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...contract to read news stories that contain classified material and try to uncover their sources. This may be the toughest spook work. Over the years, the unit, nicknamed "the leak chasers" by some agency hands, has been able to finger only a few talkers. But it has an enthusiastic???and active?backer in Goss. He told TIME in June that he had made dozens of leak-investigation referrals. "Virtually every day I can pick up a paper and find somebody who is an anonymous source," he said. "That is willful. And it seems to me there ought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The CIA Says, Shhh... | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

Demonic Dangers. At least some clergymen have chosen the path of investigation. The late Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike was probably the most enthusiastic???and for more orthodox Christians, embarrassing?investigator, claiming to have communicated with his dead son with the aid of the minister-medium the Rev. Arthur Ford. Ford and other, somewhat less flamboyant Protestant ministers had even earlier formed a group known as the Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship to open a bridge between traditional Christianity and the occult. For evangelicals and fundamentalists, on the other hand, nearly every aspect of the occult still remains a demonic danger, from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Occult: A Substitute Faith | 6/19/1972 | See Source »

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