TILTING AT WINDMILLS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000604990002-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 1, 2012
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: June 1, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

STAT
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/01 CIA-RDP90-00965R000604990002-5
APITIE WASHINGTON MONTHLY
am PA, June 1985
TILTING AT WINDMILLS
A nother terrible
decision by the Supreme
Court: This one says the CIA
does not have to disclose the
names,of researchers who
participated in a CIA study
of the control of human
behavior, in which mind
altering drugs were
administered without the
subject's knowledge. The
court bought the CIA's
argument that the researchers
were "intelligence sources."
Since they were obviously not
"sources" in the ordinary
sense-they were not Russian
dissidents slipping us Soviet
!missile plans-the court
? appears to have given the
CIA the broadest kind of
authority to withold
information from the public.
Here is how Linda
Greenhouse of The New York
Times describes it:
"Under the ruling,
information the agency says
it needs to `perform its
statutory duties with respect
to foreign intelligence' is
exempt from disclosure under
the Freedom of Information
Act. The exemption applies
regardless of whether the
information is shown to have
a bearing on national
security and regardless of
whether the source of the
information is a newspaper
or magazine in general
circulation ".. .
-Charles Peters
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/01 : CIA-RDP90-00965R000604990002-5