IF DANILOFF HAD MET HIS GOAL, SOVIETS MIGHT HAVE HAD A CASE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00587R000200880033-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 14, 2010
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: September 13, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ON PAGES BOSTON GLOBE
13 September 1986
JfI*JAioff had met his goal,
soviets might have had a case
By Paul Hirshson
Globe Staff
CAMBRIDGE - Nicholas S. Daniloff, the US jour-
nalist released yesterday from jail in Moscow where
he had been held on spy charges. wrote in a college
publication that he had become a journalist by
chance, and that he had really wanted to work for
the CIA.
The publication was the Harvard Class of 1956 -
25th Anniversary Report. In that book, members of
the class submitted updates on their lives and ca-
reers 25 years after graduation.
Daniloff wrote a five-paragraph summary of his
career since his graduation from college.
He wrote of his years as a foreign and Washington
correspondent for The Washington Post. and of his
then recent move to US News & World Report.
It was not clear in Daniloffs report whether he
was joking about wanting to Join the CIA. But the-
general tone of his report seemed light and jocular.
He wrote: "I became a journalist by chance. I had
wanted, at Harvard, to become a diplomat - or, more
accurately a foreign servant.
,As luck would have it the US Forein Service,
the CIA, USIA all found m mind lacking," ei wrote.
"The military service oun my y lacking and un-
fit for service."
A spokeswoman for the CIA in Washing-ton.
Kath Pherson, said in a telephone interview that
the agency does not give out information on any of
its current of former employees, and therefore could
not say if any Individual either had expressed Inter-
est in or had applied for a job.
Daniloff, in his report. also wrote of his running a
marathon in three hours. 18 minutes, and of his year
in the Nieman Fellowship program for journalists at
Harvard in 1972 and 1973.
(Several current and former Nieman Fellows plan
a press conference on Monday to "condemn the
crude and patently trumped-up charges" against
Danlloff on Monday at the foundation headquarters
here, a spokesman said).
Daniloff also wrote: "I have seen many ironies
over the years. For example, I am delighted to have
preserved some intellectual independence by becom-
ing a journalist rather than becoming a diplomatic
servant to other men."
On foreign affairs, he wrote: "I prefer to avoid
comment here on the state of the world, other than to
say that in Soviet-American relations, as in the Mid-
dle East, I am apalled by the number of missed oppor-
tunities.-He concluded his brief report with: "Since I do not
expect to attend the Twenty-Fifth Reunion. I send
good wishes to all."
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