LEAKS

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• Publication Date: April 12, 1986
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12 April 1986
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director, Public Affairs
FROM:
SUBJECT: Leaks
Executive Registry
86- 1575
Director of Central Intelligence
1. I ran into Kay Graham at dinner last night. She thought
our presentation on leaks went very well with the editors. She
pointed out that Simons and I were really talking about different
things, he about tearing down secrecy which covers up corruption
and mismanagement and I about secrecy to protect lives and vital
interests. In the discussion/that wasn't brought out as clearly
as it might have been. The two of us talked past each other.
2. In this editorial in USA TODAY they decry overclassification
in which there is probably room for improvement. They also again try
to turn the whole issue on being entitled "to know what our federal
government is doing just as we deserve to know how much the school
board will pay teachers or whether the city council will raise taxes."
That's true, but has nothing to do with protecting lives and national
interests.
3. It seems to me we should get a coherent response drafted
and use it to respond to editorial comment like this.
William J. Casey
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?FRIDAY,APAII, 1 1 1986 ? USA TODAY
"USA TODAY hopes to
Serve ass forum for better
understanding and unity to
help maks IN USA truly
net....
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t USA
TCMAYen.
Sept 16. 1162
JOhn C. Ouinn John
Weer EditoriSlirilerrector
OPINION
The Debate:
THE USA'S
Today's
SECRETS
canal as an many alivetti
dam treludee at
wet wise rot reeks es epereree
repast% an Iry real
Seat to at Naomi warty. an owning saw horn
Made Wand, ovar owes am Maas asccosin. and as
Cava ol Cara& ha none ban acmes P. USA
Too many secrets
are real security risk
The White House," President Raman aye "is the leaki-
est place Tr ever been In."
The president wasn't talking about the White House roof.
Ii his speech to newspaper editors this week. he deplored a
Walt most editors love ? the disclosure of information He
rid it's ouch a series problem that planning for U.S. ven-
ires of Ubya was limited to a "few people.-
' CIA Director William Casey went further. He said the
. ? publication of secrets has destroyed intelligence sources
and cost taxpayers "millions and even billions of dollars."
. Leeks are nothing new. After all, George Washington
.
e..? keret the news that the British would surrender at York.
- lure to a Philadelphia newspaper.
Today, It, no secret that our government keeps tar too
may secrets. There are nearly 20 million government re
- COMO that are drilled, and 4 earn government employ.
. ea have clearances to see award Information.
ft's ludicrous to think 40 people can keep a secret How
CM 4 million? If they were seeing It for the Orst time, some
bureaucrats would dray the Coestitution.
Carder some of the "secrets" the media have reported
ikaugh the years
EA report that the space shuttle carried a spy setelifte.
.
* The Pentagon complained about the leak, but an Air Force
rectal aid later little wee reported that me not already
diblie Inforrnalion.
? The Watersate scandal. Without leaks. the public
would never have known the extent of White House Involve-
,. rent le the burglary and the subsequent cover-up.
011ie publication of the Pentagon Papers, The rvern
dient claimed printing the leaked detelb of how we rt Into
the Vide= Wer would endanger US. lives. Courts dis
,
, red. and the knowledge we pined may have saved lives
i '' lored of harming us, most asciatures help US better aro
, UMW what government is up to. We are entitled to know
' rad our federal government is doing Just as we deserve to
.:11rntrw how much the school board will pay teachers or
? ildiellier the city council wUl raise Wee
There are those who cry that Journalists are unpatriotic.
They calm reporters would lariat national security for a
'- hot story. That's ammo
if
Journalists frequently withhold
be dangerous or irresponsi-
,lieritherlorairlon it would
,n bee to rover it. Even CIA
Director Cary admits Met
. Tee real disclosurac that have. damage,1 nur national se
...Unity have not come from the media. No. those disclosures
corns from quislings and traitors ? the Johnny Walkers
, and the other oda ? who
sold secrets to the Soviets
Sure, sometimes leaks
embartri public servant& And
gap or he Because we live
?, Mew caused a bureaucratic
? ? la freedom, not under the thumb of a totalitarian state, our
edsalocracy is maw. And to. great degree, our freedom
on much we knowou
about r government
deceeie how White House leaks. Built would bee mistake to
l's
QUOTELINES
was not intended to make it im-
"The First Amendment
possible for ths executive
to function or to protect Me se-
curity of the Undid States."
? Erwin Griswold. former US. Solicitor General
"Many secrecy later are pie On 00CUMentS 001 10 do-
led a true secret, but to avoid a true embarrassment Or 10
Carer up a cost overrun, or an abuse ot power, or to sone
carom, or to avoid public scrutiny, or out of habit."
? Howard Simons, former editor, The Washington Post
"Loose lips
sink ships."
? World War It slogan
"Without enlightenment start pares and information
aturt government dernooracy simply would not work."
? Henry Steele Commager. historian
Pt Nee Siewir. USA TODAY
JUDY MARKEY
Guest columnist
Remember, you read it here first!
WILMETTE, III. ? The
press may be occasionally
piny of jeopardizing national
security, but I tell you that is
nothing ? nothing ? com-
pared to what children can do
when it coma to Jeopardizing
family security.
No secret, no piece of Infor-
mation is sacrosanct when We
little people with the big
mouths reside In your house-
hold.
Generally, there are two
main topics we do not want our
kids discussing with anyone
outside of the family ? money
and sex. Conversation about ei-
ther of these le considered by
am. normalty ne,trntl, a/utt to
be nothing lea than betrayal.
Just like the par children
make thew sorts of inquiries
partly out of curiosity and part.
ly because they actually feel
they have a right to know.
WILLIAM J. CASEY
Guest columnist
Therefore they ask:
"Mommy, how much money
do we have?"
And though we consider our-
selves open, modern parents
our response is inevitably
something nice and murky
like, "Olt we have more than
SIO and ler than $1 million"
Like Caspar Weinberger, we
hedge this way In the Interests
of security. Everyone knows
you can't be too defensive
when it comes to money.
One straight answer, and It's
only a matter of time WI the
kid shoots of his mouth to little
Johnny Farquart who will p
hoer and tell Mr. and Ka,
Pereleseeta/ 00,t 111111111.
standing Visa bill uf 0032.47, a
second mortgage spine the
house. and owe $4.397 on the
Volvo, which, when tallied
against your assets, means
you're worth about $67,341.23
Judy Markey is a columnist
for News Anintca Syndicate.
? not Including the Allstate
poud
Klds never make mistakes
when II coma to spilling the a-
nimist secrets
Conversely, a kid in alma(
always wrong when It comes to,
getting the sexual Into right.
That's why, In the interede
of faintly security. its always
better to stonewall on these
mallets, U he asks you how of-
ten you make love, ask him
bow often he thinks you do.
He will look at himself, and
, as brother, count It up, and
Ray. "twice." .
Just 1104/ )0, 110,01, slid s.1)
right. Thal, what my par-
ents told my brother and me.
Don't worry Mom. I wool
tells:won.. Your secret Is ale
with me.
Help keep the USA's vital secrets
WASHINGTON ? Our cam- ninon their spies, rowers:1i-
try has spent billions of dollars eis. and satellites are working
to develop methods of collect. 24 hours a day to uncover.
Ins information required to as- In recent yeah, publication
is. missiles and Other weriP of classified informatial by the
via aimed al us, to develop et- media au destroyed or earl.
fective measures to protect our ously damaged intellbsence
citizens and installations sources of the hired vIdue,
around the world from terror- Our agents, our relationalps
Las, and to relit our diplomat& with friendly intelligence and
Good intelligence sources security services around the
are critical to our rcurity. Se world, our photographic and
crecy and confidentiality are electronic capabilities, the In
essential. For that reason, we formation we set from canton-
must restrict the circulation of Mations ? all of this ham been
Information shout haw andby the publication of
where we collect intelligence clida= Information.
? and air the reports and.' Tina lime and thee again.
sesenente bred on that Ines* has enabled those hare to us
pnce 11 they might reveal Or to avoid has invereenti le
compromise our sourer and conceal and otherwise deny in
method& former* critical to (All de.
The Kra sad other herr lame and le deprive IS Of NI
intender"' services open/ W. Mary in error our 0?01M
lions eace year In their afar from terrorist attack.
to acquire this information. We do riot w in UntIl the
Publication of this restricted press from prang information
Informanon hands our *dyer. the public needs and should
series on a silver planer rim- have I believe were All work.
The views of William J. Ca-
sey, director of central Medi-
sena, are adapted front rse
marks to the American Society
of Newspaper Editors.
PETER B. GEMMA JR.
An opposing slow
Unpatriotic media
risk national security
PROVIDENCE, R.I. ? I
know, I know. It's ennui pre
tirade ? even boring ? to
reed of a conservative's yearn-
ing for the pod old days. Sure-
ly, however, when it coma to
media handling of national se-
curity Issues. Journalletic stan-
dards used to be higher.
Tm only 35, but I can't re-
member a precedent ? nor
think ode rationalization ? for
ABCs inviting that Soviet corn
monist commentator to rebut
our president And I'm not a
USAmotiono-wrong reaction
ary, but someone needs loamy
that sipilicent segments of the
media have lad all respectful.
patriotic restraint. Potriotion
In the same sentence as runes
media? When's the last time
you sow that combination?
Consider the worldwide ter-
raid war against us. Every
kook. thug and revolutionary
movement on the planet seems
to have instant &car to credi-
bility and celebrity by rerun
Mg verbally or worse, our
country and especially our In-
nocent civilians.
Remember the scandalous
coverage of the Pentagon Pa-
pas? The miscarry expose
Mtone of the space shuttles
was carrying a military satel-
lite payload? Or the endirs
discurion of the caliber and
range of ammunition we might
provide to the freedom tightens
In Nicaragua? I Just don't think
newsworthy. Of come, I
didn't believe The New York
Times needed to detall our
Merle-wean military fires-
ERWIN KNOLL
Guest columnist
Peter B. Gemma Jr. is o con
servative activist and tree.
lance writer.
ence in exact troop counts. air-
plane/missile ranges1 gun cali-
bers, and support lines
While Khadafy kicks us
around, the Soviets bully de
-
armless Afghans into submis-
Son. and the Sandinistas sub-
vert freedom In Central Ameri-
ca. Our preaS people play the
role of neutral observers Have
they no patriotic instincts,
Sure, the public has come to
expect that a free press will de-
liver eccurate, reliable news
without undue iniluence from
left or VII. good or bad But
we also wemt our news deity.
ered by red people, who hurt
feel angry, and who can edge.
date the pride and patriousm
of the real middle class
That's why the gangsters
who hold our innocents as hoe
tages don't deserve a "fair
hearing and why Mad-Dog
tawdry needs to be needled,
and why those who leak infor-
mation to fuel the Ire of specu.
tenon should be discounted as
sources for legitimate news
And I'm real tired of Imelda
Marcos' shoecounts, of Louts
Farralthan's spewIngs, and of
the voter analyses of Mayor'
elect Clint Eadvdood's support-
ers. That's cheap and easy
"news." Poor Lowell Thomas
must be turning In his grave
Cynical, superficial, and in-
sensitive to patriotic national
security intereds are charges
the media mud take seriously
What's already public
cannot be a secret
MADISON, Wis. ? A scholar
who reclean In modern Chi-
nese history tells me that many
of the racial Chinese publica-
tions he ides as source materi-
als are more readily available
In this country than In the Pen-
-
del Republic.
litria, those Chinese docu-
,,wridacirculate bray in pudic
and university libraries Hui in
Peking they are denied to for.
errs ? and to Chinese citi-
zens who don't hold high rank
In the Communist Party.
Such deerive and 'natio
nal secrecy is what we expect
of regimes we call authoritar-
ian Or totalitarian. Our Severn
meat wouldn't practice such
tuft censorship, would it?
It would.
Ii 1971, when the Nixon &d-
eclaration tried to prevent
The Washington Post, The
New Yore Tunes, and other
useupers from publishing
the Pearson Papers, Justice
Department lawyers awed
behhid closed courtroom Pots
that publIcatioa would have
devastating conesperee for
"national security.
The goveriunent cited 10
"rads" which. If brought to
tight, would rendt in the death
of men still airing In Viet-
nam. disrupt relations with our
allies, and strengthen the ene
mks of freedom throughout
the world. The curb were un
paraded Sea rural the do
pew to be pidritelltig,
It harmed Mal ropey sae
of Moor eoperniffelli Pre.
vionally lariM pitialitted ? la
some care MOW Of Oder
pan before Use Pentagoo Pip
pm ware canard.
In Ire, Mien Ow Car* as-
inintetralke tried to prevent
The Progressive from publish'
lag en Ilrelle strut the H.
Mg for the am* goal, main-
Mining this as the bed and
mad free country In the world.
lathe peat lye years, I have
been pealed by the nsadinde
of many Journalists and editors
to Carefully consider some
times withholding publication
of information which could
jeopardize national interwar
or, more frequently,
stony la a manner which
mmte the NMI. NS KO
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in reeeplie the pawned for
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Use prom go getltsr urn faidiell
news, I hope the par will re.
red our duly to imp lea IS
tima lesithriare rends
Erwin Knoll is editor of The
Progressive magazine
kerb. such Mr officials ss the
secretary of state, seratory of
defense, and secretary of ener.
gy swore that the article con
tinned "secrets" vital to "na.
howl security.' In tact they
v_islerallopegirmaItiOn &neigh! an.
By the time an embarrassed
Justice Department dropped
Its case six months later, It had
been disclosed that am so.
called secrets were lo be found
In encyclopedias and [arbor&
available in any school library
? and In a Russian Journal
called Soviet Physics that's cir-
culated freely in the West,
In 1965, when the Reagan
administration tried to Impose
secrecy on the military mission
of s space shuttle flight. The
Washington Post pointed out
that details of the intsion had
already been revealed in con-
peronal testimony by admin-
istration witnesses. What's
more, the "secrete" were com-
mon wale in the bars around
Cape Canaveral.
Despite these and many oth-
er instances of foolish or fraud-
ulent secrecy claims, moot of
the prem remains remarkably
eager to acquiesce in censor-
ship whenever the government
rolls out its vague, all-purpose
claim of "nether security." in
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VOICES FROM ACROSS THE USA/ Do you think media disclosures compromise national security?
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inarity. The media mode
Wee mere rostrata. They
strebtal publish everylkialt
they as pi their hands oa.
CINDY ZELL, 22
Student
Venice Calif.
If anything. newspapers
don't do enough to inform the
public. They tell us what they
want IS to know. Sure. mast Of
what we hear and reed is pron
ably true, but there are many
=I'd like to see the
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JIM LWOW& 38
Company manager
Houston. Texas
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ems and editors do a pod bob
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haw Junollon. Vt
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WALTER KERR, 57
Attorney
Shaker Heights, Ohio
As long r it's not Oddly
classified laferensiles, it
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CU58.0110 SHARMA% 58
Engraver
klyetwale. Md.
I'm a retired military man
one I otrordgy believe that ear.
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SANDI DAVISSON, 48
Secretary
kithvaukee. Ms.
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