CIA FILES A BRIEF

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404510013-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 6, 2010
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: February 25, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
25 February 1980 F_
STAT
Ie CIA Files a Brief
in Mind-Control Suit
The Central Intelligence Agency
argues that more harm than good
would result from disclosure of the
names of university researchers in-
volved in mind-control experiments
financed by the agency in the 1950's
and 1960's.
In response to a suit filed last year,
by John Cary Sims, a lawyer for
Ralph Nader 's Public Citizen Litiga-
tion Group, U. S. District Judge
Louis Oberdorfer ordered the C-1-A.
to release names of researchers in-
volved in human-behavior dcode '
lion projects. known by the
name MK-ULTRA.
Although the C.I.A. released some
names of individuals and institutions
involved, it appealed the lower-court
ruling. In a brief filed this month with
the U. S. Court of Appeals for the{
District of Columbia, the agency ar-1,
gued that full disclosure. could not i
only damage reputations but "sub-'
sourcesability to'
stantiall haarm" the
develop g
STAT
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