2-23-96. TWP: "CIA Defends Rule on Use Of Reporters." In the face of growing criticism from American news organizations, CIA Director John M. Deutch yesterday insisted he would not rule out employing American journalists in secret intelligence operations where American lives are at stake or a weapon of mass destruction might be used. 2-23-96. NYT: "C.I.A. Chief Defends Secrecy, in Spending and Spying, to Senate." The DCI said today that the secret budget for spying might be made public, and he defended a longstanding policy allowing clandestine officers to pose as reporters or to use journalists as informers. Posing as a reporter is an ideal cover for a spy, since both jobs require traveling to out-of-the-way places and prying out secrets. DEP_tot For Deep Throat Scowcroft parallels to the CoFR report on the future of intelligence see the ISD recommendations to the Presidential Commission on intelligence: http://sfswww.georgetown.edu/sfs/programs/isd/files/intell.htm