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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.
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National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
Headquarters
Washington, DC 20546~OOO1
Office of Public Affairs
Ms. Lee Ellen Helfrich
Lobel, Novins & Lamont
1275 K Street, NW
Suite 770
Washington, DC 20005-4048
Dl!ar Ms. Helfrich:
August 2, 2006
On July 21, 2006, defendant filed its opposition to plainti(f's motion for summary
judgment in the Kean v. NASA Freedom ofInfomlation Act (FOIA) litigation. In the
accompanying declaration ofKeUic Robinson, she noted that some potentially responsive
records in {wo files were being referred to other agencies for FOIA processing. The
following documents have been reviewed by outside agencies and are now being
released:
(a) 46 pages of documents which originated with the Australian Government.
(Encl t)
(b) nine pages of a 10 page document from the Smithsonian Institution. (Encl 2)
The remainin g page has been referred to the Air Force for its assessment.
(c) 93 pages of documents from the State Department. (Encl 3)
We have also referred 32 pages to the Air Force, including the one described above, for
its assessment and declassification. if appropriate. We are currently waiting for the Air
Force to complete this process.
LastlYl 12 pages of agency documents which were referenced in the February 25 1 2004,
statement and adopted in the June 15.2004, declardtion by Stella Luna, NASA Johnson
Space Center FOIA Public Liaison Officer, are also included in this release. (EncI4)
Sincerely.
Ste I . McConnell
'-_-- .- ehlef~ FOIA Public Liaison Officer
Enclosures 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.