EDITORS UPSET BY CIA USE OF REPORTERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100110069-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2010
• Sequence Number: 69
• Publication Date: April 11, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/08/20: CIA-RDP90-00806R000100110069-3
criers
`~ j 5 TURNER REPLIED that other nations use Reps. Boland and Les Arpin, D-Wis., ,
By Richard Dudman chairman of the House Intelligence
U. r ' Oversight
t
s
} thi jnalists as intelligence agen
er -our, Post-0hpetc' Washington Bureau Chief ti ? ; ,n f
added Subcommittee both inquired into the tbreo
that he would be ``ashamed if I had to=
iy y~ ,p WASHINGTON.rr cases and concluded that Turner had not been
rely ona law to protect my ethics."..
abusing the loophole in the CIA reShould the Central Intelligence Agency' . , , Eugene Patterson of, the St.:. Petersburg Butthe grilling that the : gul.
Ito ti g
beg-using - American .news reporters. as Fla:.Times also objected to the CIA's use of
p ve
art-time, spies? . -The uestion arose :' reporters-:.and Promised .to comment on the i Turner suggested that they will remain fad
~?: Q ..
again; Thursday , `in.; a W confrontation matter on his newspaper's editorial page. mifroro news satisfied as long as even one American
reporter is employed by the CIA-or as
between CIA Director Stansfield,Tttrner long :as the director even retains the self
Anothesof the editors told Turner that-,
:. assigned right to use American reporters as-
and some of the nation?'s top newspaper, "'some of 'us 'would like to have a
riv
t
p
a
ft
editors. rk : r In session with you and give you a short course part-time spies.
An the?role of the free Press."
.: _
Turner had addressed 'the-conventiont
~- ito ?. ? --?? est -- - nswe ' editor, he would fire a reporter who complied
Editors:. In a:'question-and-answer:. with a re
uest t
t
k
e
q
o
a
e on a CIA intetli
-rica
period, A.M.. Rosenthal; 'executive editor'' `'assignment. Turner said he would not; the
! of