COLBY v. HALPERIN

No. 80-1721.

656 F.2d 70 (1981)

William COLBY; Henry Kissinger, Appellants, v. Morton HALPERIN, Appellee. In the case of ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC., et al. v. William COLBY, et al.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 6, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alfred Mollin, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (Alice Daniel, Asst. Atty. Gen., Justin W. Williams, U. S. Atty., Leonard Schaitman, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., on brief), for appellants.

John Cary Sims, Washington, D. C. (Katherine A. Meyer, Washington, D. C., on brief), for appellee.

Before WINTER, Chief Judge, HAYNSWORTH, Senior Circuit Judge and RUSSELL, Circuit Judge.


HAYNSWORTH, Senior Circuit Judge:

A continuing effort publicly to disclose classified information obtained by Victor Marchetti in his capacity as a highly placed official in the Central Intelligence Agency brings this simmering controversy before us for the third time. This time it is an effort by Morton Halperin, Director of the Center for National Security Studies, to obtain partial relief from a protective order imposed upon him in connection with a permitted disclosure...

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