the House of Representatives voted to make it a crime to reveal not only the names of current CIA agents but of former ones as well.

The Progressive Review 5/17/99

HOUSE PROVIDES MORE COVER FOR CIA CRIMES

Sam Smith

In a major move almost entirely ignored by the media, the House of
Representatives voted to make it a crime to reveal not only the names of
current CIA agents but of former ones as well. The House also voice voted
mandatory sentencing for those convicted of revealing names.

The effect of the legislation is to provide still more cover for illegal CIA
activity, particularly in this country. It could soon well be against the
law to reveal W.J. Clinton's involvement with the agency going back to
Oxford days, or George Bush's decades-long affiliation with the CIA before
he was named its director. Other past examples of crucial information that
might soon be illegal to reveal: the 400 mainstream journalists who once
worked for the CIA, the Washington Post's Benjamin Bradlee's work for the
agency, the names of CIA operatives involved in drug smuggling in this
country out of such places as Mena AK, and the names of CIA operatives
illegally placed in city police departments in positions as high as chief.
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