CIA DIRECTOR DEFENDS RIHA DATA RELEASE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100120091-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2007
• Sequence Number: 91
• Publication Date: October 12, 1977
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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DENVEi POST
12 October 1977
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Denver Post'Stalf Writer In an Oct. 8 letter to Matson, 't'urner
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Adm Stansfield Turner, director of the said he had requested a summary of the e,{ aieh`in ; and d + sn'i An ~: !!~^_
Central intelligence Agency, has main- facts in the Riha case to he prepared by of the uri ?a,l ~u trce of the
twined that the agency has -been "as CIA officials for his review. report or w!:eti+er the infrt!?rtiun i= a+
forthcoming as possible" in releasing its - TORNER AISO SAID he reviewed CIA curate.
`=information ? on the' disappearance and documents realting to an alleged sighting In his I*~ci.rr in '1IaGc?h.. 'tttrr^-' said. "I
whereabouts of Professor Thomas Riha. - of R.ilta in Czechoslovakia in 1973. That am not insr?usiti,,e to the plaintiff's (01r-
Turner said 'he?_is satisfied that infor- report.,' Turner noted, is based upon - veny'si d'sir'! to (!,~lernane whether it*,.
_.mation about Riha- Much the. CIA has..,,,
thin!-hand information" furnished in uncle is. alicr or d' ;ad. ;Io::+ cep, is n ;
withheld from, Mats, estate "appears confidence to the CIA by one of its in- opinion, the nt..st tiiat can b`- 58it' ;,t,q,+'
to have no probative 'value insofar as telligence sources. the information eoraaine tt in n_ene_- +!`??'rr-
ihomas Riha's,disappearance or where-. The CIA director stressed that he was .meats is that it is u~; es:cla=is+'?"
abouts is concerned.
-Turner made his remarks after his re-
cent review of CIA records and reports
on Riha,' who vanished without a trace
from Boulder more-thin 83z years ago.
At that -tune, Riha was an associate
professor of Russian. history at. the Uni- ;
.versitv'of Colorado.
? TURNER AGREED TO the Riha-case
? review in response to a recommenda
??tion made- last Aug.. 1 by U.S. Dist...
,.Judge Richard F.Matsch of .U.S. Dis
. trict Courtin Denver.. .
i iatsch made-the-recommendation In,
an effort to resolve a long-standing battle
that representatives of Riha's estate have
l been waging for' CIA information on the'
,,missing professor. That battle principally
was 'joined by-,Martin D. Buckley of
,Denver; attorney,for Riha's estate and its.:
STAT
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