'MEDIA' INFORMANTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100200048-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 15, 2007
• Sequence Number: 48
• Publication Date: April 26, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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26 APRIL 1980
`Media' informants
Three "media people" are voluntarily
supplying information in domestic crimi-
nal investigations, FBI Director William
Webster told a citizens group in Palm
Beach, Fla. (April 17).
Webster would not identify the infor-
mants nor call them "reporters" but said
they work in "journalism, radio and
television." He doubts if their superiors
are aware of the "volunteers' " ac-
tivities.
"They serve only a limited function,"
Webster sdid. But they are in position to
supply ongoing information.
Webster's remarks came during a
Palm Beach Roundtable discussion with
CIA Director Stansfield Turner, who
said, "We reserve the right to have a
relationship with the American media
under extraordinary circumstances."
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