Final Response

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05953013
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: December 14, 2021
• Case Number: F-2014-00973
• Publication Date: January 8, 2013

Approved for Release: 2021/10/22 C05953013
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
15 January 2013
Mr. Ellis C. Mattingly
(b)(6)
Reference: F-2013-00533
Dear Mr. Mattingly:
This is a final response to your 22 December 2012 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
request addressed to the Office of Public Affairs, received in the office of the Information and Privacy
Coordinator on 4 January 2013, for a search of our archives to determine if members of the Agency
interfaced with members of the 765th Security Platoon, Vung Tau Army Airfield, while this unit
was active between the dates of September 1964 to December 1970.
We have completed a thorough review of your request and have determined that our record
systems are not configured in a way that would allow us to perform a search reasonably calculated to lead
to responsive records without an unreasonable effort. The FOIA does not require federal agencies to
perform research, create records or conduct unreasonable searches through a body of material to see if
any of it is related to a particular request. Therefore, we must decline to process your request.
We recommend (for your research) that you visit the Agency website, www.cia.gov, and search
under the Library, FOIA Electronic Reading Room, Special Collections Section. This gives you access to
various methods to several collections of documents on the Vietnam War. For example, we suggest the
NIC Vietnam Collection which provides access to over 174 documents (on PDF format), exclusively on
the Vietnam War. We believe this will be very useful in your research.
Optionally, the CIA has a CDROM available for purchase on the Vietnam Histories which
consists of six declassified histories volumes that describes the CIA's role in Indochina during the
Vietnam War. These histories are also available in the Special Collections Section. The histories were
written by Thomas L. Ahern, Jr., and are based on extensive research in the CIA records and on oral
history interviews of participants. The release totals some 1,600 pages and represents the largest amount
of Vietnam-era CIA documents yet declassified. If you would like to purchase your own copy of this
collection on the CDROM, please send a check or money order for U.S. $10, made payable to the
Treasurer of the United States. Please cite reference number F-2013-00533 to ensure proper credit to
your account. We hope this has been very helpful to you.
Sincerely,
Michele Meeks
Information and Privacy Coordinator
IMS/IRRG/PIPD 8 January 2013 (b)(3)
(b)(6)
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Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
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