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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.
Approved for Release: 2025/06/10 C07083373 reviewing plaintiffs FOIA request, NCS responded that its records system was not set up to search on general subjects or topics such as UFOs. '°’“ H 34. In sum, the CIA tasked those components reasonably likely to possess information responsive to Plaintiffs request (if any) to conduct records searches. The searches were conducted by information management professionals who are familiar with the records systems of their respective components and who routinely and regularly conduct searches of these records as part of their professional responsibilities. These individuals were familiar with Plaintiffs , request and all such searches were reasonably calculated to locate responsive records; if any. As indicated above, no documents were located in response to item (a) (“l987 special meeting at FAA”) of Plaintiffs request and three records originated by other government agencies were located in response to item (b)(“all other similar cases of airbome UFO encounters”). I hereby ckeclare under penalty of perj ury that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed this 22nd day of January, 2010. Mu.lQ</myDe ores M. Nelson Information & Privacy Coordinator Central Intelligence Agency 1° Intelligence reports disseminated by NCS (formerly the Directorate of Operations) are included in the DI records system where they may be searched by topic (and were searched as part of the DI records search described above.) H The Directorate of Support to conduct searches in this case. Given its functions as . CIA’s administrative and support arm, PIPD officers reasonably determined that the DS was not likely to have records responsive to plaintiffs request. I6 Approved for Release: 2025/06/10 C07083373
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.