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CIA Reading Room cia-rdp88-01314r000300500025-1: PROSECUTING A LEAK

N HWJ VV.N:t; Approved For Release 20040%4AV :1M-RDP88-01 Prosecuting a Leak If the story had been published only a few days earlier, it would surely have caused a considerable sensation. SECRET BRITISH BEI'OIT ON mAFIIA LEAKED- MUI)llLE, CO1UIUPTION, WASTE BY FEI)En- ALS, read the headline over a page-one exclusive in London's conservative Sun- day Telegraph. Bylined simply "By our Diplomatic Staff," the 1,200-word piece quoted liberally from a confidential report that had been written by a Brit- ish military adviser to the Nigerians and that was strongly critical of the "poor leadership" dis…