CIA • 1984

COURT WIDENS SCOPE OF CIA INQUIRY

STAT Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/06/25: CIA-RDP90-00806R000200880034-6 ASSOCIATED PRESS 11 June 1984 COURT WIDENS SCOPE OF CIA INQUIRY WASHINGTON The Supreme Court today widened the scope of its inquiry into whether the Central Intelligence Agency may be forced in some cases to reveal its intelligence sources. The court granted an appeal by members of the Ralph Nader group Public Citizen challenging the CIA's authority to withhold the names of universities where researchers took part in a notorious program in the 1950s and 1960s involving brainwashing and experimental drugs. On March 5, the justices granted a government appeal and promised to review a federal appeals court ruling that the CIA may not refuse automatically to disclose the names of researchers involved in the program, code named MKULTRA...