section_path: Controversies/Accusation of collaboration with the CIA
section_name: Accusation of collaboration with the CIA
paragraph_text: Accusation of collaboration with the CIA
  
  In 1977, Rolling Stone and The New York Times said that according to information from CIA officials, Reuters cooperated with the CIA. In response to that, Reuters' then-managing director, Gerald Long, had asked for evidence of the charges, but none was provided, according to Reuters' then-managing editor for North America, Desmond Maberly.