NOTE TO MS. DIANE WILLIAMS (SANITIZED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R002000040037-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Sequence Number: 37
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Office of Legislative Counsel
Washington, D. C. 20505
Telephone: [phone] (Code 143-6121)
9 March 1978
TO: Ms. Diane Williams
Committee on Government Operations
House of Representatives
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Dear Ms. Williams:
Enclosed per your request is a
copy of the "Freedom of Information
Act Annual Report to the Congress for
the Year 1977.V
FORM 1533 OBSOLETE
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON. D.C. ZO'JO:1
1 MAR 1978
The Honorable Thomas P. O'Neill
Speaker of the House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
Dear Mr. Speaker:
Submitted herewith, pursuant to the provisions of 5
U.S.C. 552(d), is the report of the Central Intelligence
Agency concernin 't d
m
Information Act during,calendarayear 1977. Freedom of
During 1977. 4 843 requests fo
r
access to records were
logged and put into processing by the Agency, of which'l,252were submitted under the Freedom of Information Act. An
additional 1,190 request letters were received during the
year but not formally processed pending receipt of additional
information from the requesters. These were, without excep-
tion, requests for access to personal records, which, under
the Agency's regulations, are usually processed under the
provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a) rather
than the Freedom of Information Act. A summary of Agency
activity including Privacy Act and Executive Order 11652
mandatory classification review requests as well as Freedom
of Information requests, is provided in the statistical
table below.- You will note that the processing backlog
increased by 1,138 cases during 1977.
FOIA PA EO
1. Requests carried
over from CY 1976 $36 S98 qR
2. Requests logged
during CY 1977 1,252 3,023 568
3. Total requests
closed during
CY 1977 772 2,397 536
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