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Relying on inaccurate representations made by the CIA in the mid-1990s, the Review Board decided that records related to a deceased CIA agent named George Joannides were not relevant to the assassination. Subsequent work by researchers, using other records that were released by the board, demonstrates that these records should be made public."
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA / ˈ f ɔɪ j ə / FOY-yə), 5 U.S.C. § 552, is the United States federal freedom of information law that requires the full or partial disclosure of previously unreleased or uncirculated information and documents controlled by the U.S. government upon request. The act defines agency records subject to ...
MuckRock was granted a 501(c)(3) non-profit status by the IRS in June 2016. [4] On June 11, 2018, MuckRock announced they would be merging with DocumentCloud. [5] In 2016, the FOIA Machine project merged with MuckRock. FOIA Machine is a service that helps make FOIA requests for free.
The original text of the CIA's reply of May 21, 1975, to Phillippi's FOIA request, seems to have been: [17] Mr. Duckett has determined that, in the interest of national security, involvement by the U.S. Government in the activities which are the subject matter of your request can neither be confirmed nor denied.
The FOIA Oversight and Implementation Act of 2014 is a bill that would amend the Freedom of Information Act in order to make it easier and faster to request and receive information. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The bill would require the Office of Management and Budget to create a single FOIA website for people to use to make FOIA requests and check on the ...
The article "Notes From The Field: How To Submit An FOIA Request" provides guidelines about the process [1] Denials and appeals – if the information you are seeking is denied, you can appeal the decision with the agency, within a set amount of time. If the appeal is not accepted, there are ways to bring the FOIA request through legal channels.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA / ˌ s iː. aɪ ˈ eɪ /), known informally as the Agency, [6] metonymously as Langley [7] and historically as the Company, [8] is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human ...
Like the Hoover Commission, this group was chartered at the request of President Truman, and was made up of Allen W. Dulles, who had served in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during the Second World War and would become DCI in 1953, William Jackson, a future Deputy DCI, and Matthias Correa, a former assistant to Secretary of Defense ...