HE'D RATHER SWITCH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01601R001300180001-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 16, 2001
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: July 31, 1971
• Content Type: NSPR

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Approved For Release 2001/03/04: CIA-RDP80-016
NEW BRUNI 1'WIGK, N.J
- HOME NEWS
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Hied Rattier Switcht
!'o the Editor:
Your, iecent derision to censor William F. Buckley
Jr.'s.column "On the Right" as a result of National Re-
view's secret paper "hoax" was extremely disconcerting.
You regarded the episode as "irrgspnnsible journalism of
the worst sort. . .plain unadulterated `lyiu which is inex-
cusable." A superficial and myopic evaluation of Buck-
ley's actions could easily lead one to your conclusion.
But I ask now that readers not be deluded by The Horne
News' rather cite orical conr.enination of Buckley, and
try to understand the intent and meaning of his actions.
Buckley stated that National Review proceeded "in sorne-
what of an ethical vacuum," but that. the "higher purpos-
es" which they served more than justified their publica-
tion. Some of the higher purposes referred to are:
'fiat fictitious secret documents a la New York Times
would be accepted as authentic "provided their content
was inherently plausible."
Th t the CIA and Pentagon are ml. Composes of
bumbling idiots as' s he New York Tines is strenuously
trying to prove.
To place into proper perspective the stolen sccre6
documents so pompously exhibited by idr. Sulzberger ob rr
The New York Times.
I cannot in one short letter aspire to vindicate .Buck- {
ley from those who are predisposed to condemn him.
Only history can do -that. In the meantime, however, my
dilemma is how do I read my favorite columnist when
the paper I subscribe to is shfficiently outraged to censor
him. 'i'he answer is really quite simple, switch over to a
newspaper which publishes the column. As I have been
'.becoming finer eesinctiy discontented w;th the quality of The
Home News editorial page, the decision to censor Buck-
ley was the straw that broke the camel's beck.
In stun, your decision to delete "On the Right" in fu-
ture papers was as poor as the rest of your editorial
page, and as a former Home News reader, I urge all otit-
ers concerned about this blunder to wake up out of the
lethargy of day-to-day life (just this` one time) and fight
back. -
ROBERT C. WIN]Eft,
Edison .
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