F-2007-01663 INITIAL REQUEST

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 01457608
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: August 23, 2024
• Document Release Date: July 5, 2024
• Case Number: F-2022-00198
• Publication Date: July 12, 2007

07/12/2007 15:10 FAX [phone] NAIL SECURITY ARCHIVE CIA
Approved for Release: 2024/07/01 C01457608
I a 002/002
The National Security Archive
The George Washington University
Gelman Library, Suite 701
2130 H Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20037
July 12, 2007
Scott A. Koch
Information and Privacy Coordinator
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC 20505
Re: Request under the FOIA, in reply refer to Archive# 20071328CIA168
Dear Mr. Koch:
r-aeol� 01(00
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
[e-mail]
www.nsarchive.org
Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 1 hereby request the following:
All documents created between 1953 and 1985 related in whole or in part to Bzef gwiatio. lain particularly
interested in information related gwiatio's defection and his tenure with RFE Poland.
.1(5zef gwiatio was a deputy director of the Tenth Department of the Ministry of Public Security in Poland. In
December 1953, he "disappeared" in West Berlin while there on official business. Starting on September 28,
1954, the Polish Service of Radio Free Europe began broadcasting a series of programs narrated by .1ozef
gwiado entitled Behind the Scenes of the Security Service and the Party. gwiatlo continued to narrate the
broadcasts unti11955. After his broadcasts ended .16zef gwiatio lived under another name until his death in the
mid-1980s (possibly 1985).
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 FOIA 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 claims.
As a representative of the news media, the National Security Archive qualifies for "representative of the news
media" status under 5 U.S.C. Sec. 552(a)(4)(A)(ii)(II) and, therefore, may not be charged search and revteiv fees.
(See National Sec:urizy Archive v. U.S. Department qfDefense, 880 F.2d 1381 (D.C. Cir. 1989), cert deniid, 110 S
Ct. 1478 (1990)). This request is made as part of a scholarly and news research project that is intended for
publication and is not for commercial use. For details on the Archive's research and extensive publicatign.
activities please see our website at www.nsarchive.org.
To expedite the release of the requested documents, please disclose them on an interim basis as they becoifie
available to you, without waiting until all the documents have been processed. Please notify me before itairring
any photocopying costs over $100. If you have any questions regarding the identity of the records, their 1 tion,
the scope of the request or any other matters, please call me at or email me at [e-mail].
I look forward to receiving your response within the twenty day statutory time period.
Sincerely yours,
Catherine Nielsen
FOIA Coordinator
Approved for Release: 2024/07/01 C01457608
07/12/2007 15:10 FAX [phone] HAIL SECURITY ARCHIVE 4 CIA
Approved for Release: 2024/07/01 C01457608
21001/002
lECIR
The National Security Archive
The George Washington University
Gelman Library, Suite 701
2130 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20037
FAX COVER SHEET
Date: July 12, 2007
To: Scott Koch -- Information and Privacy Coordinator
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
[e-mail]
http://www.nsarchive.org
Organization: Central Intelligence Agency
From: Catherine Nielsen, The National Security Archive
Number of pages (including cover sheet) � 2
If there is a problem with this transmission, please call us at 202-994-7000 as soon as
possible.
Message: FOIA Request Attached
National Security Archive Number 20071328CIA168
Thank you for your efforts in processing this request.
An independent non-governmental research institute and library located at the George Washington University,
the Archive collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of information Act.
Publication royalties and tax-deductible contributions through The National Security Archive Fund, Inc. underwrite the Archive's budget.
Approved for Release: 2024/07/01 C01457608