LETTER TO (SANITIZED) FROM HARRY E. FITZWATER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83M00914R001800120015-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 6, 2007
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: January 5, 1982
• Content Type: LETTER

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON. D.C. 20505
5 January 1982
This is in response to your letter of 24 April 1981 in which
you appealed the determination of this Agency concerning your
request and that of your client, added as
an additional requester in your letter of 17 June 1981, for
information regarding the attempts by the U.S. and other western
countries to infiltrate intelligence agents and potential
guerrillas into Albania in the period 1945-1953. In our letter
of 13 February 1981, you were informed that we would neither
confirm nor deny the existence of records, if any, responsive to
your request.
Your correspondence has been presented to the Central
Intelligence Agency Information Review Committee. Pursuant to the
authority delegated under paragraph 1900.51(a) of Chapter XIX,
Title 32 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Mr. John H. Stein,
Deputy Director for Operations, has determined that the fact of
the existence or nonexistence of any documents which would reveal
a confidential or covert CIA connection with, or interest in,
matters relating to those set forth in your request is classified
pursuant to Executive Order 12065. Further, the fact of the
existence or nonexistence of such documents would relate directly
to information concerning intelligence sources and methods which
the Director of Central Intelligence has the responsibility to
protect from unauthorized disclosure in accordance with
subsection 102(d)(3) of the National Security Act of 1947 and
section 6 of the CIA Act of 1949. Accordingly, pursuant to the
Freedom of Information Act exemptions (b)(1) and (b)(3)
respectively, your appeal is denied to the extent that it
concerns any such documents. By this statement we are neither
confirming nor denying that any such documents exist.
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In accordance with section 552(a)(4)(3) of the Freedom of
Information Act, as amended, you may request atjudicial review of
the above determinations in a United States district court.
Thank you for your patience in this matter.
Sincerely,
STAT
H ry E. r^:, zwater
Chai~'than
infor on Review Committee
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