WORLD PRESS INSTITUTE CRITICIZES INFORMATION CURBS UNDER REAGAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00845R000200900006-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 25, 2010
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: December 19, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE WASHINSTON POST
19 December 1981
World Press Institute Criticizes
Information Curbs Under Reagan
LONDON, Dec. 18 (AP) - The
international Press Institute said
today the Reagan administration has
restricted news gathering, posing a
"potentially serious loss of public ac-
countability."
"The whole situation has contin-
ued to deteriorate," . IPI Director
Peter Galliner wrote in a summary
of the worldwide media group's an-
nual Press Freedom Review.
In the United States, the survey
cited as restrictive the ending of un-
classifed background briefings for re-
porters by the Central Intelligence
Agency and the closing off of the
National Security Council staff to re-
porters.
The institute said the Reagan ad-
ministration "appears to have adopt-
ed a press relations policy consider-
ably tougher and more restrictive
than those of previous governments
in a bid to shut off leaks on national
security matters."
Galliner also criticized a proposal
by a Canadian commission to estab-
lish a panel to monitor newspapers'
performance, Spanish laws empow
ering the government to close news-
papers and radio stations and a new.
British law making it illegal for ju-..
rors to talks to reporters and giving
judges broader powers. to limit re-
porting.'
STAT
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