100210018-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 2011
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: July 16, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/12/21 :CIA-RDP90-009658000100210018-2
' ARTICLE ;APP ARTS riASHINGTON POSfi
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ON PAGF.
/ 16 JULY 1930
By Scott' Armstrong :: :, .~, `; .;including oiie dQniity"assistant secretary cf
?' Leaks to 'tile, press from ,high government': prgbes, sourees~~saId.': ?
.ter that the serretary,of~s?tate, the-director.' ,Yesterday on'~the leak-investigations, '"~~-
of the -CIA and ,the :president's national ,1 :`'The; October story' in The Post detailed
security ,adriser felt obligated;,to.:aign affi , ~ -the position: taken 'by each of the depar~-
davits sayLyg }(icy `we'e. not: the leaLerS, j ;`ntents at a Cabitlet-level Policy }ZevIew Com?
2'he tVVashiiigto'tt? Post has Ieai?ned. ;; ~ ' ntittee (PRC) (tteeting hvo-days earlier,: un
' 'Carter's'wrath stemmed from a Zi'a~hing 'Oct. 1G. The meeling had been attended oy
? ton Post account last October, that described - 'Vance,' Brzeziuski Turner; Ciaytor, Clu?isto=
an internal administration split over..wheth;;` pher and Newsom as well as several of thew
er'to; prgvide 'news types, of. mllttary~ ,at ~iittei} >~ t`
equipment; to h!orocco +~ ~ 3~ 1, ~~. r by, 1Villiam ? Btanigin, ttte~ arilcIe
' Signing swbrtt statcments~~tfiat they hAd- ?described a~ split` over-wh~tltei to.' provtle
new types of -military equipment Ito ;1Ioroc=
not leaked thh story were former secretary.; can .King .Hassan II in his battle against ;.
' o.f state :? Carus , R.: Vance, .CIA' Director t' ~ guerrillas attempting :;ao r'~ gain control o[ ,
Stansfield, ;Turner,;., nations sel- cvrity;> ad-1 thq .lyestern Sahara:. Several days later the
vtser; ~ tgntew~Si~zezins4i, Deputy Secretary;! president decided-to:.provide the new
of'Defense'.~V GrShain.~Clay'to~?, D'epuly ~ arms. ??~ ?' -
5ecretaryof State ~i'ari?en Christopher, and One source said that "the president '
;-Undersecretary. ~ of State . D a v i d r- Neiysom,.; event off the ceiling" when he saw tfie,
;glong with,, c#ozen3 ; of : other high-rank(ug ! article. ' f::