AN EX-CBS WRITER IS LINKED TO C.I.A.; Former Network Aide Says He Ousted Man in '54 on Learning of Connection In Job 16 Months Possible News Article Letter of Resignation
Date: 11 February 1976
By JOHN M. CREWDSON Special to The New York Times
US intelligence sources and former CBS vp Sig Mickelson identify Austin Goodrich as CIA staff officer who worked in mid-'50, as staff writer for CBS News in NYC while he was serving as deep-cover intelligence operative; Mickelson says he dismissed Goodrich in '54 after learning of his CIA connection; other sources say that Goodrich joined CBS as part-time correspondent in '51 while he was stationed by CIA in Stockholm, where he also reptd for Swedish TV as part of his intelligence cover; Mickelson says that his recollection was that Goodrich returned to Stockholm after his 16-mo stint as writer in NYC because he believed Goodrich was overseas when he was dismissed by CBS in May '54; CBS News head Richard Salant confirms that Goodrich was employed by CBS during period indicated by Mickelson, but says he has no ind corroboration of Goodrich's agency background; Goodrich declines to comment (M)
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Times and CBS Deny Backing C.I.A. Refusal to Name Reporters
Date: 11 February 1976
Special to The New York Times
NY Times and CBS execs on Feb 10 deny that they had expressed to CIA Dir George Bush support for CIA's refusal to give sens names of journalists who had worked for agency in past; events revd (M)
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C.I.A. DATA ASKED BY TIMES AND CBS; They Deny Backing Refusal to Make Names Public Disclosure Urged Agency Position Firm House Report Disclosure
Date: 10 February 1976
Special to The New York Times
Washington Post repts that CIA dir George Bush met with NY Times execs Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, John B Oakes and Sydney Gruson last wk and 'found support' for CIA's position in refusing to give Sen Intelligence Com names of Amer news orgns and journalists who worked with CIA in past (S)
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Notes on People; Senate Aspirants Go to a Party
Date: 10 February 1976
LAURIE JOHNSTON
Laurie JOHNSTON
Several declared Sen candidates, and potential candidates Daniel P Moynihan and Bess Myerson, attend party at home of Commentary editor Norman Podhoretz and his wife, author Midge Decter, following meeting of Coalition for a Dem Majority (M)
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ANGOLAN AID BAN SIGNED BY FORD; He Asserts Congress 'Lost Their Guts' in Amending $112 Billion Arms Bill Hopeful on Detente ANGOLAN AID BAN SIGNED BY FORD Confident of Victory Group's 10th Anniversary
Date: 11 February 1976
By CLIFTON DANIEL Special to The New York Times
Clifton Special
Pres Ford says no one in his Govt was informed in advance of ex-Pres Nixon's plan to visit China; minimizes diplomatic and pol implications of trip (S)
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Letters to the Editor; Health-Care Cutbacks: Silent Sufferers On 'Shrinking' Our Poor Communities What Yunich Has Done A Pyrrhic Success To Tax a Prostitute Intelligence: Toward 'Leakproof' Oversight What Greeks Think of Us Help the Note Holder
Date: 11 February 1976
ASA P. RUSKIN, M.D.GORDON J. DAVISSABINA LIETZMANNROBERT BLAUMARY ANNE PAGEJOHN TOWERELIAS P. DEMETRACOPOULOSSIDNEY PALLY
Asa RUSKIN
Greek journalist Elias P Demetracopoulos lr comments on Jan 23 Op-Ed article on Anti-Americanism in Greece; says Greek press did not invent critical judgments about Amer actions; says root of feelings was popular Greek judgment that US aided junta's dictatorship by continuing arms aid, maintaining and ultimately expanding large US mil presence in Greece and by publicly displaying 'warm' support for junta
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Entex Will Acquire A Retail Gas Unit Of Houston Concern; Merger News Bethlehem Copper Plans Offer to Valley Camp
Date: 10 February 1976
Entex Inc to acquire retail gas distribution properties of Houston Natural Gas Corp for pfd stock and notes worth about $64-million (S)
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