Doing His Job Too Well

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Ironically, Kennedy could have been in even deeper trouble for telling what he knew of Nassar's CIA association. Just last month the House and Senate passed the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, which will become law as soon as a conference committee finishes its tinkering and President Reagan affixes his signature. Under one of the bill's provisions, Kennedy, who had been shown CIA documents detailing Nassar's work for the U.S., might have faced a ten-year prison term for revealing the name of a covert agent.