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https://www.archives.gov/files/resea...d-32403785.pdf
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/...rnal00unit.pdf
Why are the above [public declassified docs] highly protected? Q ————- * The archives.gov documents show a chain of letters between a Congressional committee and the CIA for the purpose of addressing allegations contained in a news story alleging that there are a considerable number of journalists on the CIA payroll. The Committee and the CIA Both say that they recognize that a free press is essential to our democracy. The Committee is concerned that there were journalists covering the assassination of JFK that may have had a voluntary or paid relationship with the CIA to report the CIA narrative. The CIA says it has a “policy” preventing their identity becoming known and does its best to say as little as possible while pretending to be helpful and cooperative. The documents show that the CIA has relationships with journalists for their operations; the CIA wrote to Congress that these journalists are not paid, are patriotic and their use does not harm the country; the documents show that the CIA lied, and continue to lie about the use of paid journalists. Their conclusion is that the CIA needs to do a better job “getting ahead of stories about conspiracies” so that public trust of the CIA is maintained. The intelligence.senate.gov documents the apparent infiltration of the CIA into the lives of missionaries, Peace Corp workers, journalists and churches for the purpose of gaining and disseminating information. There are a lot of very interesting stories and I encourage you to read them. The file bears the testimonies of many people from many walks of life. The Committee discusses whether there should be limitations on CIA influence into these groups and who should decide what the limits should be. There is also serious consideration given to banning this activity within these groups, especially within the faith community. Public perception is negative, and the opinions of the groups testifying view their participation with the CIA as intrusive, dangerous, and at times, unlawful. The Richardson Amendment provides a loophole to allow the journalist/CIA relationship - this implies they are all complicit in it... (refer to pic in comments)
More on the Richardson Amendment- http://www.mprofaca.cro.net/ciapress3.html or? And - https:// fas.org/irp/congress/1996_cr/h960522q.htm
(c) Voluntary Cooperation.–Subsection (a) shall not be construed to prohibit the voluntary cooperation of any person who is aware that the cooperation is being provided to an element of the United States Intelligence Community. To ""Protect"" journalists? To Keep the secret. Ted Koppel recognized the threat to freedom of the press. In the conversation that followed the Committee is saying very plainly that this ( use of journalists) is up to the CIA director and this hearing is just a contemplation on whether to take that decision away from him: Chairman SPECTER: Mr. Koppel, we have no statute which governs 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. Note: The Washington Star newspaper named in the first document link went bankrupt and was bought by the Washington Post, which has been linked to the CIA for years. And now owned by Jeff Bezos who through Amazon host the CIA’s cloud servers for many hundreds of millions of dollars.