CITY MAN FED DATA TO FBI, CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00845R000100440004-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 28, 2010
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: September 25, 1977
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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25 Sr PTF"'-9 ER 19,77
ByTnoMAS n1. aunroN type ei information Mr. Rees gave to
iA Baltimore man has acknowledged State Police officers. He confirmed that
under oath that he has collected intelli- the State Police received the intelligence
gence on liberals and the left since 19671. newsletter but said it was unsolicited by; curity Committee (once called fhe. Het ie.:,~
and forwarded it to many federal inteiti . the" gency.; ;'; Ur -American Activities CoihtnitEeel: -
gence organizations, including the FBI. Mr. Rees believed to be 51 ears old
Y Since 1908, i1xr. and Mrs. Rees have
John Herbert Rees, of the 2900 block gave his deposition, Which has been filed ..,printed in Information Digest-and dis? `:
North Howard street, acknowledged in a in United States District Court in Wash tributed to police and other investigative
civil suit deposition that he supplied infor- ingion, in. a suit brought by the Institute agencies-data on the noncriminal activi-
mation on the Washington-based Institute for Policy Studies, a liberal-left research, ties of thousands of liberal and left-wing
iS j>hinaton ,oliceinst the 'FBI and the individuals and organizations, including: `5 ?,
,su e 1 i both by.,:-, a
for Poi tle atudi s and b FBI
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ith his bi -week intelligence newsletter, Q1 {~ . 'fhe shit claims, among c(her alle'ga Kcal y spelled ioi people attending be Feb -A
Digest. dons, that. agents and informants of the 11
Mr. Rees also has provided information':; }, . _ two police agencies infiltrated ,the -instiruary, 1973; national conventione the
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"from time to time" to the Maryland State`'., t,+ in the early 1970's and spied on their:.. Nauonal Lawyers Guild in Aus,n T
Police Intelligence Division, Col. Thomas activities ', ' ~.;',?:~- ? A list of Entertainers"such as the iat-l
S. Smith, superintendent of the State ' P0- I 'Another' federal 'suit, .brought by the Rod Serling, Donna Reed and Theodore
lice, confirmed yesterday; "We'd probably :I'lIational Lawyers Guild, alleges. that Mr. ...;Bike!, whom the newsletter aescribed as'
call him up and say, 'What do - you. i te+~s's wife, Sheila, white serving on the .'i "sympathetic to the Iradical)'movement:'%
know? Colonel Smith said. "He wasn'ta,guild's national executive board in 1972:1 The newsletter said attempts were made.1
paid informant though." Colonel Smith"," and'1973, "surreptitiously" provided Infor=. - to return this list to its owner because;'un
emphasized that Mr. Rees provided irfor, inaLion on the guild :to the FBI;"pur_ der certain circumstances the publisning
mation only occasionally, loiued guild documents and "disrupted" of stolen lists is illegal.". .
Colonel Smith declined to say what . ? A list of Ifre'se'platesseen outside.,!
lid J0II,1 1i. tFESti; iii, y
Mrs. Rees currently works for Rep;-e-
'sentative Larry P.McDonald (D., Ga.) and
*~ . ,i, _ .. the Rev; Jdba Set)ey"', ;~:
1970_ Black Panthers convention in Phila=
The, ewsletter. printed ; Inform Lion
about the Institute for Policy Studies, list-
ing names, which the pulication said
were phonetically spelled, of resident fel-
lows of the institute and names of eminent
people-such as the Rev. Channing E.l
.Phillips, playwright Arthur' Diller and
Julian Bond-who the newsletter said
took active roles at the institute.
-Recent attempts to interview Mr. Rees
have been unsuccessful. Phone messages
left with his lawyer in Washington, Louis I
Ingram, have not been answered by Mr.
Rees, though Mr. Ingram said h_ told Mr.
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