CIA CAN KEEP QUIET

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000200970118-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 29, 2010
• Sequence Number: 118
• Publication Date: February 19, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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SYRACUSE POST-STANDARD (NY)
19 February 1982
By EDWARD P. DUNK t
The Central Intelli ence Agency con-
sider. co ege campuses "vital
sources of intelligence," according to
information made public Thursday in
a decision by U.S. District Judger
Howard G. Munson. ' '
In a federar court order, Munson.
upheld the CIA's contention that the
agency doesn't have to confirm or
deny whether it has engaged in covert
activities on the Syracuse University
campus. -
Munson ruled that the CIA's argu-
ments in the SU case came under a
1979 executive order ~ Wat gives the
.nation's counter-intelligence force an
exemption from the Freedom .of In-
formation.Act in certain cases...
"What's important to note is that
Judge Munson went much further -
than other courts have" on the issue,
one which is the subject of legislation
before Congress, according to Daan
Braveman, an attoreey~ for .the plan- 'i
...tiff. .. ,f,=. :~.
The case initiated in 1979 by SU's
student newspaper, the Daily.Orange, `
is of national importance because
Munson required the CIA to offer an
.explanation why it~ shouldn't reveal
any information, Braveman said.
:? ~ ,.The Daily Orange demanded to
know; under the Freedom of Informa-
tion Law; whether the CIA had agents
on campus during the~1960s and '70x. -
Braveman said that through infor-
mationreleased bythe government, it
is now known the CIA did monitor one
professor's mail and was involved in
some surveillance on campus- in the
1970x. - : ,
However, the CIA has maintained
that to reveal whether it had agents at
SU - or any college campus.- would
violate national security:
In his 12-page decision, Munson de-
tailedexplanations given in an affida-
vit by Don Wortman, CIA deputy
director for administration and.chair-
.. man of its Information Review Com-
Wortman told the judge that col-
lege campuses are important to the
CIA for three main reasons: _ , .1
? "Foreign intelligence informa- ~
tion" mhy be collected from "persons I,
who have travelled abroad," which is '~,
of useao the agency. ii
? University personnel may be
,used as "confidential contacts" to as-
f sist in the "recruitment of non-Ameri-
. cans as foreign intelligence sources"
? Schools are sources of contra,~-
tual and consultative information r
foreign policy research and d~eve p-~
ment... ;., ~ ~ . .
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