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This is a Freedom of Information Act request dated November 8, 2008, sent by Larry W. Bryant, a columnist for UFO Magazine, to the Central Intelligence Agency's Information and Privacy Coordinator. It asks for CIA records on the late investigative journalist W. Todd Zechel and on a reported February 1969 agreement between CIA and Soviet intelligence personnel about attributing UFO intrusions over military bases. Bryant also asks to be treated as a news media requester and attaches Zechel's obituary.
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To: overtci@cavtel.net From: "Larry W. Bryant" Subject: Fwd: Item 2.12: FOIA Request to CIA re Investigative Journalist W. Todd Zechel Cc: Bcc: Attachments: Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 19:23:38 -0500 To: post@posterous.com From: "Larry W. Bryant" Subject: Item 2.12: FOIA Request to CIA re Investigative Journalist W. Todd Zechel Cc: delores.nelson@ucia.gov, scott.koch@ucia.gov TO: MS. Delores M. Nelson Information and Privacy Coordinator U. S. Central Intelligence Agency Washington, DC 20505 FROM: Larry W. Bryant 3518 Martha Custis Drive Alexandria, VA 22302 DATE: November 8, 2008 Shortly before his death on November 14, 2006 (see the enclosed copy of his obituary), independent investigative journalist W. Todd Zechel circulated an essay within the UFO-research community that implicates your agency in the official U. S. government cover-up of the reality that some of the reported UFO encounters represent alien spacecraft. The essay -- titled "The CIA's Most Secret Counterintelligence Project: The Condon Committee" -- now is posted upon my web log under Item 2.11 at http://ufoview.posterous.com. Zechel's research for this reportage included contact with now-deceased CIA official Art Lundahl, who revealed to him that, back in February 1969, certain CIA personnel had entered into a formal agreement with some of their counterparts from the Soviet intelligence community. Their agreement specified that neither union's military leaders would henceforth falsely ascribe any of the reported UFO intrusions within the other's key military bases to activity of the opposite union's secret military aircraft. The agreement's rationale lay in the fear expressed by both parties that a misconstruance (whether intentional or not) of a given UFO intrusion as being traceable to either party could risk escalation of hostility between them (with perhaps disastrous military results). With that background, I hereby submit this letter as my formal FOIA request that you send me a copy of all CIA-generated and CIA-received records pertaining to -- -- The associations, motivations, and activity of the late W. Todd Zechel; -- The creation, coordination, ratification, and operation of the Printed for "Larry W. Bryant"
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.