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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 The DI is the CIA directorate that analyzes, interprets and forecasts foreign intelligence issues and world events of importance to the United States. It is responsible for producing finished intelligence reports-for dissemination to policymakers in the United States Government. Appropriately trained personnel regularly conduct FOIA and other searches of the DI records system as part of their normal duties. The DS&T is the CIA directorate that creates and applies technology to fulfill intelligence requirements. The DS&T also maintained records produced by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, the primary collector of foreign open- source information for the United States Government until the establishment of the DN I Open Source Center in 20055. Open-source information is information that is generally available to the public, such as foreign newspapers, periodical publications, and television and radio broadcasts. Appropriately trained personnel regularly conduct FOLA and other searches of the DS&T records system as part of their normal duties. The NCS is the organization within CIA responsible for the clandestine collection of foreign intelligence information from human sources. The NCS records system contains information on persons or entities that are of foreign intelligence or counterintelligence interest to the CIA and other United States Government agencies. Appropriately trained personnel regularly conduct FOIA and Privacy Act searches of the NCS records system as part of their normal duties. NCS 5 The DNI Open Source Center (“OSC”) at CIA was established on 1 November 2005. The DNI directed that the center be built on the capabilities and expertise of CIA’s FBIS and report directly to the DCIA in implementing DNI strategy and guidance. 8 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.