Word: leaks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...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...
...continue to conduct some clandestine operations abroad, and 2) it is impossible to carry out such missions if Congress, once briefed, reveals them to the press. (For Colby's views on the CIA'S role, see following interview.) In an effort to reduce the likelihood of a leak, Senator Frank Church's intelligence committee will recommend to Congress that the CIA be required to brief only two new committees-one in the House and one in the Senate-set up to oversee agency operations. A more significant and perplexing question is how much power Congress should have...