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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## STIPULATION All documents (1) in the possession or under the control of the CIA from wherever obtained, relating (2) to Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) (3) and the UFO Phenom . ## Definitions (1) Documents - definition contained in the Interrogatories - 'Definitions and Instructions' paragraph B (2) Relating - as used herein should be synonymous with the following terms: referring to; associated with: pertaining to; mentioning: descrii and any and all like terms. This definition should be construed liberally to achieve all purposes and objectives of request (3) UFOs - definition contained in the Interrogatories - 'Definitions and Instructions' paragraph F and shall also include all 'unidentified alarms'; 'unidentified images'; 'uncorrelated targets'; and 'uncorrelated sensor indications'. (4) UFO Phenomena - commonly known as the 'flying saucer craze' and include but not limited to; CIA involvement in the phenomena, either directly or indirectly; sociological and psychological implications; surveillance, monitoring, infiltration and manipulation of the phenomena; UFO civilian organization UFO researchers; alleged abductions and abductees; all contacts and contactees. ## REASONABLE SEARCH A reasonable search should include the following areas: (1) (a). CIA Strategic Warning Staff, including. but not limited to: unidentified alarms registered by the sensor systems managed by the national indications, warning and surveillance office. (b). CIA Operations Center, including but not limited to: 1) the 1975 sighting of UFOs over SAC bases; 2) the August, 1976 Tunisian sighting; 3) the September, 1976 Iranian sighting; and 4) the September, 1976 Moroccan sighting. (c). CIA Office of Legislative Counsel, including but not limited to: 1) the 19 Congressional Stall Meetings on UFOs, 2) the meeting and contact with Richard Hall;
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.