Documents / FOIA release
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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OGC 78-5734 29 August 1978 MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Information & Privacy Staff FROM : Assistant General Counsel SUBJECT : Ground Saucer Watch, Inc. v. CIA Civil Action No. 78-859 1. Attached is a copy of a restatement of the FOIA requests of various members of the Ground Saucer Watch Corporation which have become the subject of litigation. This restatement of the request found directly below "STIPULATION" is a reasonable restatement of approximately ten separate requests from five different Ground Saucer Watch Corporation members. It does not appear to exceed the scope of the total of these requests. I intend to advise the U.S. Attorney's office that the Agency finds this "STIPULATION," including the "Definitions" and "Reasonable Search", a reasonable basis to continue the litigation. 2. Since most of the searching required has probably already been accomplished in response to the approximately ninety FOIA requests the Agency has received since 1975, I assume that the completion of the search and processing will not require any unreasonable delays. I request that you obtain from each of the components an estimate as to (1) the date of search completion and (2) the date of document FOIA processing completion. Since the Agency has been in litigation in this case since December 77, I do not expect that deadlines beyond sixty days will be regarded as reasonable by the court. 3. Please keep me informed as to any significant developments and particularly let me know when significant increments of releasable documents become available. If there is reason to expect significant delays, the Agency might wish to consider incremental releases rather than holding responsive documents until all of the processing is finished. Attach Approved For Release 2002/01/24 : CIA-RDP83T00573R000100070006-1
FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 16 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.