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This Central Intelligence Agency newsletter covers Information Review and Release activities for 16 to 20 April 2001. It lists upcoming declassification panel meetings, reports on an External Referral Working Group meeting, and quotes a 1953 letter from General Counsel Lawrence Houston. It also summarizes FOIA requests, including several nearly identical requests from Woodland, California about Area 51, Majestic 12 and Roswell. The CIA says it holds no information on the alleged Roswell event and has not located Majestic 12 records.
(b)(3) ( * \ b)(3) b)(5) b)(5) (b)(3) (b)(5) (b)(3) Approved for Release: 2019/03/27 C01247755 CO'NFl‘DEN‘Fb@r|_— 0 (U) Since the beginning of the CIA ’s FOIA program, documents on these topics have been among the most frequently requested. The FOIA case oflicer will inform all requesters that they may access the CIA ’s UFO records collection at the Agency's web site on the internet. 0 fi‘$L UFO researchers frequently ask about Area 51 in Nevada, where they believe the US Government conducts tests on captured alien space crafi./ 0 (U) UFO researchers believe an alien spacecraft crashed near Roswell, New Mexico in 194 7, and the CIA has been asked many times for its records on the event. The CIA responds that it holds no information on this alleged event. 0 (U) Majestic I2, or MJ-1 2, is also a frequent request subject of UFO researchers. It is allegedly a top secret research and development operation formed by President Truman to exploit the alien materials gathered at the Roswell crash site. The CIA has been unable to locate records on Majestic I2 in FOIA h ' th it ~ searc es in e pas . b 30 (U) The requests for DCI Tenet's photograph will be referred to the Office of Public Ajfairs. \:| ( ) (U//A.[-U-9) Canadian Journalist Interested in Aircraft Sales to Canada (U//A'I'H6)- A Training and Development Editor with the Spectator, a newspaper in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada requested information on "CIA records, files, or communications, from 1987-1989 inclusive, that pertain to aircraft sales to Canada, using the keywords Boeing and/or Airbus Industries." (U//A-I-LLQ) Publications Review Board Approved for Release: 2019/03/27 C01247755
FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 4 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.