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CRUIKSHANK v. UNITED STATES

Civ. No. 76-0362.

431 F.Supp. 1355 (1977)

Dale Paul CRUIKSHANK, Plaintiff, v. The UNITED STATES of America, Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Hawaii.

May 9, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David L. Turk, Turk & Kuniyuki, Honolulu, Hawaii, Melvin Wolf, American Civil Liberties Union, New York City, for plaintiff.

T. David Woo, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Harold M. Fong, U. S. Atty., Honolulu, Hawaii, Barbara Allen Babcock, Asst. Atty. Gen., Alphonse M. Alfano, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendant.

DECISION

SAMUEL P. KING, Chief Judge.

I. STATEMENT OF THE CASE1

On nineteen separate occasions between 1968 and 1971, agents of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) opened and photographed sealed, first class letters mailed by plaintiff to colleagues in the Soviet Union. The opening of plaintiff's mail was done as part of Operation HTLINGUAL,2 a program of covert mail opening conducted...

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