Now is the time to carefully analyze the papers, books, network, Internet and other media publications attempting to absolve or mitigate the gross misbehaviour of the CIA and senior USA gov't official responsible. The CIA has always organized covert operatives within major media as proved by the Church report in 1977. I am linking the Bernstein article from the period to elucidate some details. It is a lenghty read but worth the time. The current favorable journalistic articles being published yesterday, today and tomorrow will be CIA signatories working in media. Notice that a familiar name shows up in the short segment I have quoted.
Carl Bernstein
"The CIA’s intransigence led to an extraordinary dinner meeting at Agency headquarters in late March 1976. Those present included Senators Frank Church who had now been briefed by Bader), and John Tower, the vice‑chairman of the committee; Bader; William Miller, director of the committee staff; CIA director Bush; Agency counsel Rogovin; and Seymour Bolten, a high‑level CIA operative who for years had been a station chief in Germany and Willy Brandt’s case officer. Bolten had been deputized by Bush to deal with the committee’s requests for information on journalists and academics. At the dinner, the Agency held to its refusal to provide any full files. Nor would it give the committee the names of any individual journalists described in the 400 summaries or of the news organizations with whom they were affiliated. The discussion, according to participants, grew heated. The committee’s representatives said they could not honor their mandate—to determine if the CIA had abused its authority—without further information. The CIA maintained it could not protect its legitimate intelligence operations or its employees if further disclosures were made to the committee. Many of the journalists were contract employees of the Agency, Bush said at one point, and the CIA was no less obligated to them than to any other agents."