Approved for Release: 2018/10/01 C02623718 INTERNAL USE ONLY This publication contains clippings from the domestic and foreign press for YOUR BACKGROUND INFORMATION. Further use of selected items would rarely be advisable. NO. 13 • PAGE GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS 1 GENERAL 23 EASTERN EUROPE 34 WEST EUROPE 36 NEAR EAST 39 AFRICA 41 EAST ASIA 43 LATIN AMERICA 44 CLASSIFIED BY: 008354 » DESTROY AFTER BACKGROUNDER HAS SERVED ITS PURPOSE OR WITHIN 60 DAYS CpNPfl5ENTIAL Approved for Release: 2018/10/01 C02623718 Approved for Release: 2018/10/01 C02623718 THE NEW YORK TIMES, TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1976 The C.LA. Cloud Over the Press By Daniel Schorr ASPEN, Colo.—One of Wil­ liam E. Colby's less exhilarating . moments as Director of Central Intelligence was having to call a news conference to demand deletion from the Senate report on assassination plots of a dozen names, including such underworld figures as Sam Giancana and John Rosselli. However misguided the re­ cruitment of these worthies in . the C.I.A.’s designs on Fidel Castro, they had been promised eternal secrecy about, their roles, and, for the agency, de­ livering on that promise was an . article of faith. as well as law. Again, when Mr. Colby was subpoenaed by the House In-, telligerrce Committee for the names of certain intelligence officers, he faced up to a threat­ ened! contempt citation by mak­ ing ’it clear that he would rather go to jail' than com­ promise intelligence sources. This goes, as well, for the. names of journalists who have served the C.LA. And Mr. Col­ by’s successor, George Bush» has said there, will be absolute? , ly no change in that policy . because he is "dedicated to the protection of sources.” The , principle is that an intelligence agency that rats on its agents, past or of The New York Times, has stated, ment is believed to exist , today. The present, won’t have very many in the with the support of documentary C.LA. says it has stopped using “ac- future. material, that the C.I.A. tried to recruit cedited” correspondents of American This poses a problem to. the Journal­ him in 1952 while he was studying at news media, and more recently has istic community, Which,, out of concern Columbia University's Russian Insti­ stated that it will also phase out the for the compromising of the First tute. He said an agency official told use of part-time correspondents of Amendment, would , like the intelli­ him that the C.I.A. had “a working American news organizations. gence community to expose the infil­ arrangement” with Arthur Hays Sulz­ Current news executives profess to trators. ' . ' berger, then publisher of The Times, be mystified about the nature of the- - But banging on a closed door seems and that the agency could arrange to clandestine lines that C.LA. ran into a- fruitless diversion, and there may. get him assigned to Moscow. their organizations in past years. But be a more fruitful way of going about (Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, the present there are executives and retired ex­ this. There has clearly been a pattern publisher, has said: “I never heard , of ecutives, who could help dispel the of cooperation between the C.LA. and The Times being approached either in cloud hanging over the press by com­ employers of journalists. Managers, my capacity as .publisher or as the. son ing forward to tell the arangements with less legal restraint, should be of the" late Mr. Sulzberger.") they made with the C.LA. able to provide some of the informa­ Sig Mickelson, former president of If restoring the fair name of the free tion about their employees’ roles and CBS News, has said that in 1954 he press requires exposure of reporters, their own. was called to the office of William S, who served the C.LA., often after ap­ “Where an American news organiza­ Paley, CBS board chairman, in whose peals to their patriotism, then the tion provided cover, for a C.I.A. offi­ presence two C.I.A. officials told him parade could well be led by employers cer,” says an intelligence veteran, “the that Austin Goodrich, a CBS News who made the practice possible—pre­ practice was to make arrangement stringer in Stockholm, was a C.I.A. sumably out of equally patriotic mo­ with management.” agent. (Mr. Paley has denied that there tives, . Such an arrangement was necessary, was any such meeting.) if only to cover transfers, absences There are also unconfirmed reports, and other hard-to-explain movements. pursued by investigative reporters, of Daniel Schorr is a CBS television in­ There is reason to believe that some of arrangements by newspapers in Flor­ vestigative reporter under suspension these arrangements may have original­ ida and California to provide cover, to pending Congressional resolution of its ly been formalized irt memorandums of C.LA. officers. inquiry into his lean of the House understanding between C.I.A. directors Most of this goes back to the 1950’s, Select Committee on Intelligence's re­ and the employers concerned. when the C-LA. deputy director Frank port on the Central Intelligence Agency There have been published sugges­ Wisner cultivated news media execu­ to The.Village Voice. tions of management involvement with tives and was reputed to have boasted the C.I.A. For example: of playing the press, like a “mighty Wayne Phillips, former staff member Wurlitzer.” No such formal arrange- i Approved for Release: 2018/10/01 C02623718 Approved for Release: 2018/10/01 C02623718 On the Separation of Church and State Some preliminary observations on the lamentable consequences of the Senior Senator from Idaho for the national intelligence services. by James Angleton and Charles J. V. Murphy new colors he enlisted with the turncoats, and co-authored Angleton spent 31 years with the Office of Strategic the divisive legislation trimming the President’s war powers Services [OXS] and the Central Intelligence Agency. and through and bringing disgrace and shame to the American exit from the last 20 years was Chief of Counterintelligence for the CIA. Southeast Asia. He was all for suspending foreign aid as early as Mr. Murphy is a retired writer. Time-Life and Fortune 1971. While our troops were fighting in the field, he took his fam­ magazine. ily on a junket to the Soviet Union, the chief arms supplier to ocr enemies. His virtuosity on the negative side of foreign policy­ When the first revelations in Washington of the alleged mis­ makes him the logical successor to the aging Sparkman as deeds of the Central Intelligence Agency became a sensation in Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee-or, as Church would render it, the Little or No Foreign Relations the European press 17 months ago, a veteran diplomat in Bonn Committee. expressed his consternation that the government of a great country should let itself be driven to disgorge vital state secrets The Statesman as Muckraker affecting the security of the nation and its allies. “You don’t have a country over there,” he scolded The New York Times' Church’s swift rise inside the Liberal, left-wing Establishment correspondent, “you have a huge church.” has been sped by far more dramatic actions than these, however. That subtle witticism went right over The New York Times' In April, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, of which good, gray, humorless head. The friendly diplomat had shrewd­ he was Chairman and in full control, issued a two-volume. 815- ly perceived at the source of the orgy of self-criticism convulsing page report advocating no less than 183 measures designed to re- - Congress and the press alike something more primitive than strict the various intelligence activities conducted by the Federal witch-burning or the whiplash of Puritan conscience. What he Government. That work was 15 months in the making and dur- had discerned was not so much the return of a rebuking godly in­ : ing that interval scarcely a day passed that a bewildered nation stitution to American politics as the emergence of a fresh evan­ did not see Senator Church’s name on the front pages of the gelical phenomenon in the affairs of State-a church spelled with 1 newspapers or his round, bejowled presence crowding the tele- a. capital “C.” Frank Church, to be precise, the senior Senator ; vision screen. ” from Idaho. Events have borne out the diplomat’s appraisal. i Al! that while he kept a sideshow going in an adjoining tent In May, Senator Church emerged as a bustling candidate for that was almost as destructive as the other. Four vears ago, he ■ the Democratic Presidential nomination. In June, he was ma­ took over the Chairmanship of a subcommittee of the Foreign Re- neuvering on Jimmy Carter’s coattails for the Vice-Presiden­ tial spot. ; larions Committee that was set up to investigate the operations I of American-owned multinational corporations. His progressive Church is a blown-in-the-bottle, copper-riveted, 24-carat ex­ 1 disclosures of certain regrettable practices adopted by°famous ample of the rough diamond from the frontier polished into a po­ corporations to sweeten their sales pitches in foreign lands have litical celebrity within Washington’s liberal left-wing Establish­ been hardly less destructive of our nation’s reputation abroad ment. At 51, to be sure, he still slides easily when out on the than the shocks produced by his exposes of the CIA and the FBI. hustings into the arm-waving, tub-thumping and rolling Eminent personages in Japan, the Netherlands. Italy, and rhetoric that earned him in Time the accolade of "the boy orator Saudi Arabia have been embarrassed, possibly ruined, by the of the Snake River Valley.” But he is also master, as The Wash­ details which he and his staff leaked to the press.