-Caveat Lector- From: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/ts/story.html?s=v/nm/19981205/ts/satellites_2.html - Saturday December 5 12:08 AM ET CIA Role In Satellite Case Leads To Probe - Report WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Justice Department is investigating whether the CIA obstructed justice by giving Hughes Electronics Corp information about a congressional inquiry into the transfer of U.S. space technology to China, The Washington Post reported Saturday. Quoting unidentified senior federal government officials, the newspaper said high-ranking CIA officials had agreed to testify next week before a federal grand jury about information provided earlier this year to Hughes. The company has supplied the CIA with satellites and sophisticated communications equipment for decades. The CIA gave Hughes information about the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's technology transfer investigation that might have enabled the firm to anticipate the moves of congressional investigators, the Post said. The Justice Department initiated the probe at the request of the Senate committee. The report said the committee was alarmed to learn the CIA had told Hughes the names of company officials which the agency had previously supplied to the panel to assist in its investigation. A CIA official acknowledged that the agency may have erred in providing certain information to Hughes, the Post said. But the official said the information was turned over in the normal course of business between the agency and one of its major classified contractors with no intention of interfering with the Senate investigation. A spokesman for the company told the Post: ``Hughes has not been provided information by the CIA regarding the details of federal criminal investigations involving Hughes.'' Hughes and Loral Space & Communications Ltd (NYSE:LOR - news) are under investigation by the Justice Department and two congressional committees for their role in transferring technology to the Chinese after satellites belonging to Hughes and Loral were destroyed in two Chinese rocket explosions. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
