INQUIRY REPORTEDLY LAUNCHED INTO LEAKS ABOUT SECRET ARMY PROBE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00561R000100020003-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 17, 2012
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: December 10, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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BALTIMORE SUN
10 December 1985
Inqufry reportedly launched into
secret Army probe ,
NSC said to have
requested study
WASHINGTON (AP) - At White
House request, the Justice Depart-
ment is investigating the source of
news reports on a financial investi
ation of secret Arm units that of-
kn work with the CIA. two ryintsoources
One source sal t e initial re-
quest for a leak Investigation had
come from officials of the National
Security Council at the White House.
Both sources, who spoke on con-
dition of anonymity, said the grand
jury investigation was being con-
ducted by Assistant U.S. Attorney
Theodore Greenberg in suburban Al-
exandria, Va. The Pentagon and a
special Justice Department office
that is studying Defense Department
finances are nearby.
Mr. Greenberg was out of his of-
fice yesterday and could not be
reached for comment.
Both sources said the Investiga-
tion was triggered by a Washington
Post article late last month on the
Army's financial investigation of
several of its special operations and
intelligence units, including an avia-
tion unit known as Seaspray that
operates out of Fort Eustis. Va.
The Post and Newsweek maga-
zine both reported, however, that
the leak investigation also included
an earlier report on the Army units
by CBS News. On Nov. 22, CBS-TV
broadcast a report about the activi-
ties of the aviation unit, which often
works with the CIA on covert
oprationns.
In the past, leak Investigations
have almost never led to prosecution
and rarely to administrative disci-
pline. Often, this was because so
many officials knew the information
that it was impossible to trace the
leak to its source. Even when that
was possible, the agency whose se-
crets were involved was often un-
willing to have them publicly con-
firmed at a trial.
Nevertheless, the government for
the first time recently used the Espi-.
onage Act to convict a government
employee of supplying classified ma-
terial to a news organization.
Samuel Loring Morison, a civilian
intelligence analyst for the Navy.
was sentenced last week in Balti
more to two years in prison for hav-
ing given secret U.S. satellite photos,
of a Soviet aircraft carrier under con-
struction to a British defense maga-
zine for which he worked part-time.
STAT
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