WASHINGTON EVENING STAR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-01022R000100180006-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 1998
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: December 13, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

. Approved For Release 2001/03/06 : CIA-RDP83-01022R000100180006-9
WASHINGTON EVENING STAR
13 December 1961
ress Security
Leaks Seen Nil
Unfortunately, the editor
and publishers gathered there
did npt agree with us that thi
tthe subject 606h to discussion.
As a result of that speech .. .
]these editors did come down, ]
*,rid we proposed to them what
i'Gtre'thought was a rather worth
Cwhile idea for getting at this
problem "
Sy the Associated Press
A_ White House spokesman
says virtually no' information
harmful to the Nation's security
has been published since Presi-
dent Kennedy spoke out on the
tub'ect last April.
that time Mr. Kennedy
~s>tgsted in a speech to the
feg'wspaper'-Publishers Associa-
tion -that' newspapers should
consider not only whether a
story as news but also whether
its publication was in the in-
terest of national security.
I en days later a group of
news executives met with Mr.
Kennedy at the White House to
discuss the subject and it was
announced another meeting
would be old in a few months.
Asks `ye'sterday what had
happened, White House Press
Secretarf "Pierre Salinger said
little but discussion has gone
on since then. 17 tfie first place, Mr. Sal-
n
er said, Mr. Kennedy "did
not _ advocate self-censorship."
I e added:
"What the President was
throwing out to the publishers
*Kt, ; lery "very real problem
and that ' is the publication
-1n our- newspapers, and
through "the- radio and tele-
?,y1sion, of information which
1,think that it can be said,l
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