Initial Request

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005298834
• Release Decision: IPPUB U
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: June 23, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 29, 2010
• Case Number: F-2010-00666
• Publication Date: September 4, 2008

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Information and Privacy Coordinator
Washington, D.C. 20505
APPROVED FOR RELEASED
DATE: 18-Aug-2010
subject toFOIA, especially with respect to which Systems of Records areheld
by which CIA components (excluding the Privacy Act Systems of Records
detailed in the 22 July 2005 Federal Register);
all or part of the CIA's current organizational structure (excluding the
other graphical representations;
which CIA components are tasked with FOIA requests by CIA Information
Management Services ("IMS"), especially with respect to which CIA offices
are considered "components" by IMS for tasking purposes;
the search tools and indices employed by each CIA component from (3) above
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 (6) any other records pertaining to the subject material of the first and second JMP
recommendations of 18 May 2008.
If you deny all or part of this request, please cite the specific exemptions you believe
justify your refusal to release the information or permit the review and notify us of your appeal
procedures available under the law. In excising material, please "black out" rather than white
out" or "cut out"
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derstanding of government operations or activities and is inure public interest As this request
will not go into detail regarding the specifies of the public interest, since they are discussed at
length in the attached recommendation. In summary, knowledge of the CIA systems of records
the CIA FOIA analysts and reducing the backlog of FOIA requests that is cited so often as the
reason for CIA's inability to meet its statutory deadlines.
The CIA is required by law to respond to this request within 20 working days.
Failure to timely comply may result in the filing of a civil action against the CIA in the United
States District Court of appropriate jurisdiction.
We request that any documents or records produced in response to these requests be
provided in electronic (soft-copy) form wherever possible. Acceptable formats are pdf, jpg; gif,
.tif. .We do not authorize CIA to search only for records existing as of the date of your acceptance
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Please respond to this request by email to Kell7a JamesMadisonProiect.ore or by fax to
240-681-2189. If postal correspondence is necessary, please have all return postal
correspondence addressed specifically to the aftention of Mark Zaid (not Kel McClanahan) to
ensure propel delivery
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Joseph W. Lambert
Director of Information Management Services
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC 20505
In response to your proposed changes to the above Central Intelligence Agency (`CIA")
regulations published in the 17 April 2008 Federal Register, please accept the following three comments
from the James Madison Project ("JNIP"), a Washington, DC, non-profit organization established in 1998
to promote govermti nt accountability and the reduction of secrecy; as well as to educate the public on
issues relating to intelligence and national security through means of research, advocacy and the
dissemination of information
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 the CIA's organization, such as the organization chart located at
Irttps imviv cia.nov~about-ciai"leadetsliip!cia-oteanization-char2litml or brief discussions
elsewhere on the CIA website; are not specific enough to be useful to most requesters.:
The ability to specifically request records of particular CIA offices and subdivisions, or
even to recommend possible offices or subdivisions that might have generated the types
of records sought, would allow sequesters to be considerably more specific in their
requests, thereby saving CIA FOIA analysts and attorneys significant time and
unnecessary effort.
While some aspects of the CIA's organizational structure are understandably classified,
there is little reason to withhold a more reasonably detailed organizational structure
regarding unclassified CIA components, and much to be gained in the efficiency of the
FOIA process (a case in point is the Medical and Psychological Analysis Center, a
publicly disclosed and documented CIA component about which the CIA website
contains no information, even regarding its parent Directorate) The recommended
solution to this lack of information is the publication on the CIA website of a more
detailed organization chart, as well as a mention of this chart on the page providing
instructions for submitting FOIA requests, so that potential requesters may specify the
probable locations of the records they are seeking.
organizational structure discussed above, not enough is known about the CIA's FOIA
systems currently maintained by the Agency. As with the first comment, such a published
set of notices would allow requesters to be considerably more specific in their requests,
thereby saving CIA FOIA analysts and attorneys significant time and unnecessary effort.
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 FOIA/PAwebsite in the appropriate location, so that lay requesters can use it to make
more specific requests
Thank you for the opportunity to submit these continents. If you wish to discuss these comments
please do not hesitate to contact Kel McClanahan at Kelna JamesMadisonPioiect.ore or 301-728-5908
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