Item 2.23: Request to CIA for Mandatory/Automatic Declassification Review and for FOIA Public Release of 57 UFO-related Records
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.
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.
