Washington Star and Unions Agree on 200 Layoffs
Date: 28 April 1976
By BEN A. FRANKLIN Special to The New York Times
Ben FRANKLIN
financially distressed Washington Star and 10 unions agree to eliminate 200 jobs, impose 8-mo wage freeze and save about $6-million a yr; publisher Joe L Albritton says he will inject $6-million in new capital in paper (M)
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Bureau Accused of Trying to Manipulate News Media
Date: 29 April 1976
By PHILIP SHABECOFF Special to The New York Times
Philip Special
Sen Select Intelligence Com says FBI repeatedly and covertly attempted to manipulate news media in effort to influence public opinion and discredit citizens and orgns that were its 'targets'; com rept presents evidence of pervasive and frequently successful efforts by FBI to use news media to attack such targets as Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr and individuals in what is described as 'new left'; says FBI, through 'good friend' who was chmn of bd of natl magazine, killed unfavorable article about FBI that was scheduled to appear in that magazine; says FBI officials approached reporters, including 1 from a major magazine and offered to play tape recordings 'embarrassing' to King; says freelance writer was furnished by FBI with photographs depicting a radical group's apartment as a 'shambles with lewd, obscene and revolutionary slogans displayed on the walls'; says Washington bur chief of a major news orgn was allegedly given discrediting information about atty defending Dr Daniel Ellsberg in Pentagon papers case; FBI's efforts to use news media were generally part of bur's cointelpro, or counterintelligence, program (M)
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Reporters As U.S. Agents
Date: 28 April 1976
By James Reston
James Reston
J Reston article on rept by Sen Select Com on Intelligence Activities on CIA activities; says rept casts doubt on operations of all media, religious and acad reprs abroad, without giving their insts opportunity of defending themselves against corruption of their work; says distinction should be made between normal contacts by reporters with CIA agents and using reporters as paid CIA agents; says it is troubling that Pres Ford does not issue order to CIA to stop this practice (M)
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HOUSE UNIT VOTES INQUIRY ON SIKES; But Panel on Ethics Limits Scope in Interest Case
Date: 29 April 1976
By RICHARD D. LYONS Special to The New York Times
HR ethics com chmn Repr J J Flynt Jr says com has heard progress rept on its investigation into unauthorized disclosure of rept of HR Select Intelligence Com (S)
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EXCERPTS FROM SENATE INTELLIGENCE REPORT; Excerpts: Panel Questions the Protective Value of Many Intelligence Activities Excerpts: Proposals Include Curbs on Mail Opening and Unauthorized Break-Ins
Date: 29 April 1976
excerpts from final rept of Sen Select Com on Intelligence Activities, citing manipulation of media by FBI
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