CIA HEAD AGREES TO REVIEW OF RIHA FILE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100120099-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2007
• Sequence Number: 99
• Publication Date: October 5, 1977
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE DENVER POST
5 October 1977
CU PROF MISSING SINCE 190`9.
.
By FRED DILLIES
Denver Post Staff Writer
Ad.n: Stansfield Turner, director of the
Central Intelligence Agency, : has agreed
to review CIA files on the disappeareance
of Prof. Thomas Riha..?
Turner's review 19 In response to a
recommeridation `made Aug, 1. by U.S.
Dist:. Judge Richard P. Matscii of
Denver._ Matsch'. had asked Justice
Department attorneys to request the
Turner review to help ' resolve a long-
standing battle for - Infofination. on. the
missing University of Colorado professor.
Riha, an. associate- professor of Russian
history at CU; vanished -Without a trace
on March 15, 1969.
SI CE EARLY 1976,. Martin D. Buckley
of Denver, attorney for Riha's estate, has
waged a battle for access to CIA records
on Rhia.
In July 1976, Buckley filed a lawsuit
against the CIA to compel full disclosure
of its data on Riha. That action was
taken on behalf of Zdenek Cerveny of
Boulder, Riha's nephew and conservator
of Riha's estate
Documents furnished by the CIA to the
Riha estate before and after filing of the
lawsuit have been questioned sharply by
Buckley. . . - ,;
The CIA, Buckley said at the August
hearing in Denver, has deleted much in-
formation from the Riha documents and
has withheld other documents entirely.
And Buckley challenged the CIA's claim
that disclosure of the withheld infer;. R
tion would jeopardize national sccur;.:..
national defense.
TILE ESTATE, BUCKLES said at I''
time,.has no way of knowing V:h_ethl-
has received all CIA records and
on ltiha. Those records were requr
by Buckley under the Freedom of I r - -
mation Act.
Buckley also said the estate rlke5ut
know whether the supplied document=
credible, particularly a documc'it c ?.'-
cerning a reported sighting of IRhl! 1
-Czechoslovakia in late 1973.
Under a recent court order issur,'
blatsch, Turner has until Oct. 10 to
complete. his review of the CIA's flit o..
file.
Buckley said Tuesday he was p'ez-
that Turner is wil'.ing to review the Ritc
file.
"Based on what I've read
Turner, he will be conscientious is F
review," Buckley said.
STAT
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