'DISCLOSING CLASSIFIED INFORMATION IS PLAIN WRONG'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00561R000100030067-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 17, 2012
• Sequence Number: 67
• Publication Date: September 1, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

1 Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/17 :CIA-RDP91-005618000100030067-5 sTAT
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WASHINGTON POST
`Disclosing Classified Inforrr~,ation.
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threaten our ability to carry out national.
security policy., I -have issued a ,directive
detailing procedures to curb these disclo-
sures and to streamline procedures for-in-
vestigating them. _,
However, unauthorized disclosures ;are so ~?
harmful to our national security flirt I'wt~h
to underscore to each of you the seriousness
with which I view them., - ~ ;- -:,;
The unauthorized .disclosure of ouz :na-
tion's classified information by those ~en-'''.
trusted with its protection is improper, un-
ethical and plain wrong. This kind of un-
.authorized disclosure is more -:than ? a so:
called "leak"-it is illegal. - a
The attorney general has been asked to
investigate a number of recent [such; dis-
closures of classified _~`information.