DoJ investigates CIA [CNN]
Jim Choate
ravage at EINSTEIN.ssz.com
Sat Dec 5 15:20:09 PST 1998
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> X-within-URL: http://www.cnn.com/US/9812/05/cia.hughes.ap/
> JUSTICE INVESTIGATING CIA FOR POSSIBLE CRIMINAL VIOLATIONS
>
> CIA Graphic December 5, 1998
> Web posted at: 1:38 p.m. EST (1838 GMT)
>
> WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department is conducting an
> obstruction-of-justice investigation of CIA officials who passed along
> to a satellite contractor sensitive information about a Senate
> investigation into technology transfers to China.
>
> Government officials reached late Friday said the criminal
> investigation centers on information passed by the intelligence agency
> to Hughes Electronics Corp., maker of both commercial and spy
> satellite systems.
>
> At issue is whether that information compromised a Senate Intelligence
> Committee investigation into allegations that Hughes and other U.S.
> companies violated federal export laws by sharing restricted
> technology with China as part of commercial satellite export deals.
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