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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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4 15 6. Approved for Release: 2025/06/10 C07083373 the subject of pending litigation in the federal courts.” (A true and correct copy of this letter is attached hereto as Exhibit F.) H The CIA referred the three potentially responsive documents to the government agencies which originated the documents: Department of State and National Security Agency. As of the date of this declaration, NSA acknowledged mailing a response to the Plaintiff on January 6, 2010. II. CIA’S SEARCH FOR RESPONSIVE DOCUMENTS A. CIA Records Systems The CIA’s records systems are designed to support CIA’s intelligence activities and responsibilities. The CIA’s ability to retrieve data from a given records system depends upon the type of information stored in that system and the way the system is designed to retrieve that information. Records systems and indexing systems vary among CLA components because they must reflect and respond to the established responsibilities and needs of those individual components. For _ example, some CIA records systems are organized to facilitate the collection of foreign intelligence, while others facilitate the analysis of intelligence information, depending upon the missions of the particular CLA component. All records are maintained by one of four directorates or the independent offices and entities that report to the Director of the CLA: the National Clandestine Service (“NCS”), the Directorate of Intelligence (“DI”), the Directorate of Science and Technology (“DS&T”), the Directorate of Support (“DS”) and the Director of CLA Area (“DIR Area”). 7 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.