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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.

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“UFO Files”5 pages

  • 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…
# LIST OF ORIGINAL FOIA REQUESTERS

FYI, the following is a listing of the FOIA requesters and requests on which the revised complaint was based:

BRYANT, Larry: unlogged 1973 request F-77-1239

SPARKS, Brad: F-75-3659 E-76-253 E-76-267 E-77-272

TOMASHEVSKA, Dolores F-76-530

ZECHEL, John F-77-757 F-78-081 F-78-171

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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.