THE DUTY TO PUBLISH

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-01448R000301310009-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 22, 2013
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: September 29, 1987
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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damned Is an old newspaper maxim. next time there Is a delka matter of
So it comes as a epoch to read am.-
The Duty to Publish
Ile First AaroMment Forbids t the veracity ct ueuz. cal. Oliver orth Cm8ress to T pass any law rum MUL ,~ the tagufujaga
of Rear ftwaift" d.titrktfng the freedom of speech The familiar question has to be
ttbhee press. It says nothing about 'again in another vereioa: What
titer freedom not to publish. or the editors of The W_ ship gqm pet
dear and. . trhtdhpld lnprmatlan of know and when did they know It?
de r nth nd u ra public import for It Is dlstastef I to criticise the
megabuck book. major compstitor d the
But debate and interpretation of work for, and I hesitated at , Bt
the special protecttoa afforded the this Is a serious 1"M of principle for
of theVto - k~ dot the amt d Sal UN prep. the and there fa a rick s ut?
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able. The press, including The Wash Hanel gUare0ft gtwhich we
llall lgton Past, regularly argues that it if* the judMmt the when to publish
material that can be em- and how Is seen to turn an sheer cool-
the nation as a mto the auednmi d arid
the easier impact. It will not make it
sier co assert the pttbiic s right to
pain fail where it ma y
publish and be k
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pow tforp mto the recent Oalgrp-
$M Iraoontra hearings, How
many editorials were there question.
1be time h takes to produce a sooktb it
hearingsanded. bd?fore
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was The Miami Herald that motwtoed
a rather shabby bout to catch
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Mr- Hark direstseft a puma
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Ids candidacy for Pmaident.
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wad reports that Mr. Caney knew of cause It matters kr kp
the diversion to Nicaraguan contras of know about the chars die
proftits from
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Iran; that Mr. Casey soiiekad Saudi
Arabia's aid first to try to apassaoaie
and then to bribe the I.abatieas mssbN.
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Padlalish not to attach Amer can Ie
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Porter weate about the attempted as-
sassination at sbeft Padlallah a-
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am support am justify the llt
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that Mr. Woodward pried so .much
sensitive information art at Mr.
Casey. It is even more surprising that
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article b JIM dno*j ft it as a That doesn't help the dw a t,
4-' tetulterTerist raryw maplon uunding task Of defending prom
sicked by the C.I.A.' The Post and freedom and acatrate information
did then know that Mr. Casey against the myriad interests seeking
enlisted ousted on,.which missed the car r1Igh diu0r% deceive or suppresa, The
get but hied a10 skis publish also Implies a a rp
tYt suburb. people in a Bel- 9MUtY to let the public know im torpor-
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tant news without delay. It is an els-
Asamtang Mr. Woodward is tegiag NOW of credibility.
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be troth about what Mr. Cagy cis.
dosed to ham -and of net, that would
4e another so:aodal - did he dhr his
Information to tie Ocngrsploaal 1n
estigators sad to the special prese,
questions to over with
Apparently, Mr. Woodward felt ra:
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thus the political triumph, of Hojatolis-
Jam Rafsanjani. But the practical ef-
fect of Hojatolislam Rafsanjani's ap-
parent victory on Iran's policy is not
speaker has
clear. The parliamentary
been the main spokesman for Iran's
uncompromising war with Iraq and
has appeared committed to the export
of Iran's fundamentalist Islamic revo-
lution.
The political rivalries in Iran are
being fought on complex personal
levels under an overall banner of Shiite
Islamic fundamentalism, making such
conceptions as "radicals" and "moder-
ates" inapppplicable.
Mr. Hashemi's most important duty
had been running the World Is1WLc
Movement, whose goal was to eexport
Iran's Islamic fundamentalist revolu-
tion.
The committee, under the chairman-
ship of Ayatollah Montazert, supported
Shiite radicals, principally the Party of
God in Lebanon, and such other organi-
zations as The Call. in Iraq.
Western iptaWgpO&AViclals have
said the Iranian directorate and Its
Lebanese and other affiliates are be-
lieved to be linked to such acts of ter-
rorism as the suicide truck bombbp
of the United States Marine barracks
and two United States Embassy balld-
ings in Beirut in 1983 and the kidn-p-
Rafsanjani, the Sph filter of Parliament.
It was Hojatolislam Rafsanjani
met American negotiators, including
former national security adviser Rob.
ert C. McFarlane, who were trying
swap weapons for the Americans het
hostage in Lebanon.
Mr. Hashemi's faction revealed the
meeting to the Lebanese weekly A
Shiraa and that led to disclosures that
grew into the Iran-contra affair.
His execution appeared to indicate
Ayatollah Mliomeini's support, and
aping of Americans to Lebanon.
Mr. Hashemi's brother, Hadt, Is a
son-in-law of Ayatollah Montazert. and
such family relations are politically
important in Iranian society. Mr.
Hashemi was also a close associate of
AyaIoU h Montazeri's sm. .
Under the rule of Shah Mohammed
Riza Pahlevi. Mehdt Hashemi was con-
victed of strangling Ayatollah Shamsa-
badi, a religious leader who supported
the existing order. He was freed from
prison after the revolution in 1979.
in addition to disclosing Hojatolis-
lam Ratsanjani's meeting with the
Americans, r. Hashemi was also re-
ported to be involved in an incident last
fall in which a Syrian diplomat, be-'
lieved to be a top inutiftwo. opera-
ft was briefly kidnapped in Teheran.
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