'CIA DIARY' ON SALE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300410015-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 2, 2004
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: April 11, 1975
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For.Release 2005/01/11 : CIA-RDP8B-01315R000300410015-1
WASHINGTON POST z I APR 1975
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wary-. on.,
By Judith Martin -
decided to import them any-
way.
it is illegal to import for-
eign-made books in English
by American authors or 'for-
eigners living in the United
States if copyright is
claimed on the material. ac-
cording to John Atwood,
who heads the U.S. Customs
Bureau's copyright section.
The Customs Bureaus ex-
perience with violators is
mostly with American pub-
lishers who have contracted
out the printing of books
abroad, said Atwood. The
penalty is forfeiture of the
books. He added that he
knew of no instance when
"Inside the Company" had
been found to be imported
illefally.
Kramer's imported ? 200
copies from "London distrib-
utors whom we deal. with
regularly," and was advised
by a lawyer that the lawn
was sufficiently murky to
make a case. Discount Books
has 1,000 copies obtained
"through friends." said the
firm's president, Bob Biolek,
"Inside the Company: CIA
Diary," the book by ex-agent
Philip Agee. that caused a
furor in the Central Int?1Ii-
gence Agency by naming
names, is ? on sale. at Dis-
count Book Shop and Sid-
ney Kramer Books, as it is
In other bookstores around
the country.
The British and Canadian
Penguin paperbacks, being
snapped up at S2.93. are
marked "not for sale In the
U.S.A." The fact that the
book was not readily avail-
able lure 'after its publica-
tion in England earlier this
year has made it something
of a collector's item.
But widely discussed fears
of CIA blocking action and
libel suits had nothing to do
with the laws against im-
porting the book, for which
an American publisher is
now being negotiated by th.?
author's agent. An 1391 copy-
right law, with a labor pro-
tection clause designed to
protect the interests of
American book manufactur-
ers, kept them out until sev-
eral American booksellers
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