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“Journalists provided a full range of clandestine services,”
said Bernstein, “from simple intelligence gathering to serving
as go-betweens with spies in Communist countries. Reporters
shared their notebooks with the CIA. Editors shared their
staffs. Some of the journalists were Pulitzer Prize winners. . . .
Most were less exalted: foreign correspondents who found that
their association with the Agency helped their work; stringers
and freelancers who were as interested in the derring-do of
the spy business as in filing articles, and, the smallest category,
full-time CIA employees masquerading as journalists abroad.”
At least twenty-two American news organizations employed
CIA journalists, and a dozen American publishing houses
printed the Agency’s subsidized books. When asked in a 1976
interview if he had ever told journalists what to write, CIA
chief William Colby responded, “Oh sure, all the time.”