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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 Declassification Review programs in the CIA. These responsibilities include directing searches of CIA records systems pursuant to public requests for records under these programs and coordinating the reviews of any records retrieved in such searches. These review processes include undertaking any intra-agency and inter-agency coordination and referrals necessary in light of the information found in responsive records. In addition, my responsibilities include fee category and fee waiver detenninations. 4. As part of my official duties I ensure that the CIA administratively processes FOIA and Privacy Act requests including the search, retrieval, analysis, review, redaction and release of documents in accordance with the law and as efficiently as possible with the personnel and resources available. 5. Through the exercise of my official duties, I have become familiar with Plaintiff’ s FOIA request for information that is the subject of this civil action. I make the following statements based upon my personal knowledge, and information made available to me in the course of performing my official duties. I. PLAINTIFF’S FOIA REQUEST AND THE CIA’s RESPONSE 1. 6. By “letter”l dated August 23, 2008 (received in the office of the Information and Privacy Coordinator on August 28, 2008), Plaintiff submitted a FOIA request to the CIA for the following “CLA-received and CIA-generated” records: I The “letter” is actually a print-out of email correspondence between the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and Plaintiff with handwritten annotations addressed to “Scott Koch [former CLA Information and Privacy Coordinator], changing date to “23” August, and containing signature of Plaintiff. The text states in part “By_snail- mail, I’m sending to you a signed printout of this e-formatted letter.” 2 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.