ACLU FILES SUIT IN CIA MAIL OPENING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100240100-6
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 25, 2011
• Sequence Number: 100
• Publication Date: July 23, 1975
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON POST
e_,Aroiinil the Nation
Files Suit in. L
PROVIDENCE, R.I.-Thirty present
or former officials of the-Central-Intel-
ligence Agency and other government
agencies yesterday were accused in a
class-action suit of illegally opening
.mail.
' The suit filed by the American Civil
-'Liberties Union in U.S. District Co in
here alleges that officials of the CIA,
the FBI and the Postal Service opened
the first-class mail of plaintiff Rodney
Driver and other Americans.
.? Driver, a University of Rhode Island
mathematics professor, said three let-
''ters he sent to mathematicians in the
Soviet Union were opened and copied.
The Rockefeller commission, which
.'investigated CIA activities, reported in
June that the agency opened some
mail to or from the Soviet Union from
t 1952 to 1973. -
The suit asks the court to order com-
pensatory damages of $20,000 for each
letter opened and read by the CIA and
punitive damages of $i00.000 for each
person. whose mail was opened.
Among those named in the suit` are
former CIA officials Richard Al. Helms
and James R. Schlesinger, former FBI
Director L. Patrick Gray .III, former
Attorney General John N. INlitchell,
and former Postal Service officials
Lawrence F. O'Brien and Winton ? bl.
Blount. ?
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chemical, believed,
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of a CIA attempt to discredit the Hunt caused the explos
W. Herbert Hunt said they held the , Coors' Back
CIA responsible for earlier federal.'- DENVER -
charges that they spied on aides of -? Court of Appeal
allow the CIA to use their overseas . and 1966.
to the federal charges against them. court ruling agai
charged the -Hunt brothers, criminal . errors it claimed
The court said
Texas industrialist with obstruction of _
ment charged that the men conspired statements of inc
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Sept. 15 in .Lubbock, Tex.. A hearing sponsibility for'
to prosecute them and on claims the Guerrilla Family
government was discriminating against1 h;lity for the b
UPS Etl)lolnil was in response
tieve a blast th4t injured 17 workers Treasury agents
in n United Parcel Service terminal "We take this
Hunts Blaine CIA.
DALLAS-Two sons of the . late .bil-
lionaire H. L. Hunt: claiming they
were discriminated against because of
their conservative views, charged that
the Central Intelligence Agency infil-
trated-the family oil empire and used -
secret agents to help embezzle more
than $50 million from them.
The brothers said federal charges P,
cal and not by 1-bomb. the terrorists sa
identified as me`ihyl nitrate, authorities Wilbur (Popey
said. I . the United Pris
However, author
Taxes
e 10th U.S. Circuit
s said . the Adolph
5.1 million in back
tins income in 1965
-med a federal tax
st the Golden, Colo.,
Coors did not prove
were - made by the
Service in computing
Coors had deducted
froth its capital as-
resulting in under-
Me.
lice Bombing
CO - An under-
group claimed re-
ausing $230.000. in
biro Monday night
of the Alcohol TO.
ms Division of the-
ent.
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claimed responsi-
ast, in which four
red, none seriously.
coup said the action
to the slaying of a
tivist the group said
tilled.
action in response to
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n unknown gunman.
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