NEWS MEDIA SPEAKERS FOR OTR COURSES

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• Publication Date: February 24, 1972
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MEMORA
SUBJECT
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FOR: Director of Central Intelligence 24 FEB 1972
: News Media Speakers for MR Courses
1. In addition to Richard L. Harwood, Stanley Karnow, and Donald
Oberdorfer, Jr., all from the 'Washington Post and recently approved by you
for our use, the Senior Sembar (12 March-I2 May 1972) is considering the
possible use of the following news media speakers:
Status of
Oreanization Security Approvatl
Hirsch, Joseph C. Christian Science Monitor Approved
Lisagor, Peter Irwin Chicago Daily Mews Approved
Peuting---
Weirs Hugh S. Lite Mammies and Time, Inc. Approved
Lisagor spoke to the previous Senior Seminar and did an excellent job. You
also approved the use of Harech and Sidey for the earlier Seminar. However,
they were not invited since Liaagor was able to accept our invitation.
Rosenthal was Special Assistant to Under Secretary Katzenbach and played
a major role in the reviews undeztaken by the Katzenbach Committee. The
Senior Seminar is interested in him because of his extensive knowledge of
urban affairs. The news media speaker finally selected from the others
named above will be asked to discuss news media relations with the Govern-
ment. Also, there undoubtedly will be some carry over into domestic prob-
lems and their impact on international relations.
2. The Advanced Intelligence Seminar (1-21 March 1972) wants to invite
s media speakers from among those named below:
Bartlett, Charles
Elfin, Mel
Kilpatrick, lames J. IV
Organization
Chicato Sun Times
Newsweek
Status of
Security Approval
Approved
Approved
Approved
Rowan, Carl T.
Bartlett and Elfin have spoken to earlier courses. Rowan was approved by
you for a previous course but was not used. This is the first time that we
have requested permission to use Kilpatrick and Raspberry. The coverage
In the AIS by these speakers will be similar to coverage described above for
the Senior Seminar.
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3. Your current indication of those named above who are not to be in-
vited will be very helpful in completing arrangements for these courses.
Biographic information is attached.
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John W. Coffey
Deputy Director
for Support
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HARSCH, ?JOSEPH C.
Born: Toledo, Ohio, 1927
EDUCATION
A.B., Williams College
Employment
Joined the Christian Sciende Monitor
for the Monitor since.
1931-1939
1939-1941
1952-1971
1971 to
date
In 1929 and has written
Correspondent, Washington Bureau
Correspondent, Berlin and Rome
Columnist
Chief Editorial Writer
Also held positions as:
1943-1949
1953-1967
1967-1971
News Commentator for CBS
News Commentator NBC during which he held the
posts for NBC of Senior European correspondent
and diplomatic correspondent.
Commentator for ABC
Mr. Harsch has been decorated Comdr. Order of the British Empire.
Authored:
Pattern of Conftuest, 1941
The Curtain Isn't Iron, 1950
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LISAGOR PETER
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Born: Keystone, West Virginia, 1915
EDUCATION .
1939-1941
Sports
reporter for the Chicago Daily News
1941-1942
news reporter for
the United -Press
1942-1945
.General
Served
with the US Army as
Managing Editor for
1945 to
date
Awards
the Stars and Stripes London Editor.
Returned- to the aicago Daily News. He? has held
a variety of positions with the Daily News, including
UN Correspondent (1949), Diplomatic Correspondent
in Wash. D.C. (1950-1959) and since 1959, -Chief
of the Washington Bureau for the Chicago Daily News.
1948-1949 He received the Page One Award of the Newspaper Guile,
Co-Author: . Book entitled:'Overtime in Heaven. .
Time Magazine in Its 9 August 1971 issue said that "The Chicago
(Daily) News has a strong Washington bureau headed by Peter Lisagor,
who is regarded by many journalists as the capital's best corres-
pondent...."
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? ROSENTHAL, JACOB
Bern: Tel-Aviv, Palestine,
EDUCATION
A.B., Harvard, 1956
E.mp1oyment
19501957
1957-1957
1959-1961
1961H1964
1964-1966
J966-1967
19671968
19687.19.09
1969 .to H
:date
1935
Sports reporter with the Portland Oregonian
News reporter, copy editor
EditoTial writer, reporter Portland Reporter
Asst. director, public information,. U.S: Department
of justice
Special asst. to Attorney General, dir. public
in
Special asst. to undersecretary of State
Kennedy fellow, Harvard Inst. Politics
National urban correspondent, Life Magazine.
Urban correspondent, New York Times, Wash.
IkWards
1966 Rept. Ruder and Finn award, Am. U.
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SIDEY, HUGH SWANSON
Born: Greenfield, Iowa, 1927
EDUCATION
B.S. Iowa State University, 1950
Employment
1950-
1950-1951
1951-1955-
1955-1958
1958 to..
date
Authored:
Co-Author:,
Reporter, Adair County (Ia.) Free Press
The Nonnariel, Council Bluffs, Ia.
Omdn World7lierald
Life Magazine
Bureau Chief, Time, Inc.., Washington
John F. Kennedy, President, 1963
1,000 Ideas for Better News Pictures, 1956
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CHARLES L. BARTLETT
Columnist, Chicago "Sun-Times"
A native of Chicago, Mr. Bartlett graduated from
St. Marks School. He received his BA from Yale in 1943 and
after 24 months in the Pacific area 'during WWII, emerged as
Lt in Naval Communications Intelligence.
Mr. Bartlett joined the Chattanooga Times in 1946 and
became a Washington Correspondent from 1948-62. He was
awarded a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1956.
In addition to writing the column "News Focus" since
1958, he also was co-author of "Facing the Brink", a study
in crisis diplomacy, in 1967.
Mr. Bartlett has been associated with the "Chicago
Sun-Times"" and Publishers Hall Syndicate since 1962.
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MEL ELFIN
Senior Editor;:.NEWSWEEK
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, Mel Elfin has been chief of Newsweek's Washington Bureau sine(
1965. In that capacity he supervises one of the largest news-
gathering organizations in the nation's capital. He had a major
hand in ?the writing of the Newsweek cover, story dated 22 November
1971, dealing with the Intelligence Community. --
Mr. Elfin first came to the magazine in 1958 as an assistant
editor. In 1961 he was appointed as Newsweek's Education Editor
and later served as General Editor and acting Senior Editor for the
magazine's Back of the Book sections. During his service in New York,
lie Wrote cover stories on such subjects as American-, racial attitudes,.
psychiatry, the Peace CorPs, the urban school crisis, and morality
on the college campuses.
He, was graduated Magna Cum Laude 'from Syracuse University in
-19.51-and-rat-eiVed-a-MiSter'S-7Dea in American History fromMarvax
--in 1952. During-the-Korean-War he-Served-as an-intelligence officer
in the Strategic Air Command. After his discharge, Elfin completed
-credits toward a Ph.D. at the New School, New York.
--,-The Ford -Foundation has used him as an educational consultant
and he is co-author
of "Bricks and Mortarboards" published by the
Foundation. Elfin serves on the advisory boards of the World Press
Institute and the Herbert Lehman Education Fund.
ft
Mre Elfin participated as a guest speaker in the Advanced
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Intelligence Seminar (September and November 1971.)
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JAMES JACKSON KILPATRICK
Columnist, Washington Star.
James Jackson Kilpatrick received his bachelor degree in
journalism from the University of Missouri in 1941 and later that
year, joined the staff of the Richmond (Va.) News Leader as a
reporter. Two years later, Mr. Kilpatrick was promoted to head
of the News Leader's Washington staff, a position he held until 1948.
,Later, he became associate editor of the newspaper and its chief
_ editorial writer, and finally editor. Honored by the University of
Missouri for distinguished service in journalism, Mr. Kilpatrick also
holds an award for editorial writing from the Sigma Delta Chi, the
professional journalis.m society, and has served as chairman of the
' 'National-Conference of Editorial Writers. -- His-books include THE
SOVER,EIGN--STATES and THE-SOUTHERN-CASE FOR SCHOOL
I EDUCATION.
Mr. Kilpatrick's column is now being distributed to newspapers
around the country by the Washington Star Syndicate, and is printed in
a..lkewspap e r s ?
In panel discussions, he generally presents the Conservative
view*
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WILLIAM RASPBERRY
Local Columnist, Washington Post
William Raspberry's thoughtful, provocative column, "Potomac
Watch" appears four times a week in the Washington Post. The column
is almost exclusively concerned with racial problems.
Born in 1932, Raspberry served a four-year apprenticeship as a
reporter on a Negro weekly, the Indianapolis Reporter, during college.
He joined the Washington Post in 1962.
Raspberry describes his philosophy as "naive optimism'.
He feels that individuals -- in the Washington area, at least -- are not
racists, but that institutions and methods of doing business have been
set up by and for whites and work to the disadvantage of blacks.
He writes primarily on domestic and race issues, but is moving
more into the field of foreign policy related subjects.
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CARL THOMAS ROWAN
Syndicated Columnist
Carl T. Rowan was born in Ravenscroft, Tenn. on 11 August
1925. He served as an ensign in the USNR in WWII. His numerous
,degrees include an A.B. in Mathematics, Oberlin College, 1947;
M.A. in Journalism, Univ. of Minn., 1940; D. Litt., Simpson
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College, 1957; and LHD, 1964.
. He was a copywriter for the Minneapolis Tribune, 1948-50;
staff writer 1950-61; Dep. Asst. Sec. State for Public Affairs,
Dept. of ,State, 1961-63; US Amb. to Finland, Helsinki, 1963-64;
Dir, USIA, Washington .1964-65; Columnist Chicago Daily News,
Pubs. Newspaper Syndicate, 1965.
Numerous awards include: Sidney Hoffman award for best
newspaper reporting, 1952; selected one of 10 outstanding young
men of America, US Jr. Chamber of Commerce, 1954; award for best
general reporting on segregation cases pending before US Supreme
Court, Sigma Delta Chi, 1954; Foreign Correspondent Medallion
for articles on SE Asia, coverage of Bamberg Conf., 1956; Nat'l.
Brotherhood Award, Nat'l. Conference of Christians and Jews, 1964;
Ann.,So. Regional Press .Inst. Award, 1965; Liberty Bell Award,
Howard Univ., 1965.
He Authored SOUTH OF FREEDOM (named to ALA ann. list of
' best books), 1953; THE PITIFUL AND THE PROUD (ALA annual list
of. best books):1956; GO SOUTH TO SORROW, 1957; WAIT TILL NEW YEAR,
1960.
Mr. Rowan's column appears in 150 newspapers.
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT Use of Journalists in the Next Senior Seminar
1. Your approval is requested to invite journalists to
speak to the next Senior Seminar which will begin on 12 March.
The recommendation is contained in paragraph 4.
2. It is proposed that one representative of the media be
invited to discuss the subject, "The Media, Government and CIA."
In the first Seminar, this subject was covered in excellent
fashion by Peter Lisagor (Chief, Washington Bureau, Chicago Daily
News) and the Seminar Staff would like to invite Lisagor again.
As alternatives to Lisagor, they would like to consider Hugh Sidey
(Life Magazine) or Joseph Harsch (Chief Editorial Writer, Christian
Science Monitor). Copies of biographies of each are attached.
3. The Staff would also like to invite Jacob (Jack) Rosenthal,
who now covers urban affairs for the New York Times, to discuss
problems and issues facing US society. You will recall that
Rosenthal was Special Assistant to Undersecretary of State Katzenbach
and played a major role in the reviews undertaken by the Katzenbach
Committee. A copy of his biography is also attached.
4. Your approval is requested to invite one or more of the
following, as discussed above, to address the Senior Seminar:
Peter Lisagor, Hugh Sidey, Joseph Harsch, and Jacob (Jack) Rosenthal.
Atts
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SUBJECT: Use of Journalists in the Next Senior Seminar
CONCUR:
John TAT. Coffey
Deputy Director
for Support
CONCUR:
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Executive Director-Comptroller
The recommendation in paragraph 4 is approved:
Richard Helms Date
Director of Central Intelligence
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LISAGOR, PETER
Born: Keystone, West Virginia, 1915
EDUCATION .
1939-1941 Sports reporter for the Chicago Daily News
1941-1942 General news reporter for the United Press
1942-1945 Served with the US Army as Managing Editor for
the Stars and Stripes London Editor.
1945 to Returned-to the Chicago Daily News. He has held
date a variety of po-s-ations with the Daily News, including
UN Correspondent (1949), Diplomatic Correspondent
in Wash. D.C. (1950-1959) and since 1959, 'Chief
of the Washington Bureau for the Chicago Daily News.
Awards
1948-1949 He received the Page One Award of the Newspaper Guild.
Co-Author: Book entitled: Overtime in Heaven.
Time Magazine in its 9 August 1971 issue said that "The Chicago
(Daily) News has a strong Washington bureau headed by Peter Lisagor,
who is regarded by many journalists as the capital's best corres-
pondent..."
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SIDEY, HUGH SWANSON
Born: Greenfield, Iowa, 1927
EDUCATION
B.S., Iowa State University, 1950
Employment
1950
1950-1951
1951-1955
1955-1958
1958 to
date
Authored:
Co-Author:
Reporter, Adair County (Ia.) Free Press
The Nonnariel, Council Bluffs, Ia.
Omaha World-Herald
Life Magazine
bureau Chief, Time, Inc., Washington
John F. Kennedy, President, 1963
1,000 Ideas for Better News Pictures, 1956
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HARSCH, JOSEPH C.
Born: Toledo, Ohio, 1927
EDUCATION
A.B., Williams College
Employment
Joined the Christian Sciende Monitor in 1929 and has written
for the Monitor since.
1931-1939
1939-1941
1952-1971
1971 to
date
Correspondent, Washington Bureau
Correspondent, Berlin and Rome
Columnist
Chief Editorial Writer
Also held positions as:
1943-1949
1953-1967
1967-1971
News Commentator for CBS
News Commentator NBC during which he held the
posts for NBC of Senior European correspondent
and diplomatic correspondent.
Commentator for ABC
Mr. Harsch has been decorated Comdr. Order of the British Empire.
Authored:
Pattern of Conlest, 1941
The Curtain Isn't Iron, 1950
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ROSENTHAL, JACOB
Born: Tel-Aviv,
EDUCATION
Palestine , 1935
A.B., Harvard, 1956
Employment
1950-1957
1957-1957
1959-1961
1961-1964
1964-1966
1966-1967
1967-1968
1968-1969
1969 to
date
Awards
Sports reporter with the Portland Oregonian
News reporter, copy editor
Editorial writer, reporter Portland Reporter
Asst. director, public information, U.S. Department
of Justice
Special asst. to Attorney _General, dir, public
information
Special asst. to undersecretary of State
Kennedy fellow, Harvard Inst. Politics
National urban correspondent, Life Magazine
Urban correspondent, New York Times, Wash.
1966 Rept. Ruder and Finn
award, Am. U.
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