Legal Opinion
Harriet Ann Phillippi v. Central Intelligence Agency and George H. Bush, Director, Central Intelligence Agency
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided November 24, 1976No. 76-1004PublishedCited by 348 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
J. SKELLY WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:
This is an action under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. § 552 (1970), as amended (Supp. V 1975), in which plaintiff-appellant seeks to compel the Central Intelligence Agency to disclose certain records alleged to be in its possession concerning its relationship with the Hughes Glomar Explorer.
In March 1975 several news organizations published stories purporting to describe a secret operation conducted by the United *1011States.. The central figure in these stories was the Hughes Glomar Explorer, a large vessel publicly listed as a research ship owned…
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3Cited by348 opinions
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