HILL PANEL CHECKING CIA'S DISCLOSURE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00561R000100090009-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 24, 2012
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: March 22, 1976
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

S1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/24: CIA-RDP91-00561 R000100090009-3
~, . WASHINGTON POST--
22 i-larch 19'(6
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By Warren Brown
Wa,hinT:on Pcst Staff Wr ttr
The Senate intelligence
committee is investigating
Central Intellizence Agen-
cy's disclosure that Israel
has 10 to 2~',' available nu-
clear weapons. committee
chairman Frank Chur h (D-
Idaho) said yesterday.
Church, who last week an-
rounced his candidacy for
the Democratic presidential
nomination, called the CIA
leak "the bi?est goof in the
way of leaks that I can im-
agine-the biggest that I've-
ever heard of in Washing-
ton.
He said, '-Congress should
investi~,ate this leak," and
added that his own commit-
tee "has already commenced
an investigation."
Church made his com-
ments in a television inter-
view on '-Issues and An-
swers" (ABC. WJI AL).
The Washingtun Post re-
ported last week that CIA
officials revealed at a cock-
tail party for Washington-
area science writers that Is-
rael has an estimated 10 to
20 nuclear weapons "ready
and available for use." The
article was written for The
Post by Arthur Kranish, edi-
tor of Science Trends, a
Washington-based newslet-
ter. Kranish was one of the
writers attending the CIA
party.
"Can you imagine how a
leak of that kind would have
been treated it it had come
out of the Convrez-s of the
U nited States" Church
asked.
?Cor-,ressicnal ability to
keep state secrets has be-
come suspect lately because
of the recent publication of
the House intelli=en.ce com-
mittee's report on the CIA
in The Village Voice. New
York weekly..
Church said he would
"take action" to reduce
leaks if he became Presi-
dent.
The senator said co -mit-
tees that now must be noti-
fied about .over inte!aerce
operations represent half
the Congress. I
"That's a highly in-secure
arrangement," said C'rr-ch.
"We ought to have. on in el-
that will be the sin ':e 6---p .-
sitory of this (ir'el!'.._ ice)
information. and t:~cr. %,e on
Congress) will be just as se-
cure as the executive
branch."
Another Democratic presi-
dential candidate. Fred Har-
ris, said yesterday he is
looking to the April 23
Pennsylvania primary to
give- his badly sagging cain-
pain a lift.
"..
tiwe are hoarding our
money, our resources and
our workers and we are o-
ing full-tine into Pencs,:lva-
nia," Harris said or. the
'race the Nation" ;CBS,
1\'TOP).
Harris added that he
would retrain in the race
even if he runs poorly in
Pennsylvania.
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/24: CIA-RDP91-00561 R000100090009-3