Larry W. Bryant's UFOview

Appeal of CIA's Inordinate Delay in Processing My FOIA Request of Aug. 12, 2011 -- re FBIS-catalogued Accounts of UFO Encounters (see Item 2.118) (Item 2.150)

TO:  Ms. Susan Viscuso
        Freedom-of-Information Coordinator
        U. S. Central Intelligence Agency
        Washington, DC  20505

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

DATE:  May 7, 2012

1.  Reference:  My e-mail message to you of September 29, 2011, in which I sought from you a written status report on my FOIA request of Aug. 12, 2011 (Item 218 of my blog at http://ufoview.posterous.com ).

2.  Since you have chosen not to respond to my Aug. 12, 2011, request (and to my follow-up e-request of Sept. 29, 2011), I view that nonresponse as an adverse action subject to both formal appeal and to any necessary litigation to compel your agency's full compliance with the U. S. Freedom of Information Act.  Accordingly, please grant this appeal by promptly proceeding with timely processing of my Aug. 12, 2011, request (and by notifying me, in writing, of that positive action).

LARRY W. BRYANT
Columnist for UFO Magazine

Copies furnished to:

   Editor, UFO Magazine
   Chair, U. S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
   General Counsel, U. S. Central Intelligence Agency

== TEXT OF MY 29 SEP 11 E-MESSAGE TO MS. VISCUSO ==

Request for Status Report on My FOIA Request of August 12, 2011 (Item 2.118)

MS. VISCUSO: Since I've received no CIA response to this 12 Aug 11 FOIA request (which means your agency has failed to comply with the Act's response-time deadline of 20 working days), I now ask that you promptly assign a case number to the request and that you tell me the approximate date on which your agency expects to complete the processing of my request.

Does your nonresponse mean that your agency is angling for another Rosemary Award for poor FOIA performance -- or for having to reimburse my court costs when I choose to legally challenge your nonresponse? -- Larry W. Bryant (29 Sep 11)

Copy furnished to: Chair, U. S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

OSI's FOIA Office Resorts (Predictably) to a Form-Letter Response to My FOIA Request re Researcher Robert L. Hastings (See Item 2.131) (Item 2.149)

[LWB Note:  My freedom-of-information request of Oct. 2, 2011 -- simultaneously addressed to several U. S. intelligence agencies/
military commands as Item 2.131 -- has succeeded in eliciting the following form letter from the FOIA manager at the U. S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations, located in Quantico, Va. (My renewal of this request occurred on Feb. 6, 2012, in response to OSI's earlier rejection of the privacy-release statement provided by me and Mr. Hastings, insisting that I use their standardized release form; ah, the gamesmanship of FOIA compliance!).  Some readers of Bryant's UFOview may recall that, back in the 1950s, the OSI hierarchy was actively creating dossiers on certain UFO researchers, including me.  Somehow, I suppose, these counterintelligence sleuths had concluded that we constitute a threat to their behind-the-scenes UFO-news management.  Fast-forward to the present and you'll probably find that the OSI's UFOlogical mind-set remains focused on tracking and countering the work of such researchers as Robert L. Hastings, whose continued acquisition of UFO-whistleblower-derived evidence apparently has prompted USAF-OSI to crack down on some of those whistleblowers.  See http://www.ufohastings.com .]

== TEXT OF OSI's LETTER OF MARCH 1, 2012, TO LWB ==

Dear Mr. Bryant:

This letter is in response to your 06 February 2012 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for any and all records pertaining to Robert L. Hastings.  We received your request on 09 February 2012 and have assigned the tracking number AFOSI 2012-FOIA-00197.

We are unable to meet the time limits imposed by the FOIA because we have a backlog of requests caused by the voluminous and complex nature of investigative reports.  Also, not all reports requested are stored in our file repository and cause us to have to search other locations or to confer with other offices before the reports are ready for release.  We handle all FOIA requests on a "first-in, first-out" basis and use a multi-track FOIA Queue.  Based on our current backlog, we expect to pull your request for processing within the next 120 days.  Please be assured that once your request is reached in our Queue, it will be processed as quickly as possible.

If you need to contact us about your request, please write to the address above and reference AFOSI 2012-FOIA-00197 on all correspondence pertaining to this request.  You may also contact the FOIA/PA administrators via email at afosi.hq.foia@ogn.af.mil .

Sincerely,

Makeda Weeks-Titus
Information Release Branch
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Complaint about the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency's Non-responsiveness re My MDR/FOIA Requests (See Items 2.86 and 2.23) (Item 2.148)

TO:  Ms. Miriam Nisbet

        Director, Office of Government Information Services
        U. S. National Archives and Records Administration
        8601 Adelphi Road
        College Park, MD  20740-6001

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

DATE:  March 4, 2012

1.  Reference:  My December 28, 2010, letter to former CIA freedom-of-information coordinator Delores M. Nelson, the text of which is printed below.

2.  My records on this case reflect no receipt of any reply from either Ms. Nelson or her successor, Ms. Susan Viscuso.  This non-responsiveness should surprise no-one familiar with the Agency's pattern of dodging its MDR/FOIA responsibilities.  Even so, my pursuit of the sought-for actions should not be held hostage to the Agency's desire to avoid MDR/FOIA compliance.

3.  Accordingly, I hereby submit this complaint for you to help me resolve this impasse in a manner favorable to the public's right-to-know and productive of the government's duty-to-tell.

4.  In my USPS-mailing to you of a signed printout of this e-formatted letter, I'm enclosing an executed copy of your office's standard privacy-release/records-access authorization form.

LARRY W. BRYANT
Columnist for UFO Magazine

Copies furnished to:

  Editor, UFO Magazine

  Chair, U. S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
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++ TEXT OF LWB's 22 FEB 09 AND 28 DEC 10 LETTERS TO CIA ++

TO:  Ms. Delores M. Nelson
         Freedom-of-Information Coordinator
         U. S. Central Intelligence Agency
         Washington, DC  20505

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

DATE:  December 28, 2010

1.  Reference:  my e-formatted letter to you of February 22, 2009 (labeled as "Item 2.23:  Request to CIA for Mandatory/Automatic Declassification Review and for FOIA Public Release of 57 UFO-related Records"), whose text now is posted upon my blog (under http://ufoview.posterous.com/item-223-request-to-cia-for-ma ), and which thereby has garnered 11,000 views as of today's date.

2.  The referenced letter requests that your agency subject to mandatory declassification review/release all the 57 UFO-related documents that were withheld via litigation in the FOIA 1978 case of Ground Saucer Watch v. Central Intelligence Agency.

3.  Since you thus far have failed to honor my referenced two-part request, and since I have no indication how long that failure will continue, I hereby submit this letter as a formal, written, follow-up FOIA request that you send me a photocopy of the entire two CIA FOIA case files created in response to my Feb. 22, 2009, request.

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


LARRY W. BRYANT
Representative of the News Media 
(chiefly as a columnist for UFO Magazine)

Copies furnished to:

    Editor, UFO Magazine
    Chair, U. S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

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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:  February 22, 2009

1.  In accordance with (a) presidential Executive Order 12958 and with (b) the U. S. Freedom of Information Act (as amended by the OPEN Government Act of 2007), this is a two-part request, separate-but-related as to subject matter.

2.  For part one, please subject to mandatory/automatic declassification all of the CIA-generated/housed 57 UFO-related documents that surfaced during the 1978 FOIA lawsuit of Ground Saucer Watch v. Central Intelligence Agency.  These documents meet the age threshold (25-plus years) for MDR processing as permanent records of untold historic value.  I ask that you keep me promptly and regularly informed of the results of that processing, starting by your assigning a case number to the request.

2.  The second part of this request seeks your prompt FOIA release of any and all currently segregable portions of the 57 documents from their classified portions.  Please promptly report to me the results of your segregable-portion- releasability review under a case number separate from the number you'll be assigning to the above-requested MDR case.

3.  Since I submit these requests as a representative of the news media (as evidenced by my publication credits cited in my web log - http://ufoview.posterous.com ), I expect you to acknowledge that requester status by waiving all records-processing fees incident to your fulfilling them.

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


LARRY W. BRYANT
Columnist for UFO Magazine

Copies furnished to:
  Editor, UFO Magazine
  Chair, Select Committee on Intelligence, U. S. Senate
  Peter A. Gersten, Esq.

++ TEXT OF LWB's CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENT POSTED AT http://www.classifiedads.com/announcements-ad12896762.htm ++

=​= Blow the Whistle on the CIA's Non-compliance with "Mandatory Declassification Review" Requirements! ==

Back on February 22, 2009, I submitted a written request to the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency that it subject its 57 suppressed UFO-related documents to the records-management process called "mandatory declassification review" (MDR) as specified by presidential order 12958 (a predecessor to E. O. 13526 -- http://www.ise.gov/sites/default/files/EO13526.pdf ).  To date, I've received no response whatsoever from the Agency.

Public knowledge of those documents had occurred via a 1978 freedom-of-information lawsuit captioned Ground Saucer Watch v. Central Intelligence Agency.  What's this, you say -- the Agency actually is withholding the contents of those documents indefinitely, despite its protestations that it does no delving into the reality of the worldwide UFO-E.T. presence? 

If you, or someone you know, possess evidence (including any notarized deathbed confessions from certain UFO-coverup-privy insiders) that the Agency has been deceiving the public about the extent of its knowledge of, and experience with, hard-core UFO-E.T. activity, then now's your chance to help set the record straight.  Contact Larry W. Bryant, 3518 Martha Custis Drive, Alexandria, VA  22302; phone:  703-931-3341; e-mail:  overtci@cavtel.net .

Meantime, you might wish to track any progress on this perennial pursuit of greater UFO freedom of information and accountability -- by perusing Item 2.148 of my web log at http://ufoview.posterous.com .

 

 

Two Agencies (the CIA and NARA's Office of Government Information Services) Choose to Thumb their Noses at FOIA (Item 2.147)

[LWB Note:  Within a week of each other in January 2012, the Rosemary-Award-winning U. S. Central Intelligence Agency and the lofty but testy and ineffectual Office of Government Information Services at the U. S. National Archives and Records Administration sent me letters proving that their regard for freedom of information centers not on serving the public interest but on serving their own bureaucratic interests.  Yes, folks, here we have, once again, another chapter in the We-versus-Them struggle for greater UFOIA -- UFO freedom of information and accountability.  At this point, short of my winning a state lottery so as to fund litigation in support of UFOIA progress, we're left with only one viable resource:  the emergence of enough whistleblowers with ample confirmatory evidence of their accounts that would convince a federal grand jury to investigate, and report upon, their revelations.  They might choose to jump-start this long-overdue disclosure process by issuing deathbed confessions as to their role in/observation of any aspect of the worldwide cover-up of the UFO-E.T. experience (see Item 2.111).  Meanwhile, for your inspiration and amusement, I'm printing the contents of each agency's notification letter below.]

== Letter from the NARA-OGIS chief (17 Jan 12) ==

Dear Mr. Bryant:

Re:  Courtesy copies to OGIS -- MN:KF:CZ

We are writing to confirm that we have received your latest courtesy copy [LWB Note:  I prefer to label it "action copy"] of your correspondence  to the U. S. Air Force dated January 4, 2012 [see Item 2.92] and received on January 5, 2012.  We have received many courtesy copies from you [LWB Note:  untrue, unless no more than three CC copies are considered "many" by OGIS staffers] over time via email and have advised you we do not open case files upon receipt of courtesy copies.  We also write to inform you that we will no longer be acknowledging receipt of courtesy copies from you.

The Office of Government Information Services serves as the FOIA Ombudsman, providing assistance to the public and to Federal agencies.  We provide mediation services to resolve FOIA disputes and we also review agencies' FOIA policies, procedures and compliance.  If in the future you would like to request our services, you may contact us with an express request for our assistance.  If we receive future courtesy copies from you we will not acknowledge their receipt.

Thank you for your interest in the Office of Government Information Services.

Sincerely,

Miriam Nisbet, Director
Office of Government Information Services
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== Letter from the CIA's FOIA chief (20 Jan 12) ==

Reference:  F-2012-00334

Dear Mr. Bryant:

We received your 28 December 2011 letter, appealing our 23 December 2011 final response to your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request  for "any and all CIA-generated and CIA-received records pertaining to the Mars-Visitation Program."

Your initial request [see Item 2.145] was not processed, therefore, there are no administrative appeal rights and we cannot accept your appeal. You are encouraged, however, to refine the scope of your request and submit it anew at any time.

Sincerely,

Susan Viscuso
Information and Privacy Coordinator

[LWB Note:  could it possibly be that the Agency is vying for yet another Rosemary Award for poor FOIA performance?  And:  how ironic would it be for the OGIS operation to be added, eventually, to the list of awardees?]
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http://ufoview.posterous.com

Double-the-Fun Anti-UFO-Secrecy Petitions Now Thirsting for Signatories (Item 2.146)

       == Line up, Sign on, and Chime in -- Please! ==

Two brand-new online petitions -- one posted on the White House's web subsite "We the People" ( http://wh.gov/Wxu ) under the title "Bestow the Presidential Medal of Freedom upon Declared UFO-coverup Whistleblowers"; and the other posted upon a public-interest site as a complementary action in support of the WH petition ( http://www.petitiononline.com/ufoprez/petition.html ) -- are ready to receive signatories.

The latter petition reinforces the WH version by offering space for signers to post supportive comments.  It also presents a longer version of the WH petition statement as truncated by limited space. I of course encourage readers of my blog to sign both petitions, and in particular to help me garner at least 150 signatures on the WH version so as to have it qualify for public viewing in the site's Open Petitions section.

Thank you for whatever support you might choose to render toward raising public consciousness of this citizens-driven opportunity to shift the UFOlogical-action paradigm. -- Larry W. Bryant ( http://ufoview.posterous.com and http://tinyletter.com/ufoview-updates )

  

FOIA Appeal of CIA's Refusal to Search for Records re Its Role in the Mars-Visitation Program (See Item 2.137) (Item 2.145)

TO:  Chairman, Agency Records-Release Panel

         THROUGH:  Ms. Susan Viscuso, CIA FOIA Coordinator
         U. S. Central Intelligence Agency
         Washington, DC  20505

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

DATE:  December 28, 2011

1.  Reference:  Your Ms. Viscuso's Dec. 23, 2011, letter to me, in which she summarily dismisses my FOIA request of Nov. 11, 2011 (your case No. F-2012-00334), her text of which is reprinted below.

2.  No provision of the U. S. Freedom of Information Act allows any federal agency to escape its statutory obligation to conduct a reasonable search of its records systems by declaring that its primary mission has no relevance to the sought-for records.  Back in the 1960s--1970s, certain CIA officials declared that the agency possessed no cache of UFO-related records; it took a citizens-led FOIA lawsuit to prove otherwise.  Likewise, the CIA's role in collecting/analyzing UFO-related data included contacting the late acting director of the 1960s-era National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (Richard H. Hall) -- for the purpose of clandestinely gaining access to NICAP-acquired UFO-case files.  Knowledge of that official activity (whether it be "mission"-related or not) surfaced via the FOIA-process.  Furthermore, the agency's Star Gate program of remote-viewing included (1) acquisition of certain Mars-centered data useful in determining the extent and nature of past/current culture on Mars; and (2) insight into the Cash-Landrum UFO incident of December 1980 (see http://tinyurl.com/cfe7egq ).  To this very day, the CIA-operated Foreign Broadcast Information Service still collects and catalogs UFO-related accounts from open sources within the worldwide news media.  Some of these reports may lead some observers/analysts to conclude that some of the reported UFOs have originated from other planets, including Mars.  In this case, the acquired data represent the ultimate category of "foreign intelligence" (falling under the collection requirements of Joint Army-Navy-Air Publication 146 ("Communications Instructions for Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings").

3.  Since certain CIA officials over the years have displayed untrustworthiness as regards the agency's handling of UFO-related data (to include revelations about its role in Operation Majestic-Twelve), my request No. F-2012-00334 gives you the opportunity to help restore the public's confidence in the agency's veracity and compliance with such public laws as the FOIA.  Please accept this opportunity by overriding Ms. Viscuso's refusal to conduct the requested records search.

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

LARRY W. BRYANT
Columnist for UFO Magazine

Copies furnished to:

    Editor, UFO Magazine 
    Chief of Staff, U. S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

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TEXT OF MS. VISCUSO's DECEMBER 23, 2011, LETTER TO L.W.B.:

Reference:  F-2012-00334

Dear Mr. Bryant:

This is a final response to your 11 November 2012 Freedom of Information Act request, received in the office of the Information and Privacy Coordinator on 22 November 2011, for "any and all CIA-generated and CIA-received records pertaining to the Mars-Visitation Program."

Please note, the mission of the Central Intelligence Agency is primarily concerned with foreign intelligence.  The information you request, insofar as we can discern, has nothing to do with the primary mission of this Agency, and, therefore, we regret that we are unable to assist you.

Sincerely,

Susan Viscuso
Information and Privacy Coordinator

FOIA Request to Multiple USAF Bases re the Oct. 23, 2011, Aerial Attack on a UFO Near Pensacola (Item 2.144)

TO:  Freedom-of-Information Officer
         325 CS/SCOK (FOIA)
         555 Suwannee Road
         Tyndall Air Force Base, FL  32403-5505

TO:  Freedom-of-Information Officer
         482 CS/SCXR (FOIA)
         12719 Elmendorf Street
          Homestead Air Reserve Base, FL  33039-1299

TO:  Freedom-of-Information Officer
        96 CS/SCOKO (FOIA)
        202 West Georgia Avenue - Suite 113
        Eglin Air Force Base, FL  32542-5453

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

DATE:  December 27, 2011

1.  Reference:  My classified advertisement posted at http://www.classifiedads.com/announcements-ad9735959.htm , the text of which is printed below.

2.  This freedom-of-information request seeks a photocopy of all your installation/command's records produced from the incident of October 23, 2011, in which one or more jet interceptors shot down an airborne UFO near Pensacola, Fla.  I ask that you begin your records search by determining the volume and whereabouts of any and all interceptor gun-camera film footage of this hostile encounter.  That key documentary evidence presumably would lead you to locate all other related documentation -- such as air intelligence reports, flight-operations logs/incident reports, command-and-control/communications recordings, radar-tracking data, security forces' actions, pilot-debriefing transcripts, after-action reports, executive correspondence (including e-mail and faxed material), and UFO-sighting reports submitted/processed under requirements of Joint Army-Navy-Air Publication 146 ("Communications Instructions for Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings").

3.  Since the FOIA-amending provisions of the U. S. Open Government Act of 2007 afford my requester status (representative of the news media) automatic exclusion of all records-search/review fees incident to your fulfilling this request, I hereby state my willingness to pay for only your reasonable document-duplication costs beyond the first 100 pages of responsive records.

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

LARRY W. BRYANT
Columnist for the newsstand periodical UFO Magazine 

Copies furnished to:

   Editor, UFO Magazine

   Chief of Staff, U. S. Senate Armed Services Committee

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== $2,000 Whistleblower Reward for Gun-camera Footage of the Oct. 23, 2011, Aerial Attack on a UFO Near Pensacola ==

How many USAF-deployed jet fighters joined the Oct. 23, 2011, aerial attack against a UFO near Pensacola, Fla., in which one or more of these interceptors fired upon the low-flying interloper, causing a fiery explosion over the Gulf of Mexico?  Hard evidence of this alleged attack probably was recorded by the interceptors' gun cameras.  If you (or someone you know) possess, and can offer, an authentic copy of that smoking-UFO film, you may qualify for a $2,000 reward, as to be adjudged by a panel of UFO-research specialists.

Please help fulfill the public's right-to-know in this matter of UFO-centered hostility -- a case that one or more congressional committees might wish to investigate and report upon.  As you develop your whistleblower role in this pivotal case of official U. S. overreaction to the worldwide UFO-E.T. presence, I'm submitting a freedom-of-information request to multiple Air Force bases in the Pensacola area -- for access to all their records about the event (see its text posted as Item 2.144 of my blog - http://ufoview.posterous.com ).  Meantime, I welcome receipt of your insider tips/leads/deathbed confessions at:  Larry W. Bryant, 3518 Martha Custis Drive, Alexandria, VA  22302; phone:  703-931-3341; e-mail:  overtci@cavtel.net .  For updates on this perennial pursuit of UFOtruth, subscribe for my free online newsletter at http://tinyletter.com/ufoview-updates .

U. S. Naval Air Station Pensacola Cops out on Knowledge of Nearby UFO Activity (See Items 2.135 and 2.139) (Item 2.143)

As news of the Oct. 23, 2011, jet fighters' alleged interception and shoot-down of an intrusive UFO near the naval air base at Pensacola, Fla., was finding a niche on the internet, what official records of the event were being created within the U. S. Navy's chain of command?

To find out, I fired off a freedom-of-information request to the Navy (Item 2.135, dated Nov. 6, 2011).  Several days later, I received a kiss-off "no records" response from the NASP FOIA officer.  Unsatisfied with such short shrift, I followed up, on November 13, 2011 (Item 2.139), with a FOIA request for the entire NASP FOIA case file on my original request.  Here's what the file reveals, starting with its Dec. 1, 2011, letter of transmittal from Lt. Eden:

Dear Mr. Bryant:

This letter responds to your Freedom of Information Act request dated November 13, 2011, in which you sought a copy of records maintained by Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida regarding an Anti-UFO Attack on October 23, 2011.  Your request was received in this office on November 28, 2011 and was assigned file number 12-11.

Naval Air Station Pensacola, Base Air Operations was contacted to search for documents responsive to your request.  After a complete review of aviation logs and records it was determined that no flight operations were conducted during the time period that you requested.  A thorough search of our records failed to disclose any additional records responsive to your request.

The requested information is partially exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.  Primarily the information exempted falls under exemption (b)(6), which protects personal privacy.  Specifically, we are unable to provide you with the information of individuals contained in the document because release of this information would be an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy [5 U.S.C. Sec. 552(b)(6)].

Enclosure (1) is a redacted copy of emails from FOIA file 12-05.  Other documents in the file are your original request and the response letter dated November 8, 2011.

Enclosure (2) is a copy of the UFO Fact Sheet.  This sheet is also available at http://www.foia.navy.mil , the Navy FOIA Reading Room.  The UFO Fact Sheet provides additional information that may be of assistance to you.

If you feel that the search of the records was not complete, you may appeal this determination in writing to:  Judge Advocate General of the Navy (Code 14), 1322 Patterson Avenue, S. E. - Suite 3000, Washington Navy Yard, DC  20374-5066.

Your appeal must be postmarked within 60 calendar days from the date of this letter.  A statement as to why your appeal should be granted should be included and a copy of this letter should be attached.  Both the appeal letter and the envelope should bear the notation, "Freedom of Information Act Appeal."

There are no fees associated with this request.  Any questions concerning this matter should be directed to Ms. Joanne Parra at (904) 542-4026.

Sincerely,

G. W. EDEN
Lieutenant
Judge Advocate General's Corps
U. S. Navy
By direction of the Commander

Enclosure:  1.  Email from FOIA file 12-05 (redacted)
                   2.  UFO Fact Sheet
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Here is the text of each e-mail printout provided in Eden's Dec. 1 letter, beginning with Nov. 7 and ending with Nov. 8:

(1)  Nov. 7 [to someone in Jacksonville, Fla.]:  Good morning and hope you had a great weekend.  We have a FOIA request seeking records from NAS Pensacola.  Not sure if you all have any responsive records, but is it ok to forward along to you?

(2)  Nov. 7 [from someone in Jacksonville]:  Good morning.  Can you look over this FOIA request and see who at NAS Pensacola could assist?  Thank you for your help.

(3)  Nov. 7 [from a paralegal specialist in the Region Legal Service Office, SE Branch Office - Naval Air Station Pensacola]:  Please find below in the string of emails a FOIA request for Anti-UFO Attack from Naval Air Station Pensacola.  Since this involves Jet Planes, I assume that this will go to [deleted] but just wanted to run it by you first.  Any information you could provide would be greatly appreciated.

(4)  Nov. 7 [from NAS Pensacola, N31]:  Not sure how to respond to this -- I don't know of anything related to this request.

(5)  Nov. 8 [from Southeast to NAS Pensacola, N31]:  The only thing that I will need to forward to the region is a list of anyone that was flying on 23 October 2011.  If you have that information that would be great.  Thanks.

(6)  Nov. 8 [from NAS Pensacola, N31 to NAS Pensacola N3; ACCS NAS Pensacola, N3; and NAS Pensacola, N31]:  ATC [Air Traffic Control?], Do you have any records to provide for the below request?

(7) Nov. 8 [from NAS Pensacola, N31 to NAS Pensacola, N31; NAS Pensacola, N3; and ACCS NAS Pensacola, N3]:  I have checked all aviation logs and records in Base Operations/Transient Line.  We did not have a fighter aircraft aboard NAS Pensacola during this timeframe.  NAS Pensacola wouldn't have the capability since we only have training aircraft here.

(8) Nov. 8 [from Southeast to Jacksonville]:  This is the response that I got from our AIROPS folks.  Please let me know if you need anything else.  Talk to you soon.
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Lt. Eden's enclosed copy of the (undated) two-page UFO Fact Sheet begins with this disclaimer:  "There is no central office or activity in the Department of the Navy assigned the mission of collecting and maintaining information on UFO phenomenon, paranormal activity, and/or similar events."  It goes on to summarize the Air Force's historical role in UFOlogy, dating back through the 1950s--1960s-era Project Blue Book to the Roswell (N.M.) "flying disc" retrieval operation of July 1947.  But it neglects to mention that some of the debris from the Roswell UFO crash-landing was shared with certain Navy authorities (according to the late Army intelligence officer Lt. Col. Philip J. Corso's memoir The Day After Roswell).  Plus:  the "fact sheet" conveniently ignores that, to this very day, the Navy (as well as the other uniformed services) remains obligated, via Joint Army-Navy-Air Publication 146 ("Communications Instructions for Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings"), to collect and process any UFO-sighting reports by its personnel.

Meantime, I wonder whether the jet interceptors on that fateful day of October 23, 2011, originated from Florida's Homestead Air Reserve Base.  Will any USAF whistleblowers in this case please step forward and perform a valuable service to the public's right-to-know and the government's duty-to-tell?

NASA's FOIA Gatekeepers Move the Goal Post and Fall on their Sword of Obfuscation (See Item 2.133) (Item 2.142)

TO:  Ms. Jessica Bowen
         NASA Headquarters FOIA Officer
         U. S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
         Washington, DC  20546-0001

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

DATE:  December 23, 2011

1.  Reference:  Your December 12, 2011, letter to me, in which you demand my providing you "clarification" of the records descriptors listed as 2a and 2b of my FOIA request dated November 2, 2011 (your case No. 12-HQ-F-00132) - the text of which is printed below.

2.  These descriptors and this resultant clarification rely upon the revelatory content of the Oct. 23, 2011, article titled "NASA Insider Reveals Moon Forbidden Fly Zones Exist," by Carol Shield, as published upon the web site of http://www.ufodigest.com/article/nasa-insider-reveals-nasa-moon-forbidden-fly-zones-exist .  Accordingly, the whistleblower-derived evidence in that account is self-explanatory -- i.e., it directly refers to an action taken by one or more NASA officials to surreptitiously create and monitor a no-fly-zone/off-limits policy vis-a-vis the environs of the moon's Apollos 11 and 17 landing sites.  The whistleblower's account itself constitutes an event of wide public interest.  My FOIA request seeks not to have NASA investigate the event but to afford me full access to all NASA-controlled records pertaining to it and to the policy exposed by it.  Therefore, your ensuing records search should include the files of such NASA headquarters elements as the administrator's office, the general counsel's office, the inspector general's office, and the public affairs office.  Should you choose to exclude tasking any of these identified offices with a reasonable search for all responsive records, I would construe that inaction as a denial of my request, and hence would appeal it.

3.  The public's stakeholdership in determining what the NASA managerial hierarchy knows (and when it knew it) about this whistleblower-exposed policy/activity demands that you proceed with no further delay in a good-faith, comprehensive processing of my request.  Please note that my requester status as a representative of the news media automatically entitles me to exclusion of all records-search/review fees, meaning that I'm willing to pay for only your reasonable cost of document-duplication beyond the first 100 pages.

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

LARRY W. BRYANT
Columnist for UFO Magazine

Copies furnished to:

   Editor, UFO Magazine

   Chief of Staff, Committee on Science, Space, and Technology - U. S. House of Representatives

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TEXT OF MS. BOWEN's DEC. 12, 2011, LETTER TO L.W.B.:

REF:  12-HQ-F-00132

Dear Mr. Bryant:

This letter is in reference to your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request dated November 2, 2011, and received November 16, 2011, at the NASA Headquarters FOIA Office.  Your FOIA request was assigned Case File Number 12-HQ-00132 and was for:

A photocopy of all NASA-controlled records pertaining to the NASA decision described in my referenced ad ["Blow the Whistle on NASA's Move to Declare 'Off Limits' the Landing Sites of Apollos 11 and 17!"] -- said records to include the following:

a.  Any and all communications documentation (including executive correspondence, faxed material, e-mail, telephone-conversation transcripts/summaries, briefing papers/charts, and minutes of meetings);

b.  Any and all policy statements, staff studies, coordination papers, legal-content reviews, diplomatic assessments, and decision memoranda.

We are contacting you on behalf of all NASA Centers, to include Johnson Space Center, for purposes of addressing clarification of your request.  At this time, it remains uncertain what records you are requesting.  In accordance with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) FOIA regulations (14 CFR Sec. 1206.601), a requester is required to describe the record sought so that a knowledgeable official can locate the record with a reasonable amount of effort.  Descriptive information about a record may be divided into two broad categories:

(i)  Category I is file-related and includes information such as type of record, title, index citation, subject area, date the record was created, or its originator.

(ii) Category II is event-related and includes the circumstances that resulted in the record being created or the date and circumstances surrounding the event the record covers.

Generally, a record is not reasonably described unless the description contains sufficient Category I information to conduct an organized, non-random search based on the existing filing arrangements and retrieval systems, or unless the record contains sufficient Category II information to permit inference of the Category I elements needed to conduct such a search.  Agencies are not required to interpret cited material for Category I or II elements, nor are they required to become full-time investigators on behalf of requesters.  NASA is not equipped to conduct a search for 'any and all' documents pertaining to an ambiguous subject or 'decision' for an undefined period of time throughout all files in all Agency program offices  and Centers that will produce a list of responsive records.  Without more specific information outlining the subject, type, and timeframe of the documents you are interested in, as well as the originator of those documents, we are unable to process your request.

Please send your reply to HQ FOIA Office, NASA Headquarters, Mail Stop: 5P39, Washington, DC  20546, or HQ-FOIA@nasa.gov .  In accordance with 14 CFR Sec. 1206.702, we will not proceed further until we receive additional clarification from you regarding the subject and scope of your request.  If we do not hear from you within 20 working days of the date of this letter, we will assume you are no longer interested in this matter and will close the files on your request.  Any issues concerning your requester status or processing fees will be addressed under separate letter once the scope of your request has been clarified.  Please contact me at 202-358-3924 if you require further assistance.

Sincerely,

Jessica Bowen
Headquarters FOIA Officer

FOIA Request to the U. S. National Security Agency and Dept. of Homeland Security (re their Suppression of Dragonfly Drone Evidence) (Item 2.141)

TO:  Director
         U. S. National Security Agency
         ATTN:  Freedom-of-Information Manager (DJP4)
         9800 Savage Road - Suite 6248
         Fort George G. Meade, MD  20755-6248

AND TO:  Director
                  U. S. Department of Homeland Security
                  ATTN:  Freedom-of-Information Manager
                  245 Murray Drive, S. W. - STOP 0655
                  Washington, DC  20528-0655

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

DATE:  December 17, 2011

1.  Reference:  my classified advertisement posted at http://www.classifiedads.com/announcements-ad9374611.htm - the text of which is printed below.

2.  This FOIA request, which I submit as a representative of the news media (RNM), seeks from your agencies a photocopy of the following records:

Any and all correspondence (including faxed documents, e-mail, and memoranda for record); briefing papers/charts; minutes of meetings; policy documents; staff studies; interview reports; witness statements; serious-incident reports; intelligence estimates; temporary-duty reports; and after-action reports pertaining to your personnel's confiscation of Mr. "Connors's" library book cited in the above-referenced advertisement.

3.  In your ensuing search for responsive records, you might prefer to begin with the following search-term criteria:  Oltissis, Greek gods, dragonfly-shaped drones, earthfiles, confiscated library materials, extraterrestrial encounters, E.T. contact, CARET program, alien technology, and interdimensional communication.

4.  Please note that provisions of the U. S. Freedom of Information Act (as amended by the Open Government Act of 2007) automatically afford me, in my RNM-requester status, preferential exclusion of all records-search/review fees incident to your fulfilling this request.  Accordingly, I am willing to pay only for your (reasonable) document-reproduction expenses beyond the first 100 pages of responsive records.

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

LARRY W. BRYANT
Columnist for the newsstand periodical UFO Magazine

Copies furnished to:

   Editor, UFO Magazine
   Chief of Staff, Select Committee on Intelligence, U. S. Senate
   Chief of Staff, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, U. S. House of Representatives
    Linda Moulton Howe (Reporter and Editor of http://www.earthfiles.com )
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TEXT OF LWB's ADVERTISEMENT POSTED AT http://www.classifiedads.com/announcements-ad9374611

== Blow the Whistle on the NSA/Homeland Security's Heavy-handed Treatment of a Witness to the "Dragonfly Drone" Presence! ==

In a live, July 1, 2011, interview on the syndicated radio program Coast-to-Coast-AM, renowned UFO-E.T. researcher Linda Moulton Howe revealed her own interviewing of a witness to the mysterious aerial craft called "Dragonfly Drones."  Her subject - a federal-contractor employee she protectively dubs "Ted Connors" - lives and works in Montgomery, Ala., where, in June 2007, he first encountered one of the drones and then again in October 2010.  (See Howe's report on his saga now posted upon her web log at http://www.earthfiles.com .)  According to Connors's notes about the second encounter, he underwent some sort of telepathic communication with the drone's occupants, who revealed their origin as a planetary system called Oltissis.  This information prompted him to begin researching that term and its context.  At a local library, he discovered the term listed three times in the index of a 1962 book titled "Ancient Greek Gods and Lore Revisited," by Fredrico Ionnides.  On Dec. 22, 2010, Connors experienced another encounter - this time with a representative from the U. S. National Security Agency and with a representative from the U. S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), who (at his place of employment) invoked the authority of the U. S. PATRIOT Act to confiscate the library book from him.

In order for Howe and Connors to learn more about this official visitation and violation of his civil liberty, I'm sending a freedom-of-information request to both agencies (see its text posted as Item 2.141 of my web log - http://ufoview.posterous.com ).

In the meantime, if you (or someone you know) desire to blow the whistle on what (and why) certain federal agencies have been conspiring to do so as to stifle/deflect public inquiry (including any planned congressional probe) into the Dragonfly Drone presence, please contact me at:  Larry W. Bryant, 3518 Martha Custis Drive, Alexandria, VA  22302; phone:  703-931-3341; e-mail: overtci@cavtel.net .  Readers interested in receiving periodic updates on this case of heavy-handed interference with a citizen's right to be let alone may wish to subscribe for my free e-newsletter at http://tinyletter.com/ufoview-updates .