GROVE SUES C.I.A.; SEEKS $10- MILLION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000100570027-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2004
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: July 17, 1975
• Content Type: NSPR

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GROVE SUES C.I.A.- - the C.I.A."' tents to others. !officials and the hdministfa-
/y A 21-page complaint seeks to 9lmpersonation and clisvuise~;tion that employed th.ern.
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a damages from the agency as 401A "mail watch" was con evidence in the C.IA, fifes.
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A.suit that charges 'the.Cen-following allegations.:. ,,.,,g 1.+.
lid its files, allegedly because!
tral 'Intelligence- Agency. with lUnidentified anti-Castro Cu- forceful entry and search of the
New York apartment of Bea~lt wants to conceal evidence oz'
^ lled by Losito, while she was arnployed'ztsillegal activities.
iinfiltratin&, -wiretapping and bans employed or contro
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Press, Inc., will be filed in Fed-
eralDistrict Court here. today.
It; will ~ be filed on behalf of
Grove Press, its. president,
Barney Rosset,. and an editor,
;Fred Jordan, according to Peter
NWeiss, a. lawyer for the three
-plaintiffs
"As far as we ltnow" Mr.
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Weiss said yesterday;=-"Grove [MrRosset, collected the wire
Press is`the,only business. to?be tappe(Lmformationd*n: an,intelli-
and obtained information that comPlanrt. w uai Uio, .L.A. ,long
was collected in the files. destroying any--of the records
Restraint Charged and to. compel the agency to
deliver all the records concern-1
- The complaint contends' that! ing the plaintiffs to the court.
the alleged actions were de-( After the court examines the
signed to restrain the- publish- records in private, the com-
ing activities of: Grove, impair plaint continues, the plaintiffs
Mr. Rosset's. political expres-(should be given ail: the records.
sions on public issues and re- to which they are legally en~
tard the advancement of views titled
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then at 84.-University Place; on
July 26, .1968,: in connection
with. the agency's . domestic
United States -operations,,
Grove's offices . are now at 53
East 11th.Street
9The aagency wiretapped the
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