Initial Request

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06519130
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: July 11, 2023
• Document Release Date: February 10, 2022
• Case Number: F-2016-02378
• Publication Date: February 8, 2016

Approved for Release: 2022/02/08 C06519130
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January 29,2016
Michael Lavergne, DIRG/Information & Privacy Coordinator
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC 20505
RE: Mandatory Declassification Review of the following report:
--"Space Event Report: Luna 8-3 December 1965" (issued 3 November 1966).
Greetings Michael Lavergne:
Pursuant to Mandatory Declassification Review under section 3.5 of Executive Order 13526, I hereby
request disclosure of the above document for inspection, and copying (including photocopying).
I am a freelance science writer (having been published in such periodicals as JBIS, New Scientist,
Astronomy Griffith Observer Quest: the History of Spaceflight Quarterly Spaceflight, Space Chronicle,
Technology Review Aerospace America and so on), and these disclosed documents will be used in the
preparations of articles for dissemination to the public and news media. I have authored, from 1984
through recently�well over 100 articles, covering a wide variety of subjects. I had previously enclosed a
publication manifest excerpt that shows emphasis on Cold War history reportage in another recent MDR
request to your office.
Accordingly, I am requesting that, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 5552 (a) (4) (A), that you waive all research fees in
the public interest�because the furnishing of the information sought in these requested documents will be
used in the preparation of articles for dissemination to primarily benefit the public. The resulting research
(based in part on these requested documents in this MDR letter) will be widely disseminated in the form of
articles, reports and even press notices. The resulting scholarly study about the USSR and Chinese space
program (as well as rocketry/missile testing), and what the CIA knew about it, will fill a large historic gap
in present historiography. These disclosed documents will be used in the preparations of articles for
dissemination to the public and news media.
Although Mandatory Declassification Review requests do not oblige any search or review fees, and thus
fee categorization is unnecessary, I assert that generally, for the purpose of this request, and for any
pending MDR requests with the CIA previously submitted, that I properly fall in the fee category
"representative of the news media." However, I am willing to pay for photocopying costs, if necessary.
Sincerely,
Peter Pesavento
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Michael Lavergne, DIRG/Information & Privacy Coordinator
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC 20505
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