WHITE HOUSE SAID TO BE IN TALKS WITH WASHINGTON POST ON DATA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000807570009-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 21, 2012
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: May 16, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/11/21: CIA-RDP90-00965R000807570009-9
L\ ARTIgF NEW YORK TIMES /
16 May 19
y 86
Wh;te House Said to Be in Talks
With Washington Poston Data
By BERNARD WEINRAUB
spdd to no NOW Yak TIM"
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WASHINGTON; May IS-The Wbite
House and The Washington Post have
been engaged in "negotiations" over
the last several weeks about the publi-
cation of Information classified as se-
cret that the newspaper has received,
White House officials said today.
A White Hare official said Edward
P. Djerejian. a deputy White House
press secretary who deals with na-
tional security matters,
ward, the newspa assistant managing satm Of
was "in the middle of
aseft bons" about the publication of
'the article. The official declined ~ssv
oral times. to discuss the nature or de-
tails of the negotiations.
Administration officials have said
the Information obtained by The Wash.
ington Post might have included some
of the classified data provided to the
Soviet Union by Ronald W. Peiton, a
former employee of the National Se-
curity . who has been charged
with ~. Mr. Pelton, who is in
jail awaiting trial, is said to have told
the Rusdarr about American systems
wed to Intercept eanmudcatiom.
1111am . nii+ector Of
k;mtral sought a com-
mitment from the Justice Department
to proses rte the paper if it published .
the information. Administration offi-
cials said last week that the Justice De-
partment was resisting the request to
prosecute The Post, as well as other
newspapers and magazines that, have published information classified
as secret.
A White House official declined to
discuss the details of the White House
negotiations with The post, except to
say, "We are discussing the proposed
publication of an article, and our serl-
ous reservations on the publication for
national security ,.
The official said ate Howe
do publication.09 of
,
the articlee, that "there is an on-
discwaim. '
waning Mr. Casey has met In recent weeks
with two senior editors of The Pat and
-warned them the per could be
pr+oeecuted'if wad with its rs-
port. Both the AdssidstratIon and Con-
gress are seeking stiffer sanctions
against thole who disclose secret
Earlier this month the Pentagon dis.
missed a senior official an gtounds that
he had been the source of a news article
on a seodtive matter.
Mr. Casey has said that he believed
The Post as well as The New York
Times, There Times, and
Time and violated the law by pAlft ciand
fled material on the raid against Libya.
Government officials have said that
the Information that The Post had ob-
tained covered a broad range of activi-
ties of the National Security Agency.
White Howe officials said that they
had "no idea" when The Post intended
to print its article and that the Admin-
istration opposed any publication of the
Information that has been under die-
casslon between Mr. D jere jian and Mr.
Woodward.
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/11/21: CIA-RDP90-00965R000807570009-9