F-2006-01358 ACCEPTANCE LETTER

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06408405
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: July 11, 2023
• Document Release Date: November 21, 2022
• Case Number: F-2015-00885
• Publication Date: September 6, 2006

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Central Intelligence Agency
Wasiington, DC 20505
6 September 2006
Mr. Verne Kopytoff
San Francisco Chronicle
901 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Reference: F-2006-01358
Dear Mr. Kopytoff:
The office of the Information and Privacy Coordinator has received your 21 July
2006 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for "all documents related to Google,
the Internet search engine." You write that the search "should include.. .documents
and correspondence...related to Google as a vendor or adviser to the CIA" and that
you are interested in "any documents describing the CIA's use or contemplated use of
Google products, such as translation, sateffite images and mapping." We have
assigned your request the reference number above. Please use this number when
corresponding so that we can identify it easily.
Your request is, in a general sense, too broad. The FOIA does not require federal
agencies to perform research or to conduct unreasonable searches through a body of
material to see if any of it is related to a particular request. However, we can search for
contracts between the CIA and Google. Such contracts, if they exist, would explain the
"CIA's use.. .of Google products."
Therefore, we accept your request, with the limitations described in the preceding
paragraph, and will process it according to the FOIA, 5 U.S.C. � 552, as amended, and the
CIA Information Act, 50 U.S.C. � 431, as amended. Unless you object, we will limit our
search to CIA-originated records existing through the date of this acceptance letter.
Based on the information provided in your letter, we determined that your request
falls into the "news media" fee category, which means that you will be required to pay
only for the cost of reproducing released records. You will be assessed for document
copies at the rate of ten cents per page for pages in excess of the first 100, to which you are
entitled free.
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The large number of FOIA requests CIA receives has created unavoidable
processing delays making it unlikely that we can respond within the 20 working days the
FOIA requires. You have the right to consider our honest appraisal as a denial of your
request and you may appeal to the Agency Release Panel. A more practical approach
would permit us to continue processing your request and respond to you as soon as we can.
You will retain your appeal rights and, once you receive the results of our search, can
appeal at that time if you wish. We will proceed on that basis unless you object.
Sincerely,
Scott Koch
Information and Privacy Coordinator
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