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Re: Declaration in Bryant V CIA

Central Intelligence Agency · 2010-01-15 · 58 pages · text from the file's own layer

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.

  • p. 5 …for and review of all Agency files on UFOs. The letter also enclosed a copy of…
  • p. 14 …search for and reviewed all CIA files relating to UFOs. This effort, conducted under the direction…
  • p. 27 …Woolsey ordered another review of all Agency files on UFOs. Using CIA records compiled From that…
  • p. 32 …reference file of the activities of the Air Force and other agencies on UFOs. Neither the…
  • p. 33 …central file on the subject of UFOs. CIA's U-2 and OXCART as UFOs in…
  • p. 35 …in 1958, Major Kcyhoe charged that the Agency was deliber- ately asking eyewitnesses of UFOs not…
  • p. 37 …to UFOs.“ a Spaulding was convinced that the Agency was withholding major files on UFOs. Agency…
  • p. 38 …They even turned up an old UFO file under a secretary's desk. The search finally…
  • p. 39 …9 April I947. _ Jacobs, The UFO Canmavmy, p. 156 and Quintanilla, "The investigation of UFOs,’ p…
  • p. 43 …Patrick-l-iuyghe. “UFO Files: The Untold Story.” The New Yarlr Timer Magazine, 14 October 1979…
Approved for Release: 2025/06/11 C07083374
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Mr. Larry W. Bryant
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Dear Mr. Bryant:
This is in reference to your 23 August 2008 Freedom of Inforrnation Act (FOIA)
request, received in the offioe of the Information and Privacy Coordinator on _
18 August 2008, for the following CIA-received and CIA-generated records:
(1) 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.; and .
'(2) As pertain to all similar cases of airborne UFO encounters reportedly
occurring since Nov. 17, 1986, to date.
Please note that upon further review, the Agency is reopening the processing of
your request; a search will be conducted for records in existence through 15 lune 2009.
You also requested news media status. Since your request pertains to UFOs and you are a
columnist with the newsstand periodical, UFO Magazine, we are placing you in “news
media” fee category for this request. Accordingly, you will be responsible only for the
cost of reproducing any records released in response to your request. Copying costs are
ten cents per page less the first 100 pages.
Sincerely,
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Delores M. Nelson
Information and Privacy Coordinator
Approved for Release: 2025/06/11 C07083374
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