PHOTOS WOULDN'T HELP SOVIETS, EX-CIA MAN SAYS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000807170002-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 10, 2012
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 16, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

A~~ Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/02/10 :CIA-RDP90-009658000807170002-0
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'Photos wouldn't help
Soviets, ex-CIA man says
A former Central Intel once ~
Agency official who het llB GGln my opinion, the
Pea ~ level- disclosure o these
op the KH-11 spy sateWte testified f
yY that the ascot sacellite three photos would
Photos that Samuel L. Morison gave CQUSe nO~^TM,,,, a Or
to a f3ritislr mil(tary~ouma! would be `~"" ~
d no value to the Soviet Unbn. i11~Ury tO the
"Itr my optnbn, the dlacbeur+e d Uni#ed StCiteS."
thex thnx photos would cause no
damage or injury to the United ROLAIVD 9.111I.Op
States.' Roland S. Inbw, formerly Retlred CU ~
the head d an inter-agency commit-
tee that ooordirratea the developnrerrt
and use d satellite photography. told KH-11 sateWte.
the jury at Mr. Morison's espionage The defense is attempting to
trial !n federal court here. show that the infornratbn about the
Mr. lniow said he did not believe sateWte, the atrcntft carrier under
the photos would reveal anything conatructton and the explosions at
new about the sateWte's technical the ammunitbns depot were amat-
c~pabWties and operating status or ter d public record before Mr. Mori-
oontained information that the So~i- son turned over the photos and in-
eta dkl not already have. formation about the explosbna to
He said he based his oonclusbn, Jane's.
in part, on the fact that the Ruadarrs Yesterday, defense lawyers
have had the design manual for the sought to call two reporters. F3W
I{H-11 slrroe 1978. The photos - d a Lynch, d CBS News, and Richard C.
Sovkt aircraft carrier being built at a Gross, d United Press Intonational,
,~ k~ shipyard -were pubtlshed to testify about stales they did oon-
Defence Weekly in Au- corning the May 1984 eupioefons at
f~ d last Y'~? the Severomorak missile storage fa-
Mr. ]nlow conceded under cilitY.,
cross-examination that the photos &rt Judge Joseph H. Y ruled
might provide other natbns that do that ~
not have the manual with some tn- auto a y ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
formation about the ob1~~ that they could not
stated th stW do ~ m, but m- Properly cross-examine the report-
eY represent a ors !f they did not reveal the Identity
P~~ throat to natlaral security. of unnamed government sources
Mr. Inbw, who rntired from the mentioned in the articles. Roth re-
CIA in 1979. was the drat d seven porters said they would not identify
witrreaees called yesterday by the de- their sources.
fence on the fifth day d Mr. Mori- Their stories, however, wen in-
son's trial. His testiawny echoed eluded to a package d about 30 anti-
' that d several other defense wit- cles concerning the explosions and
nesses, but was at odds with that d about 60 articles dealing with the
;atop CIA offkyal. who testified on I{H-11.sateWte that were introduced
behalf d the prosecution that the as evidence yesterday by defense
be very vahrable to the lawyers.
~? Marleori. a ~ The photos In question appeared
year-old former to the Aug. 11 Issue of Jarte's.
analyst for the Naval InteWgence Jane's also published an article on
Support Center (NLSC) in SWtlarrd.ls the Severomorsk expbsbns July 14.
charged with giving Jane's the se- Prosecutors claim the article was
cret pesos' ~?thOri~ p0?~' basal on infonmation Mr. Morison
sbrr d two excopts from secret tn- had gleaned from the tnteWgence
tdl~noe summaries dealing with a .
series d explosions at a Soviet am-
munitbns depot. and then d the It ~ not clear whether Mr. Mori-
cleseifled ~~ab, son wW take the witness stand in
Pmeecrrtoes oonterrd that the re- ~ own defense. Mark Lynch, a de-
lease dthe photos and information fence lawyer. said last night that no
from the ezaa~pts could have provid- declsforr had been made.
al foreign governrnerita with valu- The case >s scheduled to oonchide
able irrformatiar about U.S. intew- today. but it is unlikely to go to the
~8. m P~u1ar the Jury unto tomorrow.
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