PROBING GOVERNMENT LEAKS AN UNREWARDING TASK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00561R000100070025-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 9, 2012
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: August 20, 1979
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/09: CIA-RDP91-00561 R000100070025-7
STAT
THE WASHINGTON POST
20 August 1979
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By Charles R. Babcock the aggrieved agency doesn't want to are referred to the Justice
Washln arl is Stall cock went each year, Keuch said. But less writgr' declassify the information for a trial. -f
One day recently, Robert L. Keuch, thin .one-third ever =leadto- an' FBI
In addition, a 1971 CIA study found field 'check because the Intelligence
a Justice Department expert on intel? the leaker is often a "high adminis- agencies say.: distribution was. too
ligence matters, started an investiga- tration official" feeding the informs. broad to trace the leak or declasaitica- .
tion of. a. leak about.a leak investigation ,tor a-reporter to push. his. policy tion would be-too harmful"..
tion. He's not holding his breath wait-. _objecttve.- Damage from leaks similir to thos-
in, to find the culprit. because he - - - surrounding the debate ion, SALT II is--.'
knows leakers are seldom caught Department and FBI offi.t
ght and __ likely to escalate in the, future ho-
eless often punished. But his and clals often feel they're on fools' er- "'cause of.the