VIA E-MAIL TO:  Ms. Alesia Y. Williams
               Chief, Freedom of Information Staff
               U. S. Defense Intelligence Agency
               Washington, DC  20340-5100

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

DATE:  May 1, 2010

Ms. Williams:

The below-quoted second paragraph of your April 28, 2010, letter to me in response to my FOIA request of April 27th, regarding the role of your agency in Operation Tango-Sierra, mischaracterizes my FOIA-requester status by implying that I occupy the category of "all other requesters."  While no-one logically can construe that such a monumentally historic operation as Tango-Sierra fails to be "in the public interest" for records-disclosure purposes, that criterion happens to be incidental to my stated status as a "representative of the news media" (RNM).

Since my RNM status recently has been formally acknowledged by the FOIA coordinator at the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency (based on existing case law and on a careful reading of the amended act's fee-waiver provisions), I ask that you assure me, at the outset of your processing of my FOIA request, that you will honor my request for full waiver of all DIA records-search/review fees in this case.  Without that assurance, I shall have no recourse but to retain, at the appropriate time, professional legal counsel to compel your full compliance with the Act's preferential treatment accorded to me and to all other requesters in the RNM category.

As to this aspect, you may wish to consult with your agency's legal adviser, who I'm certain will realize that, if this case results in litigation, one element of the relief sought will be the government's reimbursement of my attorney's fees.

LARRY W. BRYANT

Copies furnished to:

    Jonathan L. Katz, Esq.
    Editor, UFO Magazine
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== TEXT OF MS. WILLIAMS's APRIL 28, 2010, LETTER TO L.W.B. ==

"Dear Mr. Bryant:

"This is an interim response to your April 27, 2010, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for information concerning Operation Tango-Sierra.  We received your request on April 27, 2010 and assigned it case number 0246-2010.  Please use this number in all future correspondence with us about this matter.

"With regard to your request for a waiver of any applicable fees, a fee waiver is appropriate when 'disclosure of the requested information is in the public interest because it is likely to contribute significantly to public understanding of the operations and activities of the government and is not primarily in the commercial interest of the request[er].'  5 U.S.C. Sec. 552(a)(4)(iii).  Decisions to waive or reduce fees are made on a case-by-case basis.  I will consider your request for a fee waiver after a search is completed and this office determines if records responsive to your request exists [sic].

"You should also know that we will be unable to respond to your request within the FOIA's 20 day statutory time period due to unusual circumstances.  These unusual cirmstances are:  (a) the need to search for and collect records from a facility geographically separated from this office; (b) the potential volume of records responsive to your request; and (c) the need for consultation with one or more other agencies which have substantial interest in either the determination or the subject matter of the records.  For these reasons, your request has been placed in our queue and will be worked in the order the request was received.  Our current administrative workload is in excess of 2,661 open requests.

"We regret that there is currently a substantial delay in processing requests and solicit your patience and understanding.  We assure you that we will process your request as soon as possible.  If you have any questions, please contact the DIA FOIA Requester Service Center at 301-394-5587.

"Sincerely,

"Alesia Y. Williams
Chief, Freedom of Information Act Staff"
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http://ufoview.posterous.com
   

TO:  Director
        U. S. Defense Intelligence Agency
        ATTN:  DAN-1A (FOIA)
        200 MacDill Blvd.
        Washington, DC  20340-5100

TO:  Director
        U. S. Federal Bureau of Investigation
        ATTN:  Records/Information Dissemination Section
        170 Marcel Drive
        Winchester, VA  22602-4483

TO:  Commander
        U. S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations
        ATTN:  FOIA Office (AFOSI/XILI)
        P. O. Box 2218
        Waldorf, MD  20604-2218

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

DATE:  April 27, 2010

In my capacity as a representative of the news media (RNM -- principally as a columnist for UFO Magazine), I hereby submit this freedom-of-information request that you send me a copy of all your agency records pertaining to the 1980 case summarized at the web site of http://tinyurl.com/37rsr7t and highlighted by my announcement advertisement published at http://www.classifiedads.com/announcements-ad2753373.htm , the text of which is reproduced below for your background information.

Upon your records search aimed at fulfilling this request, please provide me a copy of the following-described specific "Operation Tango-Sierra" records (along with all other related agency records not so listed here):

Correspondence (letters, memoranda, memos for record, teletype messages, memoranda of telephone conversations); tasking orders; briefing charts/slides; minutes of meetings, intelligence estimates; interview reports; inter-agency coordination documents; photographic evidence; polygraph results from the alien-abduction victim's testimony; presidential directives; witness/victim statements; transcripts of the alien suspect's interrogation sessions; federal-employment history of the suspect; the suspect's confession papers; and planning guidance/standing operating procedure developed in the operation's aftermath.

Please note my expectation that your fulfillment of this request will grant me full waiver of all records-search/review processing fees to which certain provisions of the U. S. Freedom of Information Act entitle me and other persons in the RNM-requester category.

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

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

Copy furnished to:
Editor, UFO Magazine
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TEXT OF LWB'S ANNOUNCEMENT ADVERTISEMENT NOW POSTED AT http://www.classifiedads.com/announcements-ad2753373.htm :

== Blow the Whistle on the U. S. Defense Intelligence Agency's Coverup of the UFO-E.T.-Related "Operation Tango-Sierra"! ==

Who possesses corroborative, hard evidence of the U. S. Defense Intelligence Agency-managed "Operation Tango-Sierra" (see:  http://tinyurl.com/37rsr7t ), by which, in 1980, certain DIA, FBI, and USAF personnel apprehended and incarcerated an extraterrestrial humanoid suspected of having abducted a young federal employee in 1977?  Now that various whistleblower-derived details about this case have been published via the internet, it's time to invite further exposure of this, the Deepest Secret.  If you (or someone you know) have corroborative testimony, documentary evidence, or key leads to related material, please share it with me at the following address:  Larry W. Bryant, 3518 Martha Custis Drive, Alexandria, VA  22302; phone:  703-931-3341; e-mail:  overtci@cavtel.net .  Any submitted evidence, once analyzed and determined to be credible within the UFO-E.T.-research community, will be made available to such entities as congressional committees and selected news media.  NOTE:  at this point, some of the original participants in "Operation Tango-Sierra" may wish to prepare written accounts of their roles in this historic event -- and to preserve their accounts as deathbed confessions releasable upon their demise.  Let not the undertaker have the last word in this matter!

LWB Note: As regards what may have been the United States' ultimate "special operation" (the alleged UFO-E.T. landing and subsequent two-hour interaction between its crew and certain Fort Bragg, N. C.-based members of a security team dispatched to the scene), we now have an additional response from Bragg officials to my FOIA request of March 11, 2010. Dated April 7, 2010, the "no records found" letter comes from the information management office of the U. S. Army Special Operations Command (see its text below).

The letter offers us a curious twist: its deferral of final action to the Army's legal arm, the judge advocate general. This step reflects the overall seriousness by which these officials are taking whistleblower "Bill's" account of the 1980s event in question. But it also compels us to draw our own conclusions about the current whereabouts of the ENTIRE volume of photographic evidence and written reports documenting the incident. If we are to believe that those records have been destroyed, then who's responsible for such gross mishandling of this priceless evidence of UFO-E.T. reality? Who has the record of that destruction? Shouldn't one or more members of Congress be asking their watchdog agency, the U. S. Government Accountability Office, to seek answers to those and related questions?

Meantime, "Bill," who presumably possesses some of the late "Rob's" photographs beyond the one "Bill" has released to me, now holds the citizens' key to shedding further light on this mystery. How about it, Bill: isn't it time for you to release one or more better-quality photos -- and thus fulfill your pledge to let Rob's legacy speak for itself?
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TEXT OF THE USASOC LETTER OF APRIL 7, 2010, TO LWB:

"Dear Mr. Bryant:

"This is in final response to your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, U. S. Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) Case Number 10-052. You requested a copy of all records generated and received on Fort Bragg regarding a UFO-E.T. sighting during the 1980s.

"The U. S. Army Special Operations Command conducted a thorough search for documents responsive to your request. No records responsive to your request were located; therefore, we must give you a 'no record' response.

"This letter does not constitute a denial but rather a 'no record' determination of your request. This is only a preliminary decision. We are referring your request to the Office of the Judge Advocate General, Attention: DAJA-AL, 1777 N. Kent Street, 10th Floor, Rosslyn, VA 22209, for action and a direct reply to you.

"If you have any questions concerning this response, please write to the address above and refer to USASOC FOIA Case Number 10-052.

"Sincerely,

"Campbell P. Cantelou
Colonel, U. S. Army
Deputy Chief of Staff/G-6"
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TEXT OF LWB's LETTER TO VIRGINIA'S U. S. SENATOR JAMES WEBB:

TO: Hon. James Webb
U. S. Senate
Washington, DC 20510

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

DATE: April 20 2010

Back in the early 1990s, the late U. S. congressman Steven Schiff of New Mexico prevailed upon the U. S. Government Accountability Office to investigate (and report upon) the official records pertaining to the "flying saucer" crash landing/retrieval incident near Roswell, N. M., in early July 1947. Chief among the GAO investigation's findings was the unaccounted-for absence of key teletype messages originated by/received by officials at the Roswell Army Air Field.

With echoes of the Roswell Incident's lost opportunity to restore its essential evidence for public viewing, preservation, and discussion, I now ask you to follow suit by seeking a GAO investigation into whatever official records currently exist as regards the whistleblower-exposed event that may dwarf the implications of Roswell -- i. e., the alleged 1980s UFO-E.T. encounter at Fort Bragg, N. C., as described in Items 2.61--2.63 of my web log, http://ufoview.posterous.com .

Please notify me immediately once the GAO begins the requested investigation -- so that I may help coordinate all other revelations that whistleblower "Bill" may be contemplating.

Thank you for helping all interested parties benefit from the bold, selfless precedent embodied in Rep. Schiff's turning to the investigative prowess and tenacity of the Government Accountability Office.

By USPS 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

P. S.: So that you may gain a sense of how the general public - especially your constituency - would respond to your enlisting the GAO's oversight authority in this matter, I've created the following online petition by which any person may endorse my request:  http://www.petitiononline.com/braggufo/petition.html .  You might wish to refer to the petition regularly as signatories/comments accrue upon it.

LWB note: A number of persons have been asking me for a viewing of
the alleged photographic print sent to me recently by a researcher
("Bill") now living in England. One of these happens to be web-based
radio broadcaster Jerry Pippin ( http://www.jerrypippin.com ).
Accordingly, I've just sent him a jpg e-version of the print, advising
as follows:

"This photo (as I sent via jpg to you tonight) presents us an exercise
in extreme pareidolia: the more you focus on one or more elements,
the less able you are to discern anything of concrete value. Hence,
the photo (which to some viewers may resemble a photo of a drawing)
has little or no value in corroborating 'Rob's' account. I'm BCC-ing
this message to a number of my correspondents, who might wish to
suggest where we should go from here. These recipients of course
include 'Bill,' the surrogate whistleblower whose friend 'Rob' died
last October. If 'Bill' possesses a few more, better-quality photos
of the event in question, then I suppose the ball rests in his court
for the time being. He wishes to remain anonymous in this voyage
toward his friend's vindication and legacy; and I intend to honor his
wish.

"Here's the content of a handwritten note that 'Bill' penned on the
reverse side of the photo print:
'"Fort Bragg UFO"': Taken sometime in the 1980's. Three entities can
be seen as well as one military person in the right of the photo. The
source was a veteran of the U. S. Special Forces and served in Vietnam
& Panama. He asked for this photo to be released on the time of his
death. (Oct. 2009)'

"Now, then, I have a bonus item for you: during my conversation with
the UPS store clerk (Rasheem) who conducted the jpg conversion, I
learned that he had grown up in the Fayetteville, N. C., area -- and
that his father still serves on active duty as a Bragg-based soldier.
In fact, at that very moment, his father was on his way up to
Arlington County for a holiday visit to Rasheem. I of course gave
Rasheem a copy of my calling card, pointing out that my work on this
case has been highlighted as Item 2.61 of my blog (
http://ufoview.posterous.com ). What's that folklore about 'six
degrees of separation'?"

UPDATE: So that other readers may try their own hands at gleaning any
alien image from the electronic version of the print, I'll try to
append it to this posting; your being unable to locate it would mean
that my effort has failed.