MEMO TO RANDY SCHEUNEMANN FROM (SANITIZED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90M00004R000100020003-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2011
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: July 13, 1987
• Content Type: MEMO

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"- CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
4 Office of Congressional Affairs
20505
Washington, D.C.
Telephone: [phone]
TO: I,,r. Randy scheurremann, Legislative Assistant
c/o The Honorable Dave Durenberger
154 SROB
13 July 1987
STAT
Rarxiy :
I am attaching the report that answered our
Freedom of Information Act request F 81-0647
that you inquired about. Also attached is
the Agency's 1987 annual report to Congress
under the F)IA. I hope these will be
helpful to you.
FORM 533 ?`~~JE
2-86 ED',ioNS
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The Honorable George Bush
President of the Senate
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Mr. President:
8 8 FEB 1987
0IS 87-019
Submitted herewith, pursuant to the provisions of 5 U.S.C.
5552(d), is the report of the Central Intelligence Agency concerning
its administration of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) during
calendar..year 1986.
This was another year of achievement in terms of our commitment
to reduce our backlog of requests for information. Despite an
increase of 10 percent in the number of incoming requests, compared
with the number received in 1985 (3094 compared with 2804), we were
able to complete 3580 requests. Our backlog of 1661 cases at the
end of 1985 was thus reduced to 1175 at the end of 1986, a reduction
of 29 percent. Of the 3094 new requests, 1526 were FOIA cases, 1312
were 'my file' requests processed under the Privacy Act, and 256
were for mandatory review under Executive Order 12356.
The Agency's semi-annual reports to Congress, required by the
CIA Information Act, have been sent for the last two years to the
Senate Committee on the Judiciary, the Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,
and the House Committee on Government Operations. In those reports
we included statistics for the median response time in handling FOIA
requests. Representative English, Chairman of the Government
Information, Justice, and Agriculture Subcommittee of the Committee
on Government Operations, found that statistic particularly useful
in assessing our performance and asked that we continue to include
our response time in the annual reports. For the FOIA cases on
which responses were completed in 1986, the median response time was
3.24 months. This is a considerable improvement over the median
response time of 9.2 months reported in October 1985 for the period
of March to September 1985. October 1985 was the first time this
calculation was made.
The CIA Information Act has contributed significantly to the
reduction of both our backlog and our response time because
Intelligence Officers no longer have to spend time reviewing a large
volume of unreleasable operational documents. They can now devote
their efforts to documents that possibly can be released, thus
speeding up the processing of requests that have some potential for
adding tc the public's knowledge. We have also concentrated part of
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