>>458430

>>458475

Looks like I've got some reading to do.

In "CIA's Use of Journalists and Clergy…" John Deutch says that the policy was not to use/associate with any new journalists for 19 years (pg 6). This aligns with the timing of the Church Committee and the journalist restrictions that followed.

https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

He then immediately clarifies by saying:

"But, Mr. Chairman, as the Director of Central Intelligence, I must be in a position to assure the President and the members of the National Security Council and this country, that there will never come a time when the United States cannot ask a witting citizen, knowledgeable citizen, to assist in combating an extreme threat to the Nation. So I, like all of my predecessors for the last 19 years, have arrived at the conclusion that the Agency

should not be prohibited from considering the use of American journalists or clergy in exceptional circumstances." (pg 7)

So he's saying yeah we got caught with our hands in the cookie jar and yeah we said we wouldn't do it again… and we won't… unless we REALLY want to. wink

On page 8 it goes into how there is a process in the works so that the President can sign a waiver so that the CIA(intelligence agencies) can work with journalist(s).

What follows next is Mr. Deutch arguing that the authority for working with the press should reside with the director of the CIA and not the President. "The President should have a director he can trust or replace him with one he can."

Mr. Koppel pg 17:

"If the CIA must on occasion use the role of an American journalist to conceal one of its operatives and to protect the greater national interest, it will do so, regardless of what is decided by Congress. But let that continue to be in the knowledge that a free press is being endangered and that American law is being broken."

>>458771

Yep. They even say it very plainly that this is up to the CIA director and this hearing is just to contemplating taking it away from him:

"Chairman SPECTER. Mr. Koppel, we have no statute which gov- erns this matter. It is up to the policy of the CIA Director as to what he will do and what his judgment requires. Mr. Koppel. I think that would be unacceptable, sir. Chairman Specter. Well, that is the current status of the law. That is why the House has acted on the matter and that is why we are considering it."

Mr. Koppel knows this is a threat to a free press and he's making it known this is a basis for lawlessness.

>>458900

I need some sauce with those digits.

BTW, in the JFK assassination document it says some of those 40 journalists ID'd as CIA agents were sent to "frustrate the work of the House Assassination Committee"

They used journalists to help cover up the JFK assassination.

>>458956

With how hard he was fighting Koppel on the separation of intelligence and journalists I buy that. Seemed like he had an agenda in that hearing.

>>458972

Interesting. I'll read it a bit later.

>>459029

Yeah I remember reading that. I've heard the Clintons are like the Rockefellers 2.0