'POST' DEFENDS WOODWARD'S ETHICS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000807540058-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 12, 2012
• Sequence Number: 58
• Publication Date: June 13, 1987
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ON PAGE 13 June 1987
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By CLIFF KINCAID
`Post' Defends
Woodward's Ethics
Katharine and Donald Graham, the chairman
and publisher of the Washington Post, have
defended reporter Bob Woodward for covering up
one of Gary Hart's adulterous relationships for
over five years.
After the Miami Herald exposed Hart's affair
with poster girl-model Donna Rice, the Post
acknowledged that in the 1981-82 period, when
Hart was separated from his wife and supposedly
living with Woodward, Hart was actually living with
another woman. Woodward says he was uncom-
fortable about this and would have told the truth if
someone had asked.
At the Washingtpn Post shareholders' meeting
on May 15, Katharine Graham defended
Woodward'* failure to expose Hart at the time bjr
claiming that Woodward was not "covering
politics or Gary Hart" and that "Hart wee r.
candidate." He, of course, became a candidate In
1984 and Woodward and the Post still remained
silent.
Donald Graham also defended Woodward
aga nst reports that he tried to deceive hospital
personnel in an effort to get into the room of then-
ailing CIA- Director William Casey. Apparently,
Woodward was trying to collect material for a book
he was writing about the CIA.
"Mr. Woodward did nothing unethical," said
Graham. "There are things in this newspaper that
we publish every day and there are some stories for
which we have to wait a few days, and this is one of
them."
.Katharine Graham claimed that Woodward and
Casey had been "friends."
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