Court of Appeals for the First Circuit February 5, 1987, 86-1446 (Peter Irons and Melvin Lewis v. Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice)

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

This case presents a question of novel impression in this circuit: does the willingness of a confidential informant to give trial testimony, if necessary, constitute a blanket waiver of the source’s confidentiality so that investigatory records of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) which might tend to reveal his identity become subject to disclosure under the Freedom