MOON'S CHURCH ACCEPTS DELAY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000201090010-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 25, 2010
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: October 28, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE APPEARED
ON PAGE
THE WASHINGTON POST
28 October 1981
CIA Fighting Disclosure
Moon's Church Accepts Delay
United Prey inuemewnU high court. The church said it would
Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unifi- not oppose the CIA request as long
cation Church, in a surprise move, as the agency makes a prompt ap-
told the Supreme Court yesterday peal to the justices.
that it does not oppose a CIA re- The CIA claims the-, material is
quest to block temporarily -..the re- exem t from disclosure under the
lease of certain secret documents p
requested by the group;. Freedom--of, -Information Act - on-
The CIA has asked Chief Justice grounds "of foreign policy or national
Warren Burger to delay implementa- security,". as well as the protection of
tion of a lower-court decision order- "intelligence sources and. methods.".
ing the agency to turn over what it The case began in 1978 when the
cells "sensitive intelligence informa- church made its original request for
'lion" on U.S.-Korean relations. the information. After, the , CIA re? =
The agencywanfs the delay until fused to turnover many.'of the doc-
it can make ,& full-scale appeal to the uments, the church filed suit.
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