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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.
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Approved for Release: 2025/06/11 C07083374 . and correct copy of CIA’s September 30, 2008 letter and enclosures is attached hereto as Exhibit B.) 8. By letter dated October 3, 20084, Plaintiff appealed the CIA’s decision “to deny my FOIA request status as a representative of the news media” regardin request F-2008-01781. Plaintiff went on to state “[b]y this appeal, I hereby characterize my records-search-fee-waiver.‘request’ as a DEMAND” and cited 5 U.S.C. § 522 “a(4)(A)(ii)(II), namely, ‘fees shall be limited to reasonable standard charges for document duplication when...the request is made by...a representative of the news media.”’ (A true and correct copy of Plaintiffs appeal request is attached hereto as Exhibit C.) 9. By letter dated October 28, 2008, the CIA acknowledged Plaintiffs letter in which he appealed our determination to deny him “status as a representative of the news media” and to deny his “request for a fee waiver.” 10. The CIA explained to Plaintiff that since records responsive to his FOIA request had been previously released and no additional searches were conducted, he would be responsible “for copying costs associated with this request regardless of fee category determination.” That is, the copying fees would apply even if he were placed into the news media fee category. With respect to his appeal of the denial of a fee waiver, the CIA reiterated that “if processing has been initiated, the requester must agree to be responsible for costs in the event of an adverse 4 The “letter” composed as email on October 3, 2008, is actually dated “6 Oct 2008” in a handwritten annotation next to Plaintiffs signature. The text states in part: “By snail- mail, I’m sending to you a signed printout of this e-fonnatted letter.” The appeal was received in my office on October 14, 2008 (see date stamp). 5 Approved for Release: 2025/06/11 C07083374
FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 58 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.