Carter bid to cut leaks
I NZPA-R filter Washington I President Carter, worried | about the Government's inability to keep secrets, has ordered a sharp reduction in : the number of officials with access to highly sensitive inite’ligence information. Senator Alan Cranston, disclosing this on Wednesday, said Mr Carter had decided to reduce from 40 to five the officials privy to top-secret ' intelligence data. The five i were not specified. Mr Carter’s action I stemmed from press reports ; last week that the Central j Intelligence Agency j aid millions o." dollars to King Hus- | sein of Jordan and other ' foreign leaders over several i years, the California Democratic senator told reporters I after C mgressional leaders 'had breakfast with the Presi- , dent at the White House.
The President also c::- j pressed concern that seven j (committees in Congress re-, Iceived sensitive intelligence’ ' data. He discussed the possibility of cutting down on’ this number but did not dir-[ lectly ask that this be done. Senator Cranston said.
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