LEAKS OF TOP-SECRET MATERIAL 'REPREHENSIBLE'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00561R000100070066-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 27, 2012
• Sequence Number: 66
• Publication Date: April 11, 1979
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/28: CIA-RDP91-00561 R000100070066-2
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THE WASHINGTON POST
11 April 1979
Leaks of Top=Secret Material liepiwhe'n's--ible
In The New York Times on April 4 Lion leaked to the press to serve a po.
and again in The Washington Post litical end, but the information that'
April 5, it was reported that modi- was leaked also left a very distorted)
fled U2 planes would be used -to and inaccurate picture. The admin-
monitor Soviet missile testing. Those istration is well aware that many;
U2 flights, it is claimed, will compen- senators are convinced that SALT U
sate for the loss of our monitoring is not verifiable. The loss of our elec-
facilities in Iran. The source for this tronic listening posts in Iran has
information was, administration offi served only to reinforce this convic-
cials. tion. Naturally, the administration is l
. Just one day before The Times desperate to overcome that perce
published its account, I attended a tion, and it seems willing to leak top
top-secret briefing, which was se- secret information to the press to to
verely restricted in attendance be- it. The fact of the matter is that the'
cause of the sensitive nature of the leaked information leaves the im
information being discussed. Part of pression that the problem of verify.
,that secret briefing. related to the U2 ing SALT.1I has been solved. It has
flight plans revealed in The Times. I notNo modified,U2 planes will com-
simply. cannot object+ strenuously pensate for the loss of our facilities
enough to this use of highly classi- in Iran. To assert the contrary is to
fled. data in the effort to sell SALT U misrepresent the facts.
to theU.S. Senate and theAmerican The disclosure of classified infor-
public. There seems to be a double mation is bad enough in itself; to do
standard in operation with regard to so in order to leave a false sense of
the disclosure. of classified informa- security is reprehensible-
lion, one for the admunstxatioa and JAKE GARN,
another for the Senate VASM-to (s.uraa)6
Not only was top-secret informa- Washington ..
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