Legal Opinion
Peter Irons v. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 24, 1989No. 87-1516PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION EN BANC
BREYER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiffs in this case, academic historians researching the McCarthy Era, have sued the government under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”), 5 U.S.C. § 552 (1982 & Supp. IV 1986). The plaintiffs want the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) to give them information contained in the FBI’s Smith Act prosecutions file, information that would reveal what certain FBI informants, who testified at the Smith Act trials of alleged Communist leaders in the 1950s, had told the FBI (and other related material about those informants). The FOIA provides…
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