'CIA EXCEPTIONS NECESSARY'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100190057-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 14, 2007
• Sequence Number: 57
• Publication Date: February 18, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

INDIANAPOLIS NEWS (IN)
18 February 1980
The Cents Intelligence Agency avoid that, but we would have the can and world opposition to this act.
.should be allowed to m ' eptiors" latitude to make exceptions." 11 . to its general policy against using the-. this time they bit off something differ- "SO this time"ethe'Soviefs have runt
Turner said an exceptional situation :.? ent._I don't think' they anticipated how into a much mor difficult, time'than1
arose when the U.S. Emba~s personnel , difficult it' was going to be, for them,-the . they ever had before.- How they are:
in Iran were taken hostage.-, amount.ofresistance they have encoun- going to extricate themselves is going
"I have-a regulation not to-use or , tered from the freedom fighters inside to be a fascinating. development f~
pay academics or newsmen.; We keep Afghanistan and more particularly, it international affairs over the months!
both of these twa nmftaceinnc ,,._# ?r ,...:. seems they underesfirn~ro a +~ _ ~.
related organizations.
Blockade, they got awav,~~,
r.tpras unaer.-normal cir-
cumstances. But here we tiGere.in.a..,'j
situation where-a newsman.mightTbe,
-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.or_academic.if we can,
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