LETTER TO CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY FROM THE 9/11 WORKING GROUP RE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT REQUEST

• Document Type: FOIA
• Keywords: USAMA BIN LADEN
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0001500706
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: June 22, 2015
• Document Release Date: December 8, 2008
• Case Number: F-2006-00548
• Publication Date: March 11, 2007

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Date: March 11, 2007
Central Intelligence Agency
Scott A. Koch
Information and Privacy Coordinator
Washington, D.C. 20505
telephone number: [phone]
Dear Sir or Madam:
Re: Freedom of Information Act Request
in the spelling of the hijackers' names.
Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA}, 5 U.S.C. ? 552, as amended, the
undersigned hereby request access to (or a~copy ofl, all documents and records of all types
pertaining to or referencing, by name or otherwise,. the ;items in the numbered list below. To the
extent your office or agency is not subject to the requirements of the FOIA, please consider this a
petition pursuant'to the United States Constitution to~redress grievances including the failure to
date of the federal government to make available to the public the full truth regarding the events
of September 11, 2001. We request all documents and records pertaining to or referencing:
1) The 19 individuals named as hijackers by The 9/11 Report of The National
Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States: Mohamed Atta, Abdul Aziz al Omari,
Satam al Sugami; Wail al Shehri; Waleed al Shehri;:1VIarwan al Shehhi, Fayez Banihammad,
Mohand al Shehri, Ahmed al Ghamdi, Hamza a1:Ghamdi, Khalid al Mihclhar, Majed Moqed,
Hari Hanjour, Nawaf al Hazmi,Salem al Hazmi, Saeed al Ghamdi, Ahmed al Nami, Ahmad al
Haznawi, and Ziad Jarrah; hereafter referred to as "the :hijackers". This~includes slight variations
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 2) Any and all individuals believed to be one of the hijackers using an assumed name..
3) Any and all individuals using the name of one the hijackers.
4) Any and all individuals having the same name as one of the hijackers.
5) Any and all surveillance of any of the hijackers in either the United States, Germany,
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Thailand, Malaysia, Chechnya, the Philippines, or
any other country. ,
6) Any and all bank accounts, credit cards, ATM transactions, wire transfers, payments
by the United States government, or any other type of financial transactions by or to any of the
hijackers in the United States or any other country.
7) Any and all interceptions of telephone calls, e-mails, letters, or other communications
by any of the hijackers in the United States or any other country.
8) Any and all visas, passports, customs records, immigration records, or other travel
documents issued to or referring to any of the hijackers.
9) Any training received by any of the hijackers at the Air War College in the Maxwell-
Gunter Air Force Base in Alabama, the Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida, the Lackland Air
Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, or any other military facility.
10) Any loan applications to the US Department of Agriculture or any other US
government agency by any of the hijackers.
11) Any training by any of the hijackers in aircraft or simulators at any commercial flight
school in the United States or any other country.
12) Any arrests, tickets, citations, warrants, criminal records, police reports,
investigations, inquiries, or other law enforcement agency documents referring to any of the
hijackers.
13) Any pilot's license issued to or any other FAA document referring to any of the
hijackers.
14) Any post office box rentals by any of the hijackers.
15) Any autopsies of any of the hijackers' bodies.
16) Any reports, surveillance, interceptions, or other records showing any of the hijackers
being alive after September 11, 2001.
17) Any reports, surveillance, interceptions, investigations, or other evidence casting
doubt on the identity of any of the hijackers.
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 This request includes all documents and records in any form or format. that are or have ever been
within your custody or control, whether the documents and records exist in agency "working,"
investigative, retired, electronic mail, digital, other electronic, audio, video, paper/hard copy, or
other files. The terms "document" and "record" are broadly defined to mean any written,
printed, typed, or other graphic matter of any kind or nature, and all mechanical, electrical,
electronic, and magnetic recordings, whether an original or anon-identical copy, however
reproduced or altered, including, but not limited to, papers,. letters, correspondence, E-mail,
telegrams, interoffice communications, memoranda, notes, notations, notebooks, reports, records,
accounting books or records, minutes of meetings, contracts, invoices, purchase orders,
instructions, specifications, schedules, tables, charts, transcripts, publications, scrap books,
diaries, computer files, files on disk or CD or DVD, backup files, and any drafts, revisions, or
amendments of the same or of like rriaterial.
For any documents or records or portions thereof that you fail to release, or block the release of
based on the asserted applicability of a FOIA exemption from the requirement to release
government documents and records, please provide an index itemizing and describing the
documents or portions of documents withheld. The index should, pursuant to the holding of
Vaughn v Rosen, 484 F.2d 820 (D.C. Cir. 1973), cert. denied, 415 U.S. 977 (1974), provide a
detailed justification for claiming a particular exemption explaining why each such exemption
applies to each document or portion of a documentwithheld.
We request a waiver of fees for this request. Disclosure of the requested information to us is in
the public interest because it is likely to contribute significantly to public understanding of the
operations or activities of the government and is not primarily in our commercial. interest. We
are requesting these records as representatives of the Bloomington, Indiana. 9/11 Working Group
(9/11 Working Group) for non-commercial, educational and scholarly purposes including public
education and citizen oversight of government activities related to the tragic events of September
11, 2001. The information requested, once obtained, will be made available to the public via
release to the media, delivery to the Congress of the United States, release to citizen groups and
scholars nationwide who are engaged in 9/11 related oversight and investigative activities,
delivery to appropriate law enforcement agencies, and delivery to interested public libraries; and
via analytical reports prepared by the 9/11 Working Group which will be released to all.of the
aforementioned agencies and parties. The 9/11 Working Group is currently an unincorporated
association of citizens, in the process ofincorporating as anot-for-profit organization, concerned
about 1) the failure of off vials of the United States Government to fully and accurately disclose
the truth regarding the tragic events of September 11, 2001, and 2) potential official misconduct
and violations of law by government officials related to the events that occurred on 9/11/01, and
related to the prelude and aftermath of 9/11/01.
If any expenses in excess of $20.00 are incurred in connection with this request, please obtain
our approval before any such charges are incurred.
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 We will expect a response within 20 working days as provided by law. As noted above, if our
request is denied in whole or in part, we expect a detailed justification for withholding the
records. We also request any segregable portions that are not exempt to be disclosed.
We request that the information we seek be provided if possible in electronic format, and we
would like to receive it on CD-ROM or DVD.
We may be contacted during business hours at the number for attorne indicated
below, if necessary, to discuss any aspect of our request. Thank you for your promp attention to
this matter.
Respectfully subnutted,
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323 S. Walnut Street
The Caldwell Center
323 S. Walnut Street
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323 S. Walnut Street
Bloomington, IN 47401
Bloomington, IN 47401
812-323-7274
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