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Final Draft Bryant Declaration

Central Intelligence Agency · 2010-01-21 · 17 pages · text from the file's own layer

This is a declaration by Delores M. Nelson, the CIA's Information and Privacy Coordinator, signed January 22, 2010. It was filed in support of the CIA's motion for summary judgment in Larry W. Bryant v. CIA, Civil Action No. 09-0940 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. It covers Bryant's FOIA request about a 1987 FAA meeting on the November 17, 1986 Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 encounter over Alaska. It also covers later airborne UFO cases, the dispute over his fee category, and the CIA's searches. The CIA found no records of the meeting and three records from other agencies, which it referred to the State Department and NSA.

  • p. 2 …Since 21 April 2008, I also serve as the CIA Information and Privacy Coordinator (“Coordinator”). _I…
  • p. 3 …2025/06/10 C07083373 Declassification Review programs in the CIA. These responsibilities include directing searches of…
  • p. 4 …The letter then discussed the release by CIA of UFO-related documents (2,779 pages) in…
  • p. 5 …In accordance therewith, the CIA informed Mr. Bryant that because the information he sought was already…
  • p. 6 …2025/06/10 C07083373 By letter dated October 3, 20084, Plaintiff appealed the CIA’s decision…
  • p. 7 …The CIA also informed Plaintiff that “CIA regulations governing administrative appeals provide that no appeal shall…
  • p. 8 …CIA Records Systems The CIA’s records systems are designed to support CIA’s intelligence activities…
  • p. 9 …2025/06/10 C07083373 The DI is the CIA directorate that analyzes, interprets and forecasts foreign…
  • p. 10 …The DS provides the CIA with mission-critical services, including the protection of CLA personnel, security…
  • p. 11 …for another component of the CIA, the Director of CIA, Department of Justice, Congress, or a…
  • p. 12 …Under the direction and supervision of the CIA Information and Privacy Coordinatorja review is then conducted…
  • p. 13 …As noted above (‘ 9), the CIA has previously searched for and released records relating to UFOs…
  • p. 14 …PIPD personnel experienced in the tasking of records searches tasked those CIA directorates reasonably likely to…
  • p. 16 …These records are part of the CIA UFO collection which was offered to the plaintiff in…
  • p. 17 …In sum, the CIA tasked those components reasonably likely to possess information responsive to Plaintiffs request…
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of Scientific and Weapons Research (“OSWR”)9, whose records have been
archived. Such records are indexed only at the folder level. The DI searched
using the following terms “UFO,” “U F O,” “U.F.O.,” as well as “FAA,” “F A
A,” and Federal Aviation Administration. In addition, the search officer looked
for folder titles listing meeting, briefing, roster, or minutes for the same time
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period. No responsive records were located.
The DS&T also made all reasonable efforts to identify and retrieve records
responsive to plaintiff’s request. Given the relevant time period, the DS&T
searched archived records of the National Photographic Interpretation Center,
Foreign Broadcast Information Service, Office of Imagery Analysis, Office of
Technical Services, Office of the Director for S&T, Office of Development and
Engineering, Office of Research and Development and Office of Technical
Collection. The DS&T employed the following search terms: “FAA,” “Federal
Aviation Administration,” “UFO,” “unidentified flying object,” and “Callahan.”
No responsive records were located.
The DCLA Area also made all reasonable efforts to identify and retrieve any
records responsive to plaintiff’ s FOIA request. The DCIA Action Center (DAC)
Office of Public Affairs, Open Source Center and Center for the Study of
Intelligence conducted records searches. All components searched for
“unidentified flying objects,” “UFO,” “UFOs,” “FAA,” or “Federal Aviation
Administration.” In addition, the following search terms were used by one or
OSWR was formed in 1980 when the Offices of Scientific Intelligence and Weapons
Intelligence were merged. The name of the office was changed in 1995, and the office
was subsequently merged with a number of others during successive reorganizations.
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 17 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.