Secret CIA Papers Posted on Web Site

A New York-based Web site has reportedly published a secret
overview of the US intelligence community prepared by the CIA in 1998
for visiting for Japanese intelligence officials.

An Associated Press report said the briefing contained information on
the CIA's budgets and personnel and other sensitive information and
was posted by 64-year-old architect John Young of New York City,
whose Web site has displayed government documents on intelligence
and encryption since 1996.

The report said that last month, Young published an unedited version of
a secret history of the 1953 CIA-organized coup in Iran that had been
originally published on The New York Times Web site with portions
blacked out. Young is cited as saying he received the 1998 CIA briefing
by e-mail from an anonymous source in Japan.

Young said his Web site offers a standing invitation to anyone who
wants something published that governments don't want published, and
that he does not verify the authenticity of what he posts, leaving it to
viewers to decide if it's genuine.

An unnamed senior intelligence official quoted in The Washington Post
on Sunday confirmed that official visitors from Japan's intelligence
agency were authorized to receive the secret briefing at CIA
headquarters in 1998 and that public disclosure of that information is
troubling.

Reported By Newsbytes.com, http://www.newsbytes.com.