ARTICLE REVEALS PROBE OF MONDALE ADVISER WAS OBSTRUCTED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000302330086-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 10, 2012
• Sequence Number: 86
• Publication Date: September 10, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 10, 1984
NEWS RELEASE
Article Reveals Probe of Mondale Adviser Was Obstructed
A Senate Intelligence Committee investigation of a Carter admini-
stration national security official--David Aaron--was obstructed by
political collaboration between the Committee's staff and the Carter
White House National Security Council in 1980, according to a copyrighted
story in today's New York Tribune. Aaron is currently a top foreign policy
adviser to Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale.
The article reports that the e of Aaron cleared the then-deputy
national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter. But intelligence
sources told the Tribune two factors rendered the investigation incomplete.
The probe was initiated after press reports linked Aaron to a leak of
classified intelligence data which allegedly lead to the loss of a highly-
placed CIA spy in the Soviet Union.
Today's story details an exchange of letters between members of Congress
and Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Barry Goldwater, R.-Ariz., who
states that no "direct" or "credible" evidence was found which links Aaron
to the compromise of the CIA agent code-named Trigon.
But a letter from Congressman Dan Crane, R.-Ill., to Goldwater that
was obtained by the Tribune states that the former staff director of the
Committee kept in close contact with Aaron during the 1980 investigation
and thus negated the "objectivity" of the probe.
In addition to alleged political interference in the Aaron investigation,
the Tribune article states that the Committee did not fully investigate Aaron
due to reluctance of Committee members to reveal sensitive intelligence data.
According to the article, an ultra-secret document held by the National
Security Agency, which implicates Aaron, was not revealed during the inquiry.
For more details, see today's New York Tribune or contact Robert
Morton, Editor-in-Chief, at [phone].
Contact: Robert Morton [phone]
401 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK, N.Y. 10016 [phone]
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