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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.
Approved for Release: 2025/06/10 C07083377 17. The DI is the CIA directorate that analyzes, interprets, and forecasts foreign intelligence issues and world events of importance to the United States. It is responsible for producing finished intelligencereports for dissemination to policymakers in the United States Government. Appropriately trained personnel regularly conduct FOLA and other searches of the DI records system as part of their normal duties. 18. The DS&T is the CIA directorate that creates and applies technology to fulfill intelligence requirements. The DS&T also maintained records produced by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, the primary collector of foreign open- source information for the United States Government until the establishment of the DNI Open Source Center in 20056. Open-source information is information that is generally available to the public, such as foreign newspapers, periodical publications, and television and radio broadcasts. Appropriately trained personnel regularly conduct FOIA and other searches of the DS&T records system as part of their normal duties. 19. The NCS is the organization within CLA responsible for the clandestine collection of foreign intelligence information from human sources. The NCS records system contains information on persons or entities that are of foreign intelligence or counterintelligence interest to the CIA and other United States Govemment agencies. Appropriately trained personnel regularly conduct FOIA and Privacy Act searches of the NCS records system as part of their normal duties. NCS 6 The DNI Open Source Center (“OSC”) at CLA was established on 1 November 2005. The DNI directed that the center be built on the capabilities and expertise of CIA’s FBIS and report directly to the DCLA in implementing DNI strategy and guidance. . 8 _ 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.