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...first it seemed unlikely that CBS Correspondent Daniel Schorr would face problems on Capitol Hill as a 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...
...promised to back Schorr against efforts to force him to disclose his sources, but the network last week moved him from his intelligence beat to general assignment, ostensibly so that he could report on stories in which he is not personally involved. CBS executives in New York are reportedly deeply displeased by the Pike papers episode, partly because Schorr gave the papers to the Village Voice, a Manhattan weekly tabloid. One executive explained that Schorr's link with the "ant10-Establishment" Voice had political overtones that might be unsettling to some CBS affiliates...
Cover Blown. Even murkier was the relationship between Schorr and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, a Washington-based group that gives legal aid to journalists involved in first amendment-related disputes. Schorr approached the committee for help in getting the Pike papers published, and through the help of the committee was put in touch with a literary agent who explored various possibilities; the committee agreed to accept as a donation any proceeds from the sale of the report...
...committee claims that the agreement covered only publication in book form and that when the report appeared in the Voice, their agreement-and its confidentiality-ceased. Schorr, on the other hand, accused the committee of blowing his cover-"I am fully aware," he said, "of the irony of my complaining about leaks"-and insisted that the committee had been involved in the negotiations with Voice Publisher Clay Felker...
...trustee of the committee and a Washington Post editorial writer. "He's trying to make us a partner in his calumny." Another trustee, Jack Landon, backed up Maynard. In the meantime, it remained unclear whether or not Felker had actually promised to make a contribution either to Schorr or the committee...