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NewsMax Deletes CIA Threats to Journalists |
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by The Memory Hole
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03 Aug 2002
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"'We've got to do whatever it takes - if it takes sending SWAT teams into journalists' homes - to stop these leaks,' admonished James B. Bruce, vice chairman of the CIA's Foreign Denial and Deception Committee." |
On 27 July 2002, NewsMax.com [ http://www.newsmax.com , a well-known conservative website-ed] ran the article "CIA Expert: Leaks of Classified Information Must Stop." Widely linked to at alternative news Websites, the article quoted a CIA official calling for drastic measures to end leaks of classified info.
In the 1 August edition of his e-newsletter Secrecy News (http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/secrecy/index.html), Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists (http://www.fas.org) noted that the article had been quietly removed from the Website. NewsMax offered no explanation, but Aftergood reported that "one source said that Mr. Bruce's remarks last week had been made 'off the record' and were never intended to be quoted or publicized."
The Memory Hole originally ran the first five paragraphs of the article with a link to the story on NewsMax. Now that it's been flushed down the memory hole, we're running the whole thing.
The article used to be here: http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/7/26/180942.shtml
To view the article in its entirety, go to:
http://www.thememoryhole.org/cia-swat-journalists.htm |
