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C.I.A'S CENSORSHIP tain C.I.A. flles from search and re view under the Freedom.of Informa- BACKED ON APPEA tion Act, Including flles that involve covert action,counterinteligence and. high-technology spying devices. The bill represents anunusual.com ?Ruling Made on. Article Highly. promise between the agency, which! origlailysoughtcomplete exemption Critical of Agency Activity from the act, and such opponents ofj Government secrecyas theAmierican Civll Liberties Union. The agency'st. By STUART TAYLOR Jr. documents outside, the.specifled exg Speciai to The Ntw York TImes WASHINGTON,Oct. 4 --- A Federal appeals court today upheld the Central euptions would remain sublect to thg Intelligence Agency's censorship. of Freedom of InformatlonAct. sections of a highly crtical article by a Thedecislon.by the.United State former agent aboutalleged-c.1.A: ac- Court of Appeals for the Districtot Co tivities in Latin America and Indone- Jumbia bullt upon.a ruling by.the Su. preme Court in1980 in a case involving The three-judge panel-ruled unani- another former C.I.A.agent, Frank W Imously that the C.I.A. cIassification Snepp 3d.The Supreme Court ruled the I and censorship schieme protects criti- agency could require its agents to cal-nationalInterestsItsaldthe agree to lifetime prepublication revle agency's action was constitutional as of their writings and that it could sue a applied to,the article.by Ralph w. formtr formeragent for-publishing without submitting to such reylew. McGehee, the former agent.A cen- CIA..Agent In upholding the'agency's censorship sored version was publlshed in The Na- of materlal it classifiedsecretin the tiona liberal weekly of political com axticle Mr.McGehee had submitted fon mentary,In April1981. Onb judge, however, expressed con. cern that Reagan: Administration oycw, tne appeals court sald the clas't. Hant nou nip mnn nuannn pue nonnod? cret!Information satisfied the First enough weight tothe public's right to Amendment.It said that judges in such knowabout posslble abuses bythe in cases "should defer to C.I.A.judgment telllgence agency. as to the harmful results of publica- In another development today, the tion," but sHould satisfy themselves Senate Intelligence Committee unan. that the C.i.A.in fact had good reason "mously approved a bill to exempt.cer to classlfy, and therefore censor, the materials at issue." Thadecision.maybolster the legal underpinning of the Reagan Adminis tration policy requiring all Govern ment offclals with access to high-level classified information to signagree nents,binding for the.rest ot theln NY Times p.i 1015183 4-99-54 INAEXED SEARCHED SERIALIZD OCT 5 100 FBI-NEW YOR