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Photos Prove: CIA Undermined New York Times Reporting |
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by David Roknich
Email: dogspot (nospam) electromagnet.us (unverified!) |
22 Oct 2005
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Documents archived at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign prove that the CIA undermined news reporting by the New York Times. I am transcribing the most striking evidence I have so it can be transmitted and searched as text. |
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The original photographs have been scanned in and are online:
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August 10,1954
Robert E. Garst, Esq.
The New York Times
Times
New York 36, N.Y.
Dear Bob,
Here is a problem worthy of some thought. I bring it up becuase we are increasingly concious of it in
Washington and we would appreciate any observations or guidance you have about it.
(1.) For along time we have been concious of the difficulty of reporting the information which has
to do with the activities of our own secret service agents (CIA) here and abroad. Since we are clearly
in a form of warfare with the communist world it has not been difficult to ignore information which, if
published, would have been valuable to the enemy. Thus we left out a great deal of what we knew about
U.S. Intervention in Guatemala and in a variety of other cases involving the capture of some of our
agents and the shooting down of some of our planes over communist territory. In all of these cases,
however, officials were willing to take responsibility for what was published and we published what
they said as official statements. So far, as in the case of Guatemala, we have been merely leaving
things out of the paper.
(2.) Now, however, the CIA is asking us to go beyond this and publish speculative articles which
may or may not be based on correct premises, and to do so on our own authority without any attribution
to them or to anyone else in this government. This has been more marked in the Otto John Case than in
any other. The CIA is, of course, very embarrassed by what happened in the Otto John case.They were
furious about Tad Szulc's original dispatch on the front page of The Times and said so here in no
uncertain terms. They were also upset by several Times dispatches out of Bonn to the effect that John
had "defected" to the East. (Both the British and French Embassies support the theory
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