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FOIA Litigation- Ground Saucer Watch, Inc. V. CIA

Central Intelligence Agency · 2001-04-09 · 16 pages · text by OCR

This CIA FOIA release, dated 2001-04-09, collects 1978 internal records from the case Ground Saucer Watch, Inc. v. CIA (Civil Action 78-859). It includes an Office of General Counsel memo, a stipulation from plaintiff's attorney Peter Gersten that restates the group's requests for all CIA documents relating to UFOs, a list of the original requesters, and routing slips. Office of Data Processing components searched their files and reported that they found no material related to UFOs.

  • p. 1 …The Office of Data Processing (ODP) has conducted a reasonable search of its files responsive to…
  • p. 3 …File Search for Documents Pertaining to UFO's or UFO Phenomenon 1. This is to advise…
  • p. 10 …and historical files on early OTS predecessor's research and develop work on UFO intelligence collection…
  • p. 11 …historical and current files of covert action projects directed at domestic and foreign UFO researchers and…
  • p. 15 …We have located nothing in our files regarding UFO's or Ground Saucer~Watch. We did…
with UFOs and the UFO Phenomena, ie. research, investigation. and writing, including mail cover and intercept program material: and records of special security clearances for UFO intelligence special acco programs.

(b). Office of Joint Computer Support (OJCS): documents of computer hardware support requests, authorizations, and utilizations. for UFO intelligence data handling. from any and all agencies and CIA components; special UFO intelligence data handling systems projects; any and all UFO relate software programs and projects, including security systems.

(5) . Directorate of Operations (DDO):

(a). Covert Action (CA)Staffs of all DDO components: historical and current files of covert action projects directed at domestic and foreign UFO researchers and organizations as well as potential foreign adversaries (USSR). 25X1A

(c). Counter Intelligence (CI) Staff: records of mail cover and intercept programs which collected information on UFO researchers and organizations.

(d). Counter Intelligence (CI) and Foreign Intelligence (FI) staffs of DDO: records of clandestine collection operations against UFOs and foreign nation intelligence data on UFOs, including hypnotic regression and other psychological interrogation and indoctrination projects: disinformation and deception plans and operations against UFOs and foreign intelligence agencies.

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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 16 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.