Initial Request

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005392840
• Release Decision: IPPUB U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: June 23, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 17, 2010
• Case Number: F-2010-00781
• Publication Date: May 14, 2009

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TO ARCHIVE FILE NO. 20090519CIA059
Delores M. Nelson
Information and Privacy Coordinator
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC 20505
Dear Ms. Delores Nelson,
Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), I hereby request disc
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May 11, 2009
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DATE: 12-May-2010
All records related in whole or in part to the meetings and/or conferences organized by Latin America's leftist political
leaders during the 1990's, such as Vicente Fox and Jorge Castaneda Gutmann from Mexico, Luis lnacio Lula do Silva
from Brazil, Ricardo Lagos from Chile, various leaders from Central America, as well as member's from the
organization "Grupo San Angel" in Mexico.
If you regard any of these documents as potentially exempt from the FOIA's disclosure requirements, I request that you nonetheless
exercise your discretion to disclose them. As the FOTA requires, please release all reasonably segregable non exempt portions of
documents. To permit me to reach an intelligent and informed decision whether or not to file an administrative appeal of any denied
material, please describe any withheld records (or portions thereof) and explain the basis for your exemption tion claims.
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Department of Defense, 880 F.2d 1381 (D.C.Cir. 1989), cert denied, 110 S Cr. 1478 (1990)). This request is made as part of a
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