MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91B00135R000500820082-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 8, 2008
• Sequence Number: 82
• Publication Date: May 12, 1983
• Content Type: REPORT

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12 MAY 1963
MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS
Public Affairs
78-05 X5520
Tube: ES-4 Amber
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THURSDAY 12 May 1 983
SUMMARY OF MAJOR MEDIA ITEMS ON INTELLIGENCE
1. Investigation into Leaked NSC Document.. National-Security Adviser
William Clark has called in the FBI to track down the government employee who
leaked to the NEW YORK TIMES-a national security document giving detailed plans
for eliminating Soviet and Cuban influence in Central America and the Caribbean.
The NSC document was under extraordinarily close-hold within several departments
of the government -- including the White House, the NSC,.the State Department,
the Defense Department, and the CIA -- with no more than 20 officials authorized
to see it. A well-informed White House source said the leaking of the document
was the worst security breach of the Reagan administration and has outraged the
highest levels of government. (WASHINGTON TIMES, 12 May, p. A-1)
2. Comments on Covert Actions. Former DCI Stansfield Turner said
yesterday that during the Carter administration the CIA sought ways to overthrow.
not only Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini, but Libya's hhadafy, Cuba's Castro and
Nicaragua's Sandinista regime. He said he never sent such a plan to the White
House because he found no way practically to oust those leaders. Turner added
that there is nothing morally wrong with trying to overthrow a foreign government
by covert means, but he objected to the CIA's current involvement in-Nicaragua
because "we've given the impression we're trying to put a dictator back in."
(BALTIMORE SUN [Independent Press Service], 12 May)
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