DIF

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005583746
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: June 24, 2015
• Document Release Date: February 18, 2011
• Case Number: F-2011-00088
• Publication Date: September 16, 2010

APPROVED FOR RELEASED
DATE: 02-08-2011
29 September 2010
This is a final response to your 11 September 2010 Freedom of Information
Act (FOIA) request, received in the office of the Information and Privacy Coordinator
on 15 September 2010, for:
1) All documents that would be made available to a CIA agent before
traveling to the Provence of Papua in Indonesia; and
2) All other records created or collected by the CIA between January 1, 2008
on, about, mentioning, or concerning the Provence of Papua in Indonesia.
We have assigned your request the reference number above. Please use this number
when corresponding so that we can identify it easily.
Regarding Item 1, in accordance with section 3.6(a) of Executive Order 13526,
the CIA can neither confirm nor deny the existence or nonexistence of records responsive
to your request. The fact of the existence or nonexistence of requested records is
currently and properly classified and is intelligence sources and methods information that
is protected from disclosure by section 6 of the CIA Act of 1949, as amended, and
section 102A(i)(1) of the National Security Act of 1947, as amended. Therefore, your
request is denied pursuant to FOIA exemptions (b)(1) and (b)(3). I have enclosed an
explanation of these exemptions for your reference and retention. As the Acting CIA
Information and Privacy Coordinator, I am the CIA official responsible for this
determination. You have the right to appeal this response to the Agency Release Panel,
in my care, within 45 days from the date of this letter. Please include the basis of your
appeal.
 With regards to Item 2, the CIA, whose primary mission is the collection and
analysis of foreign intelligence, has a vast amount of records in a variety of offices and
files that are indexed and therefore retrievable under the name of a specific country or
region of the world or under a broad subject of public interest. An overly broad search
would locate a vast quantity of records, much of which would be extraneous, mentioning
the subject of the request only in passing, thus being of little or no value to you. Further,
the review of such records would impose an excessive and unreasonable burden on the
Agency, and pursuant to relevant precedent, we must decline to process such requests.
Sincerely,
Scott Koch
Acting Information and Privacy Coordinator