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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100200138-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 15, 2007
• Sequence Number: 138
• Publication Date: April 1, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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STAT
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PHILADELPHIA INDHIRER
1 APRIL 1880
on the use of, spy covers.
Rep. Les--Aspin-(D., Wis.); a member
of the House Intelligence Committee,
said that Central Intelligence Agency,
director Stansfield> Turner had not
come clean about whether religious
and academic professions are used as
"covers" for overseas spying. Turner
acknowledged that the agency had.
waived- its rule against using em-
ployes of the American news media
three times during the Carter admin-
istration, Aspin said. lie does not
want the CIA to, use clergymen,
teachers, journalists, Peace - Corps
members or congressional staffers as
spies. -
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