National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Headquarters
Washington, DC 20546-0001
July 27, 2021
Reply to attn. of: Office of Communications
John Greenewald, Jr.
27305 W. Live Oak Rd.
Suite #1203
Castaic, Ca. 91384
john@greenewald.com
Re: FOIA Tracking Number 21-HQ-F-00500
Dear Mr. Greenewald:
This letter responds your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), dated May 7, 2021, and received in this
office on June 4, 2021. Your request was assigned the above-referenced tracking number.
You seek the following:
a copy of records (which includes videos/photos), electronic or otherwise, of all
records pertaining to, and generated during the case of, Leslie KEAN, Plaintiff, v.
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION, Defendant, No.
CIV.A.03 2509 EGS. . .
. . . all records pertaining to that case, which includes, but is not limited to, the entire
relevant FOIA case files connected to the lawsuit, relevant FOIA processing notes,
emails, letters, memos, etc., that pertain to the FOIA cases and lawsuit.
In response to your request we initiated searches in NASA’s Office of General Counsel
(OGC) and the FOIA Office. With respect to the search in the FOIA Office, while processing
a prior FOIA request for similar records (19-HQ-F-00470), the FOIA office learned that the
FOIA case file connected to the subject FOIA lawsuit were destroyed pursuant to NASA’s
records retention schedule. Only one file still existed which included records NASA released
to the subject FOIA litigant’s attorney, and emails and statements related to the FOIA office’s
searches for records in response to the lawsuit. As such, for the portion of your request
seeking all relevant FOIA case files connected to the lawsuit, we located the case file for 19-