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- Title: Tenet v. Doe
- Author : Supreme Court of the United States
- Release Date : January 02, 2005
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 66 KB
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In Totten v. United States, 92 U. S. 105 (1876), we held that public policy forbade a self-styled Civil War spy from suing the United States to enforce its obligations under their secret espionage agreement. Respondents here, alleged former Cold War spies, filed suit against the United States and the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), asserting estoppel and due process claims for the CIAs alleged failure to provide respondents with the assistance it had promised in return for their espionage services. Finding that Totten did not bar respondents suit, the District Court and the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that the case could proceed. We reverse because this holding contravenes the longstanding rule, announced more than a century ago in Totten, prohibiting suits against the Government based on covert espionage agreements.