Julius Epstein v. Stanley Resor, Secretary of the Army Department of the Army Department Ofdefense

MERRILL, Circuit Judge:

This suit was brought pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552(a) (3) 1 to enjoin appellee, as Secretary of the Army, from continuing to withhold from appellant documents contained in an Army file.

Appellant, a historian, is research associate at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. His special interest concerns war refugees. He is preparing a book on the forced repatriation of anti-Communist Russians following World War II, and for this purpose desires to examine the Army file designated “Forcible Repatriation of…