A JOURNALIST IS A JOURNALIST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100200115-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 15, 2007
• Sequence Number: 115
• Publication Date: April 14, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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;ARTICLE APPEARED LOS ANGELS TI?
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14 APRIL 1930
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hat is the purpose of anAinericanlournalist' intelligence operations Hereminded them of what
.That purpose is to be a journalist, and nothing. he had disclosed earlier this year-the CIA policy .i
else: " A journalist in the- hire~of; the: Central. Intel- adopted in 1976 had been modified to permit the use
ligence-Agency or any government agency betrays : of journalists by the agency with the approval of the
his own : ethical: responsibility and brings all other director:
correspondents under susoicion_ In three separate ipstances, he said lie has ap =
~After-revelations several years ago that the CIA, -proved plans to use American reporters abroad for
had employed news reporters as undercover Intel secret intelligence assignments, but the plans failed
ligence?. operatives; we: welcomedd:=a policy~change to,, materialize.. However,? he said; = the agency'will -
announced by the- CIA in-1976_The' announcement;:continue_to consider using . journalists;. when. other-!
said with admirable 'clarity "The;CIAwvill not enter options are not available
into-any paid; or, contractual relationship with;any urner did make one essential. point .He sa.d,the
full `time or part-time news correspondentaccrediteputationand integrity of journalists depend on
edbyanyU.S..news'service; newspaper, periodical, their performance That is precisely the issue.A re-
radio or television network or station." porter-.who" accepts a secret 'assignment, using his
Now~Adm:_Stansfield Turner' the CIA director, profession as a cover, undermines his own credibiIi-..f
tells the- American Society-.`of 'Newspaper -Editors ty, forfeits. the trust of his; news sources `and cog
Ttha . he sees nothing wrong vnth using re orters for `
romises his news organization -
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