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This is a July 27, 2021 FOIA response from NASA's Office of Communications to John Greenewald, Jr. It covers records from Leslie Kean's lawsuit against NASA seeking Kecksburg documents. NASA released 207 pages in full, 7 in part and withheld 31, noting that most of the lawsuit case files had been destroyed under records retention rules. The enclosures include court declarations, a 2003 appeal decision ordering a broader search, a 2019 FOIA response, and Stan Gordon's account of the missing NASA fragology files.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Headquarters Washington, DC 20546-0001 July 27, 2021 Reply to attn. of: Office of Communications John Greenewald, Jr. 27305 W. Live Oak Rd. Suite #1203 Castaic, Ca. 91384 john@greenewald.com Re: FOIA Tracking Number 21-HQ-F-00500 Dear Mr. Greenewald: This letter responds your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), dated May 7, 2021, and received in this office on June 4, 2021. Your request was assigned the above-referenced tracking number. You seek the following: a copy of records (which includes videos/photos), electronic or otherwise, of all records pertaining to, and generated during the case of, Leslie KEAN, Plaintiff, v. NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION, Defendant, No. CIV.A.03 2509 EGS. . . . . . all records pertaining to that case, which includes, but is not limited to, the entire relevant FOIA case files connected to the lawsuit, relevant FOIA processing notes, emails, letters, memos, etc., that pertain to the FOIA cases and lawsuit. In response to your request we initiated searches in NASA’s Office of General Counsel (OGC) and the FOIA Office. With respect to the search in the FOIA Office, while processing a prior FOIA request for similar records (19-HQ-F-00470), the FOIA office learned that the FOIA case file connected to the subject FOIA lawsuit were destroyed pursuant to NASA’s records retention schedule. Only one file still existed which included records NASA released to the subject FOIA litigant’s attorney, and emails and statements related to the FOIA office’s searches for records in response to the lawsuit. As such, for the portion of your request seeking all relevant FOIA case files connected to the lawsuit, we located the case file for 19-
FOIA release, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 223 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.