He was the first holder of this post, and the first ombudsman to be appointed at any of the major American television networks.
According to the Family Jewels documents, he was under surveillance by the CIA in 1971 for having "run a story which was an obvious intelligence leak".
[2] Prior to the start of his journalism career, Getler was a United States naval aviator.
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