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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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i Approved for Release: 2025/06/11 C07083374 referred to the originating agencies for their review and direct response to him. _ The CIA also informed Plaintiff that “CIA regulations goveming administrative appeals provide that no appeal shall be accepted if the infonnation in question is the subject of pending litigation in the federal courts.” (A true and correct copy of this letter is attached hereto as Exhibit F.) 4. The CIA referred the three potentially responsive documents to the govemment agencies which originated the documents: Department of State and National Security Agency. II. CIA’S SEARCH FOR RESPONSIVE DOCUMENTS A. CLA Records Systems 15. The CIA’s records systems are designed to support CIA’s intelligence activities and responsibilities. The CIA’s ability to retrieve data from a given records system depends upon the type of information stored in that system and the way the system is designed to retrieve that information. Records systems and indexing. systems vary among CIA components because they must reflect and respond to the established responsibilities and needs of those individual components. For example, some CIA records systems are organized to facilitate the collection of foreign intelligence, while others facilitate the analysis of intelligence information, depending upon the missions of the particular CIA component. 6. All CIA records are maintained by one of four directorates or the independent offices and entities that report to the Director of the CIA: the National Clandestine Service (“NCS”), the Directorate of Intelligence (“DI”), the 7 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.