UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF CLASSIFIED INFORMATION - INFORMATION MEMORANDUM

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• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: September 16, 1986
• Content Type: MEMO

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NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, MARYLAND 20755
Serial: J-458-86
16 September 1986
MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
SUBJECT: Unauthorized Disclosure of Classified Information -
INFORMATION MEMORANDUM
1. (U) This memorandum is to inform you of another
unauthorized disclosure of classified communications intelligence
information and of my intention to report it to the Attorney General.
2. (S-CCO) The recently published book by Seymour M. Hersh,
The Target is Destroyed, explores the facts and circumstances
surrounding the destruction of Korean Airlines flight 007 by the
Soviet Union in August 1983. The book relies heavily on what the
author acknowledges to be classified information relating to the
communications intelligence activities of the United States against
the Soviet Union. He boldly notes in his book that the information
is derived from classified reports or secret briefings with apparent
disregard for the consequences of such disclosures on the U.S.
intelligence gathering effort.
4. (C) We believe it would be difficult to pursue
prosecution of Hersh under 18 U.S.C. 798 since there are few new
damaging revelations. However, his book weaves intelligence facts
and fiction in an operational scenario which may serve to
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5. (U) I should like to emphasize the seriousness with which
I view this most recent example of the media's willingness to
publish sensitive details concerning U.S. communications intelligence
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activities, and to inform you of my request to DOJ for a
prompt investigation of this and the numerous incidents of
unauthorized disclosures that have been the subject of recent
letters from this Agency. I am also notifying the Secretary
of Defense of these most recent disclosures.
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WILLIAM E. ODOM
Lieutenant General, USA
Director
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