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...course, Kissinger argued that Atherton had gone further than the Secretary had wanted him to. At week's end, Atherton was given a letter of severe reprimand. In any case, Kissinger was reminded by his critics-with some relish-of his double standard on leaks. New York Times Columnist William Safire, a former Nixon speechwriter whose phone had been tapped in the 1969 leak investigation, charged that to Kissinger, "the criterion of classification has become intensely personal"-anything embarrassing to him is "top secret" but anything helpful to him "can be leaked with impunity." As Kissinger had discovered...
Fibers have enormous advantages over wires. Because they do not "leak" light as copper wires "leak" electricity, fibers should eliminate the cross talk and static that can occur when one telephone wire spills some of its signal into a neighboring line. Measuring as little as one-thousandth of an inch in diameter, the fibers are also far less bulky than wires -an important consideration in cities, where underground cable conduits are already overcrowded. Eventually, the fibers may also prove cheaper. Supplies of copper are limited; silicon, the chief ingredient of glass fiber, is one of the most plentiful materials...
...article also brought out the question of how Edward R.F. Sheehan, research fellow for the Center for International Affairs, obtained classified memoranda of the negotiations, and aired the issue of Kissinger's possibly self-serving pretense of investigations of a State Department leak...
...Leak Insurance. The reporter's case was just one element in a debate that continued to swirl around a perennial issue: the relationship of reporters, leaks and security. The Schorr matter reached the ethics committee almost simultaneously with the arrival on Capitol Hill of the new intelligence reform proposals announced by President Ford (TIME, March 1). The measures would allow prosecution of any federal employee who without permission told any unauthorized person anything about U.S. intelligence "sources and methods...
Press critics of the bill point out that the amendment does not spell out what "sources and methods" might include, does not require that the leaked information actually be harmful to the nation's security, and does not even say that a leak must be deliberate to bring prosecution. "It's designed to kill our sources, frighten them away," complains Nicholas Horrock, who covers national intelligence agencies for the New York Times. Horrock reports that one intelligence source has already called him to say that "he was getting uncomfortable" because of the Ford proposals. Adds Washington Star Reporter...