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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700500026-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 8, 2004
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: October 17, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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counter-espionage apparatus.!'
a civil suit involving privilege, which
went to the Supreme Court In 1952. There,
Chief Justice 1 reu Vinson upheld the
Government's r;giit of prlvilege in denying,
.'.the use in cou- of r._iuments pertaining.
to a military-p'1.crash because the doe-,
uments contained secret information on?
equipment aboard the plane. Chief Justice,
Vinson's decision noted the difficulties'; f~.
of the question.
"Judicial experience with the privilege
cision began. "... Nevertheless, the prin- ?i
longs to the Government and must be as-'
cl
serted by it." But, the Chief Justice
wrote, "it is not to be lightly invoked."
cocoon of a routine civil suit. The right
may well be in ti,e public interest to de-
stroy a man's rcpu'.ation it that man, as
'. I
dilemma that confronts Judge Thomsen. :;.
OCR 17 1966
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