COURT BACKS CIA ON CENSORSHIP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100250004-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: April 29, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE WASHINGTON STAR (GREEN LINE
29 April 1981
Court. Backs CIA on Censors ip
A U.S. District Court judge yester- of the, deleted information had be-
day denied a claim by the Center for come public since the book was-
National Security' Studies that the printed and that the CIA had failed
Central Intelligence Agency should , to cite adequate, reasons, for withe
be required to divulge the material holding the rest.'
y;
it censored from a book published is But in a 23-page opinion, US. Dis:
1974 by two former CIA agent; ... trict Judge Oliver Gasch rejected the
The book _"T
he-CIA and the Cult
of Intelligence," e- John Marks and claims and wrote that the Cut should:-
- Victor L . Marchetti, was printed not be required'to prove that classi
fied material had not become public.
with censor.g thaw ike 169-deletions CIA had a..righl to a court -To hold to the contrarywould put-.
ruling that.ih
on the-CFA the impossible burden-,of
the:_writings of former r em- - ?
proving a negative, the judge wrote.-
ployees
In a lawsuit filedslast year under* John Cary Sims, one of the attor=
the Freedom of Information Act, law- neys for the center, said an, appeal
ers for the Center for National Se-
Y -,:is likely,
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