MAGAZINE SUES U.S. LABOR PARTY OVR IMPERSONATION OF A REPORTER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00845R000100040003-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 13, 2010
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: August 20, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ITEW YORK TIMES
ARTICLE .ABED 20 AUGUST 1982
ON PAGE
Magazine Sues U.S. Labor Pa
Over Impersonation of a Reporter
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 (AP) - A The suit seeks an injunction on the
$1.5 million damage suit has been filed ground of trademark infringement, un-
by U.S. News & World Report against fair competition and damage to Miss
the U.S. Labor Party, charging that af- Fritz's reputation. It asks for punitive
filiates of the party impersonated the and compensatory damages of $750,000
magazine's White House reporter in in- for the magazine and the reporter.
terviews with news sources. In a sworn statement, Miss Fritz said
The suit said the chairman of the she was called last Feb. 11 by the First
First National Banx of Boston and offi- National Bank of Boston about an inter-
cials of the National Association of view that Richard D. Hill, the bank
Home Builders had received telephone chairman, had given a woman who said
calls from a woman representing her- she was Miss Fritz. A distorted account
self as Sara Fritz, a White House corre- of the interview later appeared in
spondent for the weekly magazine. American Labor Beacon under the by-
In a third instance, a man posing as a line of Katherine Burdman, she said.
reporter for the magazine questioned a The bank gave Miss Fritz the New
staff member of the Senate Select Com- York City telephone number the woman
mittee on Ethics about two of its investi- had furnished
gators. the complaint said. "I called this number and asked to
The suit was filed Wednesday against speak to Sara Fritz of U.S. News &
the New Solidarity International Press' World Report," she said in the court
Service and Campaigner Publications, ! papers. "My call was transferred, and
both affiliated with the U.S. Labor when a woman answered. I asked, 'Is
party, which was founded by Lyndon H. this Sara Fritz?'
Larouche Jr., a three-time candidate "She replied, 'Yes.' I then asked, 'Of
for the Presidency. U.S. News & World Report?' She re-
Two Publications Named sponded by asking, 'Who is this?' and
Court papers filed in the lawsuit said when I identified myself as being from
the publications American Labor Bea- U.S. News & World Report, she
con and Executive Intelligence Review, abruptly terminated the call."
affiliated with the U.S. Labor Party, Miss Fritz said that she had traced
had carried articles containing infor- the call to Campaigner Publications. _
mation provided as a result of the im- Last September, the court papers
personation, said, the call was made to the Senate
In New York, a man who identified Select Committee on Ethics.
himself as Sandy Roberts, a member of Four months later, Miss Fritz said,,
the legal staff of New Solidarity Inter- she learned she had been impersonated
national Press Service, said he had no again by someone who got information
immediate comment on the suit. from the National Association of Home
Builders. A distorted account of that in-
terview was published in Executive In-
telligence Review under the Burdman
byline, she said.
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