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Subject FOIA Appeal re CIA-rmintained McCarthy Records and Corso Records 
TO: Chairman 
CIA Records-Release Panel 
C/O Scott Koch, lnfomration and Privacy Coordinator 
U. S. Central Intelligence Agency 
Washington, DC 20505 
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testimony, and motivations), l note that, once again, Mr. Koch, via 
his May 26, 2006, letter to me, insists on questioning my status as 
an independent writer representing one or more news media. How much 
time do you really wish to spend here on my justifying my existence 
-- and would you rather spend it in the comfort of your office than 
in a courtroom? 
At any rate, please note that Corso's whistleblowing account, 
published in his 1997 memoirs "The Day After Roswell,‘ implicates 
your agency in the policies, programs, and operations of a 
supersecret pan…

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by Larry W. Bryant 
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss 
events; small minds discuss people. 
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We may never know if the late, consummate character 
assassin Philip Iulian Klass ever knew that the U. S. Fed- 
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activities and associations. And even if he knew, would 
he have wondered whether his demise would trigger the 
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offer of facilities for holding a UFO-research conference, 
on the grounds tl1at some of the anti-UFO-secrecy confer- 
ees might have communistic leanings? 
As one of those conferees, l’ll always remember my own 
close encounter with Klass in the public square during 
that period. It came as we both accepted the invitation of 
a Baltimore TV talk show to present a point-counterpoint 
segment on the UFO issue. 
In the Green Room as we were preparing to go on stage, 
Klass tried his best to display his cordial side, as if h…

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31 May 2006 
Mr. Larry W. Bryant 
Reference: F-2004-01956 
Dear Mr. Bryant: 
This is a final response to your 8 August 2004 Freedom of Information Act 
(FOIA) request for records pertaining to John Joseph McCarthy, Jr. We processed 
your request in accordance with the FOIA, 5 U.S.C. § 552, as amended, and the CIA 
Information Act, 50 U.S.C. § 431. Our processing included a search for records as 
described in our 9 September 2004 letter and our …

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26 May 2006 
Mr. Larry W. Bryant 
Reference: F-2006-01045 
Dear Mr. Bryant: 
The office of the Information and Privacy Coordinator has received your 
4 May 2006 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for: 
“a copy of all CIA-generated and CIA-received records 
pertaining to Lt. Col. [Philip James] Corso and his 
associations, activities, congressional testimony, and 
motivations.”
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We have assigned your request the reference number above. P…