DAVID ATLEE PHILLIPS V. DONALD FREED, ET AL.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100140069-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 2, 2010
• Sequence Number: 69
• Publication Date: October 3, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE .A.i'FL 1 RED THE !NATION
ON F.hGE 3 OCTO3 t 1981
DAVID AT,EE PHILLIPS Y. DONALD FRED, et al.
Author Donald Freed, attorney William Pepper, political scientist Fred Landis,
_ teacher Patricia Freed and several others are being sued by former Senior Officers
of the Central Intelligence Agency for S90 million. A group of retired spies called
the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, founded by David Atlee Phillips
in 1975, has raised a "war chest" to finance the suit against Freed, hoping it will
serve as a test case to deter other writers or critics of the C.I.A. from making
ausuru
charges.:.-
As Charles Morgan said in a Pacifica radio news essay:
- .::Death in Washington...is a thoroughly researched, apparently. deeply docu--
mented work, tightly, one might say tautly, drawn. It is clearly written, in some
places poetic..:: Unhappily, it is not fiction. It is- a damning indictment of"fact..._ :?.
.-More than a ridiculous demand for $30 million in compensatory and punitive. :
damages on each of three counts is at stake here. -'..The privatesuit of David Atlee =' =
Phillips is an ominous straw in a chilly wind against which our faces must be turned
as we scr'ub away at devious plots and plans. A
Former United States. Attorney General RAMSEY CLARK and the noted civil
liberties advocate MEL WULF have agreed to be chief counsels in the defense and
countersuit of Freed. They do so at a time when the Reagan Administration is at-.
temp ting?to eradicate restraints on the C.I-.A. and the F.B.I.;and to.render useless -
the Freedom of Information Act. Again quoting Morgan, "Add to this the pros-
pect of suits, individual and class actions, to stifle further voices that dissent to po-
' ".lice state organizations and their activities. Nineteen eighty-one counts down to -
1984:"
The"et al." in the case caption includes many others as yet unnamed. But we are
a// the et al., for censorship reaches into every home in.the land when pit reaches= _
just one. The costs of preparing a defense against such charges could mount into-
the six-figure range; despite the generously donated labor of several attornzys_
But it would cost far more-to ignore it.
"This attempt to silence critical voices like that of Donald Freed's
is very serious. I hey are'not playing games.
starts-think of Germany, think of Chile..."
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3760 Cardiff Ave., Los Angeles, Ca. 90034
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