EX-CIA 'SPOOK' ENJOINED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000100500013-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 5, 2004
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: April 19, 1972
• Content Type: NSPR

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SPY Left Out in the Cold
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Ay Jim Mann' The CIA officials said they
Washington Post Staff Writer . ? .~ have also obtained a copy of
rtcrday obtained a temporary the CIA, written by Marchetti
court order, to prevent a for- and purchased by "a leading
finer agent of the Central in- publishing house in New
-telligence Agency from pub- York."
lishing a magazine article or The Justice Department did
book about the CIA's intelli- not disclose the names of the
gence-gathering activities. publishing h o u s e and the
The broadly worded court magazine. However, late last
order, signed by U.S. District night, Aaron Latham, an as-
Court Judge Albert V. Bryan sociate editor of Esquire
Jr. in' Alexandria, also re- magazine, acknowledged that
quires the former agent, Vic- Marchetti recently wrote an
for L. Alarchelti, to return to article entitled "Twilight of
the CIA all documents and the Spooks" for Esquire.
property he obtained while Latham said that about two
employed at the agency. weeks ago, Esquire returned
Marchetti also was ordered the manuscript without pub-
to submit any manuscript or lishing it at Marchetti's re-
other writing about the CIA quest, after Marchetti told Es-
= "factual, fictional or other- quire he had signed a contract
wise" to the agency for ex- with the publishing house of
amination at least 30 days be. Albert A. Knopf to do a book could not be reached for com-
Sore its release. about the CIA. /Iment last night. It was not
The Justice Department ac- Sealed copies of the maga- (I clear -whether he has already
tion was reminiscent of its ef- zine article and book outline I given back CIA documents as
cation of the Pentagon papers,
'the government's secret study
of the Vietnam war.
Yesterday's r e q u c s t was
based on -the theory that Mar-
chetti had breached a contract
he signed as a CIA employee,
promising not to disclose in-
formation that might jeopard-
'Ize national security.
? Marchetti was employed by
the CIA from 1.955 to 1969.
serving at one point as execu- I Marchetti in 1955,
tive assistant to the agency's
deputy director. After resign-
ing from the agency, he pub-
fished a novel called "The
Rope Dancer" about an em-
ployee of the "National Intelli-
gence Agency."
In affidavits submitted to
Judge Bryan yesterday, high-
ranking, CIA, officials, includ-
ing Director Richard Helms
said the CIA has received ad-
vance copies of an article enti-
tied "Twilight of the Spooks,"
written by Marchetti for publi-
cation in "a magazine with a-
Ftionwide circulation."
by the CIA yesterday for his
private examination. The CIA
said that agent Robert P. B.
Lohmann of New York City
obtained the manuscripts from
"a confidential source" on
March 12. No reason was given
for the one-month delay be-
fore the court action.
Also included in the court
papers was a copy of the "se-
.In it, Marchetti, who had
then just graduated from
Penn State University, swore
that he would never "divulge,
publish or reveal either by
word, conduct or by any other
means, any classified informa-
tion, intelligence or knowl-
edge . unless specifically
authorized, in writing, in each
case, by the director of central'
intelligence."
Asked last night whether the
Justice Department was also
considering a criminal prosecu-
tion of Marchetti, a depart-
ment spokesman replied, "That
would be something you would,
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have to take up with the GIA,"
which he said would be respon-
sible for documenting a' case
against M,Iarchet.ti.
Following publication of the
Pentagon papers, the Justice
Department began a criminal
prosecution of Daniel Ellsberg,
charging in part that he had
violated an agreement he'
hAd signed as an employee ofI
classified information. i
Bryan, 45, a judge appointed
in 1971 by President Nixon,
refused to comment last night)
on the reasons for his issu-
ance of the court order. A
hearing in the case has been
scheduled for April 28.
Marchetti, who lives in Vi-
enna, Va., was not present in
court when Judge Bryan is-
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