Paper in Gallaway Case Is Losing Ads
Date: 24 April 1976
Ad falls off sharply in Crested Butte Chronicle whose articles led to Sen probe and subsequent resignation of Pres Ford's former campaign mgr Howard H Callaway; newspaper publisher Myles Arber comments (S)
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Presidential Press Aides Talk of Truth
Date: 24 April 1976
Many former White House press secs say they were never told to lie to press but some say they relayed information that turned out to be erroneous, symposium with Washington reporters at L B Johnson Library, Austin, Tex; some say their sources of information in exec branch were sometimes less than candid with them; Pres Ford's press sec Ron Nessen and former press secs Tom Johnson and Ronald Ziegler comment (S)
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Memo Says F.B.I. Sought Cambodia Article's Source; Memo Says F.B.I. Sought Cambodia Story Source
Date: 24 April 1976
By JOHN M. CREWDSON Special to The New York Times
according to memo from late FBI dir J Edgar Hoover to his top assocs, Hoover ordered FBI in '69 to use its confidential informants within news orgns to determine source of NY Times article reptg secret Amer bombing raids on Cambodia; document has never been made public but was provided by FBI to attys representing Morton H Halperin, former Natl Security Council aide whose phone was tapped by FBI from '69 to '71; Halperin is suing Fed Govt for damages in that case, and in deposition taken in that lawsuit recently Cartha D DeLoach referred at length to Hoover memo; DeLoach said memo contained names of 'newspaper people friendly to FBI' who were to be asked if they could shed any light on how information was obtained by then Times military correspondent William Beecher (M)
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Reactions Differ Over Media-F.B.I. Link
Date: 24 April 1976
By DEIRDRE CARMODY
Deirdre CARMODY
reactions of various editors to disclosures about FBI practices noted; NY Times managing editor A M Rosenthal says full information must be released to avoid smearing all journalists; editors commenting include Clayton Kirkpatrick (Chicago Tribune), Evarts A Graham Jr (St Louis Post-Dispatch) and Eugene C Patterson (St Petersburg Times) (M)
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PANEL FINDS F.B.I. USED JOURNALISTS AS ITS INFORMERS; Agency Is Also Said to Have Had Network in Schools and Charitable Funds REPORT DUE NEXT WEEK But the Document Will Not Reveal the Names of Any Confidential Sources PANEL FINDS F.B.I. USED JOURNALISTS
Date: 23 April 1976
By JOHN M. CREWDSON Special to The New York Times
According to evidence obtained by Sen Select Com on Intelligence, FBI has maintained network of confidential informers inside major news orgns; sources familiar with panel's rept on domestic intelligence operations say that none of news reporters or other confidential sources will be named in 350-page document; 1 source says that while, in many instances, journalists were simply recipients of exclusive information provided by FBI agents for use in news articles, in other instances it appeared that reporters also provided bur with unpublished information that they had picked up in course of their jobs; 1 of journalists whose names were provided to Sen com by FBI says in phone int that he had been called by individual purporting to represent Church panel with request for int about his alleged FBI affiliation; says that upon checking he discovered that caller was not member of Sen com staff but had been acting as 'intermediary' for com and that he, journalist, had reptd incident to FBI (M)
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EX-ITALIAN CHIEF LINKED TO BRIBES FROM LOCKHEED; Press Reports on U.S. Data Say Unidentified Premier Could Be One of 3 Men EX-ITALIAN CHIEF LINKED TO BRIBES
Date: 23 April 1976
By ALVIN SHUSTER Special to The New York Times
Alvin Special
Ital newspapers, citing US Sen documents, assert on Apr 22 that former prime min was involved in scandal over bribes by Lockheed Aricraft Corp; leaks on alleged role appear to be violation of secrecy agreement between Washington and Rome (S)
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Barbara Walters Accepts ABC's Offer; Barbara Walters Accepts ABC $1 Million Job Offer
Date: 23 April 1976
By ROBERT D. McFADDEN
US Justice Dept spokesman says that dept will have no comment on Ital press repts (S)
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Trenton Topics; Audit of Day-Care-Center Operations Kept Secret
Date: 24 April 1976
By MARTIN WALDRON Special to The New York Times
Martin Special
While NJ Gov B Byrne was saying that close public scrutiny is good for state govt in speech to NJ chapter of Public Relations Soc of Amer, repts of audits made of daycare center operations in NJ are being withheld from newsmen; whether audit repts will ever be released publicly is not known (S)
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