Two TWP reports on the future of US intelligence and use of nonofficial cover (NOC): "Don't Hobble Intelligence Gathering," 2-15-96. An op-ed by Richard Haass, principal author of a just released report on the future of intelligence by the Council on Foreign Affairs, which, among other things, proposes lifting the ban on use of journalists and clergy as cover. [We expect to get this report shortly and will offer it here; CoFA says the first printing was snapped up so there should be more news reports.] "Loophole Revealed in Prohibition on CIA Use of Journalistic Cover," 2-16-96. Which reports that by special waiver the CIA continues to use journalists as covert agents despite the 1977 ban. Ex-National Security Council staffer Haass and an ex-DCI panelist of the CoFA study claim they were unaware of the loophole OKable only by the DCI. Hmm. LUP_hol