WASHINGTON POST'S POLICY: FULLEST POSSIBLE ATTRIBUTION

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• Publication Date: December 17, 1971
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as ingion PoM's Policy:
ullest Possible Attribution,
Benjamin C. Bradlee, ex-
ecutive editor of The Wash-
ington Post, issued the follow-
ing yesterday on
background briefings:
, Over the last five years,
the reporters and editors of
this newspaper have become
Increasingly concerned a-
bout the use and abuse of
unattributed information by
the government at back-
ground 'briefings.
In theory, unattributed in-
formation given to the press
by the government at back-
ground briefings enables the
press to do a better job of
rbporting.
? In practice, this is less
And less true. Backgrotind
briefings have become vehi-
cles .for the government to
give ? its versions of the.
news, to use the press as a
vehicle for its policy an-
nouncements and its politi-
cal advantage without tak-
ing responsibility, for what it
Is saying
This practice has been
true of every administra-
lion. This newspaper has
long been a party to this
practice. The public has suf-
fered from this collusion be-
tween the government and
the press. ?
We now are convinced
that we have engaged in this
deception and done this dis-
service. to the reader long
enough.
Therefore, it is now the
policy of The Washington
Post, in its coverage On gov-
ernment 'news briefings, to
insist on public accountabil-
ity for the public business.
We instructed our report-
ers to insist through every
means available to them
that material offered at
these briefings should be on
the record and fully attri-
butable.
If ground rules are im-
posed providing for any-
thing less than full attribu-
tion on the record, Washing-
ton Post reporters will im-
mediately ask that attribu-
tion be made direct on the
record.
If that request is refused,
the reporter will seek attri-
bution specific enough so
that no readers can reason-
ably be confused.
If this request is refused,-
the Washington Post has in-
structed its reporters to in-
form the agency or official
that the newspaper's hand-
ling of the material will be
determined by the editors'
judgment of their responsi-
bility to inform the public.
We believe that responsi-
bility cannot be transferred '
by us to any public official .,
or circumscribed by govern-
inept, edict. The Washington
Post believes that while cer- ?
tain circumstances may
make full, on the-record at- ?
tribution impractical, the
public interest is not served
by permitting statements of
policy to be made by gov-
ernment officials who are
unwilling to be held ac-
countable for their own
words,
The decision whether to
remain voluntarily in the
briefing is one for the re- .
porter's discretion. Under
normal conditions he would
remain and report under
these guidelines.
Nothing in this policy con- '
cerns contacts with govern-
ment officials and other
new sources initiated by re- -
porters of The Washington'
Post, In these instances, the '
contacts will continue on an
independent, Individual ba-
sis, under terms understood .
and accepted by the reporV,
er and the news source. ,
, ? , ? -A- v,
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By Don Oberdorfer
Wrahlrxt,on P031, trit.3 ft iitritcr
-1.)1'coldential press secreienry
:Ronald L. Ziegler and a Lu
Anneles Times correspondent
criticized The ?\Vashing ton Post
yesterday for revealing the',
source of official "back-
ground" statements regarding
relations with the Soviet
Union.
The 'article in question, in
Wednesday's Post, identified
presidential adviser Henry A.
Kissinger as the soirxie of a
statement that the President
may reconsider his forthcom-
ing trip to Moscow unleso the
Russians exercise a restrain-
ing influence in the India-Pak-
istan conflict.
? The Kissinger statement I
was made to five reportersin
a "press pool" aboard the presi-
dential plane retunin!,-; from the
Nixon-Pompidou talks in the
Azores. Kissinger made his
comments with the under-
sting that they could only
be used by reporters without
attribution to him or any ad-
ministration official.
Ziegler said the Post story
citing Kissinger as the source
broke the ground rules of the
encounter and "is unaceepta-
-? to the White House." ITo
??o, he would begin eon-iolia-
'lions with the White iion so.
Correspondents Association,
wire 7.?erviees and broadcast1
networks to establish clear;
? "ground rules" for future siva-1
ations, including interviews!
aboard the presidential plane.
David .1.. Kraslow, 'Washing-
ton bureau chief of the Los
Angele?, '.1:1 toe mei-hoer
of the Tuesday pool,
charged The Post with "unpro.
ies,iional, unethical, cheap
journalism" in citing Kissin-
ger as the sou:. Kra.slow
said Kissinger's rion:Onis wore
not "dumped our loo" hut
were elicited by the rcoorters
on the aircraft "under
most intensive ?-oind of
tioning" .-?
gave
that he we old not be
lied identi-
as tio, tirce,
nen lomin Bradlne. execu-
editor or Post, defer
defer''
per's Innocin*
? -
"hi ground briefings." Brad-
,;ajCi it was common knowl-
edge that Kissinger was the
source of the statements ??
whin, were reported hi var-
ious ways by ina3or newspa,
pers, wire services and . net-
works yesterday ? but that
the "ground rules" kept this
Information from the reader.
Referring to unattributed in-
forinotion from officials at
background briefings, Bradlee
said. "We are convinced that
we have engaged in this de-
ception and done this disserv-
ice. to the reader low!.
enough." He said the policy- of
The Post Shall be "to moke
every reasonable effort to at-
tribute information to its
source" and to view unattrib-
ute!;: information with "skep-
ticism and suspicion."
In presidential:travel and in
some other situtitions, a small
group of journalists known as
the press "pool" customarily
acco,no-,oies the Chief Execu-
tive. Their job is make sure
that some reporters are with
the President in all public sit-
uations, and to pass along-any-
thing they learn to the entire
press corps.
The five-member press pool
for Tuesday?chosen by the
White House?left the Azores
;on ...vie.. i?Thoin's jet. The t33
other members of the travel-
:mg White House press corps
??including? British, Canadian,
Don!sln. Fr enc h, German,
Oto:inn,. Japanese, Swedish
and P.wh journalists ? re-
behind for ? three
hours to file their stories on
1!:\Tr. Nixon's meeting with
1Pompidou.'
11, :o
ilirht, over the Atlantic
o
In the presidential rhino, Bis-
singer carne bock to the aft
'compartment occupied. by the
:press pool, There tinder ques-
tiooing he made the state-
mains about the 'United
? States' attittide regardino the
? Soviet position in the South
..o;ia conflict. A summary of
remarks was then cern-
1 by members .01 the
oress nnol ond cent forward
to xn.. o?n; ;onnpartment
for ;IL -.o,noval. The Presi-
dent to eni iri anotii,n- corn-
mr!merit of tile 1' t
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The portion ofKissing,er's news wires and networks and!
remarks concerning ' U.S.-So- identified him as such. Exec,u-
viol; relations was marked on tive Editor Bradlee said he
the pool report to "he written made the decision at 8 p.m.
on our own without attribu- Tuesday. '
tion to any administration offi- The New York Times in-'
end." Shortly after the presi- formed the White House in.
dential jot landed, major wire early evening that it would
services distributed "urgent" .attribute the Kissinger state-,
stories onlihe matter.
. The Associated Press re- Iments to "a high White House'
ported that "President Nixon official." The Times did so
may reassess his plans for a in its early editiOns and in
is understood, unless the .So- later editions quoted Kissinger
by name on the basis of public
historic journey to Moscow, it
:
at Union begins to exercise a 'attribution by The Post.
restraining influence in the -
India-Pakistan war." United managing ? Seymour Topping, assistant
Press Internatior!al said Pres said
edi oi. o c Imes,
ident Nixon wig re-examine !said that paper's policy is to
the N,Vashington-Moscow thaw seek the greatest possible at-
and his planned spring trip to .tribution but make its judg-
Moscow, if Russia continues/ 4- 'merit on every story on an "ad
,,o hoc" basis. Topping
encourage Inma's -military said 11
drive against Pakistan, it was non-attribution rule in the
understood Tuesday" The AP Case of Tuesday's Kissinger
and UPI ' -en. ? ? ? i ? story was "unacceptable" in
bers of the pool. . _ view of the' importance and
The CBS Evening New3 re: nature of the material.
The question of "back-
ported that Mr. -Nixon -"let" it;
ground briefings" ? in which
be known tonight" that ? he
, information isgiven the press
might re-examine S o vi et-i
..
the
Aineriean relations if. Russia' source not be identified?hat
condition
. . '
does not restrain India. Inc! been controversial am o n g
NBC Nightly News attributed'
the, warning to "the Nixon ad- iiWashington journalists f 0?
ministration." The ABC News'il many years:- Bradlee said yes-
sold ''it's reported" that the!?terday that Post reporters and
President may take a new look 'editors had become inereas.
at his ob.:. 1-o visit Moscow.
By the zime pres:i seerethryi ing,ly concerned about use and
Ziegler and tho balk of the i abuse of unattririuted informa-
press corps 1.7,1-,,,c?d here In tion over the last live years.
two chartei? hi; about ? 7:20, When Kissinger began his
mcntionedi "background" talk aboard Air
above had f>an. widely dis-i Force One .on Tuesday after-
sornir..,:o?.d. The p)001 repo-;:t1 noon, he was reminded that
had not been given to the another of his recent back-
traveling press cargo iii olighti grounders had become public
as is ()Rua because when it was inserted into the
iof conionniie.,tons difficulties,1:,engressional Record by Sen.
Shortly .a:ner landind, Ziog-IBarry Goldwater, Kissinger
ler began issuing statements ' appeared to be irritated about
ointne-record denying .? 't t) that incident, and remarked....
;,?y official. was suggsosi?i ironically as it turned out----!
? inn that Mr. N'ixon was con-: that the purpose of doing the
isidering noneellation of 110 bricfing "on background" was,
!trip to Rer..3in. (Kissinger hod hi prevent inflaming of the
said the President might eon- issue- -
.sider a change in ? summit
plans; he did not say the Pres-
Went was already considering
'tie Washington Post estab-
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Ex-Washingten Post .Editor -:
. Joins St, Petersburg Times
ST. PETERSBURG ; Fla. Nov..
20 (UPI)--Eugene PatCerson, 48
years old, formed editor of The
Washington Post, will become
editor of The St. Petersburg
Times nxet_ May, the Florida
newspaper announced Friday
night. ? - .
Mr; Patterson, a former ed..
itor..cf ,The. Atlanta tonstitu.
tion, will succeed Donald x.
Baldwin, who will retire at age
55 under the ;newspaper's, early
retirement plan. .
John 13. Lake, executive vice
president and general manager,
'has been promoted to publisher,
a position vacant since the
death of ? Paul Poynter in 1950.
Mr. Patterson is now at Duke
University's Institute of Policy.
Sciences.
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WASHINGTON POSY' ? ,
NAIWES PRESIDENT.'
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (AP).
i---Katharine Graham, president.
of the Washington Post Com-
pany, today announced the,
appointment of John S. Pres-
cott Jr. as president of The
Washington Post.
Mr. Prescott has been vice
presiden tand general manager
. of Philadelphia Newspapers,
Inc., publisher of The Philadel-
phia Enquirer and The Phila-
delphia Daily News.
Before moving to Philadel-
phia, he had been general man-
ager of The Charlotte (N.C.)
Observer and The Charlotte
News.
A graduate of Williams Col-
lege, Mr. Prescott, 44 years old,
'has spent his entire career in
the newspaper business, begin-
ning as an advertising salesman
with' the Baltimore sunpapers.
As president .of The Post, he
succeeds Paul R. Ignatius, who
resigned last Month.
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WASHINGTON POST
ANNOUNCES SHIFT
Spec!al to The New York Thnee
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 ?
The Washington Post announced
today that Paul R. Ignatious
had resigned as president of
the morning newspaper.
The announcement of the
resignation said:
"Paul R. Ignatious, president
of the Washington Newspaper
Company has tendered his res-
ignation in order to become an
independent management con-
sultant.
"The company anticipates
that a successor to Mr. Igna-
tius' responsibilities will be an-
nounced shortly. ?
"In the meantime, Mr. Igna
tius will continue in his present
post and will remain as a di-
rector of The Washington Post
Company and has agreed to comment.
act as a consultant to the com-
pany in the future."
Mrs. Katharine Graham, pub-
lisher of The Post, said in an-
swer to questions that there
had beeen no policy disagree-
ment with Mr. Ignatius and
that he- had initiated the move
to return to his .work as a
management consultant. Mr.
Ignatius, 51 years old, had been.
president of the Post since Jane
21, 1969. ?
He was not available for
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DEGREES IN PARANOIA
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Mr. Rice, a free-lance write'', has written many books a,ui
magazine articles. His latest hook is The C-5A
published in May by Houghton' Mifflin.
What do West Point, Annapolis, Colorado Spring. and
Boston, Virginia, have. in -common? The first thi.(et are
the sites of the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force Aced:,
elm:es. But Boston, (pop. 450) 'Virginia? That's the
}mine of the Freedom Studies Center, which its organizers
like to call. the "Cold-War West Point" (sec editorial:.
"Perfect Timing," 'The Na/ion, July 5). It serves as the
headquarters for a vast and varied program of propaganda
aimed at building public. support for hard-line defense
increasing defense spending, and alerting the
country to the menace of world communism.
It was supposed to be the United Freedom Academy,
.but the bill which would have authorized its establishment
by the federal government never got through Congress.
Backed by a group of conservative- Congressmen in 1965,
it. reached the House Un-American Activities Committee,
which approvedit unanimously. The Johnson administra-
tion, however, along with the Departments of Stale,
'Defense ;And Justice, .opposed the idea on. the ground
that it would duplicate and conflict with the work of.
existing government schools and agencies.
Though deprived of federal funds, the project's back-
ers raised enough money from private corporations and
foundations to get the Center started in 1966. This year
they have launched a fund-raising campaign aimed at
turning the Center into a full-scale "Cold-War College."
special appeal on behalf of the Center sent out by
former Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce (whose
Longlea Farm is also located in Boston, Va.) has brought
in contributions from thousands of patriotic Americans.
. While the Center still has no official federal support, it
does have powerful friends in Washington. Its advisory
board lists Vice President Spiro Agnew, Cabinet Seem-
taries John Volpe, Rogers Morton and George Romney,
? plus nine Senators (Mundt, Boggs, Harry Byrd, DOminick,
Hansen, Hatfield, Long, Miller, Thurmond), twenty-eight
Representatives and six state governors. Relations with
the Pentagon are equally cordial. The Defense Depart-
ment was instrumental in the Center's creation, and still
provides high-ranking speakers and -other forms of co-
operation. At the Center's dedication ceremonies in 1966,
the joint Chiefs of Staff sent' the Army's Director of
Special Studies, an admiral from the Navy's Military
Policy Division, a? military color guard and a twenty
-
piece Navy band. J. Edgar Hoover sent his greetings,
and President Lyndon Johnson wired: "You have my
every wish for success::
On wonders how much President ?Johnson knew about
this' new ventrire to which he gave his blessing. Mc., draft
plan for Freedom Apilr OyadaFctrrAiMeOpet;09.4WW8
Lansdale, a- i'etired Air Force general who would lave
.beeome its director had Johnson not picked him to run
the U.S. - counterinsurgency program in Vietnam. In the
draft proposal': Lansdale described the Academy as a
center of "psycho-political warfare," and saw its poten-
tial students as "men.of good Will who---if they just knew
how---are willing to strike a blow for liberty. . . Such a
blow, struck the. right way and the right moment, could
well change the course of history in favor of freedom."
Lansdale .envisaged sending teams of Academy graduates.
to foreign countries at the. request of-loca.1 political leaders,
or "acceptable. third parties." These freedom teams would
'assist with practical advice on how to resolve problems
of concern to freedom." Lansdale was not specific about ?
villat such problems niight be, but those familiar with
his thinking feel he meant the "liberation" of Soviet bloc
countries, and the sUppression of popular uprisings in
Jon-Communist nations.
If- all this sounds a bit like a private CIA, it should.
Major General .Lansdale is a former CIA Official. The
Center's directors of education .and special projects are
both former CIA men. One of th,e first gti e'. speakers
at the Center was 'ex-CIA chief; Allen Dul;:s. In the I
wads of its president, John Fisher, the Centee's purpose
is ."to fill the gap between what the governma-A can do, .
and what must be done," which describes well
the ac.tivities of the CIA.
Though his background in foreign intelligence is mni
mal, Fisher has had considerable .c...xp:-.?[ier.e.. dche.e.,ie
intelligence work. A former FBI agent, he joined Scars,
Roebuck in 1953 to run its "corporate security" pro-1
gram, which in that McCarthy era meant: rooting out!
suspected Communist employees, rather than gilarding
against industrial espionage. Fisher then moved on to
the staff of the American Security Council (ASC), an iJ
industrial blacklist organization.that keeps tabs on alleged
subversives for the benefit of member companies.
Since. 1960 the ASC has shifted its emphasis from the
threat of internal subversion to external military dangers.
Using its own influential newsletter and radio program, it
has become a powerful propaganda center for hard-line
defense strategists, with close ties to the Pentagon and
Congress. In recent years the House Armed Services
Committee has commissioned studios from ASC on Soviet
nuclear and maritime power. Both reports unsurprisingly
? called for sharp increases in U.S. defense spending. ASC
?
also helped to mobilize nongovernmental Support for the:
ABM, publishing its own book in defense of the, system.
None of ASC's studies mention that its corporate members
include such major defense contractors as General Elec-
tric, North American Aviation, U.S. Steel, Republic
Steel, Motorola and Honeywell. In 1969, the ASC and .
its publishing subsidiary ASC Press, spent more than
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? STEPHEN-V. ARMSTRONG.
disappeared Saturday
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For 3 Days
-Stephen V. Armstrong, an
assistant editor for The Los
Angeles Times-Washington
Post News Service, has not
lren seen since leaving his
home for work on Saturday.
Armstrong, 23, was driving a
yellow 1971 Volvri station
wagon, Maryland license num-
ber KE 7387, when be left his
home in Bethesda about 2 p.m.
On Saturday. Ile was due to re-
port at The Post, at 1515 L St.
NW, at 2:30 p.m.
His wife.' told Montgomery
CountY. _police her husband
was Wearing a beige shirt,
brown corduroy. trousers,
beige cotton jacket and brown.
boots. lie is 5 feet 10, weighs
130 pounds, has brown eyes,
dark brown hair and wears
glasses to drive.
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:.Newrnan Probe
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- Rep. William II. Harsha,,
R-Ohio, says commentator Ed
win Newman had unfairly cen-
sored comedian George Jessel
during a television interview,
and he has aslted the House to
investigate the incident.
Ilarsha referred to a conversa-
tion Friday between Newman
and Jessel on NBC-TV's "To-
day" show. Jessel, with deliber-
ate slips of the tongue, equated ,
the Washington Post and the 1
New York Times with the offi-
cial Soviet newspaper Pravda.
Newman told Jessel his remarks
were in poor taste and ended the
interview ahead of schedule.
Harsha said yesterday he had
asked Chairman Harley 0. Stag-
gers of the House Commerce
Committee to investigate the
matter.
? Harsha said Pravda is the
Russian woid for "truth" and
said Jesse' was "being sarcastic
? scornfully questioning the
objectivity of the Post and the
Times."
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Iloward Simons, deputy
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managing editor of The 1Vash-
,
ington Post, has been :-.:arricAl .
managing edit or o I he ?riews-
paper, it was announced ,)es-
terday.
Simons, 42, succeeds Eugene
C. Patterson, who resigned
Monday to accept a position
on the faculty of Duke U1:flyer-
sity's newly created Institute
of Policy Sciences and Public
Affairs.
A native of Albany, N. Y.,
Simons graduated from 'Union ;
College in Schenectady and,
from Columbia. University
. .
School of Journalism.
He was a Nieman Fellow at
-
Harvard in 1958 and 1959, and
reporter and editor for Se1,
once Service in Washington HOWARD SIMONS -
between 1956 and 1959. . . . joined Post in 1.961
Simons joined The Post
SI aff AS a science reporter in.
1961. He was named assistant Washington reporting and he
managing editor in 1966 and has won three awards for his
deputy managing editor in science writing,
1970. In 1966, he won the Ray- Simons is married and has
mond Clapper Award for best four daughters.
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A federal. grand jury in Bos-
ton is . investigating possible
criminal charges against The'
New York Times, The Wash-
Ington Post and The Boston
Globe in connection with the
publication of secret Pentagon
documents on Vietnam.
Neil Sheehan, a New York
Times reporter credited with
breaking the story about the
U.S. decision-making process
. on Vietnam, and his wife
Susan, a magazine writer and
author, were also named in
the government's case before
the Boston grand jury last
week, The Post has learned.
Government officials have
hinted at the possibility of em-
paneling an East Coast grand
jury to -seek criminal charges
against those who conveyed
and accepted the top-secret
Pentagon papers along with
Daniel Ellsberg, who has
admitted leaking the papers
to the press. He has been
charged 'with unauthorized
possession of classified docu-
ments.
Sources said last night that
.the government in utmost se-
.crecy started its criminal in-
vestigation by presenting evi-
!deuce before a federal grand
ijury that has been sitting in
Boston on other -matters since
early April.
Two persons employed by
different printing firms in the
greater Boston area testified
before the grand jury last
week. Sources said the prin-
ters apparently were involved
in copying parts of the 47-
volume Pentagon study that
ultimately ended up in posses-
sion of The New York Times.
7 The Same sources said that
Ellsberg was not involved in
early testimony and that the
government seemed to be con-
centrating initially on how the
documents were duplicated
and how they came into pos-
session of The Times.
.- Two unidentified lawyers
from the Justice Department's
.Internal Security Divisionand
Richard E. Bachman, 36, an
as sistanAkirckftedripis
ton, reportedly stressed- to le
.grand jury that the criminal
'proceedings were separate in
B? y Ken W. Clawson
? Wasitirvz.Lon Post tq_.taff Writer
themselves and -did imc con-
flict with the Supreme Court
,decision permitting the news-
papers to publish the con-
tents of the. documents.
Secrecy of the proceedings
was stringent, with U.S. At-
torney Herbert P. Travers Jr..
discarding the usual policy of
making -public both witness
lists and the subject of a grand
jury probe.
speculation that the govern-
ment believes she may have
been a conduit through which
the documents passed to The
New York Times. She has not
been mentioned in any Times
account of the incident. Nor
is she identified in the new
Bantam book, "The Pentagon
Papers,' based on "investiga-
tive reporting by Neil Shee-
han."
In Washington, Justice Be-? Mrs. Sheehan is a contrib-
partment officials would not utor to the Talk of the Town
disclose the names of the in- column for The New Yorker
ternal security lawyers who magazine. She has written
appeared before the 'grand major stories on the Buckley
jury, women, Jacqueline Kennedy ?
"I don't think I ought to Onassis and Ethel Kennedy
comment on the comings ancl for the Ladies Home Journal
goings of our attorneys," a and McCall's. She has also
Justice official said. "Why written a book; "Ten Vietna-
possibly tip our hand?" mese," through which she re-
The sources said it was not counts the tragedy of the war
immediately clear what sort on the people of South Viet-
of crimnal charges the go'- nam,
eminent is seeking. "It looks Material for the book Was
like a fishing expedition to ; gathered during 1965 and 1966
me," said one source. "They 1while her husband was a New
don't seem to have much." ' York Times correspondent in
1-a4_!,on. It was published in
Use of the grand jury's sub-
poena power to compile infor- 11967. ?
illation on the .leaked papers l?
was in line with beliefs of
other government sources that
the Justice Department will
prosecute some newspapers
and individuals if it can build
a case.
These government sources
said that Attorney General
John N. Mitchell had not de-
cided whether to proceed
criminally when he left last
week for an American Bar,
Association meeting in Lon-
don.
The Internal Security divi-
sion reportedly was charged
with developing evidence to
present to Mitchell when he
returns on July 28,
The Justice Department's in--
tention to prosecute was clear-
ly stated July 1 when Mitchell
said, "Since the beginning of
the investigation of the Pen-
tagon's classified documents,
all avenues of criminal prose-
cution have remained open.
"A review of the Court's
opinions indicates that there
is nothing in them to affect
this situation. The Department
of Justice is continuing its in-
vestigation and will prosecute
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nection with this matter."
The mention of Susan Shee-
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Executives of The. Washington
Post applauded the Supreme
Court's decision today and pre-
pared ,to -publish a three-day
series of articles based on their
partial .colleclion of the Penta-
gon papers.
, -
Katharine Graham, publiSh-
orof The. Post, said:
are terribly gratified by
the result in this historic case;
not just for the sake of the
prem but for the sake of the
public 'and the good of the
country."
"It's beautiful," said Benja-
Min Bradlee, the executive edi-
tor, shortly after the Court's
verdict was announced.. "It's
by far the most important thing
I've ever been involved in."
Mr. Bradlee said that _The
Post had 4415 pages from the
more. than 7,000-page study of
American involvement a the
Vietnam war. He also said that
fresh mate:lal from the official
study was still coming in from
the office of 'Senator Mike
Gravel, Democrat of Alaska.
"We don't yet know whether
we've got access to the whole
thing," Mr. Bradlee added. -
, The., Post had 'printed two
Jong articles on the secret Pen-
tagon study on June 18 and 19
before being restrained by a
three-judge panel of the United
States Court of 'Appeals for
the District of Columbia.
The first .article dealt with.
American policy at the time
of the French defeat and with-
drawal in 1954, the second with
-
the. bombing pause of 1968.
Mr... Bradlee, indicated this
evening . that the forthcoming
Post articles; like. the earlier
ones, would quote from the
original Government documents
that formed the basis of the
Pentagon analysis. The Post
will not reprint the documents
themselves, Mr. 33radlee said.
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Bar on Boston Globe Lifted . ? I
.Spectallt,l.'he New Yoe k rilme;
BOSTON, June 30?A tem-
porary restraining order . bar-
ring The Boston Globe from
printing . articles based on its
copies of ,the Pentagon docu-
ments was lifted today .almost
immediately after the Supreme
Court announcement.
United States District Judge
Anthony Julian, who had im-
posed the order last week,
dissolved it on a motion, from
lawyers representing The
Globe.
The Globe immediately 're-
trieved its copies of the docu-
ments, which the - judge had
ordered placed in a vault until
the case was settled.
Robert Healy, executive. edi-
tor, .said that The Globe had
eight more articles based on
the documents. "Everybody. is
darn happy around here,'. .be
said.
Meanwhile, The Christian
Science Monitor,. which was not
under, restraint, continued pub-
lication of ? articles based on
secret documents that it ac-
quired on Monday. ?
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'Project X': Reston (lighting pipe), Smith (left), Wicker, Sheehan, Frankel
A Great Sense of Ello,tfion
Some time in mid-March, Neil Shee-
han, a Washington correspondent for
The New York Times, was 'offered the
i'Pentagon study and its supporting docu-
ments. The fact that it was 'Sheehan who
was given this opportunity?a near-guar-
antee of a Pulitzer Prize?was no acci-
dent. A veteran of more than three years
of reporting in Vietnam, Sheehan, 34;
has won wide respect for his reflections
'on the political and moral implications
'of the war. In fact, at the same time the
.Pentagon papers fell into his hands, he
was working on an examination of al-
leged American war crimes in Vietnam
which subsequently appeared in the
Sunday Times Book Review.
If, as Federal officials are now in-
clined to believe, the source of the doc-
uments was MIT scholar Daniel Ells-
berg, he was no stranger to Sheehan.
,They had first met six years earlier at
'lunch in a downtown Saigon restaurant,
land later, both in Vietnam and in Wash-
ington, their paths occasionally crossed
again. But the actual process by which
Sheehan obtained the 7,000-page collec-
tion still remains cloaked in obscurity.
'When he did, get the chance to peruse
it, however, he immediately realized
that he possessed a treasure-trove of in-
formation of historic significance.
The top echelon of the Times?manag-
;nig editor Abraham M. Rosenthal, Wash-
ington bureau .chief Max Frankel,
foreign editor James Greenfield and
:columnists James Reston and Tom Wicker
agreed with Sheehan's assessment
:and strongly urged publisher Arthur Oohs
.Sulzberger to let them give the Penta-,
gon papers maximum coverage. "The
Times must publish this material," said
Times after the untimely death of Orville
Dryfoos eight years ago, it was not so
simple a matter. Disseminating what .
were, after all, classified documents was
certain to set the Times ? on another col-
lision course with an already hostile Nix- .
on Administration. And Louis NI. Loeb, .
legal counsel to the paper, sternly
warned Sulzberger against publishing
material the lawyer considered "improp-
er" for The New York Times.
What one Timesman termed a "fero- '
cious, bloody battle" then took place be-
tween Loeb and editors Rosenthal and -
Reston. The Times's chief legal adviser,
James Goodale, suggested that if the
paper did choose to publish the archive,
it could best be done in a single edition.
The disadvantage of Coodale's proposal .
was that the Times would get less of a
circulation boost from a single-shot effort
than it could get by stretching the story .
out for more than a week. Its advantage .
was that by printing everything at one -
swoop, the paper could avoid the clanger
of a government injunction.
Despite the injunction risk, however,
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