a got abroad for any impact I think is highly arguable.” The Senate committee found that the CIA was not only responsible for the publication - of books but for their favorable reviews as well. _ The CIA has also worked the other side of the street, stopping the publication of books and articles hostile to the government and big business. Perhaps the most graphic example of this is its participation in the reactionary drive to pass an official secrets act in the United States. During 1974 and 1976 as protest to kill one of the most oppressive ‘bills ever to be written: the infamous ‘‘S-1’’. The name has since been changed but the substance remains. (The number S-1 has “now been assigned to a youth jobs bill — Ed.) Among the bill’s provisions are regulations that would be used to outlaw strikes and na- tional demonstrations, legalize the death penalty, and extend the use of wiretapping — to name a few. In that omnibus bill are four sections — 1121, 1122, 1123, and 1124 — which would enact an official Government Secrets Act. : : Contained in these four sections, which were endorsed by Attorney General Griffin Bell only weeks ago, are regulations which would prohibit the publication of govern- ment secrets, as well as the release of gov- ernment secrets to newspapers. The penalties imposed would run from seven years to life in prison. The effect of the bill, had it been passed at the time, would have been to send Daniel Ellsberg to jail for releasing the Pentagon Papers, along with the editors of The New York Times and the Washington Post for printing them. While these sections of the bill were widely con- demned by many civil libertarians, few people at the time realized that this section of : baa was written under the urgings of the TA. ae Under this law, the government would not even have to prove that anything in “‘secret” documents might be harmful to the country if released to the public. In fact the govern- ment, in the CIA’s proposal, would not even be required to produce the document for court examination. As one writer put it, “In short, the CIA would like to convict without proof.” Expressing the CIA’s attitude on censor- ship, William Colby, in his TV Guide article said there must now be applied a ‘‘new theory of American secrecy — and the appli- cation of an old intelligence principle of the ‘need to know.’ ’’ Under this principle, said Colby, only those who ‘‘need to know”’ should be told about activities of the CIA even if they are illegal. Who does not need to:know? ‘“‘The public does not ‘need to know’ our secret intelli- gence sources,” Colby wrote. Exactly what the CIA has in mind is dramatically indicated in the production of Victor Marchetti’s book, The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence. It is the first book ever to appear in the U.S. with blank spaces where government censors prohibited’ the printing of information! 3 To date the U.S. press has said remark- ably little about this historic first. On the contrary, the routine agreements made bet- ween the CIA and the big business controlled press to kill stories indicates that the com- mercial press is more than ready to accom- modate to a form of CIA-imposed censor- ship. The list of admitted examples of when the press killed stories on request of the CIA has now grown very long. Even more serious than this, perhaps, is that the press has killed the story of its own role in forwarding the purposes of the CIA. . Over past years the number of U.S. journalists revealed to be working for the CIA has steadily grown...by 1967 the CIA had secretly published or spensored about 1,000 books. tors took control of the Italian paper. They Were Landon Thorne, Alfred Weld, Samuel W. Meek and a fourth partner who was later _ .Tevealed to-be the CIA which, according to Loory put up $80,000 to $90,000 in the deal. In addtion to the purchase of the Daily American, the CIA also subsidized publica- tions, according to Loory who named En- Counter and the West German magazine Der Monat. In addition, ultra conservative columnist and magazine publisher William F. Buckley has also been identified as a one-time CIA Operative. In the field of CIA propaganda, books ave a:special place. In 1961 the chief of the CIA’s Covert Action Staff wrote, ‘‘Books — € most important weapon of strategic (long range) propaganda.” He said, they are . One of the few forms of propaganda that can Change a person’s opinions entirely. That this was a serious estimate may be judged by the revelation that the CIA owned and oper- ated the well known and prestigious Praeger _- Publishing company. : According to Congress, by 1967 the CIA @ secretly published or sponsored about 1,000 books. In its publishing operations, one _ memo reveals, the agency “‘must.make Sure the actual manuscript will cotrespond th our operational and propagandistic in- tention. |» ; While the:CIA has argued that its publish- ~ 8 activities were aimed only at influencing reign countries, over one fourth of the ks in which the agency had a hand were Printed in English. You can draw your own - _ $onclusions about that. Commenting on this t, E. Howard Hunt, the convicted Water- 8ate conspirator and CIA official, told Con- Sress, “I think the way this was rationalized by the project review board. . .was that the timate target was foreign, which was true, ut how much of the Praeger output actually -' “All the News ue g, That's Fit to Print” PS mae 9. . . : Qo x de SES LATE CITY EDITION 3 ( _ Weather: Cloudy with showers later a | Sousuee one arate Wednesday 39-49. Details, page 70, IVOL.CXXV1.....No,43,498 @ L9FT The New Tork Tunes Company NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1977 20 CENTS RABIN BEATS PERES VIN CONTEST TO LEAD RULING ISRAELI PARTY Prime Minister Will Head Labor Grouping in the May Election— Excitement Grips Convention By WILLIAM E. FARRELL [ ‘Boecial to The New York Times TEL AVIV, Feb. 23—By a slim margin lof 41 votes out of nearly 3,000, the gov- ICTORY MARGIN IS NARROW) ¢ lerning Labor Party tonight nominated} j into the elections scheduled for May 17 and to be its candidate for a second term las the head of the Israeli, Government. Mr. Rabin beat back @ strong, challenge nomination. * ‘1 ‘The vote—1,445 to 1,404— mounced at a nominating con’ gripped by a fever of excit ae Bac! - =Mr. Rabin had een regulars, including for: Meir, who had Me Rabin thas been the focus of much jeriticism here in recent months, in part because of Israel's economic distress, the ng inflation rate and the heavy tex dy heavily Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to lead it|- STR ates Because schools closed at noon, children had to take in the case of Alison Itskowitch, at left—eat as ‘The Rew York Times/Oee Wesaa Charies ond Ree! Barns! their lunch boxes back home or—as : they left school. Students at Public School ~ . 11 in Manhattan cheered as they walked out, past pickets. CARTER DENIES US. SINGLES OUT SOVIET IN RIGHTS PROTESTS CONCERN IS TERMED WORLDWIDE President Says Washington, Too, Is Culpable by Restricting Entry and Movement by Some Foreigners By HOVEY ‘Specie! to The New Yors Times WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 — President as the only major transgressor. “I have never had the inclination to single out the Soviet Union as the only Transcript of news conference, page 22. HOBBLING Carter Says His Review of C.I.A. ‘Special Lo The New York Tuer Action by*Z50% Cleaners cuts| WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 — President Classes illion Pupils N NNEW YORK, Has Turned Up Nothing ‘Improper’ | found anything illegal or improper.” He also said, “It can be i first bid ‘tor |W 2US to | cifically on reports of secret Central j Intelligence Agency payments to foreign | the potential security of our country even 'Ieaders. but he said he had reviewed the/in peacetime, for these kinds of opera- 00 dlikners and handy-|™ore controversial activities of the|tions which are legitimate and proper to| *” -in New York. agency and “I have not found anything |be revealed.” ~ terday, caused ' illegal’ or improper.” to reporters in the i d pils to go home He added that he was trying to reduce | of the Old Executive Office Building ad- heat, to limit Gisclo- | did the following: gayi measures, =~» Sures of intelligence activities, @Said that it was “understandable” that called early yesterday‘ Asked at a news conference this after-' “natural gas ix withheld from the market” ‘the Service Employees "90n if it had been “proper” for the! by producers waiting for higher prices and itl ter” of the al : LA. activity." | the United ind forced authori- . acess to knowledge of covert operations : joining the White House, Mr, Carter also Lguseat at alae eo E rights in Cuba, Mr. Carter seemed to stiff- sen his conditions for normalizing rela- tions with that country, but he sald he