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Show The Salt Lake Tribune NATION/WORLD Friday, May21, 1999 500k Divulges U.S. Secrets Gleaned From Spy Papers eporter says intelligence source s gave him classified documents toprotest Clinton administrationpolicies TATED PRESS WASHINGTON — HighlyclasS. documents in a new a wealth ofsecrets that North Korea’s 1a 1996 coupat Aftergood of the Federation of American ton group that follows intelli genceissues. “These documents nents alsodetail how used the cover uard ship inspection for laser weapons sianship. Nonewere {he government is the unauthorized classified docu. 1) most casesare just a old is rare. It has widespread concern » community the’ kind of material carry some highest classifications in government andit’s abso. y astonishing that they would President Clinton as- Yeltsinthat U.S. poli a positive impact’ sian leader’s re-elec Scientists, a Washing be publishedin this way.” After- good said Betrayal by Bill Gertz, a report er for The Washington Times presents a critical account of Clin ton administration security policy that tracks closely tostories Gertz has written in the past several years. The original articles, how ever, did not include reprints of the classified documents officials interviewed Thursdayconfirmed the authen ticity of the documents and voiced concern, Onesenior administrationoffi cial said the White House didn't consider any of the publishedin: oncerned about risk to intel gence sources and methods For several years, the FBI has been trying to identify Gertz sources, U.S. officials said CIADirector George ‘Tenet has ‘omplained about a “hemorrhag ing” ofclassifiedinformation. Te net has not blamed the news me dia, focusing instead on “people who believe they derive some power from leaking classified information.” Gertz, in a telephoneinterview declinedtodiseuss his sources. But his bookst administration carried out a pc cy of appeasement of real or pc tential U.S. enemies that “so an gered some intelligence, defense and foreign-policy officials that they respondedin the only way they knew how: by disclos the press some of the ni most secret intelligence Gertz wrote that his sources were“unsung heroes” who“jeop. ardized their careers to expose wrongdoing The b ook’s appendix reprints all or part of 23 documents from the Clinton administration — some as recent as last year — ranging in classification from con- fidential totop secret. Several are marked “umbra” or “gamma,” code words for information derived fromelectronic intercepts A secret dispatch writtenlast August by Larry Robinson, a State Department official in Seoul, raised questions about leader KimJong. II's hold on pow er There is extensive evidenceof a major coupattempt byelements of the VI Corpsin 1995, which appears to have been crushed only dis- with some difficulty,” the patchsaid A 1996 U.S. intelligence report disclosed that the North Korean government had detailed three cases of cannibalism stemming from famine. It was classified at the “code word” level, among the highest levels of classification. A March 1996 State Depart- ment memorandum, marked “confidential,” summarized Clin- ton’s meeting with Yeltsin at a terrorism summit in Egypt. Cc involvedin spyir rines and appe: ser emanation carrying a N omar found And a 1997 CIA in part onele andspysatelii ed Russia was | and subway ating leaders gency. Not all of the ¢ sages were seric ited States did would have a positive impact and nothing should have a negative impact” on Yeltsin's upcoming re-election, the memosa id. The memoadded that the United States wanted an upcoming summit with the Russian leader to be successful to “reinforce everything that Yeltsin had done.” An April 1997 Pentagonreport described how the Navy inserted anintelligence teaminto a Coast Guard inspection crew that searched, unsuccessfully, for evi dence of the las r weapon aboard a Russian merchant ship I'he memoalleged theship was 1996 memo det Yeltsin made in jesi handed hima de ed onlyin English “Foreign Min Primakov said | it, and Yeltsin j Primakov knew tary [of State \ pher should now the memorelated “The Russians provide the s¢ youngattractivei would work wit! night and day’ (! would change(I image, the meni formation embarrassing but was Tools of the 7 fac Helps you get the job done Sale 99.99 “Odyssey” stainless 13-pc. cookware set reg. 129.99 Includes covered 1.5-qt and 3-qt. saucepans, 4-qt. cassero 8-qt. stockpot, 2.5-qt. steamer insert mixing bowl set and 11” opensauté BONUS:Receive a FREE bottle of stainless steelcleaner(7.99 value) with your purchase! 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