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This CIA FOIA release, dated December 5, 2004, holds correspondence from Larry W. Bryant, an independent writer who asked for a records-search fee waiver while researching the "McCarthy Saga" involving John J. McCarthy. It includes Bryant's September 18, 2004 appeal of CIA FOIA manager Scott Koch's denial, which had placed him in the commercial requester category. It also includes his notice that attorney Mark S. Zaid would file suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. One page was denied.
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Appeal of CIA Denial of My FOIA Request for a Records-Search-FeeWaiver Sat, September 18, 2004 4:10 am TO: Director U. S. Central Intelligence Agency ATTN: Agency Release Panel (c/o Mr. Scott Koch) Washington, DC 20505 DATE: September 18, 2004 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.
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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. 4 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.