TO: Director
Office of Government Information Services
U. S. National Archives and Records Administration
8601 Adelplhi Road - Room 2510
College Park, MD 20740-6001
FROM: Larry W. Bryant
3518 Martha Custis Drive
Alexandria, VA 22302
DATE: September 10, 2011
1. References:
a. My FOIA request to the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency of June 28, 2011, now posted as Item 2.113 of my web log ( http://ufoview.posterous.com ); plus my Aug. 20, 2011, follow-up letter to CIA FOIA coordinator Susan Viscuso (Item 2.120 - the contents of both being reprinted below).
b. The recently concluded FOIA lawsuit of National Security Archive v. Central Intelligence Agency, wherein the assigned U. S. District Court judge rebuked the Agency's bad-faith conduct toward the processing of the Archive's series of long-standing FOIA requests.
2. Since the CIA FOIA coordinator continues to be in remiss as to her statutory obligation to begin processing my June 28, 2011, FOIA request within the 20-working-day period specified by the Act, I hereby call upon you to intervene on my behalf in her failure of compliance. A recent ruling by the U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia affirms that a plaintiff who proves an agency's failure to abide by the Act's response-time specifications is entitled to summary judgment in his favor. Of course, I remain prepared to seek that very same injunctive-relief judgment, but I'm herewith availing myself, first, of the mediation services offered by your office. Accordingly, please do what you can, within the next 20 working days, to convince the CIA leadership to reverse Ms. Viscuso's misconduct in this matter. Note: I intend that this letter be included as part of the administrative record chronicling the activity in this case. If you fail to help me achieve a satisfactory resolution, you will have reinforced the Agency's record of FOIA malfeasance as cited in reference 1b, thus undermining your own statutory obligation.
3. Please register a case number to this request and identify for me whatever action officer you choose to assign to it (to include that person's e-mail address).
4. By USPS mail, I'm sending to you a signed printout of this e-formatted letter.
Thank you for attending to this request.
LARRY W. BRYANT
Columnist for UFO Magazine
P.S.: In an Aug. 14, 1973, CIA memorandum acquired by me via a third party, an Agency employee concluded, "[deleted], in their telephone conversation, suggested that we had not heard the last from Mr. Bryant." Since then, the Agency has continued to help me perpetuate that self-fulfilling prophecy.
Copies furnished to:
Editor, UFO Magazine
Chief of Staff, U. S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
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CONTENT OF REFERENCE 1:
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: August 20, 2011
Within a few days of e-creating my above-cited 28 Jun 11 FOIA request for a copy of, inter alia, the late CIA official James Jesus Angelton's "Assessment No. 7," I also sent to your office, via USPS mail, a signed printout of that letter (whose text is published as Item 2.113 of my blog at http://ufoview.posterous.com ).
Now that more than 20 working days have transpired since my issuing that request, and since I've yet to receive any response to it from your office, I wonder whether you've actually received its USPS-mailed version. If you did receive it, would you please tell me when I can expect your office to complete the full processing of my request?
If by nonresponding to my request within the U. S. Freedom of Information Act's 20-working-day response-time limit you're intending to defy your statutory obligation, then I hereby serve notice that you now have 12 days from the date of this e-letter to comply fully with my request. Absent any compliant response from you during that period, I shall seek all the judicial relief afforded me by the act's punitive provisions (to include my seeking your agency's reimbursement of my attorney's fees).
LARRY W. BRYANT
Columnist for UFO Magazine
P.S.: I'm USPS-mailing to you a signed printout of this e-formatted follow-up.
Copies furnished to:
Editor, UFO Magazine
Chief of Staff, U. S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
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== TEXT OF LWB's 28 Jun 11 FOIA Request to CIA ==
TO: Director
U. S. Central Intelligence Agency
ATTN: Freedom-of-Information Coordinator
Washington, DC 20505
FROM: Larry W. Bryant
3519 Martha Custis Drive
Alexandria, VA 22302
DATE: June 28, 2011
2. This FOIA request, which I submit as a representative of the news media, seeks from your agency a photocopy of the following records:
a. Mr. Angleton's "Assessment No. 7";
b. Any and all CIA-housed reports, analyses, correspondence, briefing papers/charts, memoranda for record, minutes of meetings, staff studies, project protocols, policy documents, intelligence estimates, and funding authorizations pertaining to the personnel-exchange program cited in the above-referenced ad.
3. Please note that provisions of the U. S. Freedom of Information Act (as amended by the Open Government Act of 2007) entitle me, in my RNM-requester status, to automatic waiver 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 in this matter.
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, Select Committee on Intelligence, U. S. Senate
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