CIA GOT SPY DATA FROM CITY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100200010-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 2, 2011
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: May 10, 1978
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE CENTRAL.Intelligesce Ageaey
improperly - amassed information about:,
Chicagoans with the 1ie1p of the Chicago
Police Department's :Red Squad,. accord. =
;ing to CIA documents released by. a:civil
rights group Tuesday.
The operations were conducted agaiaat
antiwar activists in the late 1960s - and
early '1970s.?-The conducting of such' do-
mestic activities was it violation of the;
CIA's 1947 charter.-
The charges' were mhde` by'.tlle: Alli--
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ance to End Repression and were sup...
ported- by. documents. released to ?? the.;
group by the CIA-in'a local.courtaction.
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THE DOCUMENTS Include city police
reports.taken from.-CIA files and bear-
ing Clkfille numbers;- CIA weekly situa-
tion reports on Chicago peace activists, :
and information gathered on former Cbi-
cago-Ald:A. A. [Sammyl Rayner in-his
unsuccessful 1970 campaign 'for, Con-
Continued from page one veillance abuses led to the CIA's court-
ordered production of the documents.
,assisted this office many times in the Though the documents show that the
last 10 years." CIA put the imforbution In its files, Gut. ,
The telex message was dated May 26, . man said, "there is nothing to suggest..
.1977.? the CIA stepped' In and did the gather.
-'THE DOCUMENTS we've obtained,
S.41D THAT be asal his group be? 'HE indicate that the CIA was gathering in- Iieved -such direct CIA involvement
formation on a broad spectnim of adivl- - --would have been the next step if they
ney, Richard Gutman, in a Loop press Gutman said he did not know the ex-
conference. :tend of Needham's cooperation with the
--We think.that-this demonstratss?that' CIA. "But now,"-,be said, "we know
the' Chicago police Department: had an whom to go to for a deposition."- '
ongoing'.relat3onvhip with the CIA;.that:,:;, Needham,'bowerer, later denied that-
they. be had ever provlded the CIA .with- any
the : information Involving "it dice' Investiga
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suit against the city about alleged?sur ?..?xarrafge!n,. tor'vhdtingi otficials and?
State Depaifimemt bueimsss.17 Rayner ;and .Getman wen 'joined ar
the press: cooler oe - bT 13 id Lams," a
writer and peace =&Ist. -Lens'' CIA file
produced- some.. of the. documents. re?
A: CIA Telex. message in the released
files also names Patrick Needham, a .
Chicago deputy police superintendent, as.
--liaison contact" with the CIA and calls #,,
him - "a? most cooperative, understand-l
ing,aq4,helpfol police_ ficial'who has-'
-to &hdM:b2:ft Soviet
had Written
leased Tuesday::' bzbx sg a letter . be,
Rayner was gibed whether he tkioughtl
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