CIA APPEALING ORDER TO YIELD DATA TO MOON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404030066-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 31, 2010
• Sequence Number: 66
• Publication Date: October 23, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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?.c`?TiCi:E APPEAREI? ~ THE WASHINGTON POST
0.`1 PAGE
23 October 1981
CAA ~~pealing
order to Yield. __
Data to ~'~oon ~ ? ~ ~ .
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Unlted Prey (A~~pn~
The Central Intelligence Agency ?~
asked the Supreme Court yesterday--
to block what it called an unprece-
dented court order that it turn ~ ?ver
"sensitive intelligence information"
to the Rsv. Sun Myung Moon's Uni=
fication Church.:.... > : ;. -i __
The CIA argued that exemptions
in the Freedom of Information Act
'. allow it to withhold the documents,
which concern "Korean-American re- .
lations during. the late 1970x." 'i
The CIA, in urging the- justices, tug
delay a lower court ruling, said.the
material requested by Moon's getup,. I
is exempt. from disclosure .~ on;. I
grounds "of foreign policy or national." i
security," as well as the protection'oP'
"intelligence sources and methods;"" ~-'
"This is the first caxe in which a~'
court of appeals actually has ordered-:
' the disclosure of sensitive intetli-
gence information that is clasgified;
under an executive order of.the pres- ,
ident in the interest of national . se-
curity," the agency argued,
"Such a [lower court] decision haa;~
ramifications faz beyond the discrete'
injtuy that might result from disclo-F
sure of the particular intelligenee~'-
sources involved." - w
The CIA case began in 1978 when ti-
the Unacation Church made ,its;
original request for the information. ,
After the agency refused to turn over,
many of the. documents, the church;;.
filed suit.. -
A federal district judge. ordered
the release of parts of six documents..
. The judge noted the papers "involver `
congressional and Department ? ..of:.
Justice inquiries into ...Korean-:
American relations during the late;,,
1970s and refer only incidentally to:'
the Unification -Church or -its, I
founder Sun Myung Moon." "
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