INSIDE THE BELTWAY - DUBLOUS DISTINCTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000807540001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 12, 2012
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 11, 1987
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Dubious distinction
A reporter for the official Soviet
government newspaper Izvestia re-
cently bragged to an American re-
porter that his newspaper, under
the new official openness policy of
"glasnost;' won the dubious distinc-
tion of becoming the first Soviet
publication to publish excerpts of
Bob Woodward's controversial
account of U.S. intelligence oper-
ations.
The book, "Veil: The Secret Wars
of the CIA, 1981-1987," has been de-
nounced by some present and for-
mer intelligence officials as a mix-
ture of fact and fiction, and the CIA
voiced concern about the possible
damage the book's revelations
might cause for secret U.S intelli-
gence operations.
Mr. Woodward has maintained
that his book, which reveals details
about some of the most secret U.S.
underwater evesdropping oper-
ations against the Soviet Union, is
"precise."
The Soviet reporter would not
say whether Izvestia had pur-
chased reprint rights from Mr.
Woodward's New York publisher, al-
though the Soviet Union in the past
has been known to ignore interna-
tional copyright conventions in
publishing foreign works.
The Christian Science Monitor
New York Daily News
USA Today
The Chicago Tribune
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