Initial Request

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005398052
• 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: June 3, 2009

06/02/2009 14:54 FAX [phone] NAT'L SECURITY ARCHIVE 3 CIA Z 002/002
The National Security Archive
The George Washington University
Gelman Library, Suite 701
2I30 I3 Street, NW,
Washington, D,C, 20037
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Scott A. Koch
Information and Privacy Coordinator
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC 20505
Phone:[phone]
Fax: [phone]
nsarchiv@gwu,edu
www.nsarchive.org
Re: Request under the .POIA, in reply refer to Archive # 20090577CIA071
Dear Mr. Koch;
Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), I hereby request copies of the following:
All documents related to reports of abuses committed against Central American migrants traveling
through Mexico an route to the United States. This request includes but Is not liited to records
pertaining to Salvadoran citizens reportedly abducted or abused by gang members or security forces,
According to the human rights groups (each as the Salvadoran Committee of Families of the Dead
and Disappeared) over 200 Salvadoran citizens have gone missing since 1997.
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
review fees. (See National Security Archive v. U.S. Department of Defense; 880 F.2d 1381 (D.C. Cir.
1989), cert denied, 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 publication activities please see our website at www nsar helve or .
To expedite the release of the requested documents, please disclose them on an interim basis as they
become available to you, without waiting until all the documents have been processed. If you have any
questions regarding the identity of the records, their location, the scope of the request or any other matters.
please call me at [phone] or email me at [e-mail]. I look forward to receiving your
response within the twenty day statutory time period,
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