INTERVIEW WITH CLAIRE STERLING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000100830003-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 1, 2010
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: February 14, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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PROGRAM The Larry King Show STATION WTOP Radio
MBS Network
DAN February 14, 1984 12:05 A.M.
Washington, D.C.
SUBJECT Interview With Claire Sterling
LARRY KING: We have a return visit tonight from this
world's finest reporters, Claire Sterling. Her previous book
--her previous visit was the reason for the previous book. The
Terror Network was a major seller. And now Miss Sterling is the
author of The Time of the Assassins, published by Holt Rinehart
Winston, billed as under -- the underbilling is "The journalist
who first brought the plot to kill the Pope into the open now
brings us the inside story she alone is qualified to tell." The
Time of the Assassins: Anatomy of an Investigation....
We welcome to our microphones Claire Sterling, the
veteran journalist. Her previous work, The Terror Network was --
that was a major seller.
CLAIRE STERLING: Yes, it was.
KING: What I mean, you really did well with that book.
STERLING: Yeah.
KING: Did you expect to? Do authors ever...
STERLING: No. I thought I was going -- I had a big
fight on my hands, but in the end it did very well.
KING: How did you -- let's,go back a little -- get into
this particular niche you got into? Not just a foreign corres-
pondent, but a foreign correspondent who is-interested in terror-
ism, a foreign correspondent who uncovers things, a kind of, you
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