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F-2007-01407 INITIAL REQUEST

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Information and Privacy Coordinator
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
May 30, 2007
Dear Coordinator:
Under the Freedom of Infonnation Act, 5 U.S.C. subsection 552,1 am requesting
information or records on Jozef (Josef) SWIATLO, lieutenant colonel of the Polish
security service, who defected to the United States in December 1953. Swiatlo was a

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F-2005-01185 APPEAL ACCEPTANCE LETTER

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Approved for Release: 2024/07/01 C01231717
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
9 August 2005
Mr. Timothy Snyder
Department of History
Yale University
Box 208324
New Haven, CT 06520-8324
Reference: F-2005-01185
Dear Mr. Snyder:
We received your 4 July 2005 letter appealing our 1 June 2005 response to
your Freedom of Information Act request for records on Jozef Swiatlo, who was one of
the most important functionaries of the Polish Ministry of Public Security.

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F-2007-00392 FINAL RESPONSE

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Approved for Release: 2024/07/01 C01388694
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
6 December 2006
Mr. Walter Orlowski
Reference: F-2007-00392
Dear Mr. Orlowski:
The office of the Information and Privacy Coordinator has received your
24 November 2006 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for:
�`records on the interrogation and deposition of Jozef Swiatlo, Polish
Secret Police defector in 1953.... [You] would like to obtain transcripts
of his debriefing and any documents relating to the activities and

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F-2007-01407 APPEAL RESPONSE

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Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
24 July 2007
Mr. Wlodzimierz Rozenbaum, Ph.D.
Reference: F-2007-01407
Dear Mr. Rozenbaum:
This responds to your 13 July 2007 letter appealing our 12 June 2007 response to your
Freedom of Information Act request for "information of records on Jozef (Josef) SWIATLO,
lieutenant colonel of the Polish security service, who defected to the United States in December
1953."

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F-2005-01185 FOLLOWUP LETTER

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Yale University
Department of History
Box 208324
New Haven, CT 06520-8324
4 July 2005
Mr. Scott Koch
Information and Privacy Coordinator
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC 20505
Reference: F-2005-01185 (Jozef Swiatlo)
Dear Mr. Koch:
Thank you for your letter of 1 June 2005, and for the attached records. You noted
that you had located three records, totalling ten pages, from your computerized system of

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F-2007-00392 MEMO

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PIPD MEMO
F-2007-00392
DATE: 02/05/2007
MEMO TO: IRG DATABASE
FROM:
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REPLY:
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Case Number: F-2007-00392 OPENA
Tasked on: 01/22/2007
Requester: ORLOWSKI , WALTER
Case Subject: INTERROGATION & DEPOSITION OF JOZEF SWIATLO
1953; ACTIVITIES AND CRIMES OF THE NKVD IN POST WORLD WARII
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Sent on: 02/07/2007 at 10:26:55 AM
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F-2005-01185 MEMO

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PIPD MEMO
F-2005-01185
DATE: 09/26/2005
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F-2005-01185 OPENA
08/09/2005
SNYDER , TIMOTHY
JOZEF SWIATLO
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F-2007-00392 APPEAL

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Approved for Release: 2024/07/01 C01399803
January 7, 2007
Agency Release Panel
do Scott Koch
Information and Privacy Coordinator
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC
Refrence: F-2007-00392
Dear Sir:
It is difficult for mei1/4understand your reasons for refusal to release documents 155
from 53 years ago, relating to Soviet crimes committed in post-WWII Poland. It could it
that your letter is a routine stonewalling first response, or else your decision may be

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F-2007-01663 INITIAL REQUEST

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07/12/2007 15:10 FAX 202 994 7005 NAIL SECURITY ARCHIVE CIA
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The National Security Archive
The George Washington University
Gelman Library, Suite 701
2130 H Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20037
July 12, 2007
Scott A. Koch
Information and Privacy Coordinator
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC 20505
Re: Request under the FOIA, in reply refer to Archive# 20071328CIA168
Dear Mr. Koch:
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Phone: 202/994-7000

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F-2005-01185 INITIAL REQUEST

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Approved for Release: 2024/07/01 C01196-2920
Timothy Snyder
History, Yale University
Box 208324
New Haven, CT 06520-8324
18 April 2005
Central Intelligence Agency
Information and Privacy Coordinator
Washington, DC 20505
Dear Sir or Madam:
This is a noncommercial request under the Freedom of Information and Privacy Acts. I write to request a
complete and thorough search of all filing systems for all records maintained by the Central Intelligence

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