Documents / FOIA release
This CIA release, approved on 22 July 2010, contains a 18 September 2004 email from researcher Larry W. Bryant to the CIA Agency Release Panel. In it he appeals CIA FOIA manager Scott Koch's 9 September 2004 denial of his request for a waiver of records-search fees. Bryant argues that he is an independent writer-researcher and news-media requester, not a commercial one, and cites his work for FATE magazine and a forthcoming book on UFO politics. He says his attorney, Mark S. Zaid, would file suit if the denial stands.
Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.
From Subject Appeal of CIA Denial of My FOIA Request for a Records-Search-Fee Waiver Date Sat, September 18, 2004 4:10 am To CC TO: Director rector U. S. Central Intelligence Agency ATTN: Agency Release Panel (c/o Mr. Scott Koch) Washington, DC 20505 DATE: September 18, 2004 APPROVED FOR RELEASE DATE: 22-Jul-2010 By his Sept. 9, 2004, letter denying my fee-waiver request of Aug. 9, 2004 (his reference No. F-2004-01956), CIA FOIA manager Scott Koch errs in placing me in the requester category of "commercial" entity. My demonstrable status as an independent writer-researcher specializing in "national security" issues, public-records access, and First Amendment commentary entitles me to the requested records-search-fee waiver. What's more, his totally disingenuous, knee-jerk assertion that the public would gain no "significant" benefit from your agency's production of the sought-for records in this case of reported rogue CIA operations constitutes an unacceptable administrative cop-out. If you need concrete evidence of my news-media publication credits, please consult the Internet via a "Google" search under my name (Larry W. Bryant); in this regard, I also can provide related correspondence between me and other agencies' FOIA-management personnel (including those at the Departments of State and Interior). As an update of my requester-status profile, here are my most recent publication credits: (1) One or more articles/book reviews carried in the newsstand magazine FATE; (2) An expanded edition of my book "UFO Politics at the White House: Citizens Rally 'round Jimmy Carter's Promise," due out shortly from FATE's parent company, Galde Press. In recent times, too, I've been contributing research to the news/information web site of http://www.militarycorruption.com. As you peruse this record of "news media" representation/interaction on my part, you cannot but conclude that my research/writing projects have much more to do with the public's understanding (and oversight) of government policies/activities/programs than they do with, say, the CIA's documentation/methods-and-sources for determining the price of tea in China. If you insist on sustaining Mr. Koch's denial of my fee-waiver request, I hereby serve notice that, through my attorney (Mark S.
Not linked to a story yet.
FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 3 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.