SCHORR REVEALS REP. RYAN AS SOURCE OF ANGOLA LEAK

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e-~eals~$ep. Ryan as Source of Angola Leak
NEWPORT, R.I., Nov. 29 (AP)-
Former CBS television reporter Dan-
iel Schorr said today that his source
in uncovering a covert CIA operation
in Angola. was the late Rep. Leon J.
Ryan of .California.
Schorr said Ryan, who was shot and
killed in Guyana Nov. 18 while on a
fact-finding trip to the Peoples Tem-
ple commune in Jonestown; gave him
the information in 1975.
Spearing at a military-media rela-
Lions conference at the Naval War . ties which was highly critical of
College here, Schorr said he was not then-Secretary of State Henry A.
accustomed to revealing his sources. Kissinger. Later, Schorr resigned
He said, however, he felt his revela- I from CBS.
Lion was all right in this cas because In that incident he told a House
the congressman is "dead and beyond
reproach."
Schorr said Ryan leaked the infor-
mation to him after the congressman
had received a top-secret briefing on
the Angola operation from the staff
of the House International Relations
Comittee.
"Once a government agency gets
into enough trouble that it conies
under surveillance by the Congress,
it is very difficult from that mo-
ment to keep. things secret," Schorr.
said.
Schorr was taken off the air in
1976 after another incident 'involv-
ing a lead of information-it was
learned that he had passed to The
Village Voice a secret House Select
Committee on Intelligence activi-
committee that wanted to know
how he gained access to th report
that he would not reveal his source.
"To betray the' source would mean
to dry up many future sources for
many:future reporters (and) to be-
tray myself, my career and my life,"
Schorr said at the time.
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