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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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## , 11/9/08 4:26 PM -0500, Fwd: Item 2.12: FOIA Request to CIA re Investigative Jour above-defined U. S.-Soviet agreement. In your processing of this noncommercial request, I expect you to formally acknowledge (in writing) my requester status as that of "representative of the news media" (RNM) (as defined by the amended U. S. Freedom of Information Act and as exemplified by the content and publication credits posted upon my blog ( http://ufoview.posterous.com )) As you well know, this codified category of FOIA requestership entitles me to full waiver of all records-search/review fees incident to your fulfilling not just this request but also any future noncommercial FOIA requests from me to your agency. I of course state my willingness to pay any customary and reasonable duplication fee for your providing me the requested records. Should you choose, for whatever reason, to deny my current and future RNM-requester status (or to convert it to some other category without my concurrence), I shall construe that action as an adverse and unlawful determination of my FOIA records-access rights -- and shall seek all appropriate judicial remedy. By snail-mail, I'm sending to you a signed printout of this e-formatted letter. LARRY W. BRYANT Columnist for the monthly newsstand periodical UFO Magazine Copies furnished to: Editor, UFO Magazine
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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.