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This Central Intelligence Agency filing is a declaration by Delores M. Nelson, the CIA's Information and Privacy Coordinator, in Bryant v. CIA, Civil Action No. 09-0940 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. It supports the CIA's motion for summary judgment. It traces Larry W. Bryant's 2008 FOIA request for records of a 1987 FAA meeting on the November 17, 1986 Japanese 747 encounter over Alaska and records of similar airborne UFO encounters. It also describes the fee dispute and the searches the CIA ran. No records of the meeting were found, and three documents from other agencies were referred to them.
Approved for Release: 2025/06/11 C07083374 As you process and grant this appeal, I also ask that you forward a copy of all its related correspondence to the CiA inspector general for him to investigate the circumstances, principals, and activities related to former FAA official John J. Callahans revelation that one or more CIA personnel have unlawfully applied official pressure upon Callahan's right not to. engage in any CIA-directed/supported cover-up of the 1986 Alaskan case. Your complying with this lG-referral request not only would contribute significantly to public understanding of the operations and activities of the U. S. Central intelligence Agency; it also would help secure accountability for any ClA policy/practice that interferes with the public‘s stakeholdership in pursuit of UFOtruth. - - ~ By snail-mail, l‘m sending to you a signed printout ofthis e-formatted letter. (b)(6) % QUE?’ 206%’ ti LARRY W. BRYANT Copies furnished to: Editor, UFO Magazine . Jonathan L. Katz, Esq. Chairman, Select Committee on intelligence, U. S. Senate Director, U. S. Government Accountability Ofiice TEXT OF MS. NELSON'S LETTER TO LWB (30 Sep O8)I Reference: F -2008-01781 Dear lvlr. Bryant: This is a final response to your 23 August 2008 Freedom of information Act (FOlA) request, received in the office of the information and Privacy Coordinator on 28 August 2008, for the " following ClA-received and ‘CIA-generated records: ‘ i (1) As pertain to the convening, attendance roster, bn'efing_s, minutes, and all other related documentation of the 1987 special meeting at FAA headquarters in Washington, DC; (2) As pertain to all other similar cases of airborne UFO encounters reportedly occurring since Nov. 17, 1986, to date. _ We have assigned your request the reference number above. Please use this number whencorresponding so that we canidentity it easily. On the general subject of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), there is no organized CIA effort to do research in connection with UFO phenomena, nor has there been an organized effort to collect intelligence on UFOs since the 1950s. At that time, the Air Force, specifically the Air Technical intelligence Center at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, had the primary responsibility ‘for the investigation of all reportsof UFO sightings. The ClA's role was in Approved for Release: 2025/06/11 C07083374
FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 58 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.