AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION v. WESTMORELAND

No. 70 C 3191.

323 F.Supp. 1153 (1971)

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION et al. v. General William C. WESTMORELAND, Chief of Staff, United States Army, et al.

United States District Court, N. D. Illinois.

January 5, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Bauer, U. S. Atty., for the Government.

Alexander Polikoff, Joel J. Sprayregen, Chicago, Ill., for ACLU.

Bernard Weisberg and Thomas Todd, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs.


AUSTIN, District Judge.

There has been a cliche, or an accepted statement from the past that a certain profession is known as the world's oldest profession. I question that. I think the world's oldest profession is spying, and it started in the Garden of Eden when somebody was looking and saw Eve eat the apple. And then Cain started spying on Abel.

Spying goes back to antiquity, and according to the Old Testament, all the way back to the Garden of Eden.

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