Legal Opinion
Valfells v. Central Intelligence Agency
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided June 17, 2010No. Civil Action 09-1363 (RMC)PublishedCited by 86 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
ROSEMARY M. COLLYER, District Judge.
In this case brought under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”), 5 U.S.C. § 552, the issue has been narrowed to a single question: has the Central Intelligence Agency officially acknowledged that it maintains any record on Sveinn B. Val-fells, an Icelandic citizen who spent a considerable amount of time in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s and who died in 1981. If so, the CIA’s Glomar 1 response — refusing to indicate whether or not it has such records — was inadequate. The Court finds that the disclosure here, contained in an…
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