BRIEFING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00561R000100040124-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2012
• Sequence Number: 124
• Publication Date: January 16, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

S1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/22: CIA-RDP91-00561 R000100040124-0
ON PAGE
NEW YORK TIMES
16 JANUARY 1982
WASHINGTON TALK
.L S perennial as the Cherry Bloc.
some in the Spring, the inevita-
ble Crackdown on Leaks was
announced the other day...-. "A problem of major pzoportions,".
said President Reagan; echoing simi.
Jar statements by his predecessors.
This time the President's irr. seeemed
to focus on the often leaky Pentagon
and National Security .Council;, with
some defense officials going so far as
to voluntarily take He detector tests to
?provetheir innocence. -
At the Pentagon, some middle-level
officials seemed annoyed. and per-
plexed at the exercise, terming the-
test s"undignified, silly,useless.".
One official hooted with laughter at
the suggestion. that the tests- might,
stop leaks? And a secretary confessed
that she had a built-in lie detector.
My face just turns bright red when
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Francis X . v
Bernard Wezrir'aub _ It
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/22: CIA-RDP91-00561 R000100040124-0