CIA RULES PROHIBIT JOURNALISTS ON PAYROLL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00587R000100410020-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 2011
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: September 8, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON TIMES
8 September 1986
CIA rules prohibit
journalists on payroll
By Rita McWilliams
nd Bill Gertz -
HE WASHINGTON TIMES
journalists accredited by a U.S. news
service, newspaper, periodical, ra-
dio or television network or station,
for the purpose of conducting any
intelligence activities."
The regulations were announced
Dec. 2, 1977, after then-Senate Intel-
ligence Committee Chairman Daniel
Inouye, Hawaii Democrat, said he
would propose legislation prohibit-
ing the use of journalists for intel-
ligence work.
At the time, Mr. Inouye said he
had "come to the conclusion that no
intelligence agency should be in-
volved with working journalists."
The CIA, however, is permitted to
The rules specifically bar the CIA
om taking part in "any relation-
Lips with full-time or part-time
ookesman Sharon Foster.
The Central Intelligence Agency
continues to follow internal reg-
ulations established during the
Carter administration that prohibit
using U.S. reporters for intelligence
activity, a CIA spokesman said yes-
terday.
The regulations, established dur-
ing Stansfield Turner's reign as CIA
chief, remain in effect and are
telligence or foreign counterintelli-
gence to the U.S. government."
The issue of journalists and spy-
ing surfaced with the recent arrest
of U.S. News and World Report Mos-
cow correspondent Nicholas
Daniloff, who was charged yester-
day by the Soviets with espionage.
Mr. Daniloff, and officials of the
magazine and the U.S. government,
have said the Soviets set him up.
Even President Reagan said in a per-
sonal letter to Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev that he would personally
vouch for Mr. Daniloff's innocence.
In 1978, Mr. Daniloff testified be-
fore the Senate Intelligence Com-
mittee that Congress should create a
formal prohibition against "paid,
regular or contractual relations be-
tween intelligence agencies and
journalists."
He said recruiting of reporters
would damage the integrity of the
press, according to Friday's editions
of The New York Times.
House Intelligence Committee
Chairman Lee Hamilton said: "I'm
not aware of any policy with regard
to the use or non-use of journalists
- I don't know if there is any rule."
William Colby, who worked for
many years as a CIA clandestine ser-
vices operative before preceding
Mr. 'ILrner as CIA director, admitted
using American journalists for intel-
ligence work.
publications and broadcast outlets "I've handled journalists as my
in its overseas intelligence gather-
ing. never told them what to write when
Moreover, the regulations say the p
they wrote t apers," MrhColbysad!"ThAmerican
ey were
CIA would not deny "the opportu- very useful in terms of getting into
nity" for any person "to furnish in- things that officials can't get into in
formation which may be useful to his foreign countries."
or her government" Also, the CIA is Mr. Colby, however, dismissed the
permitted to have "unpaid relation- idea that ;Mr. Daniloff was engaged
ships with journalists or other mem- in espionage as a "total put-on by the
bers of the U.S. news media organi- Soviets" designed to bargain for the
zations who voluntarily maintain release of Gennady Zakharov, an al-
contact for the purpose of providing leged Soviet spy recently arrested in
information on matters of foreign in- New York.
use journalists working for foreign
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