INTERVIEW WITH WALKER KARP ON THE SAMUEL MORISON CASE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01070R000301930002-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 14
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 6, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 25, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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RADIO TV REPORTS, INC.
4701 WILLARD AVENUE, CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND 20815 [phone]
The Diane Rehm Show STATION WAMU-FM
October 25, 1985 10:05 A.M.
Washington, D.C.
Interview with Walter Karp on the Samuel Morison
Case
DIANE REHM: A federal district court's decision last
week in an espionage trial could have a major impact on First
Amendment rights in this country. The case involves Samuel
Morison. He was a former Navy intelligence analyst who leaked
classified photographs of a Soviet aircraft carrier to a British
magazine. The photographs were taken from a U.S. spy satellite
several hundred miles away. The U.S. Government argues that the
technology demonstrated by the photograph threatened the national
security.
Mr. Morison was convicted on four counts of espionage
and theft and faces up to 40 years in prison. Mr. Morison's
attorneys are planning to appeal the court's decision.
In the studio with me this morning is Walter Karp (?), a
contributing editor to Harper's magazine. He's the author of an
article entitled "Liberty at Siege," which appears in the
November issue of Harper's, now on the stands. He says the
Morison case is part of a broader and systematic assault on the
habits of freedom in this country.
Good morning to you. It's nice to have you here.
WALTER KARP: Good morning.
REHM: It's always nice to react as promptly as this to
a listener request. While the publisher and president of
Harper's magazine, John Rick MacArthur, was on the show the other
day, a listener called and said he had read your article and
found it absolutely fascinating, and wondered whether we could
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