Does it say that? The quote says he returned the originals to the source.
Yahoo: "Smith told AP he protected the identity of the source he had obtained the documents from by typing copies of them on plain paper and destroying the originals."
MSNBC: "On the advice of the Telegraphs lawyers, the paper had a secretary retype the documents verbatim on separate paperthen returned the originals to his source.
Yahoo Link: http://tinyurl.com/9pj87
MSNBC Link: http://tinyurl.com/dw25g (Page 3)
From the story:
Smith told AP he protected the identity of the source he had obtained the documents from by typing copies of them on plain paper and destroying the originals.