Initial Request

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005336670
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: June 23, 2015
• Document Release Date: May 6, 2009
• Case Number: F-2009-00376
• Publication Date: November 21, 2008

Subject; Fsacia Item 2.I2a r_'GJIA Request to CIA re Snvestigata.ve 3onrnalist li. Todd _Z,ec,hEa1, Cc; Bcc: Datez Sat, 8 Nav 20Q8 19~23e38 -450f Tao post@posterous,com Frame "Larry W. :3ryant? Subject: Rein 2,12: FOIA Request to CIA re Investigative Journalist W, 'T'odd Zecnel Cc> [e-mail],[e-mail] TOe t?S&. Delores M. Nelsen Information and Privacy Coordinator U. 5. Central Intelligence Agency Washington, DC 2p505 FROMa Larry W. Bryant 3518 Martha Curtis Drive Alexandria, vA 22342 APPROVED FOR RELEASE^ DATE: 04-29-2009 Shortly before his death on Navenber 1~, 2006 {see the enclosed copy of his obituary}, independent investigative journalist W, Tadd 7.echeS ~ ~e26 ;PRri -6ka~t?, I+w~ctc Ikecn 2.~2o FCDIr4 ~a aaesf t? ~;! A re ~awesPa~aEave Jaa~' Toe [e-mail] From: "Larry W, Hryant" some of the reported UFO encounters represent alien spacecraft. The essay -- titled ?'The CZA's Most Secret Counterintelligence Project: The Condon Co,Ttmittee" -- now is posted upon my web log under Item 2.1? Zechel's research for this reportage included contact with now-deceased CIA official Art Lundahl, who revealed to him that, basic in February 1969, certain CTA personnel had entered into a formal agreement with some of their counterparts from the Soviet intelligence community. Tt,eir agreement specified that neither union's military leaders would henoeforth falsely ascribe any of the reported UFO intrusions withi:~ the other's key military bases to activity of the apposite union's secret military aircraft, The agreement's rationale lay in the fear expressed by both parties that a misconstruance (whether intentional or not) of a given UFO intrusior: as being traceable to either party could risk escalation of hc~stili.t,y between them (faith perhaps disastrous military request that you send me a copy of all CIA-generated and CIA-received records pertaining to -- -- The assaciatieins, motivations, and activity of the late W. Tadd Zeohel,  7113fb~~ 4a2~ I'~I-~SED~k, Fa~tie ttcaaa ~.22: ~(~I~ ~~exest tca Ck~ r~ Txtves~aga~ive ~~~r n your processing; of this noncommercial request, T expect you to ~ester=statue as that aP rc,q ~sn i . y ting} a?-ma?1y aokr_owledge (in wr representative aEtY~e news medr~" (RNM) {as ddfined by the amended U. _ ,. __ _~~ ,~ ~v~,nrii,F,pd by the content and publication credits pasted upan'my o;vy ~ As you well kiitiw; this cadifiec!`category of FOZA re4uestership entitles me to full waiver of all records--search/review fides incident to your uest but also any future noncommercial FOIA i s req fulfilling not just th requests fzam me to your agency, Z of course state my willingness to pay any customary and reasonable duplica'.:ion fee for your providing me the requested records= Shc>uid you choose, far whatever reason, to deny my current and future RNM-requester status (or to convert it to some other category without my concurrence;, T sha7.l construe that action as an adverse and unlawful determination of sny rOTA records-access rights -- and shall seek all appropriate judicial remedy. t3y snail-mail, I`m sending to you a signed gr=ntout of this e-formatted LH:ikLY W. t'sx xr~tva Columnist fo.r the monthly newsstand periodical UFO Magazine UFO Magazine Chairman, U. S, Senate Select Committee (}1"i Sntei.ligence PrcraBed fe~~? ?'t,~rr~ fit'. ~i~~raeat" ~~a~eetsi@c~~?tei,~~d~ ~  V}'e'Locld ~ e2 W. Todd Zechel, 63; died nn late Wa}cex II. and Vivan Edee.C7?l~eit} ~echel_ Fie graduated from, "e du' Sac' High Schcoi azsd then?uUended Lakeland college. IIe ~.-a X1.5. Anny veteran, tiaviug'servcd in~outh Korea: in tkae Army Security Agency: Todd-was ernpioyed asasaian 3Ie (R~Sike) leis, De1"orest, a broihet, Scoti (Jau} Zachel; JJv'aboo; :alone friend, 13eruie Sctileden;Sauk City;:seveial nieces, neghews, consuus, an zuai, atherretatflves and friends -- ,--- ~ii~~ Q~ ~~ ~a~2