NET WORK CBS' TENNIS TOURNEY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100200015-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 15, 2007
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: May 14, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE WASHINGTON POST
14 May 1980
By = Elisabeth Bunuller
Turner was unavailable'for comment
on =than. one; mostly> beeause- be was tool
busy trying to whack tennis"balls- down-;
people''s .throats.. Safer;,` meanwhile,, was
just, sitting around .in~? the clubhouse-;
with Eric"Sevareid,; i~ha called `himself
"much-too ok arnt feeh1 " to pray:- -
But.;Sevareid surfaced';last nigh_t be-'
cause.,. the network he's ;retired. from.
was holding its eghtli annual tennis;
tournament at._the, Arlington, -YMCA,,,
Tennis-and Squash :: Club. T?he.C.BS cor
porate people, who -invite a bunch of
congressmen, call`'it:- just; "a .natural,;,
fun thing," while tha. slightly.. more-t
cynical CBS newspeople :call it your-
basic lobby party. As Safer guts it
"Tennis as a metaphor-for.:bribery:''
And the Washington political celeb-
rities,. who.. come. ;perhaps; figurethat
it. never. hurts:.,to..:play..tennis..witli;
someone who mightbe.;covering-.your-
indictment one of these. years.: Then,.
too, the food: "Have, you. seen," said'
Sen. Edward Zorinskp. (D- 4eb.), "what
it costs -to, eat at. Jean-PierriU these
days?"
Whoops, there's also the' , tennis
Sixty,',-people play.-,.: doubles. or-; a;
trophy that has' gone to' G } eorgge-Bush.
twice n,gast years;;;-;?
watching Stansfield-Turherl:ike,a hawk-:
Have you noticed wheni they feave::the'
line calls' to;_him ' _he said,. eyeballing
the CIA- director's tennis. game, "that:
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