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This is a declaration by Delores M. Nelson, the CIA's Information and Privacy Coordinator, signed January 22, 2010. It was filed in support of the CIA's motion for summary judgment in Larry W. Bryant v. CIA, Civil Action No. 09-0940 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. It covers Bryant's FOIA request about a 1987 FAA meeting on the November 17, 1986 Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 encounter over Alaska. It also covers later airborne UFO cases, the dispute over his fee category, and the CIA's searches. The CIA found no records of the meeting and three records from other agencies, which it referred to the State Department and NSA.
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24. After officers identify and remove any non—responsive documents, they must then
review the remaining responsive documents to determine if any FOIA exemptions
apply, and whether they can reasonably segregate non-exempt information from
exempt information. In the course of reviewing documents for exempt
information and segregability, officers frequently identify information that must
be coordinated with or referred to another CIA component or another agency
because the other component or agency originated the infon"nation.7 This
coordination and referral process itself can be quite time-consuming because other
components and agencies have their own missions and FOIA priorities.
25. When all of the components and agenciess have completed their respective
reviews, PIPD professionals incorporate all of the recommendations regarding
exemptions, segregation, and release, resolve conflicting recommendations, and
ensure that the release or withholding determinations comply with the law and
published CIA regulations. Under the direction and supervision of the CIA
Information and Privacy Coordinatorja review is then conducted from a corporate
perspective on behalf of the entire CIA. A final record copy of each CIA-
originated document is produced and a response is provided to the requester.
Documents originated by other government agencies are forwarded to those
agencies for direct response to the requester. .
C. CIA’s Records Search in Response to Plaintiff’s FOIA Request
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See Exec. Crder No. 12958, as amended, § 3.6(b).
8“-Agencies” in this context refers to one more other agencies having information or
equities in CLA documents as opposed to referrals, which are documents located by CIA
but originated by another agency. These are forwarded to the originating agency for
review and direct response to the requester. .
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l FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 17 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.