Documents / FOIA release
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.
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Approved for Release: 2025/06/11 C07083374 ' ' Washington. n.c. 20505 October 28, 2008 Mr. Larry W. Bryant Reference: F~2008-0178 1 Dear Mr. Bryant: - We received your 3 October 2008 letter appealing our 30 September 2008 final response to your Freedom of Information Act (FOLA) request for “the following ClA—received and CIA- generated records :. (l) As pertain to the convening, attendance roster, briefings, minutes, and all other related documentation of the 1987 special meeting at FAA headquarters in Washington, D.C.; - g '_- (2) As pertain to all other similar cases of airborne UFO encounters reportedly occurring since Nov. 17, 1986, to date.” Specifically, you appealed our determination to deny you status as a representative of the news media, and to deny your request for a fee waiver. Initially, please be advised that FOIA requesters have no appeal rights regarding an agency’s fee category determination. Please also be advised that since records responsive to the subject of your requ.est have been previously released, and no additional searches were conducted following receipt of your request, you would be responsible for copying costs associated with this request regardless of fee category determination. As we noted in our final response letter of 30 September 2008, copying costs are ten cents per page less the first 100 pages.’ These copying fees would apply even if we were to place you into the representative of - the news media fee category. With regard to your request for a fee waiver, Agency regulations are clear that fee waiver appeals will be accepted within forty-five (45) days of our initial decision subject to the following condition: If processing has beeninitiated, then the requester must agree to be responsible for costs in the event of an adverse administrative or judicial decision. This regulation is codified in 32 C.F.R. § l900(d). Since you neither agreed to this condition in your initial FOIA request, nor in your appeal letter, we cannot accept your fee waiver denial appeal. Approved for Release: 2025/06/11 C07083374 (b)(6
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.