Cryptome is looking for news coverage of links among the following events leading up to Daniel Pearl's kidnapping and murder:
On January 16, 2002, the Wall Street Journal published a report "Account of Spy Trip on Kabul PC Matches Travels of Richard Reid." The report said a document describing Reid's trip was shared with the US government officials, and that encrypted parts of the document were decrypted with assistance of unnamed parties. http://cryptome.org/wsj-spytrip.htm Shortly afterwards the Journal was publicly thanked by the Defense Department for sharing the information. The Journal claimed it was doing its patriotic duty. On January 21, 2002, the New York Times published "Why Reporters' Discovery Was Shared With Officials," which examined possible consequences of journalists sharing information with officials, one of which was the prospect of endangering reporters suspected of being government agents. http://cryptome.org/nyt-wsj-dod.htm When the CIA is asked the about use of journalists as agents, the agency answers that it continues a policy which reserves that right. On January 23, 2002, Daniel Pearl went to a meeting arranged to investigate Richard Reid and was kidnapped. The kidnappers claimed Pearl was an intelligence agent; the Journal has denied it.
