CONVERSATION OF 14 JUNE 1978

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R002400010053-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 7, 2006
• Sequence Number: 53
• Publication Date: June 14, 1978
• Content Type: MFR

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S~ FRET
1 4 JUN 1973
14EMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Conversation of 14 June 1978 (-Z& `
1. Engaged in a substantia discussi n of the leak situation,
with particular reference to the leak. I pointed out that
while this was in the NID and ha een on the Hill, it had recently
been briefed mainly in the White House, in the State Department, and
in Defense only to Harold Brown.
a. I was explicitly directed in the future not to
disclose sources, even to the President; if he wanted them,
he would ask for them. If Vance, Brown or others wanted
them, I should indicate that the President did not want
them so informed.
b. I pointed out that in each of the four committees
I visited last week, I was pilloried to one degree or another
for failure to produce evidence. The Vice President pointed
out, that previously Congressional leaders had never demanded
names of sources but apparently that was changing. I said
that they still would not admit to. asking for the name of a
source but each was pressing to get closer and closer to it. -
Brzezinski suggested I draw up a list of leaks in the last
year and the damage done. I asked if h2 would meet with Bayh
and Boland on this; he suggested using an abbreviated list
of the type Brzezinski had described. The response was that
a meeting would be fine and perhaps should include Church.and-
Zablocki.
2. The paper Eloise Page prepared was far too long. Please
redo this from a community point of view with a two- or three-line
description of each major leak and a two- or three-line damage assess-
ment. Don't fail to include things like the leak. Public
Affairs, OLC, DDO and NFAC please all work together on this.
. 25X1
Q MORI/CDF
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