Reading Room Document

Sale of Information Resulting from Department of Justice Employment

The document is a memorandum responding to specific questions regarding the disclosure of nonpublic information obtained while working for the Department of Justice. The conclusions reached include the interpretation that the regulations prohibiting disclosure only apply to current employees, and that former employees are not bound by these regulations unless they unlawfully take department records or disclose classified information. The document also addresses the policy for granting permission to use nonpublic information and the application of the regulations to present, former, and future members of the staff of the Special Prosecutor. The questions presented for review include the applicability of the regulations to former employees, the policy for granting permission to use nonpublic information, and whether permission was needed to publish an article on Watergate.

June 7, 1974