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Press censorship has been proposed since then, but never adopted. Ironically, we now have in Samuel Loring Morison a man who has been convicted for leaking information, while so many real spies are discovered but never prosecuted. Begin with the VENONA messages, Soviet spy cables intercepted during World War II and decrypted by the U.S. Army beginning in December 1946. VENONA exposed a network of Soviet agents operating in the United States, including at Los Alamos. Spies, such as Theodore Alvin Hall, who gave away our most sensitive atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, were discovered, yet never prosecuted.
Morison was sentenced to two years in prison for espionage and theft of government property. As a result of the Morison case, policy guidelines for adjudicating security clearances were changed to include consideration of outside activities that present potential conflict of interest.
An act of particular courage was the pardon of Samuel Loring Morison, the only government official ever convicted for giving classified information to the press. Because he was concerned about growth of the Soviet Navy, he sent a satellite photograph of a new Soviet ship under construction to a defense magazine. It was a sickening case of prosecutorial abuse. President Clinton issued the pardon despite knee-jerk opposition from the C.I.A., which couldn't find a real spy, Aldrich Ames, in its own ranks.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said today that it had arrested a United States naval analyst and charged him with selling classified satellite photographs of a Soviet ship to a British weekly defense publication. A spokesman for the F.B.I. said Samuel Loring Morison, a civilian analyst at the Naval Intelligence Support Center in Suitland, Md., was arrested Monday evening at Dulles International Airport.
Samuel Loring Morison's lawyers argued last week that their client - back in a Baltimore courtroom for sentencing - was not a spy and thus should not be dealt with harshly. But Federal District Judge Joseph H. Young rejected the lawyers' pleas for probation and sentenced Mr. Morison, convicted in October of giving spy-satellite photographs to a British military magazine, to two years in prison.
White House officials did ask the C.I.A. for its views on another pardon, that of a former Navy analyst, Samuel Loring Morison. In 1985 Mr. Morison was convicted of giving a British publication classified spy satellite photographs of a Soviet nuclear aircraft carrier. His conviction for disclosing classified information to the press was upheld after the Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal in 1988. On Jan. 11, the White House asked the C.I.A. for its views on a possible pardon for Mr. Morison. That was the first the agency had heard that Mr. Clinton was considering a pardon for him, an official said. The C.I.A. responded by telling the White House that it opposed the pardon. The next thing the C.I.A. heard on the matter was when Mr. Morison's pardon was announced on Jan. 20, an intelligence official said. That same request for a C.I.A. review was never sought on the Deutch pardon, officials emphasized.
The grandson of late U.S. naval historian Samuel Eliot Morison has been charged with stealing historical records related to his Pulitzer Prize-winning grandfather, federal authorities said on Tuesday. Samuel L. Morison, 69, of Crofton, Maryland, appeared in U.S. District Court in Baltimore on Tuesday, the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a statement. He is accused of offering to sell to a bookstore owner U.S. records relating to his grandfather's work during World War Two, when President Franklin Roosevelt assigned him to write a history of wartime American naval operations.
Morison earned $5,000 a year as a part-time U.S. editor of Jane's Fighting Ships, one of a series of authoritative defense reference books. He gave the photographs to the company's new magazine, Jane's Defence Weekly. British intelligence sources claim that Morison leaked the pictures out of "patriotism." Morison, they suggested, wanted to publicize Soviet shipbuilding to help the Navy lobby in Washington. Morison's office typewriter ribbon, examined by FBI agents, told a different story. In a letter to Editor Derek Wood, Morison complained that the naval office job was a "pit." Wrote Morison: "My loyalty to Jane's is above question."
Although the Soviet Union had already obtained a stolen manual for the KH-11 satellite, prosecutors claimed that publication of the pictures gave the Soviets valuable information about the satellite's performance. Last week a federal jury in Baltimore convicted Morison on two counts of espionage and two counts of theft of Government property. Morison, 40, grandson of the late naval historian Samuel Eliot Morison, faces up to 40 years in prison and a $40,000 fine.
At least one top Administration official now wants the attack shifted from the leakers to those who are accused of publishing the leaks. In a meeting with Deputy Attorney General D. Lowell Jensen two weeks ago, CIA Director William Casey discussed the possibility of prosecuting five news organizations -- the Washington Post, the Washington Times, the New York Times, TIME and Newsweek -- for printing details about U.S. intelligence-gathering operations. Casey subsequently that day met with Washington Post Executive Editor Benjamin Bradlee and Managing Editor Leonard Downie. He told them he was considering asking the Justice Department to take the Post to court for, among other things, reporting on messages between Tripoli and the East Berlin "people's bureau" (as Libya calls its diplomatic missions) that the U.S. had intercepted.
An act of particular courage was the pardon of Samuel Loring Morison, the only government official ever convicted for giving classified information to the press. Because he was concerned about growth of the Soviet Navy, he sent a satellite photograph of a new Soviet ship under construction to a defense magazine. It was a sickening case of prosecutorial abuse. President Clinton issued the pardon despite knee-jerk opposition from the C.I.A., which couldn't find a real spy, Aldrich Ames, in its own ranks.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said today that it had arrested a United States naval analyst and charged him with selling classified satellite photographs of a Soviet ship to a British weekly defense publication. A spokesman for the F.B.I. said Samuel Loring Morison, a civilian analyst at the Naval Intelligence Support Center in Suitland, Md., was arrested Monday evening at Dulles International Airport.
Morison earned $5,000 a year as a part-time U.S. editor of Jane's Fighting Ships, one of a series of authoritative defense reference books. He gave the photographs to the company's new magazine, Jane's Defence Weekly. British intelligence sources claim that Morison leaked the pictures out of "patriotism." Morison, they suggested, wanted to publicize Soviet shipbuilding to help the Navy lobby in Washington. Morison's office typewriter ribbon, examined by FBI agents, told a different story. In a letter to Editor Derek Wood, Morison complained that the naval office job was a "pit." Wrote Morison: "My loyalty to Jane's is above question."
Although the Soviet Union had already obtained a stolen manual for the KH-11 satellite, prosecutors claimed that publication of the pictures gave the Soviets valuable information about the satellite's performance. Last week a federal jury in Baltimore convicted Morison on two counts of espionage and two counts of theft of Government property. Morison, 40, grandson of the late naval historian Samuel Eliot Morison, faces up to 40 years in prison and a $40,000 fine.
Samuel Loring Morison's lawyers argued last week that their client - back in a Baltimore courtroom for sentencing - was not a spy and thus should not be dealt with harshly. But Federal District Judge Joseph H. Young rejected the lawyers' pleas for probation and sentenced Mr. Morison, convicted in October of giving spy-satellite photographs to a British military magazine, to two years in prison.
White House officials did ask the C.I.A. for its views on another pardon, that of a former Navy analyst, Samuel Loring Morison. In 1985 Mr. Morison was convicted of giving a British publication classified spy satellite photographs of a Soviet nuclear aircraft carrier. His conviction for disclosing classified information to the press was upheld after the Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal in 1988. On Jan. 11, the White House asked the C.I.A. for its views on a possible pardon for Mr. Morison. That was the first the agency had heard that Mr. Clinton was considering a pardon for him, an official said. The C.I.A. responded by telling the White House that it opposed the pardon. The next thing the C.I.A. heard on the matter was when Mr. Morison's pardon was announced on Jan. 20, an intelligence official said. That same request for a C.I.A. review was never sought on the Deutch pardon, officials emphasized.
At least one top Administration official now wants the attack shifted from the leakers to those who are accused of publishing the leaks. In a meeting with Deputy Attorney General D. Lowell Jensen two weeks ago, CIA Director William Casey discussed the possibility of prosecuting five news organizations -- the Washington Post, the Washington Times, the New York Times, TIME and Newsweek -- for printing details about U.S. intelligence-gathering operations. Casey subsequently that day met with Washington Post Executive Editor Benjamin Bradlee and Managing Editor Leonard Downie. He told them he was considering asking the Justice Department to take the Post to court for, among other things, reporting on messages between Tripoli and the East Berlin "people's bureau" (as Libya calls its diplomatic missions) that the U.S. had intercepted.
Morison was sentenced to two years in prison for espionage and theft of government property. As a result of the Morison case, policy guidelines for adjudicating security clearances were changed to include consideration of outside activities that present potential conflict of interest.
Press censorship has been proposed since then, but never adopted. Ironically, we now have in Samuel Loring Morison a man who has been convicted for leaking information, while so many real spies are discovered but never prosecuted. Begin with the VENONA messages, Soviet spy cables intercepted during World War II and decrypted by the U.S. Army beginning in December 1946. VENONA exposed a network of Soviet agents operating in the United States, including at Los Alamos. Spies, such as Theodore Alvin Hall, who gave away our most sensitive atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, were discovered, yet never prosecuted.
The grandson of late U.S. naval historian Samuel Eliot Morison has been charged with stealing historical records related to his Pulitzer Prize-winning grandfather, federal authorities said on Tuesday. Samuel L. Morison, 69, of Crofton, Maryland, appeared in U.S. District Court in Baltimore on Tuesday, the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a statement. He is accused of offering to sell to a bookstore owner U.S. records relating to his grandfather's work during World War Two, when President Franklin Roosevelt assigned him to write a history of wartime American naval operations.
An act of particular courage was the pardon of Samuel Loring Morison, the only government official ever convicted for giving classified information to the press. Because he was concerned about growth of the Soviet Navy, he sent a satellite photograph of a new Soviet ship under construction to a defense magazine. It was a sickening case of prosecutorial abuse. President Clinton issued the pardon despite knee-jerk opposition from the C.I.A., which couldn't find a real spy, Aldrich Ames, in its own ranks.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said today that it had arrested a United States naval analyst and charged him with selling classified satellite photographs of a Soviet ship to a British weekly defense publication. A spokesman for the F.B.I. said Samuel Loring Morison, a civilian analyst at the Naval Intelligence Support Center in Suitland, Md., was arrested Monday evening at Dulles International Airport.
Morison earned $5,000 a year as a part-time U.S. editor of Jane's Fighting Ships, one of a series of authoritative defense reference books. He gave the photographs to the company's new magazine, Jane's Defence Weekly. British intelligence sources claim that Morison leaked the pictures out of "patriotism." Morison, they suggested, wanted to publicize Soviet shipbuilding to help the Navy lobby in Washington. Morison's office typewriter ribbon, examined by FBI agents, told a different story. In a letter to Editor Derek Wood, Morison complained that the naval office job was a "pit." Wrote Morison: "My loyalty to Jane's is above question."
Although the Soviet Union had already obtained a stolen manual for the KH-11 satellite, prosecutors claimed that publication of the pictures gave the Soviets valuable information about the satellite's performance. Last week a federal jury in Baltimore convicted Morison on two counts of espionage and two counts of theft of Government property. Morison, 40, grandson of the late naval historian Samuel Eliot Morison, faces up to 40 years in prison and a $40,000 fine.
Samuel Loring Morison's lawyers argued last week that their client - back in a Baltimore courtroom for sentencing - was not a spy and thus should not be dealt with harshly. But Federal District Judge Joseph H. Young rejected the lawyers' pleas for probation and sentenced Mr. Morison, convicted in October of giving spy-satellite photographs to a British military magazine, to two years in prison.
White House officials did ask the C.I.A. for its views on another pardon, that of a former Navy analyst, Samuel Loring Morison. In 1985 Mr. Morison was convicted of giving a British publication classified spy satellite photographs of a Soviet nuclear aircraft carrier. His conviction for disclosing classified information to the press was upheld after the Supreme Court refused to hear his appeal in 1988. On Jan. 11, the White House asked the C.I.A. for its views on a possible pardon for Mr. Morison. That was the first the agency had heard that Mr. Clinton was considering a pardon for him, an official said. The C.I.A. responded by telling the White House that it opposed the pardon. The next thing the C.I.A. heard on the matter was when Mr. Morison's pardon was announced on Jan. 20, an intelligence official said. That same request for a C.I.A. review was never sought on the Deutch pardon, officials emphasized.
At least one top Administration official now wants the attack shifted from the leakers to those who are accused of publishing the leaks. In a meeting with Deputy Attorney General D. Lowell Jensen two weeks ago, CIA Director William Casey discussed the possibility of prosecuting five news organizations -- the Washington Post, the Washington Times, the New York Times, TIME and Newsweek -- for printing details about U.S. intelligence-gathering operations. Casey subsequently that day met with Washington Post Executive Editor Benjamin Bradlee and Managing Editor Leonard Downie. He told them he was considering asking the Justice Department to take the Post to court for, among other things, reporting on messages between Tripoli and the East Berlin "people's bureau" (as Libya calls its diplomatic missions) that the U.S. had intercepted.
