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This is an FBI FOIA response dated July 11, 2018, sent to Emma Best of MuckRock News and signed by David M. Hardy. It answers a request about Fred Lee Crisman. The FBI reviewed six pages and released one. The other five were referred to the Air Force FOIA Office. The released page is a September 1947 memo from SAC San Francisco on reports of flying discs. It forwards Hamilton Field A-2 letters about sightings on Guam and an investigation at Tacoma and Kelso, Washington.
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July 11,2018 MS. EMMA BEST DEPT MR 54190 MUCKROCK NEWS,411A HIGHLAND AVENUE SOMERVILLE,MA 02144 FOIPA Request No.: 1347908-000 Subject: CRISMAN, FRED LEE Dear Ms. Best: The enclosed documents were reviewed under the Freedom of Information/Privacy Acts (FOIPA), Title 5, United States Code, Section 552/552a. Below you will find check boxes under the appropriate statute headings which indicate the types of exemptions asserted to protect information which is exempt from disclosure. The appropriate exemptions are noted on the enclosed pages next to redacted information. In addition, a deleted page information sheet was inserted to indicate where pages were withheld entirely and identify which exemptions were applied. The checked exemptions boxes used to withhold information are further explained in the enclosed Explanation of Exemptions. Six pages were reviewed and one page is being released. Below you will find check boxes and additional informational paragraphs about your request. Where applicable, check boxes are used to provide you with more information about the processing of your request. Please read each item carefully. This material has been reviewed pursuant to Title 5, U.S. Code $ \§ 552 $ , and is being released to you in its entirety with no redactions being made by the FBI. Documents were located which originated with another Government Agency [OGA]. This information has been referred to the OGA for review and direct response to you. We are consulting with another agency. The FBI will correspond with you regarding this information when the consultation is completed. In accordance with standard FBI practice and pursuant to FOIA exemption (b)(7)(E) and Privacy Act exemption (j)(2) [5 U.S.C. $ \§ 5 5 2 / 5 5 2 a $ (b)(7)(E)/(j)(2)] , this response neither confirms nor denies the existence of your subject's name on any watch lists. For your information, Congress excluded three discrete categories of law enforcement and national security records from the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). See 5 U.S.C. $ 552 (c) (2006 & Supp. IV (2010). This response is limited to those records that are subject to the requirements of the FOIA. This is a standard notification given to all our requesters and should not be taken as an indication that excluded records do, or do not, exist. Enclosed for your information is a copy of the Explanation of Exemptions. For questions regarding our determinations, visit the www.fbi.gov/foia website under "Contact Us." The FOIPA Request Number listed above has been assigned to your request. Please use this number in all correspondence concerning your request. You may file an appeal by writing to the Director, Office of Information Policy (OIP), United States Department of Justice, Suite 11050, 1425 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20530-0001, or you may submit an appeal through OIP's FOIAonline portal by creating an account on the following website: https://foiaonline.regulations.gov/foia/action/public/home. Your appeal must be postmarked or electronically transmitted within ninety (90) days from the date of this letter in order to be considered timely. If you
FOIA release, cited by the archive. 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. 5 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.