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HOLY SPIRIT ASS'N, ETC. v. C. I. A.

Nos. 79-2143, 79-2202.

636 F.2d 838 (1980)

HOLY SPIRIT ASSOCIATION FOR THE UNIFICATION OF WORLD CHRISTIANITY, Appellant, v. CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY and Stansfield Turner.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided December 23, 1980.

As Amended April 2, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dorothy Sellers, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Freddi Lipstein, Atty., Civ. Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., with whom Alice Daniel, Asst. Atty. Gen., Charles F. C. Ruff, U. S. Atty., and Leonard Schaitman, Atty., Civ. Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Stanley M. Brand, Gen. Counsel to the Clerk, United States House of Representatives, Washington, D. C., with whom Steven R. Ross, Asst. Counsel to the Clerk, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for amicus curiae, Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.

Before BAZELON, Senior Circuit Judge, and MIKVA and EDWARDS, Circuit Judges.

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge MIKVA.

MIKVA, Circuit Judge:

In May of 1978, appellant (Unification Church) filed a request pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA or Act), 5 U.S.C. § 552 (1976), for all Central Intelligence Agency (CIA or Agency) records relating to the Church or to its members. When the Agency failed to respond, appellant filed this action for injunctive relief. Since...

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