LICENSE TO SLANDER?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400190031-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 28, 2000
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: May 6, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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MILWAUKEE, WISC.
JOURNAL
fE-362,013
MAY 6 1966
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The implications of this theory, if.
CIA to lift a corner of Its veil of
secrecy.
ger national security by forcing the
cial orders, therefore it was uttered
in effect by the, government itself
and the governent can't be sued!
Further, that a trial would endan-
th'e plaintiff without recoturse.
The CIA's shocking claim is that:
the accusation was uttered on dffl-
y
!being an agent of the Soviet secret
police. The agency forbade its ms,n
to give a deposition and has de-
manded that the judge` throw out
tha 'whole case summarily, ? leaving
The 'plaintiff in the $110,000 dam-
age suit claims that a felldw Eston-
ian hative,' who is a CIA operative,
and falsely accused him of
ublicl
Imit tinder with immunity.
law. The central intelligence agency
zation can get away with setting it-,
self altogether above and beyond the
'6vhether the government spy organi-
!court at Baltimore will determine
License to Slander?
A showdown case in the feder6l I
Constitution does not conceivably
We are in very deep troubles Thb,
it can go aroun s art rring peop
who are not allowed to seek justice,
j:}t is not willing to defend in court.
A 1 d In
gitimate and necessary is not to let
its agents make accusations that it
If
A simple way for the CIA to
guard whatever secrecy may be le-
American people themselves.
our courts should swallow it, are
horrendous. The CIA would have a
license to blacken reputations at
will for its own reasons, which would
be nobody's business but its own,
with no accountability e v e n to
courts of justice. The door would
be bpen to use the spy arm of the
government as an instrument of
tyranny and oppression against the
d .Rnnot- conceivably. open bii
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Re2000/08/26: CIA-RDP75-00001R0