Word: editor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Intercom Conspiracy the hero is an editor with a drinking problem and so much alienation that he edits a right-winganti-communist newsletter run by a crazed American general: he falls into a plot by two bored intelligence officers in western Europe to disrupt NATO. The CIA, the KGB and other intelligence services get involved, and Ambler's knowledge of how these organizations operate--the old-boy networks; using journalists as front men--is so extensive that recent revelations about...
Sheehan refused yesterday to comment on the sources for his article. However, Warren D. Manshel '49, editor of Foreign Policy, said yesterday officials of the magazine are "absolutely sure" that information contained in the article is accurate and that directly quoted conversations come from actual memoranda or from principles involved as indicated by Sheehan in the article...
Samuel P. Huntington, professor of Government and co-editor of Foreign Policy, and Manshel worked with Sheehan on the diplomacy study since its inception. Manshel said they "would not have published the article unless it was felt to be based on accurate sources...
...journalists are as critical, recognizing that governments cannot operate without some privacy. The Washington Post, no laggard at uncovering government secrets, expressed mild support for the Ford proposal in an editorial. Said Post Editorial Page Editor Philip Geyelin: "It's not all that chilling. Governments are continually trying to keep people in line, and we keep trying to break through that...
...prosecution. What worries many reporters is that if they receive embargoed information from a government source, they could be declared witnesses to a possible crime; they could then be called before a grand jury to divulge their sources and, if they refused, jailed for contempt. Predicts Los Angeles Times Editor William Thomas: "Not a hell of a lot of newspapers are going to take a chance, knowing what lies in store...