JOURNALISTS AND CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100200031-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 15, 2007
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: May 3, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

STAT
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EDITOR & PUL-LIS E
3 Nay 1980
Journalists and CIA
Members of the American Society of Newspaper Editors
were aghast when Stansfield Turner, director of the Central
Intelligence Agency, told them he reserves the right to en=
list jounalists in secret missions. -
Statements like this can compromise every U.S. newsman
working abroad.
Turner has a "regulation" against enlisting the aid of
reporters, clergymen and academics but his recent comment
expresses his willingness to waive the rule at any time. This
implies the willingness of some-reporters to-work- for CIA
and thus suggests any or all of them may do so on occasion.-
It is imperative that the charter legislation being consid-
ered in congress forbids the CIA to recruit journalists, cler-
gymen and academics as well as forbidding CIA agents to
pose as a journalist, etc.
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