Item 2.48: Request for CIA's Mandatory Declassification Review of All MJ-12 Records
TO: Ms. Delores M. Nelson
Information and Privacy Coordinator
U. S. Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC 20515
3518 Martha Custis Drive
Alexandria, VA 22302 DATE: July 31, 2009 1. References: a. CIA FOIA case file No. F92-2401 as pertains to Timothy S. Cooper's Nov. 12, 1992, request for access to all CIA-generated records from the World War II-era Project Paperclip files. b. From the above-released records, the one-page CIA memorandum dated April 12, 1949, addressed to the Director, Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency - Joint Chiefs of Staff; Subject: Project 63 (UF-103-M) [re Project Paperclip]; signed by Rear Admiral R. H. Hillenkoetter, Director of Central Intelligence (and an MJ-12 member). 2. At the bottom-left corner of Reference 1b appears the typed notation: "FILE DIST: [i.e., File Distribution]
CIA Top Secret
MJ-12" 3. Of course, the "MJ-12" entry refers to the supersecret panel of UFO-crash/retrieval experts assembled in the 1940s to collect, analyze, and exploit various UFO-E.T.-related intelligence. Certain leaked 1980s-era documentary evidence of the Majestic-Twelve's deliberations/operations continues to undergo intense forensic examination/evaluation by privately funded researchers. 4. In the interests of helping preserve and publicly disseminate the contents of all CIA-generated MJ-12 records, I ask that your office subject all extant original copies of those records to mandatory declassification review (MDR) in accordance with any applicable presidential executive order. As you search for, identify, locate, and process this historically valuable material, please make sure you account for any of the records' transfer to externally-sited records-holding areas and to permanent retention by the U. S. National Archives and Records Administration. If you determine that any of the sought-for records have undergone destruction, please provide me with a copy of that destruction's authorization-and-execution record. 5. Upon completion of your MDR task in this matter, please promptly inform me of the results - so that I may request a copy of all releasable records therefrom (in my FOIA-requester status as a representative of the news media). 6. By snail-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 Copies furnished to: Editor, UFO Magazine
Chairwoman, Select Committee on Intelligence - U. S. Senate
Chairman, Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives - U. S. House of Representatives
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