REAGAN TRIES TO PLUG THE LEAKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00561R000100040128-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2012
• Sequence Number: 128
• Publication Date: January 14, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/22: CIA-RDP91-00561 R000100040128-6
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11+ JA NUAR 17 1982
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- Ronald Reagan is the latest in a long line ~r - ~?
Presidents who have become ? o- . members of the Natio ?ai KSecurity Council w
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several of his predecessors; heovernhasmnowent And, resolved li ktoe efficcomplicated his manages
do something about it_ o_r:.exit of fareiJgn policy.
The 'White House has ordained that government only a abReagan White
out leaks that m'House says it is concerned
,officials must obtain advance approval of contacts it offered no examples. pair national security, but .
,NiiL'n news
people. in which "classified" national ? ? And the fact is that
:security matters might be di
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ene.en rense Department bureaucracies, there is no sub-*',
Ports must be submitted afterward on the content ject under the sun that is not theoretical)
of such discussions. And, .when''unauthorized dis-
such disco found have occurred, r ? fied. It is very easy for ; Y classi-
all legal to scream "national security" when in fact nothing ;
methods" will be used to uncover the cuprit. more than political embarrassment
.,Already a deputy secretary-of defense and the AsReagan's spokesman. a involved
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Joint Chiefs of Staff have,beerr.?:mvltecn-ta take'' said in a recent iinterviiewt. the.le David s
lie=detector tests to heI determine e ben,
P who leaked the ?? ly confidential information is , tiame- e_ of shonored traupposed=
substance of a meeting dealing - a -'
dealing with the militarydition':' n ti ashi a~ton.."UiZaiithoriaed df:~ciosures-'
budget. That invitation was demeaning. And.it is are an integral part of the systems of .checks and
z.ailF:etty?fettrl~:?~. '?:+~ ~-:; --y
balancesin the-11S; system of. governmemL.
In hurrtart tertna, the gresidential, discomfort-is
Witliout.leaks;?Cor_gress and the blia would.:
`rinderstaridable_ Like other executives, Presidents not hear about impending de wa tq0
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decisions unfit it like to run a tight ship~They don't agpreciatepick late to ' do anything
lik to o about the s
.-leaked by newspapers
spa , _rs and reading stories obviously would have been aredgreat fi~? emba_~bar art himself:
who hoped to head off or somebody had leaked ahead of time th .1
.'sabotage decisions with which they disagreed , which the President has now disavowed tocallow-?; i
"? At least as far back as the Eisenhower era, ,
Pentagon correspondents sometimes discovered discriminatistatus to schools that prat-rice racial,
that they were under FBI surveillance. Lyndon B. In the recent interview, Gergeri saio '
Johnson was so paranoid on the subject of leaks ly every . `t,7ti,e way:
that he sometimes reversed decisions already it handles the news abut on performance. +
? made in order to foil the Ieakers, judged not on the r
During Richard M Nixon's well it copes with country's roble on Izow I
presidency, staff We can't improve p rns."
on that. - =: )
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/22: CIA-RDP91-00561 R000100040128-6