Larry W. Bryant's UFOview

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 .

 

FOIA Appeal of CIA's Negative Action on My FOIA Request re "Advanced Transportation Vehicles" (see Item 2.134) (Item 2.140)

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 15, 2011

1.  References:

     a.  My FOIA request (No. F-2012-00286) of November 5, 2011, seeking access to all CIA-generated and CIA-received records pertaining to data being collected/analyzed on the topic of "advanced transportation vehicles" (a term that euphemistically refers to encounters with unidentified flying objects (UFOs), "flying saucers," and alien spacecraft) -- the text of which is printed below;

     b.  Your employee Ms. Viscuso's December 5, 2011, letter to me (as printed below), in which she refuses to comply with the request-processing requirements of the U. S. Freedom of Information Act.

2.  This letter serves as my formal appeal of Ms. Viscuso's negative treatment of my Nov. 5 request, an official action that is, at best, disingenuous and, at worst, deceptive.

3.  What's more, Ms. Viscuso's letter conveniently ignores the fact that the lawsuit of Larry W. Bryant v. Central Intelligence Agency, et al. (Civil Action No. 09-0940 (EGS) in U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia) resulted in the surfacing of two UFO-related documents originated by the U. S. Department of State (of which copies had found their way into a CIA records system).  Accordingly, based on this legal precedent, my Nov. 5 request deserves the same, fair treatment as achieved by this cited litigation.

4.  I therefore ask that you direct Ms. Viscuso's office to proceed with --

     -- Reopening my FOIA case No. F-2012-00286;

     -- Conducting a reasonable search for all responsive records (whether they be originated by the CIA or whether they exist as copies of those other-agency-generated records); and --

     -- Informing me of any discovered non-CIA-generated records that, in your eyes, merit referral to the originating agency for release determination (and conducting that referral as was done in the State Department case).

5.  Please note that your failure to grant this appeal will result in my seeking appropriate judicial relief.

6.  By USPS 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, U. S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

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TEXT OF MS. VISCUSO's 5 DEC 11 LETTER TO L.W.B.:

Reference:  F-2012-00286

Dear Mr. Bryant:

This is a final response to your 5 November 2011 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, received in the office of the Information and Privacy Coordinator on 15 November 2011, for information concerning advanced transportation vehicles (ATV).

The CIA is not the repository for records of other government agencies.  The information you seek would fall under the auspices of the Department of Defense and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.  Please be aware that the CIA is not authorized to release records originated by other government agencies.  Therefore, you should submit your FOIA request to the following addresses:

Mr. Will Kammer
Office of Freedom of Information
Department of Defense
1155 Defense Pentagon
Washington, DC  20301-1155

Mr. Stephen McConnell
Principal Agency FOIA Officer
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
300 E Street, SW
Washington, DC  20546

Sincerely,

Susan Viscuso
Information and Privacy Coordinator
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TEXT OF L.W.B.'s 5 Nov 11 FOIA Request to CIA:

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:  November 5, 2011

1.  Reference:  my classified advertisement now posted upon the web site of http://www.classifiedads.com , the text of which is printed below.

2.  Word has come to me that your agency, since at least the early 1990's, has been collecting, analyzing, and disseminating evidence of, and information about, the topic of "advanced transportation vehicles" (ATV).  Accordingly, this freedom-of-information request seeks a photocopy of all CIA-generated and CIA-received records pertaining to that collection/analysis/dissemination effort -- said records to include policy statements, planning documents, analytical case files, technical reports, threat-analysis assessments, physical-trace investigatory reports, radar-detection reports, artifact-retrieval/storage reports, minutes of meetings, decision memoranda, inter-agency coordination documents, records-management policy/procedures, congressional-oversight documents, and all periodic status reports produced to date.

3.  As you proceed with the processing of this request, I ask that you comply fully with the following two FOIA requirements:

     a.  Within 20 working days of your receipt of this letter, assign to this request a case file/tracking number, and notify me, in writing, of that action;

     b.  Provide me the approximate date on which you expect to fulfill my request for all responsive records.

4.  Please acknowledge my FOIA-requester status as a representative of the news media (RNM) by waiving all records-search/review fees incident to your fulfilling this request; and please note my willingness only to pay for your reasonable document-duplication costs beyond the first 100 pages.  Ample evidence of my RNM status appears within my web log at http://ufoview.posterous.com .

5.  By USPS 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, U. S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
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== Become a UFOrmant as to the CIA's Acquisition of Intelligence on "Advanced Transportation Vehicles" (ATV)! ==

To what extent have certain personnel at the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency yielded to the temptation to continue their professed non-interest in UFO-E.T-related data by pursuing a program UFOmistically referred to as "advanced transportation vehicles" (ATV)?  And why have they done so?

As I examine this state of affairs via a freedom-of-information request to the Agency (now posted as Item 2.134 of my blog at http://ufoview.posterous.com ), you (or someone you know) may wish to help me -- wikiUFOleaks-style -- gain further access to this smoking-gun revelation that the CIA's role in UFO-E.T.-data mining rolls on apace.  Please share your investigative tips, research leaks, and document-tracing/authentication protocol with me at:  Larry W. Bryant, 3518 Martha Custis Drive, Alexandria, VA  22302; phone: 703-931-3341; e-mail:  overtci@cavtel.net .

Official CIA hypocrisy in this matter may or may not amount to an indictable offense, but it certainly should reignite some ethics-centered concern in the Court of Public Opinion -- and within the hearing rooms of Congress.

For periodic updates on this whistleblower-solicitation campaign, you may wish to subscribe for my free online newsletter at http://tinyletter.com/ufoview-updates .

Follow-up FOIA Request re Pensacola's "No Records" Response (Item 2.139)

TO:  Lt. G. W. Eden, USN
        Freedom-of-Information Coordinator, JAGC
        U. S. Navy Region Southeast
        Box 102, Naval Air Station
        Jacksonville, FL  32212-0102

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

DATE:  November 13, 2011

1.  Reference:  Your letter to me of November 8, 2011 (as printed below), in which you reply to my Nov. 6 FOIA request (your file No. 12-05; my blog Item 2.135) by declaring that neither your command nor the Naval Air Station Pensacola (NASP) can disclose records responsive to my request.  Please note that the subject line of my Nov. 6 request contains a typographical error:  giving the date of the NASP anti-UFO attack as "Oct. 28," 2011, instead of the correct date of Oct. 23, 2011.  If your ensuing records search concentrated only on the "Oct. 28" date, I ask that you resume the records-search under the criterion of the Oct. 23 date (as expressed in the body of my original request).

2.  I'm incapable of concluding that no military command/unit has generated/acquired any records about any Navy-related event of the magnitude represented by the NASP-led attack of Oct. 23.  Accordingly, in order for me to gain information and perspective useful in crafting a formal appeal of your "no records" determination, I submit this letter as a written follow-up FOIA request that you send me a photocopy of (1) the entire contents of your command's FOIA case file No. 12-05 and (2) the entire contents of all other Oct. 23-related FOIA case files created, to date, via others' requests -- said records to include each case file's processing log, action officers' tasking documents/notes, records-review referrals/results, records-search criteria applied, computerized reports of files examined for responsive records, and all executive correspondence (including e-mail) generated by proponent offices.

3.  By USPS 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

   Chief of Staff, U. S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
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TEXT OF LT. EDEN's 8 NOV 11 LETTER TO L.W.B.:

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Ser NOOJ/899
08 NOV 2011

Dear Mr. Bryant

This letter responds to your Freedom of Information Act request dated November 6, 2011, in which you sought a copy of records maintained by Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, regarding an Anti-UFO attack on October 28, 2011, and records pertaining to all attacks from November 6, 2010, through November 6, 2011.  Your request was received in this office on November 7, 2011 and was assigned file number 12-05.

A thorough search of our records failed to disclose records responsive to your request.

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 SE, 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) 542-1528.

Sincerely,

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

Notice-of-Intent Addressed to the CIA General Counsel re FOIA Case No. F-2012-00126 (Item 2.138)

TO:  General Counsel
        U. S. Central Intelligence Agency
        Washington, DC  20505

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

DATE:  November 12, 2011

1.  Reference:  My enclosed FOIA appeal letter (Item 2.136) of November 11, 2011, by which I appeal CIA freedom-of-information coordinator Susan Viscuso's Nov. 7th adverse action in her processing of my FOIA request of October 12, 2011 (her case No. F-2012-00126; my blog Item 2.131).

2.  Upon scrutinizing the language of paragraph 4(A)(ii)(II) of the FOIA-amending Open Government Act of 2007 ("fees shall be limited to reasonable standard charges for document duplication when . . . the request is made by . . . a representative of the news media"), I conclude that this provision expressly forbids any agency's assessing any records-search/review fees upon any representative of the news media (RNM)'s FOIA request.  In short, Ms. Viscuso's application of partially obsolete CIA-FOIA regulatory standards violates the Open Government Act.  This direct violation leaves me no recourse but to file suit in U. S. District Court to (1) compel her fully lawful compliance in her processing of my current and future FOIA cases and (2) to enjoin her from applying her unlawful decisionmaking to other RNM-originated requests in the future.  If you prefer to avoid this prospective litigation, I ask that you direct, in writing, Ms. Viscuso to immediately withdraw her adverse action and to agree, in writing, to refrain from any such unlawfulness in any current/future FOIA-request processing.  If, during the succeeding 20 working days from the date of your receipt of this letter, you refuse to take this remedial action (or to otherwise choose to subvert my interests in this case), this letter will serve as formal notice of my intent to seek adequate judicial relief.

3.  By USPS certified 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

      Chairman, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, U. S. House of Representatives