CIA TOLD TO SUBMIT AFFIDAVIT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000200970119-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 30, 2010
• Sequence Number: 119
• Publication Date: August 26, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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SYRACUSE POST-STANDARD
26 August 1981
CLtTold
By GLORIA WRIGHT
The Daily Orange's attempts to gain.
information from.tbe Central Intelli-'
gence Agency about any involvement
the agency may have with Syracuse
University won partial support Tuesday
from U.S. District Judge Howard G.
Munson.
In a 27-page opinion, Munson ordered
the CIA to submit an affidavit within 60
days demonstrating that' the ? agency
complied with federal law in "refusing
to confirm or deny the existence of co-'
vert activity" at the university.
Munson also ruled, however, that the
CIA was not required to. turn over sev-
eral documents the daily student news-
paper had sought, including reports of
inspection visits made by the CIA to
Syracuse Research Corp. facilities and
the dollar amounts of research con
tracts between the-university and the
CIA.
In December 1977, Howard Mans-.
field, then-managing editor of the Daily
Orange, sent a request under the Free-
dom of Information Act to the CIA seek-
ing information concerning Professor
William Coplin, director of the Public
Affairs Department in the Maxwell.
School of Citizenship. The newspaper
wanted to know about` research Coplin.
had allegedly done for the CIA involving {
"a system to predict revolutions in ba-
nana republics,