EXTREMIST PAPER GETS POLICE PRESS CARDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000400180002-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 28, 2014
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: November 4, 1965
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/01/30: CIA-RDP73-00475R000400180002-3
HERALD TR MUM?.
NOV 4 1965
Extremist Paper Gets
Pctlittless Car*,
The New York Civil Liberties
. Union announced that after
' eight months of negotiations
the Police Department had.
agreed.tq isse?e3
ing press
cards to ,Challenge, the Pro-.
ikw
?
: gressive 'Labo?-4-- ovement's
weekly newspaper. Police ar-
gued that the Commissioner'
had the discretion to issue the
(------, cards, which get a reporter
?... -1? 'past police and fire lines and'
make his identity official, or? .
not to issue the,an, Two_other.
, weeklies, the - National En-
quirer,. ? and the"--Amsterdarn
rNeWS, have received .the cards,'
. and 'the, ?Civil Libeitieg unioli '
:argued that it was abridge-
ment of freedom of the press
for Challenge to be ? denied
them,
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/01/30: CIA-RDP73-00475R000400180002-3