CIA DIRECTOR STANSFIELD TURNER SAID THAT HIS AGENCY'S ABILITY TO COLLECTIN INFORMATION WOULD BE SEVERELY HAMPERED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100140115-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 20, 2007
• Sequence Number: 115
• Publication Date: April 21, 1978
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ON PAGE 21 APRIL 1978
(THE NATION
yCIA Director Stansfield Turner,said I
that his agency's,ability 1 collect,inr:
fgrmation, would `b& sqyereily.:,ham
pored- if it were prohibited from re-
cruiting free-lance Writers;;. and
foreign journalists to work as `spies.
Turner told a House intelligence sub-
committee that the regulation he
issued last November prohibiting the
CIA from using as paid or..-:unpaid 1
spies journalists accredited' to. U.S. I
newspapers, wire. services, or-broad-
cast media went far enough to, pre-
vent covert :. manipulation;y of the
American press.. Turner ? conceded
that occasionally astory planted by
the agency in.the foreign press might
?e reprinted in the United States, But
he said such a danger was "remote." .
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