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UFOIA Compliance at CIA Remains Deficient/Deceptive (Item 2.162)

"Science consists only one half in knowing what is known; the other half is never pretending to know what is not." -- Max Eastman in his 1933 lecture "Literature in an Age of Science," published by the University of Michigan Press in an anthology titled The Writer and His Craft (Ann Arbor paperback, 1956, edited by Roy W. Cowden) = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = With its characteristically glacial FOIA-request processing speed, the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency has completed its handling of my freedom-of-information request of Aug. 12, 2011 (see Items 2.155 and 2.157 of my blog http://ufoview.tumblr.com ). By her letter to me of Dec. 12, 2013, CIA FOIA chief Michele Meeks pronounces Case No. F-2012-01584 closed -- mainly by her enclosing a photocopy of a few UFO-related articles culled from the foreign press via the CIA-operated Open Source Center (formerly known as the Foreign Broadcast Information Service). These documents apparently originated from the intelligence-gathering pipeline of the U. S. Department of State (another outfit infamous for its pathetic compliance with FOIA requirements). Here's a synopsis of each article: (1) An excerpt from the public affairs office of the U. S. Embassy in Amman, Jordan, titled "State PAO: Jordanian Media Highlights for 8-10 Jun 12." The synopsis begins: "UFO may have been Russian missile test." It goes on to explain, "After a spate of reports on social media of an unidentified flying object spotted near Jordan on Thursday night, June 7, 2012, Russian state-owned news agency Ria Novosti tweeted on Friday that it might have been a Russian ballistic missile test. Beat FM radio host Rob Stevens was among the first to report a sighting of the object just before 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, writing on Twitter that he had seen a UFO that 'hovered, and then made a swirl and disappeared.'" (2) An English-language item of June 10, 2012, from the Mehr News Agency in Tehran, Iran, titled "UFO Poses No Threat to Iran: Defense Minister." The short report is prefaced by this notice from the OSC staff: "[Computer-selected and disseminated without OSC editorial intervention.]" The report downplays the case in these words: "Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi said on Sunday that the Islamic Republic of Iran air defense system has no problem and the UFO poses no threat to the country's security. A mysterious light, which was seen over countries in the region including Syria, Israel, and Iran on Thursday night, has been confirmed by a number of sources, Yahoo News reported. There has been speculation that the strange sight might have been some sort of unidentified aircraft." (3) An English account of a Persian-language report, titled "FYI -- YouTube users Upload Video Showing Luminous Objects in Iran's Sky, 07 Jun 12." It notes that "The YouTube video-sharing website on 7 June carried several clips showing luminous objects seen in the sky in Iran. On 7 June social media users posted several pictures of the luminous objects. A 1-minute and 19-second video posted by user 'aydeniz2010' on 7 June shows a luminous object moving above buildings in Tabriz, East Azarbayjian Province. The video was headlined in Persian 'a luminous and strange object passing across the sky of Tabriz and Iran.' ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXpbDqJN240 )" (4) An English-language article (online) from the April 28, 2012, edition of the Lahore newspaper "Pakistan Today" -- a piece titled "Pakistan: UFO Caused Bhoja Airplane Crash in Islamabad, Claims Report." It begins: "The Bhoja Air Boeing 737 crash in Islamabad on April 20 could have been caused by Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) sighting by the pilot, unconfirmed reports say." The article notes that a "Russian news report on the crash shows footage of three mysterious lights moving in formation, leading to speculation in the UFO community that blame for the tragic accident might lie with an extraterrestrial craft, reported the Daily Mail. The news report suggests that the pilot might have been distracted by the object and complained to the control tower at Islamabad Airport as he made his approach. The official reason, however, is that plane's fuel tanks exploded mid-air during a heavy thunderstorm, killing all 127 people on board." (5) An article titled "200-kilo [about 500 pounds] Metal 'UFO Fragment' Falls from Sky in Siberia" -- from the Iranian online English-language newspaper "Tehran IRNA," datelined New Delhi, March 23, 2012, IRNA. This account merits full quoting, as follows: "A giant 'UFO fragment,' resembling a silvery dome, has fallen from the sky near a remote village in Siberia. The U-shaped object is currently under inspection by Russian experts, after being covertly removed under cover of night from the possession of villagers who found it. After discovering the device on Sunday, locals from the village of Otradnesnky had managed to drag the 'UFO fragment' from the thick forest where it had fallen, ani [sic] reported quoting Russian media. They attached it onto a trailer and took it through the snow to their village, where local inspectors then examined it before alerting Moscow authorities. In an official statement, Sergey Bobrov, who found the object, agreed to keep it safe. But following their stealthy removal of the 200-kilogram metal fragment, police have it under close guard, on orders from unnamed authorities. The device has not had its provenance confirmed as of yet. However, the object does not come from a rocket or missile or be in any way associated with terrestrial space technology, it has been announced. 'The object found is not related to space technology. A final conclusion can be made after a detailed study of the object by experts,' the Telegraph quoted Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, as saying. Experts have also examined the object to determine whether it poses a hazard. 'We measured the radiation level near and inside the object. We found no radiation here,' Yuri Bormykov, who heads the rescue service department of the Kuybyshevsky district in the Novosibirsk region, said. Valery Vasiliev, the head of the Kuybyshevsky Department for Civil Defense and Emergency Situations, said that part of the fragment is made of ultra-strong titanium." = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = What key element goes missing from each of these catalogued accounts released to me (some of which had been protectively marked as FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY)? Although each offers the cleared-for-access online viewer a hyperlinked tab labeled "Submit Review," none of the documents released to me includes any such review/analytical comments. This absence of any official evaluative results renders the account marginally useful to unofficial eyes. And it makes us wonder when, if ever, there will emerge from the ranks of CIA personnel (current, former, and future) one or more Snowden-caliber UFO-coverup whistleblowers. Our continuing to have to play this hide-and-seek game not only insults our intelligence but also harms the public interest in, and need for, advancing UFO Freedom of Information and Accountability. Let's keep in mind -- and reinforce -- my UFOIA mini-manifesto, which I created in September 2002: "Leaked evidence fuels the FOIA reactor." ADDENDUM: I've just published the following UFO-coverup-whistleblower advertisement at http://www.classifiedads.com/announcements-ad113887444.htm : == Blow the Whistle on What the CIA Really Knows (and When It Knew It) about UFO-E.T. Reality! == It took 1.5 years for the freedom-of-information office at the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency to process my FOIA request of July 25, 2012 (posted as Item 2.154 of my blog at http://ufoview.tumblr.com ). On February 11, 2014, CIA FOIA chief Michele Meeks wrote me that "We did not locate any records responsive to your request." By the sheer gravity of their public interest and inherent permanence, these records of "essential evidence" merit a far better fate than what Meeks has to offer. Their recent exposure by former CIA executive Charles "Chase" Brandon ( http://chasebrandon.com ) has renewed my interest in the Roswell UFO encounter, and it prompts me here to renew my offering a $1,000 award to any UFO-E.T.-coverup whistleblower who breaks this stalemate by producing authentic photo copies of these historic records. Once submitted to a panel of forensic experts for verification, and later to an appropriate congressional committee for investigation, the accepted material would trigger the award. Concurrent with this action, I'm offering an annual $500 retainer-award to the first whistleblower who shares with me the substantive CIA analytical-review contents of the various UFO-related articles culled from the foreign press by the CIA-operated Open Source Center (see Item 2.162 of my blog). Isn't it time that the Agency have within its UFOlogical ranks the equivalent of the Hon. Edward Snowden? NOTE: Respondents may contact me as follows: Larry W. Bryant, 8415 Orcutt Avenue, Newport News, VA 23605; phone: 757-251-2310; e-mail: [email protected] .

Has the U. S. Defense Intelligence Agency Topped the List of Candidates for the Next FOIA Rosemary Award? (See Item 2.64) (Item 2.161)

[LWB Note: Why does it take 3.5 years for a major agency housed at Bolling Air Force Base, D.C., to process a freedom-of-information request? Though, in my case, that don't-hold-yo'-breath waiting period may not have exceeded a few stalls incurred by some other FOIA requesters, it nevertheless stands as a monument to the Murphy's Law of FOIA Processing: "If we can avoid timeliness, we will do so." This official, "kiss off, pal!" mind-set alone ought to qualify the offender for that dubious distinction created by the National Security Archive at the George Washington University ( http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/ ) -- the Rosemary Award, named after Pres. Nixon's personal secretary (Rose Mary Woods), caretaker of his missing 18.5 minutes of (presumably) juicy audiotape during the Watergate scandal. As I present to you the text of the dismissal reply of Oct. 23, 2013, from the DIA FOIA office to my request of April 27, 2010, I want you to know my intention to FOIA-seek a copy of the entire case file on that request. If the Agency chooses to spend another 3.5 years ignoring my effort to help resolve the underlying whistleblower revelation, then I'm game to stay in the game. After all, what's at stake here may well involve the Agency's role in fraudulent concealment of a CRIME -- i.e., the alleged UFO-alien abduction of a young federal employee in 1977, as documented and investigated via the DIA-managed "Operation Tango-Sierra."] = = = = = = = = = = = = TEXT OF THE 23 OCT 13 "NO RESPONSIVE DOCUMENTS . . . WERE FOUND" LETTER TO LWB: Dear Mr. Bryant: This responds to your request under the Freedom of Information Act, dated April 2010. Therein you requested information concerning Operation Tango-Sierra. I apologize for the delay in processing your request. DIA continues its efforts to eliminate the large backlog of pending FOIA requests. Based on the information contained in your request, the Defense Intelligence Agency searched its systems of records for responsive documents. Despite a thorough search, no documents responsive to your request were found. If you believe this Agency should have records responsive to your request, you may exercise your right to appeal this action. Your appeal should include justification to support additional search efforts and must be postmarked no later than 60 days after the date of this letter. Please refer to case number FOIA-0246-2010 and address your appeal to: Defense Intelligence Agency; ATTN: FAC2A1(FOIA); 200 MacDill Blvd.; Washington, D.C. 20340-5100. Sincerely, Alesia Y. Williams Chief, Freedom of Information Staff _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ http://ufoview.tumblr.com

Whither UFO-Alien-Abduction Research? (Item 2.160)

LWB Note: If there be anything essential to one's becoming a seasoned UFOlogist, it's that (s)he ought not to relegate the UFO-alien-abduction experience to a marginalized status of inquiry, analysis, and tracking. Indeed, it comforts me to see seasoned UFOlogist Billy Booth's blog "UFO Casebook" cataloguing accounts of the Ultimate Close Encounter -- e.g., the case summarized at http://www.ufocasebook.com/carolynz.html . This first-person narrative can serve as a primer for those just entering the ranks of UFOlogical scholarship; it also offers veteran abductionologists a mini-refresher course in their specialty. Its prose traces an Alabama mother's frustrative coping with abduction encounters that have included some of her children. COPING . . . that word was uppermost in my mind when I created, on Nov. 7, 2013, an online petition titled "Bring Justice for Victims of UFO-Alien Abduction!" at http://tinyurl.com/m7rkcue . During the crafting of this petition (now hosted by the web site of http://moveon.org ), I was asked by the formatting instructions: "Why are you starting this petition?" My answer: "This petition aims to empower the citizenry's quest for official answers to the worldwide problem of UFO-alien abduction. It thereby can help us mitigate (and cope with) the threat to public safety posed by this criminality." The petition's text concludes by referring to the latest installment of my series of UFO-cover-up-whistleblower solicitation ads, now posted at http://www.classifiedads.com/announcements-ad70066890.htm under the title "Blow the Whistle on the Government Cover-up of the UFO-Alien Abduction Experience!". When I added my own signature to the petition, I supplemented it with this comment: "UFO-alien abductees who've yet to put summaries of their accounts on public record might find this comments block suitable for their doing so now -- and thus act as a force multiplier for others to come forward as well." + + + + + + + + + + + + http://ufoview.tumblr.com

What Does the NSA Know (and When/How Did It Know It) about UFO-Cover-up Whistleblowership? (Item 2.159)

[LWB Note: When veteran UFO researcher Robert L. Hastings acted on his hunch that someone in the inner sanctum of the U. S. National Security Agency has been intercepting and processing some of his electronic communications with certain UFO-cover-up whistleblowers, he in no way expected to receive a prompt reply to his U. S. Privacy Act request of July 26, 2013, much less a reply declaring, e.g., "Hey, guy! Enclosed is a photocopy of the entire NSA dossier on your activities/associations/motivations -- which is cheerfully furnished to you free of any redactions or other encumbrances; we appreciate this opportunity to encourage your further efforts at exposing and ending the worldwide cover-up of the UFO-E.T. experience." Well, Hastings's expectation remains intact. His receipt of an Aug. 20, 2013, three-page, form-letterese kiss-off reply from NSA headquarters's freedom-of-information chief Pamela N. Phillips confirms the Agency's bunkerlike mind-set against any citizen curious to learn what records are being accumulated (and why), therein, about his/her First Amendment/Fourth Amendment-protected speech. Ms. Phillips's summary denial of Hastings's request impermissibly relies not upon certain exemptions within the Privacy Act but upon several FOIA exemptions (including the one pertaining to exposure of intelligence-gathering methods and sources). As you ponder Hastings's appeal letter of Oct. 15, 2013 (quoted below), ask yourself this question: where is the Ultimate UFO-cover-up Whistleblower, and when will (s)he blow the whistle so loudly as to crumble the walls of UFO secrecy throughout the intelligence community? Remember: Leaked evidence fuels the FOIA/PA reactor. http://ufoview.tumblr.com (See item 2.156.)]

== TEXT OF MR. HASTINGS'S APPEAL LETTER (15 Oct 13) ==

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TO: NSA/CSS FOIA Appeal Authority (DJ4) U. S. National Security Agency 9800 Savage Road Fort George G. Meade, MD 20755

FROM: Robert L. Hastings P. O. Box 62 Villa Grove, CO 81155

DATE: October 15, 2013

1. Reference: Your employee Pamela N. Phillips's Aug. 20, 2013, letter to me by which she denies me access to any and all NSA-accumulated records sought by my PRIVACY Act request of July 26, 2013.

2. Ms. Phillips's denial unjustifiably invokes FOIA-disclosure exemptions inapplicable to the provisions of the U. S. Privacy Act (except as applied to the CIA) -- especially as applied to any official surveillance of my First Amendment-protected activity and to the disadvantage of UFO-cover-up whistleblowers. Her choosing to process my PA request as a FOIA request thus becomes a red herring to divert my exercise of all my PA rights (including the right to amend any incorrect material affecting my privacy interests). Her miscalculation not only raises questions of unsavory conduct; it also calls forth the history of the Watergate cover-up, in which culpable officials indulged in fraudulent concealment of their wrongdoing.

3. Ms. Phillips's denial abets the NSA's fraudulent concealment by wantonly nullifying the Privacy Act's provisions that help protect me and my current and future whistleblower sources from unwarranted invasion of privacy by any federal communications-surveillance program. Blowing the whistle on any federal cover-up of UFO reality is no crime; rather, it's a public service and demands our freedom from official interference by government entities under the guise of antiterrorism or anti-espionage. No U. S. statute trumps our right to be let alone in our pursuit of official UFO truth and accountability. Indeed, the Privacy Act promotes and protects that right. Hence, Ms. Phillips's denial of my PA request impedes my current/future cultivation of UFO-cover-up whistleblowership, infringes upon my privacy interests, and makes a mockery of your compliance with the spirit and letter of the Privacy Act.

4. I therefore ask that you reverse Ms. Phillips's denial by granting this appeal as soon as possible; please direct her to conduct a thorough PA records search of all NSA systems of records open to access via such personal identifiers as name, Social Security number, e-address, telephone number, etc. -- starting with (a) NSA Operations files, and (b) NSA Office of Inspector General Investigation and Complaint files.

5. Your granting this appeal can help restore public trust in the integrity and accountability of your agency.

ROBERT L. HASTINGS

Author of UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites

#NSA #UFO cover-up #UFO secrecy #Privacy Act #whistleblowers #fraudulent concealment

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== A Retrospective Ride on the CIA’s UFO Merry-Go-Round (Item 2.158) ==

A Retrospective Ride on the CIA's UFO Merry-Go-Round (Item 2.158)

== A Retrospective Ride on the CIA's UFO Merry-Go-Round (Item 2.158) ==

[LWB Note: In reviewing some of my vast collection of UFOana in the aftermath of moving my residence from Alexandria to Newport News, Va., last fall, I came across this little curio dated Jan. 28, 1988. Its publication in the classified ads section of the Army headquarters' weekly (commercially printed) newspaper the Pentagram may have been understated, given the federal government's recently intensified efforts to spy upon citizens' constitutionally protected exercise of free speech. The below-quoted ad -- which I've labeled "political poetry" -- occupies a series of such ads I've submitted to various military base newspapers nationwide. Some of these submissions met with outright, arbitrary rejection; others somehow escaped that censorship (probably because the printing companies preferred to make money via the terms of their contracts). Begun in the mid-1980s on the heels of my pivotal federal lawsuit captioned "Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus Extraterrestrial" (see Item 4.1), the ad series came to a halt years later when the Pentagram's printer admitted that Army officials had expressed dislike for the ads' content; see Item 2.43.]

TEXT OF THE AD: Blow the Whistle on CIA Surveillance of UFO Researchers!

Now that certain contents of UFO researcher Richard H. Hall's dossier at the Central Intelligence Agency have finally come to light, what does this say about past, present, and future government intervention into the lives and work of privately funded UFO researchers? As we seek answers to that question, you're invited to help expose other instances of agencies' surveillance of UFO researchers like Hall and Larry W. Bryant -- the latter of whom is the focus of this comment from a 1973 document in Hall's CIA dossier: "[CIA-deleted] . . . in their telephone conversation suggested that we had not heard the last from Mr. Bryant." Indeed, so long as readers continue to support this ad campaign for greater freedom of UFO information, we'll be able to go after the "rest of the story" as to why and how the CIA, the F.B.I., and the military intelligence agencies are committed to (1) concealing hard-core evidence of UFO reality; and (2) making sure that private researchers don't get too close to that evidence. Besides soliciting your contributions to this ad campaign, we urge you to ask your members of Congress to investigate these agencies' methods and motives. Write: Larry W. Bryant, Citizens Against UFO Secrecy (CAUS), 3518 Martha Custis Drive, Alexandria, VA 22302; or call (703) 931-3341. (This Ad Paid for by Readers' Contributions)

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LWB Postscript: In a letter to me of Sept. 19, 1973, CIA legislative counsel John M Maury pronounced: "This is in reply to your letter of 28 August 1973, requesting a copy of the Central Intelligence Agency interview report of our contact with Mr. Richard H. Hall of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP).

"Mr. Hall was met by Agency representatives on 19 January 1965, but a separate interview report was not prepared on this meeting. However, since Mr. Hall has no objection to our advising you of the substance of our meeting with him, I am happy to provide the following information which has been gathered from a review of Agency records:

"In January 1965, the Agency made an inquiry into the research being conducted on UFO sightings and contacted Mr. Hall, then Acting Director of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena. Mr. Hall explained how his organization operated and loaned the Agency several of its publications which were reviewed and returned. No excerpts were made from the publications, nor did the Agency come to any conclusions on the substance therein. There was no further contact with Mr. Hall or any other representative of his organization, and the Agency had no further interest in the subject of UFOs.

"I trust this reply satisfies your request. You may also wish to talk further with Mr. Hall directly.

"Sincerely,

"John M. Maury "Legislative Counsel

"cc: Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr."

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As you can see, Maury's explanation skirts the core purpose of the meeting: to provide the Agency (at its request) with a packet of choice UFO-encounter reports garnered by NICAP personnel. And, of course, today we know that the entire U. S. intelligence community continues to hunt for (and collect/analyze) UFO data generated in foreign venues, as chronicled by the CIA-run Open Source Center. So, then, how can we reconcile that behind-the-scenes official UFOquest with the following observation from an article titled "The Freedom of Information Act Opens a Treasure-House of Paranoia," by Jim Hougan, in the August 1976 issue of Harper's magazine? He refers to the Agency's formerly classified 1953 Robertson Panel Report on the UFO problem: "And so the Agency decided that the UFOs must be 'debunked' and, toward that end, discussed putting UFO study groups under surveillance while inaugurating a psychological operation to ridicule those at home who believed the saucers to be significant."

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"Information is PROPERTY, and public information is PUBLIC property." -- Lewis Kannon http://ufoview.tumblr.com

#UFO #CIA #FBI #habeas #Larry W. Bryant #censorship #surveillance

Item 2.157: CIA FOIA Factotum Deigns to Update Persistent Requester

[LWB Note: the glacially responsive U. S Controlled-Information Alliance (aka CIA), in the person of FOIA chief Michele Meeks, once again is taking its sweet time to prolong the processing of my 2-year-old freedom-of-information request, as described in her below-quoted letter to me of Aug. 13, 2013.]

Reference: F-2011-02071

Dear Mr. Bryant:

This acknowledges receipt of your 28 June 2013 letter, received in the office of the Information and Privacy Coordinator on 5 July 2013, seeking the identity of the agency to which material has been referred for review and response to you, in connection with your 12 August 2011 Freedom of Information Act request for records on "UFO-related reports collected from foreign-press sources by our agency's the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) during the period May 1, 2011 to August 12, 2011." [See my June 28 letter posted as Item 2.155 of my blog at http://ufoview.tumblr.com -- LWB.]

Please be assured your request is still in process. We can appreciate your concern with not having received a final response to your request. We have spoken with the other agency and have been provided an estimated completion date of 4 September 2013. Please note, this is only an estimated date and is subject to change.

For your future reference, we would recommend communicating with us through either the postal service or via fax at (703) 613-3007, as those are the most reliable methods of communication with this office. [This closing paragraph alludes to the Agency's disdain for engaging in e-mail communication with the hoi polloi -- even though certain CIA officials have been known to exchange e-mail messages with certain congressional staffers. Who can help the Agency cease this form of e-elitism (the NARA's Office of Government Information Services, [email protected] , perhaps?)? -- LWB.]

Sincerely,

Michele Meeks

Information and Privacy Coordinator

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"Information is PROPERTY, and public information is PUBLIC property."

-- Lewis Kannon

#CIA #FOIA #UFO #glacially #FBIS #Meeks #Item 2.157

Item 2.156: UFO Researcher Robert Hastings Submits Privacy Act Request to NSA

LWB Note (30 Jul 13): The federal government's spying upon the UFO-research of certain private citizens (which dates back to the 1950s) may be less benign than you might suppose, given the recent revelation that no one's electronic communications are free from interception by the worldwide tentacles of the U. S. National [Surveillance] Agency. Indeed (and alas), current and prospective UFO-coverup whistleblowers have renewed reason to fear retaliation from the keepers of the Deepest Secret now that such snoopers as the NSA/FBI/CIA enjoy total unaccountability for throttling those opposed to official UFO secrecy. For Robert Hastings's perspective on this development, see his article at: http://www.ufohastings.com/articles/the-u-s-intelligence-community-monitors-ufo-researchers-activities Also bookmark my own blog for any related updates -- http://UFOview.tumblr.com * * * TO: Information and Privacy Coordinator U. S. National Security Agency (DJ4) 9800 Savage Road - Suite 6248 Fort George Meade, MD 20755-6248 FROM: Robert L. Hastings P. O. Box 62 Villa Grove, CO 81155 DATE: July 28, 2013 Under terms of the U. S. Privacy Act, I hereby request that you send me a copy of all NSA-generated and NSA-received records amassed, to date, about my communications/activities/associations by the National Security Agency during its program of surveilling U. S. citizens' telephonic and e-mail transmissions. Since I have reason to believe that a number of my confidential sources recently have been compromised by the above-cited program (to include official retaliation against their whistleblowership as regards insider knowledge of serious UFO encounters at/near U. S. military bases), I need the requested information so as to proceed with my investigation and full exposure of that retaliation -- and so as to defend against any further such privacy invasion by your agency. To aid in your search for responsive records, I identify myself as follows: Full name and date of birth: Robert Lamberth Hastings; born on _________, 19 __. Former residence: ________________________ Albuquerque, NM _________; home phone number at that address: ____________; cell-phone number during that residency: ____________; e-mail address then and now: __________________. Current phone number: _____________; current cell-phone number: ____________. Social Security Number: __________________. NOTE: For certification purposes, I provide the following notarized statement: TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: I hereby certify that the following-named U. S. citizen, Robert L. Hastings, author of the 2008 book "UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites," appeared before me, a notary public in the county of _________________, Colorado, on this the 28th day of July 2013, and affixed his signature to this document, as follows: _______________________________. SIGNATURE OF NOTARY PUBLIC: ______________________ My commission expires on: _____________________. SEAL

#NSA UFO Robert Hastings nukes

Item 2.155: Follow-up to My FOIA Request of Aug. 12, 2011 (CIA Case No. F-2011-02071)

LWB's E-MAIL MESSAGE TO CIA FOIA CHIEF MS. MEEKS: Please tell me why you seem to be avoiding fulfilling my June 28, 2013, request that you provide me the name of the "originating agency" cited in your June 15, 2012, letter to me re my FOIA request of Aug. 12, 2011 (No. F-2011-02071). If you choose to continue this avoidance (in contravention of the U. S. Freedom of Information Act), I intend to seek all available administrative and legal remedy. -- Larry W. Bryant (7 Aug 13)

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: LARRY W BRYANT <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:18:47 -0400 Subject: Follow-up to My FOIA Request of Aug. 12, 2011 (CIA Case No. F-2011-02071)

To: "michele.meeks" <[email protected]> Cc: "scott.koch"<[email protected]>

TO: Ms. Michele Meeks Information and Privacy Coordinator U. S. Central Intelligence Agency Washington, DC 20505

FROM: Larry W. Bryant 8415 Orcutt Avenue Newport News, VA 23605-1415

DATE: June 28, 2013

Ms. Meeks: In your June 15, 2012, letter to me in response to my FOIA request of Aug. 12, 2011 (by which I sought access to certain UFO-related documentation collected by the CIA-operated Foreign Broadcast Information Service), you conclude: "During our searches, we located additional material not originated by the CIA. This material appears to be relevant to your request, and has been referred to the originating agency for review and direct response to you."

Since I've yet to receive any response from this unnamed agency as regards your above-quoted referral, I now ask that you identify for me the agency in question so that I may determine why it has failed to comply with its FOIA obligation. If you decline to produce this identification, I shall construe that action as a partial denial of my Aug. 12, 2011, request -- and shall pursue all available remedial action. By USPS 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

Webmaster, http://ufoview.tumblr.com

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FOIA Request to CIA re Its Knowledge of the Roswell Incident (Item 2.154) (Corrected Transmission)

TO: Ms. Michele Meeks

FOIA Coordinator

U. S. Central Intelligence Agency

Washington, DC 20505

FROM: Larry W. Bryant

8415 Orcutt Avenue

Newport News, VA 23605-1415

DATE: July 26, 2012

1. Reference: My classified advertisement posted at http://www.classifiedads.com/announcements-ad32055145.htm - the text of which is printed below.

2. This freedom-of-information request seeks a photocopy of all your agency's records comprising the content of the CIA files box, labeled "Roswell," as witnessed by former CIA executive Charles "Chase" Brandon during one of his official visits to a vaulted area of the Agency -- an area that, he says, houses the Agency's "historical intelligence collection." If the sought-for records have been destroyed or transferred to another agency's custody, please send me a photocopy of all CIA records documenting that disposition.

3. Please note that this FOIA request serves not as a generic UFO-info request but as an investigatory probe into the extraterrestrial nature of the retrieved Roswell materiel and into the aftermath of the incident's official analysis, exploitation, and subsequent cover-up.

4. I submit this request as a representative of the news media (principally as a columnist for the newsstand periodical UFO Magazine) -- a requester status that affords me preferential waiver of all records-search/review fees incident to your fulfillment of this request.

5. By USPS 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, U. S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

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== What Does the CIA Know -- and when Did It Know It -- about Roswell? ==

Some months ago, former U. S. astronaut Edgar Mitchell disclosed his "insider knowledge" (as confided in him by one or more confidential sources) that the so-called "Roswell Incident" of July 1947 constitutes the military retrieval of a crash-landed alien spacecraft. Now, ex-executive from the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency Charles "Chase" Brandon ( http://www.chasebrandon.com ) has announced his own encounter with this, the Deepest Secret.

According to his recent revelation during the syndicated "Coast-to-Coast AM" radio show hosted by George Noory, Brandon had been inside a vaulted area of the Agency when he noticed a box of records titled "Roswell." His inspection of the contents revealed such detail as photographs and references to cadavers. Thus far, he has been limiting his public account to those details.

If you, or someone you know, possess documented, verifiable evidence corroborating Brandon's discovery, you might qualify for the Roswell Whistleblower Award of $1,000 now being offered by me as a public service in supporting our fellow citizens' stakeholdership in learning the entire contents of that CIA files box. Be assured that your submitted evidence would be shared with one or more pertinent congressional committees empowered to subpoena relevant testimony from such witnesses as Brandon and from other former/current CIA personnel.

No CIA official has the right to lie to the public about any Roswellian truth; such deception invites whistleblower intervention at the highest level of the CIA hierarchy. Now is the time to join Mitchell and Brandon in their historic journey to help set the record straight. You may begin by contacting me at: Larry W. Bryant, 8415 Orcutt Avenue, Newport News, VA 23605-1415; phone: 757-251-2310; e-mail: [email protected] .

Meantime, you may wish to peruse my freedom-of-information request to the Agency as regards the title of this ad; see its full text now posted as Item 2.154 upon my (revamped) blog at http://ufoview.tumblr.com .

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ADDENDUM No. 1: Here's the content of my follow-up letter of 14 May 13 to the CIA FOIA chief, Ms. Michele Meeks:

TO: Ms. Michele Meeks

Information and Privacy Coordinator

U. S. Central Intelligence Agency - - Washington, DC 20505

FROM: Larry W. Bryant

8415 Orcutt Avenue

Newport News, VA 23605-1415

DATE: May 14, 2013

1. Reference: your Aug. 24, 2012, letter to me acknowledging your agency's receipt of my July 26, 2012, FOIA request No. F-2012-01858, in which I seek access to all your agency's records pertaining to former CIA executive Charles "Chase" Brandon's discovery of Roswellian evidence stored within a vaulted area of the Agency. (See the entire request now posted as Item 2.154 upon my (revamped) blog at http://ufoview.tumblr.com .)

2. Please tell me the current status of your processing of my request (to include providing me your best estimate of the case's completion date). NOTE: I'm sending to you a signed printout of this e-formatted letter.

LARRY W. BRYANT

ADDENDUM No. 2: FOIA-burdened CIA Pleads for More Time

[LWB Note: Wouldn't it be more advantageous to the public's right-to-know were the U. S Central Intelligence Agency to seek diversion of the U. S. National Security Agency's spying-on-Americans resources toward improving the CIA FOIA staff's responsiveness?]

TO: Larry W. Bryant, 8415 Orcutt Avenue; Newport News, VA 23605-1415

FROM: U. S. Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC 20505

DATE: June 6, 2013

Dear Mr. Bryant (Reference: F-2012-01858):

This acknowledges receipt of your 14 May 2013 letter, received in the office of Information and Privacy Coordinator on 21 May 2013, for an estimated completion date concerning your 26 July 2012 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for "a photocopy of all your agency's records comprising the content of the CIA files box, labeled 'Roswell,' as witnessed by former CIA executive Charles 'Chase' Brandon during one of his official visits to a vaulted area of the Agency -- an area that, he says, houses the Agency's historical intelligence collection. If the sought-for records have been destroyed or transferred to another agency's custody, please send me a photocopy of all CIA records documenting that disposition."

Please be assured that your request is still in process. We can appreciate your concern with not having received a final response to your request. It is the overwhelming number of requests and their complexity that causes delays in our responses. We are making every effort to complete it as soon as possible. Per your request, we have checked on the status and have been provided an estimated completion date of 18 December 2013. Please note, this is only an estimated date and is subject to change. Meanwhile, we appreciate your patience and understanding while we continue to process your request.

Sincerely, Michele Meeks -- Information and Privacy Coordinator

[LWB Postscript: Whatever the Agency coughs up between now and xmas will be announced on my blog at http://ufoview.tumblr.com/ -- most likely as an addendum to Item 2.154.]

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FOIA Flash! (CIA Opts for Compliance over Resistance) (See Items 2.118 and 2.150) (Item 2.153)

Champions of the public's right to know what the U. S. intelligence community has been up to UFOlogically can take heart in something positive (for a change) exuding from the arcane records-management catacombs of the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency.

This heartening development of June 15, 2012, arrived in my USPS mailbox via a letter from CIA FOIA chief Michele Meeks, enclosing some 76 pages of "open source" documentation from the Agency's Foreign Broadcast Information Service. The "responsive" pages comprise nine documents created during the period May 1, 2011, through Aug. 12, 2011.

Ms. Meeks couldn't resist chiding me for daring to utilize a modern medium of communication, one supported by taxpayers' funds: e-mail. "With respect to your concern about not receiving a response to your original request and follow-up email dated 29 September 2011, we currently do not receive correspondence over the Internet," she pronounces. (Her statement has a disingenuous ring, indeed, inasmuch as certain CIA personnel have been known to exchange e-messages with certain staff members of the U. S. Congress. Does the Agency maintain any regulation prohibiting its FOIA workforce from answering e-mail queries from us lowly taxpayers?)

Anyhow, Meeks's letter does offer us another positive tidbit: "During our searches, we located additional material not originated by the CIA. This material appears to be relevant to your request, and has been referred to the originating agency for review and direct response to you."

As I begin to peruse the (sanitized) contents of this package, I intend to keep you updated. Please check back occasionally to see what gems I've managed to glean from the contents. But get not thy hopes up -- for a thumb-through so far reveals mostly mundane newspaper clips. -- Larry W. Bryant (6/22/12)

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FOIA Requests (One Renewed and One Newly Initiated) re UFO-encounter Reports Cataloged by the CIA's Foreign Broadcast Information Service (See Item 2.118) (Item 2.152)

TO: Ms. Michele Meeks

FOIA Coordinator

U. S. Central Intelligence Agency

Washington, DC 20505

FROM: Larry W. Bryant

3518 Martha Custis Drive

Alexandria, VA 22302

DATE: June 19, 2012

1. Reference: My freedom-of-information request of Aug. 12, 2011 (recorded by Ms. Viscuso's Oct. 13, 2011, letter to me as case No. F-2011-02071, which had become misplaced in my files). I hereby renew that request, asking that you assign it priority over the request described in paragraph 2 of this letter.

2. My second request seeks a copy of all FBIS-produced documentation covering foreign press reports of UFO encounters during the period January 1, 2012, through June 19, 2012.

3. My submission of these two requests derives from my requester status as a representative of the news media, which entitles me to automatic waiver of all records-search/review fees associated with your fulfilling this request.

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

LARRY W. BRYANT

Columnist for UFO Magazine

Blogmeister of http://ufoview.posterous.com

Copies furnished to:

Editor, UFO Magazine

Chair, U. S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

Lewis Kannon

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CIA FOIA Chief Cops out (Surprise!?) (See Item 2.23) (Item 2.151)

As an institution largely unaccountable to the public, the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency functions as an amorphous jellyfish. Armed with its globally poisonous, wispy tentacles, it chooses to escape full scrutiny by hiding/arbitrarily destroying public-interest records. Its sting ranges from the moderate (e.g., faulty compliance with certain requirements of the U. S. Freedom of Information Act) to the severe (e.g., orchestrating the waterboarding of detainees and covering its tracks by destroying its incriminating records thereof).

One of the Agency's latest exercises in denial/obfuscation consists of a June 12, 2012, form letter from its new FOIA chief, as quoted here:

"Dear Mr. Bryant:

"Your correspondence of 22 February 2009 requested an Executive Order 12958, as amended, mandatory declassification review of the 'CIA-generated/housed 57 UFO-related documents that surfaced during the 1978 FOIA lawsuit of Ground Saucer Watch v. Central Intelligence Agency.'

"No records responsive to your request were located. Although our searches were thorough and diligent, and it is highly unlikely that repeating those searches would change the result, you nevertheless have the right to appeal the finding of no records responsive to your request. Should you choose to do so, you may address your appeal to the Agency Release Panel within 45 days from the date of this letter, in my care. Please explain the basis of your appeal.

"Sincerely,

"Michele Meeks - Information and Privacy Coordinator"

As I mount a formal appeal of Ms. Meeks's failure to produce the requested declassification/release, I'm also soliciting, via the following classified advertisement now posted at http://www.classifiedads.com/announcements-ad16136430.htm , any whistleblower-derived evidence revealing the current location of the sought-for records:

== $1,000 Reward for Pinpointing the Current Location of 57 Withheld UFO-related CIA Records! ==

Why is the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency continuing to stonewall fulfillment of my 3.2-year-old request that it submit to "mandatory declassification review" its 57 UFO-related documents that surfaced during the 1978 freedom-of-information lawsuit of

Ground Saucer Watch v. Central Intelligence Agency?

By her letter to me of June 12, 2012, CIA FOIA chief Michele Meeks declares her inability to locate the sought-for records -- thus setting the stage for me to appeal her tantamount denial of my request. In the meantime, I'm offering a reward of $1,000 to the first person who provides me the exact, verifiable current location of these elusive 57 records. (My check would be made payable to the awardee's favorite charity.) Consider your providing this pivotal information an investment in greater UFOIA -- UFO freedom of information and accountability.

You may contact me at: Larry W. Bryant, 3518 Martha Custis Drive, Alexandria, VA 22302; telephone: 703-931-3341; e-mail: [email protected] .

You can find the text of Ms. Meeks's letter posted as Item 2.151 of my blog -- http://ufoview.posterous.com .

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Appeal of CIA's Inordinate Delay in Processing My FOIA Request of Aug. 12, 2011 -- re FBIS-catalogued Accounts of UFO Encounters (see Item 2.118) (Item 2.150)

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: May 7, 2012

1. Reference: My e-mail message to you of September 29, 2011, in which I sought from you a written status report on my FOIA request of Aug. 12, 2011 (Item 218 of my blog at http://ufoview.posterous.com ).

2. Since you have chosen not to respond to my Aug. 12, 2011, request (and to my follow-up e-request of Sept. 29, 2011), I view that nonresponse as an adverse action subject to both formal appeal and to any necessary litigation to compel your agency's full compliance with the U. S. Freedom of Information Act. Accordingly, please grant this appeal by promptly proceeding with timely processing of my Aug. 12, 2011, request (and by notifying me, in writing, of that positive action).

LARRY W. BRYANT

Columnist for UFO Magazine

Copies furnished to:

Editor, UFO Magazine

Chair, U. S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

General Counsel, U. S. Central Intelligence Agency

== TEXT OF MY 29 SEP 11 E-MESSAGE TO MS. VISCUSO ==

Request for Status Report on My FOIA Request of August 12, 2011 (Item 2.118)

MS. VISCUSO: Since I've received no CIA response to this 12 Aug 11 FOIA request (which means your agency has failed to comply with the Act's response-time deadline of 20 working days), I now ask that you promptly assign a case number to the request and that you tell me the approximate date on which your agency expects to complete the processing of my request.

Does your nonresponse mean that your agency is angling for another Rosemary Award for poor FOIA performance -- or for having to reimburse my court costs when I choose to legally challenge your nonresponse? -- Larry W. Bryant (29 Sep 11)

Copy furnished to: Chair, U. S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

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OSI's FOIA Office Resorts (Predictably) to a Form-Letter Response to My FOIA Request re Researcher Robert L. Hastings (See Item 2.131) (Item 2.149)

[LWB Note: My freedom-of-information request of Oct. 2, 2011 -- simultaneously addressed to several U. S. intelligence agencies/

military commands as Item 2.131 -- has succeeded in eliciting the following form letter from the FOIA manager at the U. S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations, located in Quantico, Va. (My renewal of this request occurred on Feb. 6, 2012, in response to OSI's earlier rejection of the privacy-release statement provided by me and Mr. Hastings, insisting that I use their standardized release form; ah, the gamesmanship of FOIA compliance!). Some readers of Bryant's UFOview may recall that, back in the 1950s, the OSI hierarchy was actively creating dossiers on certain UFO researchers, including me. Somehow, I suppose, these counterintelligence sleuths had concluded that we constitute a threat to their behind-the-scenes UFO-news management. Fast-forward to the present and you'll probably find that the OSI's UFOlogical mind-set remains focused on tracking and countering the work of such researchers as Robert L. Hastings, whose continued acquisition of UFO-whistleblower-derived evidence apparently has prompted USAF-OSI to crack down on some of those whistleblowers. See http://www.ufohastings.com .]

== TEXT OF OSI's LETTER OF MARCH 1, 2012, TO LWB ==

Dear Mr. Bryant:

This letter is in response to your 06 February 2012 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for any and all records pertaining to Robert L. Hastings. We received your request on 09 February 2012 and have assigned the tracking number AFOSI 2012-FOIA-00197.

We are unable to meet the time limits imposed by the FOIA because we have a backlog of requests caused by the voluminous and complex nature of investigative reports. Also, not all reports requested are stored in our file repository and cause us to have to search other locations or to confer with other offices before the reports are ready for release. We handle all FOIA requests on a "first-in, first-out" basis and use a multi-track FOIA Queue. Based on our current backlog, we expect to pull your request for processing within the next 120 days. Please be assured that once your request is reached in our Queue, it will be processed as quickly as possible.

If you need to contact us about your request, please write to the address above and reference AFOSI 2012-FOIA-00197 on all correspondence pertaining to this request. You may also contact the FOIA/PA administrators via email at [email protected] .

Sincerely,

Makeda Weeks-Titus

Information Release Branch

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Complaint about the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency's Non-responsiveness re My MDR/FOIA Requests (See Items 2.86 and 2.23) (Item 2.148)

TO: Ms. Miriam Nisbet

Director, Office of Government Information Services

U. S. National Archives and Records Administration

8601 Adelphi Road

College Park, MD 20740-6001

FROM: Larry W. Bryant

3518 Martha Custis Drive

Alexandria, VA 22302

DATE: March 4, 2012

1. Reference: My December 28, 2010, letter to former CIA freedom-of-information coordinator Delores M. Nelson, the text of which is printed below.

2. My records on this case reflect no receipt of any reply from either Ms. Nelson or her successor, Ms. Susan Viscuso. This non-responsiveness should surprise no-one familiar with the Agency's pattern of dodging its MDR/FOIA responsibilities. Even so, my pursuit of the sought-for actions should not be held hostage to the Agency's desire to avoid MDR/FOIA compliance.

3. Accordingly, I hereby submit this complaint for you to help me resolve this impasse in a manner favorable to the public's right-to-know and productive of the government's duty-to-tell.

4. In my USPS-mailing to you of a signed printout of this e-formatted letter, I'm enclosing an executed copy of your office's standard privacy-release/records-access authorization form.

LARRY W. BRYANT

Columnist for UFO Magazine

Copies furnished to:

Editor, UFO Magazine

Chair, U. S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

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++ TEXT OF LWB's 22 FEB 09 AND 28 DEC 10 LETTERS TO CIA ++

TO: Ms. Delores M. Nelson Freedom-of-Information Coordinator U. S. Central Intelligence Agency Washington, DC 20505

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

DATE: December 28, 2010

1. Reference: my e-formatted letter to you of February 22, 2009 (labeled as "Item 2.23: Request to CIA for Mandatory/Automatic Declassification Review and for FOIA Public Release of 57 UFO-related Records"), whose text now is posted upon my blog (under http://ufoview.posterous.com/item-223-request-to-cia-for-ma ), and which thereby has garnered 11,000 views as of today's date.

2. The referenced letter requests that your agency subject to mandatory declassification review/release all the 57 UFO-related documents that were withheld via litigation in the FOIA 1978 case of Ground Saucer Watch v. Central Intelligence Agency.

3. Since you thus far have failed to honor my referenced two-part request, and since I have no indication how long that failure will continue, I hereby submit this letter as a formal, written, follow-up FOIA request that you send me a photocopy of the entire two CIA FOIA case files created in response to my Feb. 22, 2009, request.

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

LARRY W. BRYANT Representative of the News Media (chiefly as a columnist for UFO Magazine)

Copies furnished to:

Editor, UFO Magazine Chair, U. S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

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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.

++ TEXT OF LWB's CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENT POSTED AT http://www.classifiedads.com/announcements-ad12896762.htm ++

== Blow the Whistle on the CIA's Non-compliance with "Mandatory Declassification Review" Requirements! ==

Back on February 22, 2009, I submitted a written request to the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency that it subject its 57 suppressed UFO-related documents to the records-management process called "mandatory declassification review" (MDR) as specified by presidential order 12958 (a predecessor to E. O. 13526 -- http://www.ise.gov/sites/default/files/EO13526.pdf ). To date, I've received no response whatsoever from the Agency.

Public knowledge of those documents had occurred via a 1978 freedom-of-information lawsuit captioned Ground Saucer Watch v. Central Intelligence Agency. What's this, you say -- the Agency actually is withholding the contents of those documents indefinitely, despite its protestations that it does no delving into the reality of the worldwide UFO-E.T. presence?

If you, or someone you know, possess evidence (including any notarized deathbed confessions from certain UFO-coverup-privy insiders) that the Agency has been deceiving the public about the extent of its knowledge of, and experience with, hard-core UFO-E.T. activity, then now's your chance to help set the record straight. Contact Larry W. Bryant, 3518 Martha Custis Drive, Alexandria, VA 22302; phone: 703-931-3341; e-mail: [email protected] .

Meantime, you might wish to track any progress on this perennial pursuit of greater UFO freedom of information and accountability -- by perusing Item 2.148 of my web log at http://ufoview.posterous.com .

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Two Agencies (the CIA and NARA's Office of Government Information Services) Choose to Thumb their Noses at FOIA (Item 2.147)

[LWB Note: Within a week of each other in January 2012, the Rosemary-Award-winning U. S. Central Intelligence Agency and the lofty but testy and ineffectual Office of Government Information Services at the U. S. National Archives and Records Administration sent me letters proving that their regard for freedom of information centers not on serving the public interest but on serving their own bureaucratic interests. Yes, folks, here we have, once again, another chapter in the We-versus-Them struggle for greater UFOIA -- UFO freedom of information and accountability. At this point, short of my winning a state lottery so as to fund litigation in support of UFOIA progress, we're left with only one viable resource: the emergence of enough whistleblowers with ample confirmatory evidence of their accounts that would convince a federal grand jury to investigate, and report upon, their revelations. They might choose to jump-start this long-overdue disclosure process by issuing deathbed confessions as to their role in/observation of any aspect of the worldwide cover-up of the UFO-E.T. experience (see Item 2.111). Meanwhile, for your inspiration and amusement, I'm printing the contents of each agency's notification letter below.]

== Letter from the NARA-OGIS chief (17 Jan 12) ==

Dear Mr. Bryant:

Re: Courtesy copies to OGIS -- MN:KF:CZ

We are writing to confirm that we have received your latest courtesy copy [LWB Note: I prefer to label it "action copy"] of your correspondence to the U. S. Air Force dated January 4, 2012 [see Item 2.92] and received on January 5, 2012. We have received many courtesy copies from you [LWB Note: untrue, unless no more than three CC copies are considered "many" by OGIS staffers] over time via email and have advised you we do not open case files upon receipt of courtesy copies. We also write to inform you that we will no longer be acknowledging receipt of courtesy copies from you.

The Office of Government Information Services serves as the FOIA Ombudsman, providing assistance to the public and to Federal agencies. We provide mediation services to resolve FOIA disputes and we also review agencies' FOIA policies, procedures and compliance. If in the future you would like to request our services, you may contact us with an express request for our assistance. If we receive future courtesy copies from you we will not acknowledge their receipt.

Thank you for your interest in the Office of Government Information Services.

Sincerely,

Miriam Nisbet, Director

Office of Government Information Services

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== Letter from the CIA's FOIA chief (20 Jan 12) ==

Reference: F-2012-00334

Dear Mr. Bryant:

We received your 28 December 2011 letter, appealing our 23 December 2011 final response to your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for "any and all CIA-generated and CIA-received records pertaining to the Mars-Visitation Program."

Your initial request [see Item 2.145] was not processed, therefore, there are no administrative appeal rights and we cannot accept your appeal. You are encouraged, however, to refine the scope of your request and submit it anew at any time.

Sincerely,

Susan Viscuso

Information and Privacy Coordinator

[LWB Note: could it possibly be that the Agency is vying for yet another Rosemary Award for poor FOIA performance? And: how ironic would it be for the OGIS operation to be added, eventually, to the list of awardees?]

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