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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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The DI is the CIA directorate that analyzes, interprets and forecasts foreign
intelligence issues and world events of importance to the United States. It is
responsible for producing finished intelligence reports-for dissemination to
policymakers in the United States Government. Appropriately trained personnel
regularly conduct FOIA and other searches of the DI records system as part of
their normal duties.
The DS&T is the CIA directorate that creates and applies technology to fulfill
intelligence requirements. The DS&T also maintained records produced by the
Foreign Broadcast Information Service, the primary collector of foreign open-
source information for the United States Government until the establishment of
the DN I Open Source Center in 20055. Open-source information is information
that is generally available to the public, such as foreign newspapers, periodical
publications, and television and radio broadcasts. Appropriately trained personnel
regularly conduct FOLA and other searches of the DS&T records system as part of
their normal duties.
The NCS is the organization within CIA responsible for the clandestine collection
of foreign intelligence information from human sources. The NCS records system
contains information on persons or entities that are of foreign intelligence or
counterintelligence interest to the CIA and other United States Government
agencies. Appropriately trained personnel regularly conduct FOIA and Privacy
Act searches of the NCS records system as part of their normal duties. NCS
5 The DNI Open Source Center (“OSC”) at CIA was established on 1 November 2005.
The DNI directed that the center be built on the capabilities and expertise of CIA’s FBIS
and report directly to the DCIA in implementing DNI strategy and guidance.
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