I've Got a Secret
Date: 05 January 1978
By Daniel Schorr
Daniel Schorr
Daniel Schorr comment on his journalistic experiences as CIA 'asset'
Replaying Thursday, January 5, 1978
The January 5, 1978 was a Thursday under the star sign of ♑. It was the 4 day of the year. President of the United States was Jimmy Carter.
If you were born on this day, you are 48 years old. Your last birthday was on the Monday, January 5, 2026, 188 days ago. Your next birthday is on Tuesday, January 5, 2027, in 176 days. You have lived for 17,720 days, or about 425,281 hours, or about 25,516,902 minutes, or about 1,531,014,120 seconds.
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5th of January 1978 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on January 5, 1978
NEW YORK POST MOVES UP TIME FOR FIRST EDITION
Date: 05 January 1978
NY Post moves up time of its 1st edition, which is available on some midtown newsstands by 9:30 AM; afternoon daily has also cut out its final edition and will no longer publish daily closing prices for NYSE; circulation dir Lester Feldman comments (S)
Topics; Message Bearers Escape From South Africa The Counterfeit Mailman
Date: 05 January 1978
Ed urges West to assist Woods to carry on campaign against country's racial policies
3 Editors Ask C.I.A. To Ban Use of Press Anywhere in World; Dseath of Dream Feared
Date: 06 January 1978
Eugene Patterson (ASNE), Robert J Myers (New Republic) and Clayton Kirkpatrick (Chicago Tribune), testifying before HR intelligence subcom, say policy of CIA against using Amer press should be extended to ban CIA use of any reporters around world; Patterson reads lr from CIA Dir Adm Stansfield Turner saying CIA will operate under its new policy of not using Amer journalists; Turner added that agency did not believe that extending restrictions to foreign news personnel was legally required; Gilbert Cranberg (Des Moines Register and Tribune) says CIA should be prohibited from planting false stories overseas partly because they wind up being reprinted and rebroadcast in US (S)
AN EDITOR BIDS C.I.A. GIVE DATA ON PRESS; Wants Account of Ties, Including Disclosure of Names and Dates Activities 'Blow Back'
Date: 05 January 1978
Stuart Loory, managing editor of Chicago Sun Times, testifying before HR intelligence subcom, calls on CIA to give full account of all its past dealings with news media, including reporters' names; subcom head Repr Les Aspin says he thinks release of reporters' names would be unfair in sense that what was going on in '50 was different from today; Morton Halperin, former member of Henry A Kissinger's Natl Security Council staff, also questions CIA's practice of planting news repts and other propaganda abroad (S)
World News Briefs; Vietnamese Inform the U.S. Americans Are Freed Banned South African Leaves for London Brezhnev Seen in Public First Time Since Dec. 7 Panamanian Officials Meet On Ways to Save Treaties
Date: 06 January 1978
Human Rights Com chmn Mohamed Timol, who was declared banned person, has fled from S Africa (S)
News Summary; International National Metropolitan Business/Finance
Date: 05 January 1978
News Summary; International National Metropolitan Business/Finance
Date: 05 January 1978
News Summary; International National Metropolitan Business/Finance
Date: 06 January 1978
News Summary; International National Metropolitan Business/Finance
Date: 06 January 1978