Legal Opinion
Shapiro v. Central Intelligence Agency
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided March 31, 2017No. Civil Action No. 2014-0019PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
CHRISTOPHER R. COOPER, United States District Judge
Doctoral student Ryan Shapiro wants to know if the United States government was complicit in Nelson Mandela’s arrest and imprisonment by South Africa’s apartheid-era regime. To that end, Shapiro filed Freedom of Information Act requests with the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, the Department of Defense’s Defense Intelligence Agency, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation seeking virtually every document in their sprawling files that mentions or references Mandela. After refusing to narrow his…
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