Legal Opinion
Ralph W. McGehee v. William Casey, Director, Cia
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided October 4, 1983No. 81-2233PublishedCited by 111 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WALD, Circuit Judge:
Appellant Ralph W. McGehee is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer. When he joined the CIA, McGehee signed an agreement that on its face bars him from revealing classified information without prior CIA approval. After the CIA censored portions of a manuscript he wrote, McGehee sought a declaratory judgment that the CIA classification and censorship scheme violates the first amendment and that, even if the scheme were constitutional, his article contains no properly classified material. The district court rejected McGehee’s first amendment challenge, and…
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