Word: hersh
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...commission's investigation largely confirmed allegations-made initially by New York Times Reporter Seymour Hersh-that the CIA had conducted a "massive" domestic intelligence operation in the U.S. during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The commission did not use the word massive, perhaps because CIA Director William Colby and his predecessors had denied that there were illegal activities of that magnitude. Colby admitted only a relative handful of CIA abuses in a report to the Senate Armed Services Committee (TIME, Jan. 27). But the commission used other words, such as "considerable," "large-scale" and "substantial," that left...
...Rockefeller commission's report on the Central Intelligence Agency is something of a vindication for the New York Times, which broke the story of CIA domestic spying in an article last Dec. 22 by Investigative Reporter Seymour Hersh. Yet for months the Times sat on an even juicier part of the CIA story-President Ford's concern over the agency's alleged role in foreign assassination plots-but chose not to print it. Times editors last week were standing by their decision, but the episode underlined the hazards of giving and taking off-the-record information...
Shortly after Hersh's CIA story, White House Press Secretary Ron Nessen called Clifton Daniel, the Times Washington bureau chief, and told him that invitations were being sent for an "informal" lunch with the President. On Jan. 16, seven top Timesmen were ushered into a small dining room in the East Wing for lamb chops with Ford, Nessen, Chief of Staff Donald Rumsfeld, Economic Adviser Alan Greenspan and Special Consultant Robert Goldwin. The gathering was cordial, though Ford occasionally interjected "Now this is off the record" and "This is not for public." Talk eventually turned to the Rockefeller commission...
...agreed that since the lunch was off the record, the Times could not print the President's disclosure. When Daniel tried to get Nessen to relent and put the quote on the record, the press secretary stood firm. A day or two later, Daniel chatted with Reporter Hersh about the CIA's possible role in foreign assassinations, but Daniel says he did not reveal the President's mention of the subject; in any case, Hersh kept busy on the story's domestic angle. "Why didn't I tell him to drop everything...
Domestic Spying. Initially, Rockefeller and his panel were commissioned by Ford to look into allegations about domestic spying-made principally by New York Times Reporter Seymour Hersh-that the CIA had conducted a massive domestic intelligence operation in the U.S. during the late '60s and early '70s against antiwar activists and dissidents. If so, this was seemingly a violation of the agency's charter that banned "internal security functions...