Appeal Request

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06849974
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: September 12, 2023
• Document Release Date: June 21, 2023
• Case Number: F-2021-00645
• Publication Date: February 26, 2020

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Timothy S. Cooper
Agency Release Panel
Information and Privacy Coordinator
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
Ref: F-2018-01827-,-
Dear Mr. Mark Lilly:
14 February 2020
I received your 23 January 2020 letter regarding the above referenced subject
and find the response unacceptable. The four documents accompanying your
letter do not address my 2 March 2018 FOIA request in any meaningful way.
Most of the documents can be pulled from the Agency's own online FOIA digital
reading room web site and 2017 CREST files. The Agency has had almost two
years to locate and review the contents of General Smith's Friday, 19 December
1952 Weekly Friday Black Book Briefing on the subject of "flying saucers" given
to President Truman in the Oval Office. I therefore make a formal Mandatory
Declassification Review request for the whole briefing bock, attachments, photos,
maps, Air Force, Army, Navy, State Department, FBI and Department of Defense
analysis of_Vrofect Blue nook,. UFO case tiles collected from AF intelligence and
foreign sources that would comprise the report and attachments.
I base my MDR request on the fact that the Agency admits the briefing document
does exist. I must assume it has been reviewed at the highest level and should
be declassified and released as the Agency has done with the rest of the UFO
files that are accessible to the public unless there is some overriding reason for it
to remain classified. I have not been told the real reasons why the document
should not be released. First of all, this is a historical document of immense
importance to the American people (and the world for that matter) as well as an
intelligence product for the President's eyes only. I am sure there are many in
the Agency who would like i0 kt low what Geiiea Smth tau' Piesident Tiuman
as much as you or I would. My logic is this: that if there is nothing beyond what
the Agency has already released in that bneting document, then why w{thhold Fr?
I would think it would make the Agency shine if it concluded almost 70 years ago
that there was nothing to UFOs (if that's the case). Secondly, I find it hard to
believe that its contents would be any more sensational, more profound, or more
damaging to the national security than what has been released by the Pentagon
and USN since 1017.
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Thirdly, I can appreciate the humiliation the Air Force would suffer if � here was
something to UFOs after all. For the life of me though, I cannot understand why
something that does not exist is classified by the CIA (if that's the case). It
makes no sense. The Agency is a no nonsense, scientific, highly advanced,
articulating, evidence demanding, professional intelligence collection and
analysis organization who prides itself on acquiring only factual information on
threats and intentions about enemies of the United States. If UFOs (and I mean
true interplanetary space vehicles) do not constitute a direct threat to the body
politic, as was ,wricluclecl in 1952 I see no reason to deny this request. By
refusing to declassify and release the briefing document in full only perpetuates
the conspiracy theory that the Agency has something to hide. it also nourishes
the public perception that a UFO from another planet did crash outside the town
of Roswell, New Mexico, on 4 July 1947. For the Agency to admit that other
beings from other planets have visited and are continuing to visit this planet.
would not bring down the government and create nation-wide panic as it was
once believed by the Agency. People are better educated and better informed
on the subject than it was 70 years ago.
have learned that the Agency does have ARCHINT files on alien artifacts that
are linked to the archaeology of the Hebrew Bible. If this is the main reason for
withholding the briefing document it would no more be a sensational disclosure
that finding the original five books of Moses or the discovery of tioah's ark on the
Mountains of Ararat or the Q written by Jesus Christ himself. Or does the
Agency plan to classify the Bible, too? Of course not! We live at a time when
science is making breakthrough after breakthirrkinh d rerie in genefics,
biology and of possible existence of other extraterrestrial life in the Universe and
UFOs are no longer a taboo subject among scientists, think it is high time the
Agency releases all that it has. If there is some underlying menace to the
phenomenon that warrants denial that we, the general public are not aware of,
the reality Will make itself known sooner or later and in spite the Agency's
secrecy. If the White House has seen this document and has decided it should
not be released to the public then the Agency's hands are tied and I will
understand.
After two years of patient waiting 1 think 1 deserve some kind of meaningful
answer. After all, it was I who found it first before anyone in the Agency knew of
its existence. If the Release Panel ultimately decides it must remain classified
en say so and I will move on. In either case, people are going to hear of its
existence... one way or another. They deserve to know the truth either for good
or for bad. Don't you think?
Sincerely,
Timothy S. Cooper
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