Latin Parley Ready To Back Proposal For News Service
Date: 21 July 1976
proposed Latin Amer and Caribbean news agency, or group of agencies, is approved on July 20 by com at regional communications conf in Costa Rica sponsored by UNESCO; 2 coms, working on some 36 draft resolutions, also approve by consensus proposal that there be internatl right-of-reply to news stories; Guyana joined Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mex, Panama, Peru and Venezuela in sponsoring proposal for regional news agency (S)
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Soviet Lets Foreigners Deal With Official Agencies
Date: 21 July 1976
USSR on July 20 publishes decree that permits Govt officials to deal directly with foreign journalists; decree, dated June 29 and issued by Presidium of Sup Soviet, was published in official gazette as supplement to '74 law on relations between officials and foreign nationals (S)
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Tokyo Court Reverses Acquittal Of Reporter Who Got Secrets
Date: 21 July 1976
Tokyo High Ct reverses lower ct verdict on July 20 and gives former reporter of Mainichi Shimbun, Takichi Nishiyama, suspended 4-mo prison sentence on charges of illegally obtaining secret Foreign Min documents; case concerns disclosure of 3 classified documents by Foreign Min sec Kikuko Hasumi to reporter in negotiations between US and Japanese govt on return of Okinawa to Japan in '72; is 1st time in Japan that reporter has been convicted in newsgathering activities; dispute is also centered on what is state secret protected by Natl Public Service Law and whether 3 ministry cablegrams should be considered state secrets; at 1st trial in '74 Hasumi was accused of disclosing to reporter copies of 3 cablegrams concerning talks between Sec of State William P Rogers and Foreign Min Kiichi Aichi and was given suspended 6-mo sentence (M)
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ASPIN TESTIFIES ON SPY REPORT; Representative Tells Panel He Lent Copy to C.I.A. but Not to Schorr
Date: 21 July 1976
Repr Les Aspin, testifying before HR Ethics Com on July 20, says he lent copy of Cong rept critical of intelligence agency activities to CIA and had let Reuters reporter look at few pages of rept; says he does not know who gave rept to CBS correspondent Daniel Schorr; John M Atkisson, former counsel to HR Intelligence Com, testifies that staff's offices 'were crawling' with people from CIA on day Village Voice published rept; says he was not responsible for distributing draft or other copies of final rept and did not know of anyone on staff who had given document to Schorr; says rept may have been leaked by exec branch (M)
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House Aide Reports Progress in Inquiry Into Disclosure of Report on Intelligence
Date: 20 July 1976
By RICHARD L. MADDEN Special to The New York Times
Richard MADDEN
HR investigator David W Bowers repts 4-mo, $150,000 investigation has narrowed search but has not yet found person who made unauthorized disclosure of classified HR Select Com on Intelligence rept; says more than 400 persons have been int to try to determine how copy of rept had made its way to CBS correspondent Daniel Schorr and then to Village Voice; Bowers is 1st witness as HR Com on Standards of Official Conduct begins 2 wks of public hearings on unauthorized disclosure; Repr Otis G Pike testifies he does not know how document was leaked; Repr John J Flynt Jr says that com would seek to determine whether new legis or HR rules changes are needed to handle classified information (S)
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The C.I.A. Cloud Over the Press
Date: 20 July 1976
By Daniel Schorr
Daniel Schorr
Daniel Schorr article on CIA's protection of confidentiality of its intelligence sources and its links with news media; holds there has been pattern of cooperation between CIA and employers of journalists; notes that former NY Times staff member Wayne Phillips has stated that CIA tried to recruit him in '52 while he was studying at Columbia Univ and said that CIA official told him that CIA had 'working arrangement' with then NY Times publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger; notes that former CBS News pres Sig Mickelson has said that in '54 he was called to office of CBS bd chmn William S Paley in whose presence 2 CIA officials told him that Austin Goodrich, CBS News stringer in Stockholm, was CIA agent; drawing (M)
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Broadcaster Finds Rights Endangered
Date: 21 July 1976
Natl Assn of Broadcasters chmn Wilson Wearn on July 19 says broadcasters should fight to preserve press freedom 'not for themselves, but for the people we serve,' speech, Calif Broadcasters Assn; cites as examples of what he says are Govt attempts to interfere with programming and news coverage decision involving WHAR, Clarksburg, W Va, in which FCC ordered station to cover strip-mining controversy, and instance where several Calif radio stations were found to have violated fairness doctrine by not providing sufficient air time for viewpoints opposed to commercial paid for by Pacific Gas and Elec Co (S)
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