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This is a declaration by Delores M. Nelson, the CIA Information and Privacy Coordinator, dated October 26, 2009. She filed it in support of the CIA's motion for summary judgment in Larry W. Bryant v. CIA, a FOIA suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Bryant had sought records of a 1987 FAA meeting about the November 17, 1986 Japanese flight 1628 encounter over Alaska. The declaration describes the agency's searches, which found no records of the meeting and three documents from other agencies about later airborne UFO encounters.
I Approved for Release: 2025/06/10 C07083377 24. After officers identify and remove any non-responsive documents, they must then review the remaining responsive documents to determine if any FOIA exemptions apply, and whether they can reasonably segregate non-exempt information from - exempt information. In the course of reviewing documents for exempt information and segregability, officers frequently identify information that must be coordinated with or referred to another CIA component or another agency because the other component or agency originated the information.8 This coordination and referral process itself can be quite time-consuming because other components and agencies have their own missions and FOLA priorities. 25. When all of the components and agenciesg have completed their respective reviews, PIPD professionals incorporate all of the recommendations regarding exemptions, segregation, and release, resolve conflicting recommendations, and ensure that the release or withholding determinations comply with the law and published CIA regulations. Under the direction and supervision of the CIA Information and Privacy Coordinator, a review is then conducted from a corporate perspective on behalf of the entire CIA. A final record copy of each CIA- originated document is produced and a response is provided to the requester. Documents originated by other government agencies are forwarded to those agencies for direct response to the requester. C. CIA’s Records Search in Response to Plaintiff’s FOIA Request 8 See Exec. Order No. 12958, as amended, § 3.60»). 9“Agencies” in this context refers to one more other agencies having information or equities in CIA documents as opposed to referrals, which are documents located by CIA but originated by another agency. These are forwarded to the originating agency for review and direct response to the requester. r 11 Approved for Release: 2025/06/10 C07083377
FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 16 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.