Item 2.58: FOIA Request to the U. S. Postal Inspection Service (Re "Mail Covers" Targeting UFOlogists)
TO: Director
U. S. postal Inspection Service
ATTN: Freedom-of-Information Manager
1735 North Lynn Street - Room 4039
Arlington, VA 22209-4039 FROM: Larry W. Bryant
3518 Martha Custis Drive
Alexandria, VA 22302 DATE: February 23, 2010 About 50 years ago, officials at the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency targeted me as warranting a period of "mail cover" surveillance because I, as a UFO researcher, occasionally had queried the English-language broadcast of the radio program titled "Radio Moscow." My queries had focused on the extent of UFO sightings/research within the Soviet Union. Since your agency continues its oversight of contemporary mail-cover policy/procedures, I hereby request, under terms of the U. S. Freedom of Information Act and the U. S. Privacy Act, that you provide me a photocopy of the following records: (1) Any and all past and current mail-cover requests (and results thereof) issued against me and against all other affected UFO researchers by the CIA, National Security Agency, U. S. Defense Intelligence Agency, U. S. Office of Naval Intelligence, U. S. Departments of Army/Air Force/State, and any other intelligence/law-enforcement entity. (2) All inter-/intra-office correspondence, e-mail, after-action reports, decision memoranda, intelligence estimates/analyses, and planning guidance generated by, and received by, your agency in the course of conducting the above-cited mail-cover operations. Since I submit this request as a representative of the news media (principally as a columnist for the newsstand periodical UFO Magazine), I expect you to waive all records-search/processing fees incident to your fulfillment of this request. Please note that neither the practice of UFO research nor the act of whistleblowing as to any official cover-up of the UFO experience constitutes criminal activity or subversive intent; therefore, your agency has no grounds for invoking any law-enforcement/national-security exemption so as to stifle mandatory disclosure of the sought-for records. By snail-mail, I'm sending you a signed printout of this e-formatted letter.
LARRY W. BRYANT Copy furnished to: Editor, UFO Magazine
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ADVERTISEMENT POSTED UPON THE WEB SITE OF CLASSIFIEDads.com (http://tinyurl.com/y8ez77u ): == CITIZENS ALERT: BLOW THE WHISTLE ON ANY "MAIL COVERS" ISSUED AGAINST UFO RESEARCHERS! == Recently revealed evidence (see http://tinyurl.com/y9eb7nk ) that the U. S. Postal Inspection Service can rely on its little-known directive called Publication 55 to fulfill "mail cover" requests from such agencies as the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency to spy upon lawful activity of UFO researchers/UFO-coverup whistleblowers prompts me to issue this alert. About 50 years ago, CIA officials targeted me for such "mail cover" surveillance; see my resultant freedom-of-information request to the Postal Inspection Service (now posted as Item 2.58 upon my blog at http://ufoview.posterous.com ). If you, or someone you know, have reason to believe you've become (or might become) a target for such invasive "mail cover" surveillance because of your UFO-E.T. research/whistleblowership, please contact me to help coordinate all available protective measures. Write to: Larry W. Bryant (director of the Washington, D. C., office of Citizens Against UFO Secrecy), 3518 Martha Custis Drive, Alexandria, VA 22302; phone: 703-931-3341; e-mail: overtci@cavtel.net .
U. S. postal Inspection Service
ATTN: Freedom-of-Information Manager
1735 North Lynn Street - Room 4039
Arlington, VA 22209-4039 FROM: Larry W. Bryant
3518 Martha Custis Drive
Alexandria, VA 22302 DATE: February 23, 2010 About 50 years ago, officials at the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency targeted me as warranting a period of "mail cover" surveillance because I, as a UFO researcher, occasionally had queried the English-language broadcast of the radio program titled "Radio Moscow." My queries had focused on the extent of UFO sightings/research within the Soviet Union. Since your agency continues its oversight of contemporary mail-cover policy/procedures, I hereby request, under terms of the U. S. Freedom of Information Act and the U. S. Privacy Act, that you provide me a photocopy of the following records: (1) Any and all past and current mail-cover requests (and results thereof) issued against me and against all other affected UFO researchers by the CIA, National Security Agency, U. S. Defense Intelligence Agency, U. S. Office of Naval Intelligence, U. S. Departments of Army/Air Force/State, and any other intelligence/law-enforcement entity. (2) All inter-/intra-office correspondence, e-mail, after-action reports, decision memoranda, intelligence estimates/analyses, and planning guidance generated by, and received by, your agency in the course of conducting the above-cited mail-cover operations. Since I submit this request as a representative of the news media (principally as a columnist for the newsstand periodical UFO Magazine), I expect you to waive all records-search/processing fees incident to your fulfillment of this request. Please note that neither the practice of UFO research nor the act of whistleblowing as to any official cover-up of the UFO experience constitutes criminal activity or subversive intent; therefore, your agency has no grounds for invoking any law-enforcement/national-security exemption so as to stifle mandatory disclosure of the sought-for records. By snail-mail, I'm sending you a signed printout of this e-formatted letter.
LARRY W. BRYANT Copy furnished to: Editor, UFO Magazine
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ADVERTISEMENT POSTED UPON THE WEB SITE OF CLASSIFIEDads.com (http://tinyurl.com/y8ez77u ): == CITIZENS ALERT: BLOW THE WHISTLE ON ANY "MAIL COVERS" ISSUED AGAINST UFO RESEARCHERS! == Recently revealed evidence (see http://tinyurl.com/y9eb7nk ) that the U. S. Postal Inspection Service can rely on its little-known directive called Publication 55 to fulfill "mail cover" requests from such agencies as the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency to spy upon lawful activity of UFO researchers/UFO-coverup whistleblowers prompts me to issue this alert. About 50 years ago, CIA officials targeted me for such "mail cover" surveillance; see my resultant freedom-of-information request to the Postal Inspection Service (now posted as Item 2.58 upon my blog at http://ufoview.posterous.com ). If you, or someone you know, have reason to believe you've become (or might become) a target for such invasive "mail cover" surveillance because of your UFO-E.T. research/whistleblowership, please contact me to help coordinate all available protective measures. Write to: Larry W. Bryant (director of the Washington, D. C., office of Citizens Against UFO Secrecy), 3518 Martha Custis Drive, Alexandria, VA 22302; phone: 703-931-3341; e-mail: overtci@cavtel.net .
