Information Review & Release (IRR) News for 28 April - 2 May 2003
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WHERE THE ROSWELL REQUESTS IN THE CASE LOG COME FROM. The apparent volume of public interest visible in the 2001-2003 case log is substantially a school assignment repeated over years. A property of how the record was generated, not of its subject.
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“Students from Woodland, California have been sending in similar letters since 1997. CIA has received nine so far this year. The record was in 2000 -- when we received 27 letters from Woodland students. The letters have the same elements -- Roswell, UFOs, Area 51, and most conclude with a request for a picture of George Tenet.”
WHERE THE ROSWELL REQUESTS IN THE CASE LOG COME FROM. The apparent volume of public interest visible in the 2001-2003 case log is substantially a school assignment repeated over years. A property of how the record was generated, not of its subject.
“The FOIA case manager informed the student that CIA has ‘no information on the so-called Roswell incident,’ that after ‘a thorough and diligent search on behalf of a previous requester’ no records were found on Majestic 12, and that the CIA neither confirms nor denies the existence or non-existence of Area 51.”
THE SCRIPT, QUOTED INTERNALLY. The same three-part wording the agency sent outside over a signature. This is what makes the response letter a standard form rather than a determination.
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