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ALLEN v. CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

No. 80-1380.

636 F.2d 1287 (1980)

Mark A. ALLEN, Appellant v. CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY et al.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided November 12, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James H. Lesar, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Wendy M. Keats, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., with whom Alice Daniel, Asst. Atty. Gen., Charles F. C. Ruff, U. S. Atty., and Leonard Schaitman, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellees.

Before WRIGHT, Chief Judge, and MIKVA and EDWARDS, Circuit Judges.

Opinion for the court filed by Chief Judge J. SKELLY WRIGHT.

J. SKELLY WRIGHT, Chief Judge:

This case concerns a request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)1 by appellant Mark A. Allen that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) disclose a 15-page document containing information related to the assassination of President Kennedy. Citing Exemption 22 of the FOIA, the CIA has refused to release...

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