SUPER-SECRET COURT HOLDS SPYING REINS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100490018-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 30, 2010
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: March 20, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/08/30 :CIA-RDP90-008068000100490018-8
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20 MARCIi 1981
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='.`sweep'_-'..is conducted-,before;each -i's composedof seven federal'judges~ ~ t r Y~''~ '~' ~ " ~ = ~',~~~`
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.session,'to prevent. liugging.~ Even ~'om: around the country; ~vas'con :~ ?. ;, ,; 3 F~
tithe,`defeadant"isnot rrnittedin ~stdered:a' 'steforward from: j`" ~ ,,~. .r,, '~
pe ~_ .. p rt A?famous instance of.this former;
side; Indeed, he is not itiformed_of ~ the oId,'days;wlien.FBI=omcials, on~ "discretion".occurred in 1969 when,
the proceedings. ; f'" ~,; , ,,.f,r ,theirowa ,could decidewhosehoirae? ;the aclmmtst"ration:tapped the tele=
,, ::Such.aze the tight security pre ; ;should be secreily'searched,wire :- 'phones.tof .`.13 National :;Security`
cautions for:the"J.S. Foreign Intel ',~ tapped or electronicallyoverheard_ .; ?Council,employee8~and four news=?
ligence Surveillance. Court, a little I', ~ ~~ The vagueness of those old star ~: `men in an effort to detect the souzce'~
.known a.-id super-secret:aru- of the .a 'dards led to abuses that` ultimately:. of news Leaks about,the then secret
:federal . judiciary ;charged .by law ri ,resulted iri sweeping .investigations J U.S. bombing of Cambodia ';r,a ~ ~'?'~~
:`with approving or.disapproving re L~ :of the FBi and-CLA. As one resul ` ,.:;;.Some of.the wiretaps remaIried iri~j-
,.. quests by U.S. intelligence agencies 1 ~tiifi~:Mark-Felt:and Edward S: Miller;:. =effect for: more than a year; but the
' Lo' spy on American citizeps ui this were convicted ~ last ~ November on; FBI :Later: acknowledged that :they
,..country. ;," ; ~ - .. = ,~.; : -. ,.'~ ~ chazges that': as -FBI~'offieials? they;
had_'provided no evidence ~ against,i
,;;,;; So tight is the security ihat'only a liad?. ordered, illegal vbreak--ins in. h
anyone'After the:irzcident-came to{
'select few officials from the:'FBI, ~; .'1972 and ~2973`iti searching for fugi , ; tghtdunng:;the ;Natergate era, tt~i
the3usticeDe artment and the Na five members of the ~Teather Un ,
tiorial Security Agency may attend F ~dergroundt'~ ~' ?~ .r_y- ~'~' ~~`_'~'..,. ,became a House Judiciary Comtrut,`
??- .tee article of rrripeachment agauist;
the-court's sessions. And, although i{ ~ =sAlthauglr_~tie. surveillance--court~~ t Nutori in 1974.+~,.}-~-'~-~.x,. .~_? . ~?
_ it'is housed on the sixth floor at-JU''-.?~ -was created to prevent such abuses, ; -. ~ _ ~YT, ? ~ ~* ~ y .~
-.lice Department headquarters,_t>:ie:~f "certain feattues-of the`court;have~' ~; ~?lfshe.sui:deillar~ce;cotzi't had ex=.
`~attorne . eneral himself cannot en ~ C. displeased both conservatives and ? rated then, the Ntxori White, Hoiise~
y g ; I ..:. ,.. :would have.had to; show the special
' I.er the court unassisted. He does not , ~ :? ~ -~ ~ ?' r
_ ~ liberals:. ~ . ~~ ~ . ~ Y; r court'there was "probable cause";to;
'have the lock combinations. _ ~" `i~ :The Washington based Hentaee~ ,;believe that;each"of ~the-:proposed
"T~`~ *~=~- ~. _~_. _. *? _- ~ ~F'otindatton, a conservative; think _ .- . i..=.