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handle is hein.crs/govellq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Congressional ____ ~ Research Service Statutory Restrictions on the Use of Journalists for Intelligence Purposes May 1, 2023 On March 29, 2023 Russian authorities arrested Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and charged him with espionage. The U.S. Department of State subsequently determined that Gershkovich is wrongfully detained and that the U.S. government will provide all appropriate support to secure the journalist's release. This Insight provides background and issues facing Congress concerning U.S. statutory restrictions on the use of journalists for intelligence purposes. Congress may examine whether existing statutory provisions sufficiently protect overseas U.S. journalists from the perception by adversarial governments or non-state actors of affiliation with the U.S. intelligence community. Background Prior to the mid-1970s, reportedly it had been a practice of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to use journalists for intelligence collection purposes. However, following the investigations into past United States intelligence activities by two congressional select committees (chaired by Senator Frank Church and Representative Otis Pike), it has seemingly been the policy of the intelligence community not to use journalists, clergy, or aid workers for intelligence purposes, other than in exceptional circumstances. A declassified CIA regulation from 1987, for example, states that the agency would not use accredited U.S. or foreign journalists, clergy, or Peace Corps workers for intelligence purposes. Open, acknowledged relationships with the clergy and journalists for conducting translation or training services, or (for clergy) religious services, were allowed. (AR 2-2, Law and Policy Governing the Conduct of Intelligence Activities, December 23, 1987, pp. 27-30, at https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0006235713.pdf ) The exception to this policy was described in July 1996 testimony for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence by John Deutch, then-Director of Central Intelligence (DCI). Deutch expressed his reluctance to ever use journalists. Nevertheless, he defended maintaining an exception in extremely rare.. highly improbable circumstances that could result in intelligence enabling disruption of an extreme threat to the Nation. Congressional Research Service https://crsreports.congress.gov IN12154 CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress

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