F-2013-02138 FINAL RESPONSE

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Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 
06408531
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RIPPUB
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U
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2
Document Creation Date: 
July 11, 2023
Document Release Date: 
November 21, 2022
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Case Number: 
F-2015-00885
Publication Date: 
September 11, 2013
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Approved for Release: 2022/10/03 C06408531 Central Intelligence Agency Washington, D.C. 20505 11 September 2013 Mr. Byron C. Tau Politico Reporter Reference: F-2013-02138 Dear Mr. Tau: This is a final response to your 25 June 2013 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for copies of the following records: all OMB form LLLs in the possession of the Central Intelligence Agency filed by the following companies: Microsoft, Google, Skype, Yahoo, Apple, AOL, Facebook, Dell, Hewlett Packard, PalTalk, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), Intel, Oracle, Symantec, Twitter, Verizon, AT&T, Sprint/Nextel, Sprint, and Comcast between January 1, 2001 and June 13, 2013. We accepted and processed your request in accordance with the FOIA, 5 U.S.C. � 552, as amended. Our processing included a search for records that would reveal an openly acknowledged Agency affiliation existing up to and including the date the Agency started its search and did not locate any responsive records. With respect to any other records, in accordance with section 3.6(a) of Executive Order 13526, the CIA can neither confirm nor deny the existence or nonexistence of records responsive to your request. The fact of the existence or nonexistence of requested records is currently and properly classified and is intelligence sources and methods information that is protected from disclosure by section 6 of the CIA Act of 1949, as amended, and section 102A(i)(1) of the National Security Act of 1947, as amended. Therefore, your request is denied pursuant to FOIA exemptions (b)(1) and (b)(3). An explanation of exemptions is enclosed. As the CIA Information and Privacy Coordinator, I am the CIA official responsible for this determination. You have the right to appeal this response to the Agency Release Panel, in my care, within 45 days from the date of this letter. Please include the basis of your appeal. Sincerely, Michele Meeks Information and Privacy Coordinator Enclosure Approved for Release: 2022/10/03 C06408531 Approved for Release: 2022/10/03 C06408531 IMS/IRRG/P[PD 1 August 2013 (b)(3) (b)(6) Distribution: Orig - Adse 1 - PIPD/F-2013-02138 DIF (b)(1)(b)(3) (NRL/partial Glomar) Deniers: dated 08/01/2013 (b)(3) (b)(6) Finals 02138 Tau NRL/ Glomar (b)(1)/(b)(3) (b)(3) (b)(6) Approved for Release: 2022/10/03 C06408531