Documents / FOIA release
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.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA LESLIE KEAN ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) v. ) ) Case No: 03-2509(EGS) ) NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND ) SPACE ADMINISTRATION ) ) Defendant. ) _____________________________________) Second Declaration of Margaret A. Roberts I, Margaret A. Roberts, declare as follows: 1. The purpose of this declaration is to provide additional information and correct inaccuracies in Plaintiff’s Statement of Genuine Issues of Material Fact. 2. I am a Senior Attorney in the Office of General Counsel. I was responsible for handling the FOIA appeal submitted by the plaintiff, which included a review of the record and writing a draft determination for consideration by Mr. James L. Jennings, NASA’s Associate Deputy Administrator for Institutions and Asset Management. I was also responsible for handling the litigation until January 2005, when I left to begin a one- year detail to Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. 3. In the appeal determination, the decision to remand the case back to the FOIA office for a new search was based on a review of the record. It was not based on the 1996 letter from the Washington National Records Center, as stated by the Plaintiff on page 14.
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.