NATIONAL COM'N ON LAW ENFORCEMENT v. C. I. A.

No. 77-1366.

576 F.2d 1373 (1978)

NATIONAL COMMISSION ON LAW ENFORCEMENT AND SOCIAL JUSTICE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

June 12, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry L. Weissman, Beverly Hills, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant.

Leonard Schaitman, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendants-appellees.

Before WRIGHT and TANG, Circuit Judges, and BURNS, District Judge.


EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:

This appeal arises under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. § 552 et seq. The National Commission on Law Enforcement and Social Justice (NCLE) has appealed from the district court's summary judgment that records withheld from it by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) are exempt from disclosure under the Act's Exemptions One and Three, 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(1) and...

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