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

Central Intelligence Agency · 2001-04-09 · 16 pages · text by GLM-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. 3 …It should be mentioned, though, that the Headquarters Data Conversion Branch, Production Division, did report that…

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UNCLASSIFIED Approved For Release 2002/01/24 : CIA-RDP83T00572P000100070006-1 SECRET

PRIORITY HANDLING FOIA REQUEST

TO: (Officer designation, room number, and building)
STATINTL	DATE	OFFICER'S INITIALS	COMMENTS (Number each comment to show from whom to whom. Draw a line across column after each comment.)
RECEIVED	FORWARDED
1. OS/IRG
4 E 21 HQ
FX-1 In connection with subject litigation, the following documents are attached:
a) List of original FOIA requesters
b) 29 Aug 78 OGC memo
c) 23 Aug 78 letter with enclosed STIPULATION

Per OGC, you are specifically requested to:
1) Estimate the date of search completion for your component.
2) Estimate the date of document FOIA processing completion for your component.
Note: OGC has requested that 1 & 2 (above) be completed and sent to OC (with a copy to IPS) on an expedited basis. If your estimates will not be completed by Monday, 11 Sep, please call me so that I can keep OGC advised.
3) Conduct a search of your component responsive to the restatement of the requests as set forth in the STIPULATION.
Note: As stated in OGC's memo, OGC does not expect that deadlines beyond 60 days will be regarded as reasonable by the court.
2. STATINTL
3. ODP/FIO
2 D 00 HQ
DX-6
4. STATINTL
5. - INFO - AI/DDA
7 D 02 HQ
BX-4
6. STATINTL
7. - INFO - OGC
BX-5
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RETURN TO:

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