'CIA EXCEPTION NECESSARY'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100500009-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: February 18, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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INDIANAPOLIS NEWS (IN)
18 February 1980
-- The Cen?, Intelligence Agency w. avoid that, but we would have the
should be allowed to ma;;e'Vteptiors" latitude to make exceptions." .
to its general policy against using the- . - He also said the Soviet Union's inva-
paid services of newsmen or university';,, sion of Afghanistan has put the Rus-
professors, according to agency direr-,+ ?sians on the- propaganda defensive for
-tor Stansfield Turner:- the first time in decades.
Turner made.the comment at a .. Turner said, ".. , for the first time
private luncheon preceding a speech since World War II, the Soviet Union is
Saturday to a gathering sponsored "by. really on the defensive about something
Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind., and a nturiber they have done.
of veterans' and.other military service _ "They- got away with the Berlin
related organizations.-_1, -- 1 , Blockade, they got away with Hungary,
. Bayh chairs the Senate's Select Com they got away with Czechoslovakia, but
mittee on Intelligence: .this time they bit off something differ-
Turner said an exceptional situation ent..I don't think" they anticipated how
arose when the U.S. Embassy personnel" difficult it' was going to be. for them, the
amount of resistance they have encoun-
in Iran were taken hostage. 7",,.` use or tered from the freedom fighters inside
"I have -a r
' or newsnot to Afghanistan and more particularly,. it
pay academics or news e-keee seems they underestimated the Ameri-
both of these two professions ions out of the
intelligence process under. normal cir
cumstances. But here we 'ere in a
situation where 'a newsman-might-be.
able to find us something that. would be
of great help to the hostages: -
"You would not want me. not to be
able to pay his ticket to Iran?" .
He did not 'say the CIA had or had
not done so. ?
"What 'we will set up," Turner said;
"is guidance that generally; we'll not
.use a newsman er_academic_if we can,4
can and world opposition to this act.
"They are internationally on the de-
fensive with respect to the many Mos-!
lem nations of the world. One of the:
reasons they may have underestimated;
is they have a closed society. Perhaps,
they.don't understand 'as well what the'
-rest of the world is thinking and saying,
"We -have such international comma.:
nications you just can't get away with
some of the things the. Soviets triedi
without someone : perceiving what is,
happening. i
So this time,.'the So.^:ets have runt
into a much more difficult' time -than!
they ever had before.: How they are:
going to extricate themselves-is going;
to be a fascinating development oft
international affairs over the monthsl
and years to come.'
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