Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. v. Colby

HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge:

This is a sequel to United States v. Marchetti, 4 Cir., 466 F.2d 1309 in which, because of a secrecy agreement he had executed, we upheld an injunction prohibiting Marchetti’s public disclosure of classified information acquired by him during the course of his employment by the Central Intelligence Agency and requiring him to submit any material he intended to publish to that agency for its review in advance of publication.

After our earlier decision, Marchetti, in collaboration with John Marks, a former employee of the State Department who had bound himself not- to…