CIA'S USE OF JOURNALISTS IS A CHILLING PRACTICE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100200121-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 15, 2007
• Sequence Number: 121
• Publication Date: April 12, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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LONG BEACH INDEPENDENT (CALIF)
12 April 1980
said-that in three-,separate cases=he .., that; is.' understandable: Ia -..the`:
realists working.: for the CIA.` He the,.world as viewed fr om .the. CIA;
Turner was; talking about jour---.-. concerns of the editors: "naive." :.In -
""" 1j"u" . Tiaraer professed to
find the
providing information to us, soiree- Times, told Turner j -.?..
bad but it?is -ypur choice. abroad," -A: NI Rosenthal ; esecu
-cause you are oa our` th
payroll;.at's~ eve`ry :Azizer.ican correspondent`
,. said: "If you. sl nt the :news be doubt orii;the- ethical,,.position-"_of
Newspaper Editors. Lest?._week,_ lie _ correspondents "arid: you'.:have cast:`
in g . of the American"Society of eal;`purpose of American .foreign
Vv ae.aa\iGfJ KtY\i- ?SACI# ?LGTV r..~ _ .._-.'.
Speaking, .to the annual isieeet- :"You have put into,question the
nce? _ cretl C I A? gents can obviouslY
does rot share `--and appears not ' = _,, Y~
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suspicion that journalists are, se--.
director of 'central iateliige
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rn ~`' th sources: In a country 'like.Iran the
Eldrairal Stanefielcl `T
fully come. to expect. ~' "'' difficult to retain the trust of their
unbiased? journalisra.Withoutthat: -thanhappens Neither will? editors:
distance, a"journalist::;cannot =pro- Suspicion will fall on all foreign.
duce the straightforward, , factual' correspondents. _ `'
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the. s ubject iss': mpottant:;fo z. secret.=-Readers willnot.- know--if;
Keepu a critical distance from Journalists to work for .the CIA?im'
continue.. to~-: a :uruat~sts .for. Y,~as seen by. mnay Carter or;Stans-
all pres. into service Twiner {~ xteaders need to=reel confident-
told the editors that the CIk' iovld - _ thatthey; are not getting rthe news'
#or ecret ;intelligence ""operations ` : readers, the 'concerns are critically
not a ctuestion . as'~the >admiral -' tion: ~.x. _' r : -
? r:, :mot, -- ernment:_or even to the.iwancial:
The editors were dismaye& It is `- interests of his or.hei' own publics
otherwa =~ ion- is Ytas readers and not ;to gov=
-...vv..ii, 3 ,t- r,`?t"~?`.,-"~`u--,~""?- - . iair The
reporter's Cobh a
mation could snot: be`;gather `ed Kbome in . g :7
thinks, of editors choosing.whether h The indications'are that='t~vo of
joi
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CIA "profanes', she . reporter's er=approved. for,CIA:activities
work. The -;simple: truth is -,that were;part-timers and that one was.;
a reporter.'s-=association:-with17th~7-? _th
when a journalist works for. govern a foreign journalist. The great body.;
meat,his=}ouraslism'is automati- of American oreign.coriespond-
callx;suspectSofrbias.Turner-sug=~; e.iats clearly,.=.would not accept,
:gnts:-tha;.he-:;will.::encouraget? assiQnments-frourthe ClA. a ~ ~
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unapproved the'-use of journalists -world.Iof` newspapers'-.and 'their