Muckrock has long been publishing the writings of Michael Best, now
   Emma Best. I have previously pointed out that Muckrock is unwilling to
   contradict the powerful, who as I pointed out, includes John Young of
   Cryptome.
   Now Best has been writing quite a bit about spicy topics regarding the
   CIA. But how does a limited hangout work, and when you see it in
   action, why is it so effective? It is quite a mystery why no one has
   espoused this in plain English. A limited hangout serves to satisfy
   people's curiosity in predominant narratives or explanations in what is
   going on. It is only by merely being curious that you can succeed
   against limited hangouts.
   Sometimes a limited hangout serves multiple ends, it may even operate
   as framing
   ( [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framing_(social_sciences)#Media ),
   and how something is framed can also display different points with the
   same message to different audiences.
   But to go into detail ( see attachment for PDF of article "One of the
   CIA’s private press contacts was a suspected Soviet spy" ), this
   article presents the best example of limited hangouts. It frames Tad
   Szulc's possible communist ties as a surprise. Automatically one thinks
   that this was an unfortunate situation, that the agency would have to
   disclose classified information to make a case, or to at least tell the
   New York Times that he shouldn't be allowed to deal with certain
   matters.
   Now I guess Best can't help that some people form those sorts of
   initial conclusions. You know how people treat responsibility, how the
   law treats responsibility. It's just an unfortunate thing.
   But the New York Times is clearly and obvious a pro-communist
   publication. To digress, every liberal publication was repeating the
   same story from Pyongyang on Otto Warmbier. But the New York Times has
   done worse than defend trumped up charges on a poor kid. The matter of
   Walter Duranty is available to anyone over the internet. Defended what
   is now known as the Holodomor, which ranks around the Holocaust in
   deaths. He defended Stalin's show trials.
   His name was maintained on a list by George Orwell (!) as a person
   unsuitable as a possible writer for the Foreign Office's Information
   Research Department. And here's Sculc's real scoop
   : [2]https://www.nytimes.com/times-insider/2014/12/26/1961-the-c-i-a-re
   adies-a-cuban-invasion-and-the-times-blinks/  He wrote an article about
   "Anti-Castro units trained to fight at Florida bases". Best mumbles
   about Sculc writing about AMTRUNK, but he leaked the Bay of Pigs! Who
   is responsible for the Bay of Pigs disaster? Well, I googled for what
   the CIA officially says, and they don't say anything about Szulc
   ( [3]https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2016-f
   eatured-story-archive/the-bay-of-pigs-invasion.html ).
   In fact, I googled "new york times communist" I get this
   article: [4]https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/29/opinion/sunday/when-comm
   unism-inspired-americans.html Still, more examples can be found
   here: [5]http://www.conservapedia.com/The_New_York_Times#Newspaper_of_R
   ecord
   Similar cases re-occur by numerous dishonest individuals, even those
   not closely associated with the New York Times, Chomsky defends Pol Pot
   as not that bad and the news reports on Pol Pot as exaggerated.
   Although the concept of modifying the limitation of a hangout is some
   piece of linguistics.
   I leave this for your to chew on, why is this Best person so protective
   of the New York Times' reputation?
   There is no easier way to tweak the nose of a commie by defending
   conservatives (not fascists) they condemn so harshly, particularly
   since conservatives make it so easy to be defended.

References

   1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framing_(social_sciences)#Media
   2. https://www.nytimes.com/times-insider/2014/12/26/1961-the-c-i-a-readies-a-cuban-invasion-and-the-times-blinks/
   3. https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2016-featured-story-archive/the-bay-of-pigs-invasion.html
   4. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/29/opinion/sunday/when-communism-inspired-americans.html
   5. http://www.conservapedia.com/The_New_York_Times#Newspaper_of_Record