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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
LARRY W.‘ BRYANT, 
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY 
and LEON PANETTA, Director, CIA,
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Plaintiff, 
ivil,Action No.: 09-0940 (EGS) 
Defendants. 
DECLARATION OF DELORES M. NELSON 
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY 
I, DELORES M. NELSON, hereby declare and say: 
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I am the Chief, Public Information Programs Division, Information Management 
Services (“IMS”), Office of the Chief Information Officer (“CIO”), Central 
Intelligence Agency (“CIA”). Since 21 April 2008, …

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Declassification Review programs in the CIA. These responsibilities include 
directing searches of CIA records systems pursuant to public requests for records 
under these programs and coordinating the reviews of any records retrieved in 
such searches. These review processes include undertaking any intra-agency and 
inter-agency coordination and referrals necessary in light of the information found 
in responsive records. In addition, my responsibilities include fee category and 
fee waiver detenninations. 
4. As part of my official duties I ensure th…

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a. “As pertain to the convening, attendance roster, briefings, minutes, and all 
other related documentation” of the “1987 special meeting at FAA 
headquarters in Washington, D.C., to discuss and evaluate...the intrusive UFO 
encounter experienced on Nov. 17, 1986, by the Japanese flight crew (N 
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1628) of a 747 cargo jet...in Alaskan sky.” 
b. “As pertain to all other similar cases of airborne UFO encounters reportedly 
occurring since Nov. 17, 1986, to date.” 
Plaintiff also stated that since he was submittinghis request as “a representative 
of …

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and the charge was for duplication only, it was not affected by fee category.2 The 
letter further explained that requests for fee waivers3 must be considered under the 
standards that Agency regulations outlined at Part 1900 of Title 32 of the Code of 
Federal Regulations (C.F.R.). In accordance therewith, the CIA informed Mr. 
Bryant that because the information he sought was already in the public domain, 
and “its re-release would not likely contribute significantly to public 
understanding of the operations and activities of the United States Gov…

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By letter dated October 3, 20084, Plaintiff appealed the CIA’s decision “to deny 
my FOIA request status as a representative of the news media” regarding request 
F-2008-01781. Plaintiff went on to state “[b]y this appeal, I hereby characterize 
my records-search-fee-waiver ‘request’ as a DEMAND” and cited 5 U.S.C. § 522 
“a(4)(A)(ii)(II), namely, ‘fees shall be limited to reasonable standard charges for 
document duplication when...the request is made by...a representative of the news 
media.”’ (A true and correct copy of Plaintiff’ s appeal request…

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correct copy of CIA’s response to Plaintiff’s appeal request is attached hereto as 
Exhibit D.)
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On May 20, 2009, Plaintiff commenced this action, alleging that Defendant 
“failed to grant Plaintiff news media representative status,” “a fee waiver so as 
only to have to pay photocopying and reproduction fees,” (Compl., ‘][‘][ 9 and 10), 
and for the first time, alleged that Defendant “did not use the level of diligence 
and good faith to conduct a search.” (@., ‘][ 12). 
By letter dated June 23, 2009, the CLA informed Plaintiff it would reopen his 
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the subject of pending litigation in the federal courts.” (A true and correct copy of 
this letter is attached hereto as Exhibit F.)
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The CIA referred the three potentially responsive documents to the government 
agencies which originated the documents: Department of State and National 
Security Agency. As of the date of this declaration, NSA acknowledged mailing 
a response to the Plaintiff on January 6, 2010. 
II. CIA’S SEARCH FOR RESPONSIVE DOCUMENTS 
A. CIA Records Systems 
The CIA’s records systems are designed to support CIA’s inte…