BANEY, MICHAEL; ALL DOC'S DATING FROM 1980 TO PRESENT RELATING TO COLOMBIAN PARAMILITARY & DRUG TRAFFICKER JOSE VICENTE CASTANO GIL

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0001367262
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: June 24, 2015
• Document Release Date: March 11, 2011
• Case Number: F-2010-01608
• Publication Date: October 2, 2006

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October 2, 2006
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,. Request under the F- ecdom of information Act
ear Mr. Koch
ouisuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), l hereby request disclosure of the following documents for
inspection and possible :opying:
documents dating from 1980 to the present date, including but not limited to cables, letters, memoranda,
briefing papers, transcr pis, summaries, notes, entails, reports, drafts, and intelligence documents relating in
,,hole or in part to the i"olombian paramilitary and drug trafficker Jose Vicente Castaho Gil, as well as all
aaruments on the Bloq -re Centauros or Centauros Bloc, the faction of the United Self Defense Forces of
Colombia, (Autodefenc is Unidas de Colombia or AUC) that he leads.
f ;ou regard any of the. c documents as potentially exempt from the FOIA's disclosure requirements. I request
that you nonetheless exr rcise your discretion to disclose them. As the FOIA requires, please release all
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