Article: INFURIATED CIA CHIEF SAYS NETWORK BROKE LAW PROBE SOUGHT OF NBC SPY SUB REPORT.(Main)

Byline: Eleanor Randolph

CIA Director William J. Casey asked the Justice Department to consider prosecuting NBC News for violation of a 1950 law against disclosures of "communications intelligence," after the network broadcast a report Monday on the trial of accused spy Ronald W. Pelton.

The report from correspondent James Polk, which appeared during the 7 a.m. news segment of the "Today Show," normally seen by about 9 million people, said in part that "Pelton apparently gave away one of the NSA's (National Security Agency's) most sensitive secrets - a project with the code name Ivy Bells - believed to be a top secret eavesdropping program by American ...

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