CIA FILES A BRIEF

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CIA-RDP90-00552R000404510013-5
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December 22, 2016
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July 6, 2010
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February 25, 1980
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/06: CIA-RDP90-00552R000404510013-5 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 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/06: CIA-RDP90-00552R000404510013-5