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Walter Pincus
AKA Walter Haskell Pincus

Born: 24-Dec-1932
Birthplace: Brooklyn, NY

Gender: Male
Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Journalist

Level of fame: Somewhat
Executive summary: Washington Post reporter with CIA ties

Military service: U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps 1955-7

Writes on national security for The Washington Post. According to published reports, Pincus worked for the CIA during the early 1960's, though when John Deutch was asked directly if Pincus was an "asset", he claimed not, but did express familiarity with the non-asset. The CIA did pay for him to attend two overseas conferences, by Pincus' own 1967 admission. The Washington Times (a Moonie publication) on 31 July 1996 described Pincus by saying that "some in the agency refer to [Pincus] as 'the CIA's house reporter.'"

Father: Jonas Pincus
Mother: Clare Glassman
Wife: Betty Meskin (m. 12-Sep-1954, one son)
Son: Andrew John Pincus
Wife: Ann Witsell Terry (m. 1-May-1965, two sons, one daughter)
Son: Ward Haskell Pincus
Son: Adam Witsell Pincus
Daughter: Cornelia Battle Terry Pincus

University: BA, Yale University (1954)

(awarded:george-orwell-award) 1977
Polk Award 1977
Emmy 1981
Council on Foreign Relations
The Washington Post National Security reporter

Author of articles:
The Washington Post, 18-Feb-1967, DETAILS: How I Traveled Abroad on CIA Subsidy

Born in Brooklyn, Walter Pincus worked as a copyboy at the New York Times after graduating from Yale University. He was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1955 and served in the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps in Washington from 1955-1957. After his discharge, he worked on the copy desk of The Wall Street Journal's Washington edition. He left in 1959 to become Washington correspondent for three North Carolina newspapers. In 1963, he moved to the Washington Star before joining The Washington Post, where he worked from 1966 to 1969. From 1972 to 1975, he was executive editor of The New Republic. He covered the Watergate Senate hearings, the House impeachment hearings and the Watergate trial, writing articles for the magazine and op-ed pieces for The Washington Post. In 1975, he returned to The Washington Post to write for the national staff of the newspaper.

Matthew Cooper appears to have been singled out by the prosecutor because of the belief that he, too, witnessed an Intelligence Identities Protection Act felony. Cooper shares a byline on this Time piece, which reports that "some government officials" gave Plame's identity to the magazine. From the no-good-deed-goes-unpunished department comes this ironic tidbit. The piece Cooper co-wrote—"A War on Wilson?"—was largely supportive of the theory that the Bush administration was smearing Wilson by outing Plame. As for Walter Pincus, today's Post reports that Pincus "has written that a Post reporter received information about [Plame] from a Bush administration official." Presumably, Pincus is the firsthand, witnessing reporter, hence the prosecutor's subpoena.

Novak's claim that the White House had not tried to plant this story with other reporters now seems to be contradicted by statements from Matt Cooper and Walter Pincus, who both revealed in July 2005 that they had been told of Valerie Wilson's CIA status by White House sources prior to the release of Novak's column.