EVANS AND NOVAK DENY PILLSBURY WAS SOURCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00561R000100130010-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 27, 2012
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: May 13, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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NEW YORK TIMES
13 May 1986
Letters
Evans and Novak Deny
Pillsbury Was Source .
To the Editor:
Your April 30 report that a Penta-
gon deputy had been dismissed "on
the ground that he provided secret
information for a news article on an
American covert-intelligence pro-
gram" may have left an impression
that our March 31 column th The
Washington Post and other newspa-
pers, disclosing an Administration
decision to send Stinger antiaircraft
missiles to Jonas Savimbi in Angola,
was the consequence of a "leak"
fmm Michael E. Pillsbury, former
Assistant Under Secretary for policy
planning.
The further juxtaposition of our
names and column with the part of
the story dealing with the visit to
South Africa by William J. Casey, Di-
rector of Central Intelligence, could
also have created an impression that
Dr. Pillsbury had been our source for
that information as well.
In view of the serious punishment
that has been administered to Dr.
Pillsbury, we wish to record the fol-
lowing facts:
? Our column on the Stinger deci-
sion did not come from Dr. Pillsbury
in any way, shape or form. To prove
that statement, we would gladly sub-
mit to the polygraph machine.
? Our reporting on the presence of
Mr. Casey in South Africa did not
result from a leak or from any other
disclosures from Dr. Pillsbury.
ROWLAND EVANS JR.
ROBERT D. NOVAK
Washington, May 2, 1986
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