xxxxxxxxxxxxx; JOHN JOSEPH MACCARTHY, JR. & HIS MILITARY/CIA CAREER & HIS INVOLEMENT W/PROJECT "CHERRY"

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0001344825
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: June 23, 2015
• Document Release Date: July 30, 2010
• Case Number: F-2010-00760
• Publication Date: June 29, 2006

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Subject: CIA's Stonewalling of My FOIA Requester-Status Appeal
TO: Chairman
CIA FOIA-Records Agency Release Panel
U. S. Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC 20505
DATE: June 29, 2006
By his June 20, 2006, letter to me (copy enclosed), your FOIA
coordinator Scott Koch continues to deny my FOIA requester status as an
independent writer (i.e., "representative of the news media") focusing
on national security affairs.
But, now, Mr. Koch's latest denial further embeds your agency in a FOIA
tarbaby of its own making -- by imposing upon me an extortionist fee of
$30.00 for initial CIA processing of my FOIA request (No. F-2004-01956)
for all CIA records pertaining to former CIA Project Cherry operative
John Joseph McCarthy, Jr. This official extortionist refusal to process
my FOIA appeal of June 5, 2006, unless I pay the contested $30.00
creates a "Catch-22" for my current and future FOIA requests by
declaring, in effect, "You, Mr. Bryant, have no right to appeal a
fee-waiver denial unless you first pay the (erroneously) assessed fee
for any current/past cases." This policy mocks the spirit of the U. S.
Freedom of Informati-on Act, and further explains why your agency has
been (dis)honored by its recent receipt of the National Security
Archive's "Rosemary Award."
In the interest of reopening and expediting my requester-status appeal
of June 5, 2006, and of making sure that Mr. Koch refrain from
sabotaging my FOIA request of May 4, 2006 (re the late U. S. Army (Ret.)
Lt. Col. Philip J. Corso's CIA-related revelations), I'm enclosing a
check for $30.00, made payable to the treasurer of the United States.
Please note that in no way does this paid-under-protest payment
constitute a waiver of any of my FOIA rights in any past/current/future
requests/appeals/litigation. Indeed, as regards the expected litigation
ensuing from continued CIA denial of my requester status, I plan to seek
CIA reimbursement of that erroneous assessment.
Also note that, as a supplement to my requester-status appeal of June 5,
2006, I'm enclosing a copy of my column from the July 2006 issue of UFO
Magazine (titled "Bryant's UFO View: Corso's Curse"). From this essay,
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you (and anyone else) readily can discern the public's stakeholdership
in learning and discussing more about your agency's past/current/future
role in suppressing hard-core evidence of UFO-E.T. reality. With or
without CIA cooperation, researchers/writers like me will continue to
let that evidence speak for itself -- via whatever "news media" that
might lend themselves to the process.
To ironically invoke the words of President George W. Bush: "You're
either with us or against us." If the latter, then be prepared to
receive next year's Rosemary Award for FOIA conduct unbecoming a federal
agency.
By snail-mail, I'm sending to you a signed copy of this e-formatted
Director, Washington, D.C., Office of Citizens Against UFO Secrecy
Copies furnished to:
Editor, UFO Magazine ( http://www.ufomag.com
Chairman, Committee on Government Reform -- U. S. House of
Representatives
 We received your 5 June 2006 letter seeking to appeal our
31 May 2006 response to your Freedom of Information Act request for records
pertaining to John Joseph McCarthy, Jr.
Our records indicate you have an outstanding fee balance of $30.00 for this
request. We therefore cannot accept your appeal under the rules outlined in Part
1900 of Title 32 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Section 1900.42(c). I have
enclosed a highlighted copy for your reference and retention.
Your concern regarding your fee status and your request for information on
"Philip Julian Klass" will be addressed in separate correspondence.
In ormation and Privacy Coordinator
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Date 6/5/2006 2:30:27 am
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Subject FOIA Appeal re CIA-maintained McCarthy Records and Corso Records
TO: Chairman
CIA Records-Release Panel
C/O Scott Koch, Information and Privacy Coordinator
U. S. Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC 20505
Your FOIA coordinator Koch's letters to me of May 31, 2006, and May
26, 2006, have made it even clearer to me why your agency has
received the George Washington University-based National Security
Archive's Rosemary Award (for your demonstrated disdain for the U. S.
Freedom of Information Act's inherent support of the public's
right-to-know).
Accordingly, in order to help counter that disdain and to advance the
public's interest/benefit in knowing the darker side of your agency's
policies/programs/practices, I hereby appeal Mr. Koch's actions taken
via the above-cited letters, while also serving notice that your
denial of my appeal will heighten my resolve to seek judicial remedy
therefor. My prevailing in that lawsuit would require your agency to
reimburse me my attorney's fees.
First of all, your final response (May 31, 2006) to my Aug. 8, 2004,
request No. F-200401956, re former U. S. Army captain John Joseph
McCarthy, Jr., errs in denying my status as an independent writer
entitled to full waiver of records-search fees. What's more, had
your records searcher conducted a search of all records pertaining to
the CIA-managed, clandestine, Vietnam-era operation called PROJECT
CHERRY, he would've discovered that McCarthy had been assigned to
that project. For background information on that assignment, please
peruse McCarthy's current-events-blog website
http:/ljohnmccarthy90066.dipod/idl.html. As McCarthy's blog
documents, his (Army-CIA-compelled) role in PROJECT CHERRY led to his
becoming the fall-guy for your agency's ill-conceived and illicit
application of CHERRY actions/assets against the Cambodian
government. Such official malfeasance by ANY U. S. agency during
wartime would by definition have permanent value to the public's
understanding and evaluation of that agency's conduct past, present,
and future.
My expected lawsuit, therefore, would seek your agency's production
of a Vaughn index to determine why Mr. Koch has chosen not to search
all CHERRY-related records pertaining to McCarthy's case. That
request for a Vaughn index also would seek a copy of the entire FOIA
case files on all other McCarthy-related FOIA requests processed to
date by your agency. The lawsuit also would request that the court
conduct an in-camera inspection of all CHERRY-related records
pertaining to McCarthy.
Since Mr. McCarthy's web log (a.k.a. "blog") qualifies as a news (and
information) medium widely available to military-affairs researchers,
political analysts, scholars, cultural activists, congressmen,
historians, and jurists worldwide, it enhances my ability to share my
writings and research finding on such national-security matters as
the McCarthy Saga. His story, incidentally, figures in my current
First Amendment lawsuit of Bryant v. Rumsfeld, et al., whereby I'm
challenging certain military commanders' censorship of a series of
whistleblower-solicitation advertisements I've sent -- as an
independent writer-researcher -- for publication in various postibase
newspapers. In this regard, the U. S. District Court for the
District of Columbia has acknowledged my status as an independent
writer entitled to have his First Amendment claims of
freedom-of-speechifreedom-of-press properly adjudicated.
In the second matter at issue here (my May 4, 2006, FOIA request No.
F-2006-01045, by which I seek a copy of all CIA-generated and
CIA-received records pertaining to the late Army Lt. Col. (Ret.)
Philip James Corso and his associations, activities, congressional
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 testimony, and motivations), I 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 panel of UFO-related experts called Majestic-Twelve.
Corso's role as a Pentagon-based intelligence/R&D analyst in helping
exploit the advanced technological artifacts retrieved from the July
1947 crash-landing of a "flying saucer" near Roswell, N.M.,
reverberates, to this day, in the UFO press.
Indeed, in my column scheduled for the July 2006 issue of the
newsstand periodical UFO magazine, I focus my attention on the Corso
story. In UFO magazine's April 2006 issue, my column ("Bryant's UFO
View") presents a similar essay on the FBI's recent disclosure of its
dossier on UFO author-personality Philip J. Klass* (see enclosed
photo-copy of said essay). Earlier, upon the now-suspended website
of the public-interest Group Citizens Against UFO Secrecy, I had
published a an essay about Corso's FBI dossier, which mentions his
alleged CIA connections.
In a forthcoming issue of UFO magazine, my column will dwell on the
second edition of a book titled "Exempt from Disclosure: The
Disturbing Case About the UFO Coverup," by Robert M. Collins, a
former USAF captain privy to inside knowledge about the government's
technological exploitation of Roswellian-debris artifacts. The
book's revelations include MJ- 12-related material allegedly "leaked"
from CIA records -- a matter of utmost concern to the public's
awareness of the CIA role in the coverup of the UFO experience.
As with the McCarthy Saga, Collins's book has been the focus of one
of my recent ad submissions -- a submission that was flatly rejected
by public affairs officials at Langley Air Force Base, Va., as being
in contradiction of the official USAF viewpoint on UFO reality.
Again, such official censorship of an independent writer's
research/writing deserves both public outcry and oversight as to
agency motivations and operations.
UFO magazine's website, http:/,www.ufomag.com, further extends the
news-dissemination reach of this multimedia organization, thus
affording me a wide audience for my work product.
My column in UFO magazine has been preceded by my UFO-related
articles and book reviews published in the newsstand magazine FATE:
True Reports of the Strange and Unknown -- published by Galde Press,
Inc. (galdepress.com), with whom I'm under contract for my second
book. Incidentally, my first book -- "UFO Politics at the White
House: Citizens Rally'round Jimmy Carter's Promise" -- drew its
content from citizens' UFO-related letters to Pres. Carter, as
USAF-disclosed to me via the U. S. Freedom of Information Act.
So, you see that this capsule of my track record as an independent
writer amply qualifies me to receive a full search-fee waiver for any
current/future FOIA requests submitted as part of my ongoing
research/analysis. Therefore, please grant me this appeal by
immediately rescinding Mr. Koch's denial of my documented, reiterated
requester status,
Copy furnished to: Chairman, subcommittee on ovemment Management,
Finance, and Accountability - U. S. House of Representatives
* P. S.: I hereby request that Mr. Koch also process this letter as
a formal, written FOIA request that he send me a copy of all
CIA-maintained records pertaining to the activities, associations,
correspondence, and motivations of the late Philip Julian Klass.