Larry W. Bryant’s UFOview

For readers who've yet to add their signatures to my e-petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/etaffair/petition.html (see Items 2.1 and 2.7), I offer the following incentive, as now posted at the top of the petition's main page:

Update (4 Dec 09): In late November 2009, the Denver election officials certified the nearly 4,000 voter-petition signatures needed to place the Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission measure on the ballot for the city's primary election scheduled for Aug. 10, 2010. To learn how you can contribute directly to the initiative's promotion and success, please see my online classified ad now posted (for no longer than 30 days) at http://www.usfreeads.com/2218920-cls.html . -- Larry W. Bryant (overtci@cavtel.net)
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NOTE: Here's the ad's full text:

== Hop onto Denver's Extraterrestrial Affairs Bandwagon! ==

Between now and Aug. 10, 2010, the electorate of Denver, Colo., will decide whether that city will, by official ordinance, create an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission -- through which all citizens of Earth can seek (and expand) legitimacy and support for their UFO-E.T. awareness and participatory decisionmaking in this public issue of wide-ranging consequence. Thanks to the months-long commitment by a small group of Denverites in the Extra Campaign led by Jeff Peckman, the Denver election officials recently have certified the nearly 4,000 voter-petition signatures needed to place the group's initiative upon the ballot for the primary election scheduled for Aug. 10. Peckman now is advancing the group's public-education program by responding to worldwide news-media inquiries, lecturing before various civic organizations, updating the group's web site, and fund-raising. If you (or someone you know) happen to be a registered voter in Denver, you have this unique opportunity to exercise your grassroots instincts toward bringing the Extra Campaign to full success at the ballot box. By helping us achieve a simple-majority vote in favor of the initiative, you'll add to this history-making process in support of the public's right-to-know and the government's duty-to-tell. For more information (including how you or any other planetary citizen can add your signature to my online petition supporting the initiative), please contact me as follows: Larry W. Bryant; 3518 Martha Custis Drive, Alexandria, VA 22302; phone: 703-931-3341.
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The recent spike in Europe's newly minted crop circles prompts me to "call the law" -- in the form of the following online classified advertisement now posted, for 30 days, at http://tinyurl.com/yaz8qwt .

This tactic occurred to me during my attendance at a public showing of the new documentary film "What on Earth?: Inside the Crop Circle Mystery" on Sept. 27, 2009, at a theater in downtown Los Angeles. Several months ago, the film earned the EBE Award from the International UFO Congress for being 2009's best feature-length documentary. (See producer Suzanne Taylor's web site at
http://www.cropcirclemovie.com .)

I of course have no illusion that the ad will spark enough public outcry to bring the trespassing vandals to justice; but the ad's mere existence might cause them to pause long enough for the victimized farmers to post NO TRESPASSING signs at strategic locations, thus serving legal notice of their intent to retake and protect their property.
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== BLOW THE WHISTLE ON THE PERPETRATORS OF CROP CIRCLE FORMATIONS ! ==

The first nine months of 2009 gave us ample evidence that the
perennial, worldwide phenomenon of crop circles seems to have a
permanent (if not expanding) hold upon various areas of farmland,
particularly in the United Kingdom. For all their artistic beauty,
these terraglyphs -- largely ignored by mainstream media --
nevertheless constitute a form of criminal activity whenever they
surface unsolicited upon a farmer's property. If the resultant crop
damage amounts to thousands (or even hundreds) of dollars/pounds, then
the crime's severity rises to a felony (punishable by appropriate
fine/imprisonment). In this case of legal liability, it matters
little whether the perpetrators are human or non-human; they simply
should not escape the consequences of their criminal trespass and
vandalism. Accordingly, I'm offering a $1,000 reward to the first
person to (1) apprehend any of the perpetrators and (2) succeed in
gaining their prosecution, trial, and conviction. Note: in numerous
jurisdictions, common law provides for the "citizen's arrest" of any
person committing a felony. Your helping bring the perpetrators (and
their overseers) to justice not only can stop this abuse of private
property but also can send a stern warning to anyone else
contemplating such misbehavior. In this regard, I'm sending this
announcement to the global law-enforcement agency called INTERPOL --
requesting their investigatory intervention in this matter. If you
(or someone you know) can qualify for the reward, please contact me as
follows: Larry W. Bryant; 3518 Martha Custis Drive, Alexandria, VA
22302; phone: 703-931-3341; e-mail: overtci@cavtel.net; blog:
http://ufoview.posterous.com .

Were he alive today, court chronicler Charles Dickens probably couldn't help chuckling over how the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency remains unable to resist playing games with certain FOIA requesters. In my own case of Bryant v. Central Intelligence Agency (filed on May 20, 2009, in U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia), the latest gamesmanship exudes from the hand of CIA FOIA official Delores M. Nelson, who, in late-2008, refused to honor my FOIA requester status as a "representative of the news media" and to conduct the requested records search. Her Oct. 21, 2009, letter to me (quoted below) sets the stage for my eventual legal victory (to include full reimbursement of my attorney's fees).

== TEXT OF MS. NELSON'S 21 OCT 09 LETTER TO LWB ==

Reference: F-2008-01781

Dear Mr. Bryant:

This is a final response to your 23 August 2008 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, and subsequent litigation, for the following CIA-received and CIA-generated records:

(1) As pertain to the convening, attendance roster, briefings, minutes, and all other related documentation of the 1987 special meeting at FAA headquarters in Washington, D.C.;

(2) As pertain to all other similar cases of airborne UFO encounters reportedly occurring since November 17, 1986, to date.

We processed your request in accordance with the FOIA, 5 U.S.C. Section 552, as amended, and the CIA Information Act, 50 U.S.C. Section 431, as amended. Our processing included a search for records as described in our 23 June 2009 letter existing through the date of 15 June 2009.

No records responsive to item 1 were located. With respect to item 2, we have located United States Government material that was not originated by CIA. This material appears to be relevant to your request and has been referred to its originating agency for review and direct response to you. Please note that the CIA regulations governing administrative appeals provide that no appeal shall be accepted if the information in question is the subject of a pending litigation in the federal courts.

Sincerely,

Delores M. Nelson
Information and Privacy Coordinator
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LWB Note: In adhering to the CIA culture of secrecy for secrecy's sake, Nelson's insistence on not identifying the "originating agency" that surfaced during her records search amounts to a needless cat-and-mouse game (at taxpayer expense, of course).

Moving to the legislative side of CIA gamesmanship, we have the below-quoted 29 Oct 09 response to my letter of June 30, 2009, to Virginia Sen. Jim Webb (a member of the U. S. Senate Committees on Armed Services and on Foreign Relations). Webb's public service, by the way, includes a tour as secretary of the Navy (and many of us accept the fact that the Navy department long has had the lion's share of managing the official U. S. cover-up of the UFO-E.T. experience).

== TEXT OF SEN. WEBB'S 29 OCT 09 LETTER TO LWB ==

Dear Mr. Bryant:

I have received the enclosed correspondence from the CIA in response to my inquiry on your behalf.

Again, thank you for writing. As your Senator, I hope that you will contact me anytime you feel that I may be of assistance to you with any problem of a federal nature. Please contact my Northern Virginia Office, at 7309 Arlington Boulevard, Suite 316, Falls Church, VA 22042.

With warm regards, I remain

Sincerely,

Jim Webb
United States Senator
JW:gs
Enclosure

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LWB Note: Webb's enclosure consists of a printed-out e-mail message of Oct. 28, 2009, from a CIA employee identified by his e-address (timothrr@ucia.gov); it's addressed to Webb staffer Gwen Sigda and contains the following non-commitment:

"Good Afternoon Gwen,

"Per our conversation, this email is in response to your letter dated 15 July 2009, regarding your constituent, Mr. Larry Bryant. My office has forwarded Mr. Bryant's correspondence to the appropriate internal office, who will consider it given this and past correspondence from Mr. Bryant. I unfortunately can't make any guarantees what will happen with Mr. Bryant's request from here, but I wanted to let you know that we have forwarded it to the appropriate office for review.

"I hope this information is helpful in responding to your constituent. Please feel free to let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

"Thanks,
"Tim"

Can we presume that Tim's reference to the "appropriate internal office" means the CIA inspector general's office? -- the very office that, to date, continues to ignore my May 30, 2009, request that it investigate the CIA mistreatment of former FAA official John J. Callahan back in 1987. This gamesmanship poses the question of who's investigating the investigators here --- shouldn't it be the U. S. Senate?

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LAWSUIT Update: In late October 2009, the assistant U. S. attorney defending the CIA in Bryant v. Central Intelligence Agency succeeded in gaining from the judge an additional enlargement of time in order to file an answer (or otherwise respond) to my complaint. Now the court's deadline for the Justice Department's response is set for January 11, 2010. Stay tuned.

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"Whenever an agency of the U. S. government lies to any citizen, that agency not only betrays the public trust but also merits no further confidence from the body politic." -- Larry W. Bryant (10/30/09)

The agency in question here happens to be the U. S. Air Force's law-enforcement arm, the Office of Special Investigations, headquartered at Andrews Air Force Base, Md.

In her Oct. 22, 2009, letter to me, OSI FOIA official Anne C. Costa falls on her sword of denial by asserting that the OSI headquarters possesses none of the requested records pertaining to the RAF Bentwaters' UFO-E.T. encounters of December 1980. If the UFO-coverup whistleblowers in this matter are telling the truth, then whoever controls the sought-for records is lying -- plain and simple.

At this point, whom would you trust: (a) several highly trained and highly morally fit-to-serve ex-servicemembers; or (b) certain historically untrustworthy bureaucrats committed to deceiving the public as to the reality and persistence of UFO-E.T. encounters? The OSI record of deception goes back to the 1950s and 1960s, when various OSI agents were helping USAF intelligence elements gather hard-core evidence of UFO reality while the USAF public affairs community was studiously down-playing the depth and value of that behind-the-scenes OSI activity (which, incidentally, included clandestine observation/recordation of certain critics' vocal disdain for propagandized USAF policy/practices re the "UFO problem").

Of course, if the OSI hierarchy is NOT lying about its alleged nonpossession of this essential evidence of UFO-E.T. visitation at Bentwaters, then which is the more egregiously unacceptable outcome: (a) the official destruction/loss of critically valuable (and permanent) records that could help solve the UFO-E.T. mystery; or (b) the unaccountability of a federal agency's deceiving the public as to what it knows, and when it knew it, about the content of those records?

As you ponder your choice, you might wish to add Ms. Costa's kiss-off letter to your history files on classic cases of UFO-E.T. intrusion at military bases worldwide:

== TEXT OF MS. COSTA'S 22 OCT 09 LETTER TO LWB ==

Dear Mr. Bryant,

This letter is in response to your 04 October 2009 Freedom of Information Act request for records regarding an "encounter with a landed alien spacecraft during the night of Dec 26, 1980 in the forest near the east gate of RAF Bentwaters, England" and "the separate incident of Dec 28, 1980". We received your request on 16 October 2009.

Since your request is for records that may have originated from RAF Bentwaters, England, your request has been forwarded to USAFE/A6OK (FOIA), Unit 3050 Box 125, APO AE 09094-0125 for a direct reply to your request.

We have conducted an extensive search of our files and ran Defense Clearance and Investigations Index (DCII) checks. It has been determined that the Air Force Office of Special Investigations is not maintaining any information responsive to your request. In addition, we are enclosing an Air Force Fact Sheet regarding UFO related topics for your information. AFOSI FOIA 2010-FOIA-00023 has been administratively closed. AFOSI apologizes that we can be of no further assistance.

If you interpret this "no records" response as an adverse action, you may appeal it to the Secretary of the Air Force within 60 days from the date of this letter. Include in the appeal your reasons for reconsideration, and attach a copy of this letter. 2010-FOIA-00023 has been assigned to this case for correspondence purposes. Address your letter as follows:

Secretary of the Air Force
Thru: AFOSI/XILI
P. O. Box 2218
Waldorf, MD 20604-2218

Sincerely,

ANNE C. COSTA
Chief, Information Release Branch
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TO: Director
U. S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations
P. O. Box 2218
Waldorf, MD 20604-2218

FROM: Larry W. Bryant
3518 Martha Custis Drive
Alexandria, VA 22302

DATE: October 4, 2009

1. Reference: The below-quoted text of my classified advertisement now posted at http://www.interking.com/ads/osi.htm , titled "BLOW THE WHISTLE ON RAF BENTWATERS's UFO PHOTOGRAPHY!"

2. Under terms of the U. S. Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request that you provide me a copy of all photographic negatives and prints secured by former USAF security officer James Penniston (as well as all other related photo products produced by any other government personnel) in his official encounter with a landed alien spacecraft during the night of Dec. 26, 1980, in the forest near the east gate of RAF Bentwaters, England. I also request a copy of all USAF-OSI-generated/received incident reports, investigatory reports, after-action reports, intelligence analyses, documentary correspondence (including memoranda for record, memos of telephone conversations, and briefing papers/charts), audio-tape recordings (plus their transcripts), and telex messages pertaining to Penniston's encounter and to the separate incident of Dec. 28, 1980, as documented by Bentwaters's then-deputy commander, Col. Charles I. Halt.

3. Since I submit this request as a representative of the news media (chiefly as a columnist for the newsstand monthly periodical UFO Magazine), I ask that you waive all records-search/review fees incident to your fulfilling this request. If you determine that one or more OSI Districts possess any of the requested records, please forward this letter to them for FOIA processing.

4. By snail-mail, I'm sending to you a signed printout of this e-formatted letter.

LARRY W. BRYANT
http://ufoview.posterous.com

Copies furnished to:

Editor, UFO Magazine
Chairwoman, U. S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Chairman, Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives - U. S. House of Representatives

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=== TEXT OF LWB's CLASSIFIED AD BEING CARRIED BY THE INTERKING SERVICE ( http://www.interking.com/ads/osi.htm ===

== BLOW THE WHISTLE ON RAF BENTWATERS's UFO PHOTOGRAPHY! ==

Whatever landed on Dec. 26, 1980, in Rendlesham Forest near the U. S.-U.K-operated RAF Bentwaters caught the attention of a security team that included former USAF Sgt. James Penniston. By his whistleblower account, he managed not only to touch the black, triangular craft but also to capture it on black-and-white, 35-mm film for the roll's entire 36 exposures. Today, where lies that film (and any other related official documentary evidence); and why does the U. S. government insist on denying public access to it? If you (or someone you know) possess verifiable evidence leading to the film's whereabouts and to its public release, you may qualify for a $1,000 reward from me. The recently revealed conclusion of Bentwaters retired USAF deputy commander Col. Charles I. Halt that the craft encountered on Dec. 26 and 28, 1980, "was of extraterrestrial origin" elevates this case to the ultimate smoking gun of UFO reality. Your coming forward now can help compel Congress to demand full accountability for those two visitations. Contact: Larry W. Bryant at 3518 Martha Custis Drive, Alexandria, VA 22302; e-mail: overtci@cavtel.net; see my blog at http://ufoview.posterous.com .

TO: Ms. Delores M. Nelson
     Information and Privacy Coordinator
     U. S. Central Intelligence Agency
     Washington, DC 20505

 FROM: Larry W. Bryant
      3518 Martha Custis Drive
      Alexandria, VA 22302

 DATE: August 23, 2009

 1. Reference: the enclosed photocopy of the Washington Post's Aug. 23, 2009, obituary of UFO researcher Richard Harris Hall.

 2. During Mr. Hall's leadership at the now-defunct National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), he encountered the official desire of certain CIA personnel to share with them a selection of key UFO-incident cases from NICAP files. For the ensuing arrangement, no confidentiality agreement applied.

 3. Accordingly, I hereby submit this freedom-of-information request for a photocopy of all CIA-generated and CIA-received records pertaining to this UFO-related files-sharing arrangement (said records to include the Agency's analysis/disposition of the NICAP cases received) -- plus any and all CIA records pertaining to Mr. Hall's subsequent career as a UFO researcher-author.

 4. Please process this request under my FOIA-requester status as a representative of the news media.

 5. By snail-mail, I'm sending to you a signed printout of this e-formatted letter.

  
LARRY W. BRYANT
Columnist for UFO Magazine

 Copy furnished to: Editor, UFO Magazine
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TO: Ms. Delores M. Nelson
    Information and Privacy Coordinator
    U. S. Central Intelligence Agency
    Washington, DC 20515

 FROM: Larry W. Bryant
     3518 Martha Custis Drive
     Alexandria, VA 22302

 DATE: July 31, 2009

 1. References:

   a. CIA FOIA case file No. F92-2401 as pertains to Timothy S. Cooper's Nov. 12, 1992, request for access to all CIA-generated records from the World War II-era Project Paperclip files.

   b. From the above-released records, the one-page CIA memorandum dated April 12, 1949, addressed to the Director, Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency - Joint Chiefs of Staff; Subject: Project 63 (UF-103-M) [re Project Paperclip]; signed by Rear Admiral R. H. Hillenkoetter, Director of Central Intelligence (and an MJ-12 member).

 2. At the bottom-left corner of Reference 1b appears the typed notation:

 "FILE DIST: [i.e., File Distribution]
CIA Top Secret
MJ-12"

 3. Of course, the "MJ-12" entry refers to the supersecret panel of UFO-crash/retrieval experts assembled in the 1940s to collect, analyze, and exploit various UFO-E.T.-related intelligence. Certain leaked 1980s-era documentary evidence of the Majestic-Twelve's deliberations/operations continues to undergo intense forensic examination/evaluation by privately funded researchers.

 4. In the interests of helping preserve and publicly disseminate the contents of all CIA-generated MJ-12 records, I ask that your office subject all extant original copies of those records to mandatory declassification review (MDR) in accordance with any applicable presidential executive order. As you search for, identify, locate, and process this historically valuable material, please make sure you account for any of the records' transfer to externally-sited records-holding areas and to permanent retention by the U. S. National Archives and Records Administration. If you determine that any of the sought-for records have undergone destruction, please provide me with a copy of that destruction's authorization-and-execution record.

 5. Upon completion of your MDR task in this matter, please promptly inform me of the results - so that I may request a copy of all releasable records therefrom (in my FOIA-requester status as a representative of the news media).

 6. By snail-mail, I'm sending to you a signed printout of this e-formatted letter.

  
LARRY W. BRYANT
Director, Washington, D. C., office of Citizens Against UFO Secrecy

 Copies furnished to:

 Editor, UFO Magazine
Chairwoman, Select Committee on Intelligence - U. S. Senate
Chairman, Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives - U. S. House of Representatives
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