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...result of his role in the publication of the embargoed report on CIA and FBI operations by Representative Otis Pike's Select Committee on Intelligence. But last week, by a vote of 269 to 115, the House ordered its twelve-member ethics committee to investigate the "Pike papers" leak. Conceivably, the committee could recommend to the House almost anything, from no action against Schorr at all to removal of his accreditation to the House press gallery. A citation for contempt of Congress is an outside possibility...
Troubling Question. Dan Schorr has never been known as thin-skinned, but he seems genuinely wounded by the ruckus over the leak. Some journalists are troubled by the question of whether Schorr acted properly in making available the Pike report to Voice Editor in Chief Clay Felker in exchange for a donation to the Washington-based Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (which says it has yet to receive any funds). Some journalists side with New York Daily News Editor Michael O'Neill, who argues that Schorr's act was simply "a freelance deal." But others strongly...
...Senate bodies that many Congressmen have proposed. The President will also urge Congress to make it a crime for a past or present employee of the secret agencies to disclose "the sources and methods" of intelligence gathering. The House and Senate already have rules prescribing penalties for Congressmen who leak secrets, but the rules have never been enforced...
...Ford made one last attempt to get the committee to stick to its original pledge, the report was leaked. Although Pike insisted that the source of the leak was not known, committee investigators told TIME that members of the committee's staff were responsible...
...Situation. The U.S. will have none of the Southern strategy. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger does not believe that the Communists will abide by the rules of democracy and yield power should they lose an election. He also fears that Communists in Western Europe's governments might leak NATO secrets to Moscow. On orders from Kissinger, U.S. diplomats called on a number of European Socialist leaders before the Helsingor meeting, urging them to reject any trend toward Communist alliances...