S.L. PSYCHOLOGIST SAYS REFUSAL LED TO HARASSMENT, ASSAULT, SEARCHES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000303510001-0
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• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 23, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 4, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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SALT LAKE CITY DESERET NEWS (UT
4 October 1983
S1L.refusal led
psychplogistsays
to harassment, assault, searches
By Brett DelPorto Since that time, he and his wife,
Deseret News staff writer. - Y Sinikka, have been subjected to ha-
rassment that he believes has been
A Salt Lake man says ~ be and his perpetrated by the CIA in Finland
wife were followed, physically as- and by'the FBI once he returned to
saulted and subjected to unautho- Salt LabeUi~': r
razed searches of their home by FBI I.t+at cited,nuerxis instances th e procesa.aof-;etnigrag.IO' the
and CIA agents after he refused to I j4 claims. the hand?Qf g United States, has been questioned
participate in US,oeVieit' itles eia eat evident He ""said be an on technicalitie ;F ,ws
Lee Lasater, a Salt Lae counsel- home searched. On one occasion, he to be challenging the government,
a sme to
ing psychologist, filed suit Monday in said, his wife was physically as- ; btit they alle. they mhet put
U S .District Court asking for re - saulted., feel
such tactics.
cords ed says the CBI and a He also `said his wife received "I learned-long' ago that a bully
inulatd on him when fie
Finland between June 1978 and Otto- anonymous phone calls in which the only gets more aggressive if you re-
ber 1979. caller claimed Lasater was seeing fuse to stand up to him," he said. "My
Lasater was joined at a press con- other women. The immigration sta- wife and I have been subjected to
ference Monday by Shirley Pedler, tus of his wife, a Finnish national in such a bully."
executive director of the Salt Lake
American - Ciyil Liberties Unim
which is sponsoring the-lawsuit.
Ms. ' Pedler said the complaint
asks for an injunction to force the
CIA and FBI to surrender Lasater's
records in accordance with the Free-
dom of Information Act. Both agen-
cies have refused to turn the docu-
ments over, citing national security
reasons. But Ms. Pedler says the
F IA.jequires the government to
give a.point-by-point explanation for
refusal to comply with the act.
"The protections against improp-
er governmental intrusions into the
lives of US. citizens, as afforded per ;
the terms of the FOIA, are virtually
meaningless if the government can
issue, without justification, blanket
denials by invoking unilateral na-
tional security claims," Ms. Pedler
said in a press release.
Lasater said he was invited to go
to Helsinki, Finland, to .lecture at
'universities. During that- time, he .
was approached by representatives,
of the American Embassy and asked
to participate in surveillance activi-
ties of Finnish military personnel. '
L eater said he refused. "You just
don't accept the hospitality of some-
one else in their own home and then
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