Initial Request

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005578349
• Release Decision: IPPUB U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: June 24, 2015
• Document Release Date: February 18, 2011
• Case Number: F-2011-00088
• Publication Date: September 1, 2010

APPROVED FOR RELEASE[] DATE:
02-08-2011
Information and Privacy Coordinator
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
August 31, 2010
Dear FOIA Officer:
I hereby submit the following request under the Freedom of Information Act. Please consider this request
separate and in addition to any previous request. This request does not supersede any prior request.
Jehovah?s Witnesses, aka "The Society." Please limit responsive records to those created between September
2001 and the date this request is processed. Please include all records on about concerning or mention are
Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, In
Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
Religious Order of Jehovah's Witnesses, New York.
International Bible Students Association
Testigos de Jehova be Venezuela, La Victoria, Venezuela
Wachttunn-Gesellschaft, Selters/Taunus, Germany
Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses
Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Canada
Congregacion Cristiana de Ios Testigos de Jehova
I am a member of the News Media as deiinedin 22CFR171.11(o) and request the applicable fee waiver. I do
authorize up to $30 in fees if this request is denied or fees are incurred further than the exemption allows. I do reta
the right to appeal any denial of this request.
(o) Representative of the news media uiea.ns aniy. person actively
gathering news for an entity that is organized and operated to publish
or broadcast news to the public.
T write fm and am gathering news for Witnesses Unto Me, a publication which distributes among other wr
news.
The term news means information that is about current events or that
would be of current interest to the public.
 My experience in journalism allows me judge the current interest of a topic to the public. I make this request with
knowledge and belief the topic is of current interest to the public.
Pews media include television or radio stations broadcasting to the
public at large and publishers of periodicals (but only in those
instances when they can qualify as disseminators of '.news'') who make
their products available for purchase by the general public.
Witnesses Unto Me disseminates many types of writing, including news. For an example of a recent news crude,
see "City of Dearborn limits free speech around Arab Festival" written by myself and published June 22, 2010 by
y\'itnesses Unto Me. Witnesses Unto Me is available to the general public and is not limited to any subset of the
public.
Freelance journalists may be regarded as working for a news
organization if they can demonstrate, such as by past publication, a
likelihood of publication through a representative of the news media,
even though not actually employed by it,
icles are frequently published by both Witnesses Unto Me and SBC Voices, the two publications for which I
I am assured of publication as the publisher of Witnesses Unto Me and a regular columnist with SBC Voices.
Format
In any situation where the fee will be the same or less, please provide documents in electronic format. Any
electronic format is preferred to paper. Please use the most economical electronic format.
In case of denial
If my request is denied in whole or part, I ask that you justify all deletions by reference to specific exemptions of
the act. I will also expect you to release all segregable portions of otherwise exempt material. I, of course, reserve
the right to appeal your decision to withhold any information or to deny a fee benefit.