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WILLIAMS v. F. B. I.

No. 476, Docket 83-6204.

730 F.2d 882 (1984)

John R. WILLIAMS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, William H. Webster, Director, FBI, New Haven Field Office of the FBI, L. Grey Brockman, Special Agent in Charge of New Haven Field Office, FBI, United States Dept. of Justice, Griffin B. Bell, Attorney General of the United States, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 20, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. Williams, New Haven, Conn. (Williams & Wise, New Haven, Conn., on brief), pro se.

Susan Sleater, Washington, D.C. (J. Paul McGrath, Asst. Atty. Gen., Alan H. Nevas, U.S. Atty., New Haven, Conn., William Kanter, Atty., Appellate Staff Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., Washington, D.C., on brief), for defendants-appellants.

Before WINTER and PRATT, Circuit Judges, and METZNER, District Judge.

WINTER, Circuit Judge.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI") appeals from a decision by Magistrate Latimer directing the release of certain information pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552 (1976) ("FOIA"). Chief Judge Daly adopted and approved his ruling. We reverse and remand.

BACKGROUND

In the late 1960's and early 1970's, the FBI had a continuing investigation of the Black Panther Party ("Panthers"), an organization...

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