AN INTERVEW WITH TIM BUTZ

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000100360057-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 15, 2004
• Sequence Number: 57
• Publication Date: January 5, 1975
• Content Type: TRANS

Approved For Release 2004/10/28 : CIA-RDP88-01314
RADIO TV REPORTS, INC.
The Today Show
WRC TV
NBC Network
January 5, 1975 7:00 AN CITY Washington, D. C.
SUBJECT An Interview with Tim Butz
JIM HARTZ: After CIA station chief in Athens Richard
Welch was assassinated, U. S. intelligence officials point out
that he had been identified as an agent in a magazine called
Counter-Spy, a Washington based publication which specializes
in exposing American intelligence activities, and suggested
that this identification may have led to his murder.
Well, to answer these charges, Counter-Spy's editor
Tim Butz is in our Washington News Center this morning with
"Today" Washington correspondent Douglas Kiker.
Doug.
body.
DOUGLAS KIKER: Thank you, Jim. Good. morning, every-
Mr. Butz, here is your winter edition of Counter-Spy.
And inside it you list country after country, and you list the
names or what you think are the names of the station chiefs,
CIA agents there. Doug Porter, who is thy, co-editor of Counter-
Spy, your associate, says that it is conceivable that the Athens
News, which published the name of Richard Welch as a CIA agent,
could have gotten that name from Counter-Spy. Do you agree?
TIM BUTZ: I think that Mr. Porter was quoted out of
context. That was in an Associated Press dispatch that appeared
in many newspapers yesterday. With Counter-Spy and its limited
circulation -- we circulate about three thousand copies through-
out the United States -- we have the element of distribution or
redistribution after it goes to a subscriber. We can guarantee
in any way, shape or form that a copy of Counter-Spy wasn't
seen by the Athens Daily News, because we don't know what some-
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