WHITE HOUSE 'INTENSIFIES' WAR ON LEAKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00561R000100100054-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 7, 2012
• Sequence Number: 54
• Publication Date: May 22, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/02/08 :CIA-RDP91-005618000100100054-1
q~~APP~R~p USA TODAY
OM,R1~ ~~ 22 May 1986
White House `intensifies' war
on leaks
1'he white Rouse is stepping
up its campaign to stop the me?
dla from divulging information
it says hurts national security.
President Ream's call to
The Washington Post's Kath-
erlne Graham urging her not to
publish a story on accused spy
Ronald Felton is but the latest
salvo in the war over leaks.
'"There's been a concerted
effort," white House spokes-
man l:.atry Speaker said. "You
could say intensined."
BCexlnesdav. the QA was re-
3deedarithe Post article to de-
IEIDitne_whether mea n
cutien Lder a Aw Mn~ riia.
cla~rn of intnllian*+~~
Recent warning shots:
^ State Department
speechwrtter Spencer Warren
was Bred last weekafter he ad-
mitted leaking a classised ca-
ble from the U.S. Embassy in
Argentina.
Ca-
~aunz lomea me warpath last
week with: "It's disgusting the
way the stuff leaks out. we've
got to lfnd the people who are
doing it and >ir+e them"
Reagan -who admits "the
White House >s the leakiest
place I've ever been in" - re-
cently revealed the intercept
of messages between Lbya's
People's Bureau in East Berlin
and 1Yipoli before the Aprll 5
west Berlin disco bombing
Asked why the White House
leek was justified and the Post
story was not, Speaker said: "fit
was a carefully coceldered de-
dsion here to release the Lby-
an information ... it wa.4 a
judgmental cell."
Said Post Executive Editor
~~ Bradlee: "we de-
leted what we felt appropriate,
after dl9cussloa"
Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/02/08 :CIA-RDP91-005618000100100054-1