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English: Memo from Senator Barry Goldwater to Director of Central Intelligence (CIA) William J. Casey in 1983, complaining about leaking of classified documents to the New York Times.

Text:

Dear Bill:


You will recall that during the hearing the other day I
asked if we could downgrade the classification of the new
Presidential Finding which we were discussing.

It was not done and yet The New York Times published a 
story on the thing today.  Remember, Bill, the long talk
we had about the Department of State leaking Top Secret
material?  Now when The New York Times can publish something
marked Secret, something has to be done.

I don't care who did it, but we should find out.  This has
gone too far.

Frankly, I think it was too highly classified to begin with,
but it did have that classification and I want to hear from
your office where that leak came from.  I am getting fed up
with leaks out of the White House, your own Agency, or 
wherever.

From:

Report of the congressional committees investigating the Iran-Contra Affair with supplemental, minority, and additional views.

Published 1987 by U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition, For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O. in Washington .