WILLIAM S. PALEY GETS OFF THE CIA HOOK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100030082-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 12, 2007
• Sequence Number: 82
• Publication Date: June 14, 1976
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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`Schorr pointed out that keeping
the neat on CIA-a f iliczted news
employees marvelously serves the
interest of manage- ment. "Why
is everybody after the shnooks /
and not the bosses?' '
STAT
The rnna,;errer,a
York Times, CBS Nca
of the other redoua's c
Estate have been imr,
CIA and the Presider;
the names of those
coats who, through th<
pretended to be abcv
iialists while trieki t
for the CIA. Even as
ary, according to the
mittee report, at lea!
...
ees of domestic news .
are still reporting to two masters, you. He works for us. But he's got
one in the shadows. A number of to appear to work for you, under-
nonmanagement figures, including stand? So rive him -real assign-
Walter Cronkite, are also taking up meats, alid we'll be greatly appre-
the chase. Until the press is pub- dative."
holy scoured of this blight, they Throughout this exchange, Wil-
say, we are all suspect. liarri S. Paley had remained in the
Yet, a basic pat of the story is office. "Ile didn't say- anything,'
missing. And Dan Schorr, as someone who was present has
usual--even though he's been, reported, "but he had the air of
taken off the air by employer-; presiding over it all."
baying their cb-votir:a to journalis- This intriguing incident re-
tic independence. -has been f ),cos- nEained cozily secret until Febru-
ing on that strangely missing ele- ;try of this year. CBS's X60 Nin-
ntent_ Speaking at a Newspaper utes" had 'gotten a lei'd on the
Guild conference in Washing toll, story, as part.of a piece on broad-
Schorrpointr-dout thatkeepici,the {cast journalists who had been on
heat on Cl A-affiliaha nev: ; era- , the CIA payroll. Discoverirrg that
ptoyees marvelously serves thelthe'Ner. York Times was also`on
interests of n~airap;eiii~errt. Why isI the case and about to print it, "60
there no investigative repro ti-,i 1 Minutes" handed the story to Dan
he asked, concerning ''tin- high { Schorr who didn't have to wait
executives, still unknown," who until Sunday. It was February 10.
greased the tnachir!ery for the CI^A Schorr, and only Schorr, knew of
to function inside te,4 v isiori and another-story about to explode, and
newspaper ol:r_ratic,:: LL hy," as in view of its nature, he was surely
Schorr said later, "is everybody not looking for trouble with Wil-
after the shnooks ;grad not the Barn S. Paley. Still, you get a lead,
losses?" . you have to follow it all the way.
The same question was asked Schorr called Paley' and asked
recently,' - 1f the record, by all about the meeting which Sig Mick
source who was lulu-a;ad lilt imate-elson had already described to
ly involved with recruiting and `Sltc,rr. No such meeting had even
placing; spies Who type with two1 taken place, said Paley.
fingers. "Within my experience," j Schor-, went on the-air with what
lie says, "in every case: which] are had, including Paley's name.
we had aslieciat arrangement witty'There was rampant anxiety,
a reporter. management knee: r among some CBS News person-1
about it." net, but what the hell, the TirttesI
A case it iro:rit: In the early was about to break the same story.
19-50s, the relatively new presidents CPS had no choice but to go ahead.
of CBS New i T ithcketsot , had And when the Times did come out,
just returned frme lf:. first tour of the story was all there-except for'
the t-etwork's E:uro;+-::.: bases. Su-l one thing. No mention of Paley.'
mninnsrd to i?;:r off:cee of the cm-1-?~Ghy'" a number of Times offi-
lreror of CL:`;. 1=%iiiiani S. l'alev, cials were asked. "We just mined
cl:eisoi2 R'.; ;rteodeced b~ it." How odd to miss a et elephant in
Pal--y to two CIA cxecii,i:: s. 1'l;e} t a bodega. Anyway, later, William
were ;innnv,ed v: ith the pres;dt-nt of! Satire had no difficulty finding and,
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