FOIA on Ducks at the CIA. (Wait, what? Yes ducks at the CIA)

Muckrock ^ | October 4, 2019 | Mark Lilly, Information and Privacy Coordinator. CIA

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

Central Intelligence Agency

Washington. DC. 20505

4 October 2019

Ms. Emma Best

MuckRock News

DEPT MR 46887

41 1A Highland Avenue Somerville, MA 02144-2516

Reference: F-2018-00626 Dear Ms. Best:

This is a final response to your 20 December 2017 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for records relating to or mentioning ducks on CIA property, ducks nesting at CIA headquarters, the care of any ducks by the CIA, the construction of a duck pond or other habitat for the ducks, the hatching of ducklings on CIA property and the deaths of the ducklings as previously disclosed in the attached declassified CIA documents, in addition to two other documents referenced but not attached. On 26 March 2018 you agreed to limit your request for Agency records on ducks at CIA headquarters, during the calendar year 1983 as suggested in our 1 March 2018 letter. We processed your request in accordance with the FOIA, 5 U.S.C. 552, as amended, and the CIA Information Act, 50 U.S.C. 3141, as amended.

We completed a thorough search for records responsive to your request and located six documents, consisting of 18 pages, which we can release in segregable form with deletions made on the basis of FOIA exemptions and/or and Copies of the documents are enclosed. Exemption pertains to information exempt from disclosure by statute. The relevant statutes are Section 6 of the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949, as amended, and Section lO2A(i)(l) of the National Security Act of 1947, as amended. As the CIA Information and Privacy Coordinator, I am the CIA official responsible for this determination. You have the right to appeal this response to the Agency Release Panel, in my care, within 90 days from the date of this letter. Please include the basis of your appeal.

If you have any questions regarding our response, you may contact us at:

Central Intelligence Agency Washington, DC 20505

Information and Privacy Coordinator 703-613-3007 (Fax)

Please be advised that you may seek dispute resolution services from the FOIA Public Liaison or from the Office of Government Information Services (OGIS) of the National Archives

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

Link to the document and data produced in response to the FOIA request.

I am confused. Duck deaths previously classified by the CIA? Huh? What? You got to be friggin kidding me.

[Rocky]

with deletions made on the basis of FOIA exemptions

So, even the duck report has redactions? I suppose the names of innocent ducks have to be protected.

[csvset]

Were they Chinese ducks ?

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

Shhh. They are secret agents. Would not want to out them. They worked with Plame.

[mabarker1]

? Weaponized Ducks ? The original point and Squirt interface.

MRDUCKS
MRNOT
MRDUCKS
MRNOT
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CEMWINGS
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[Dixie Yooper]

She is from Muckrock News and she wants information the CIA probably doesn’t bother keeping. The property, aside from the buildings and parking, is mostly woods along the Potomac River. Is this reporter from Muckrock interested in any other property along the Potomac, or just the ducks on this property? FOIA doesn’t include data that doesn’t exist.

[gr8eman]

You mean Peking Ducks?

[Beowulf9]

One of my fav childhood books :)

[Rocky]

LOL!

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

1) They bothered keeping it. See document at link. 2) Part of it was classified. That is the thing I am pointing out. They friggin classified ducks. DUCKS

DUCKS

DUCKS

DUCKS

DUCKS

DUCKS IN THE POND OUT IN FRONT OF THEIR HQ FOR GOD SAKES

[Hatteras]

Read it in Donald Duck voice. Funnier that way! :-)

[csvset]

If they were Chinese spies, they’d be peeking ducks?

I wonder if they are ducks and not geese. SE Virginia has geese everywhere, I do see Mallards every now and then .

[csvset]

Ping has appeared on television since the 1950s. Actor Sterling Holloway or possibly Captain Kangaroo (or his friend Mr. Greenjeans) read Ping once a week on his show for seventeen years, while displaying its colorful illustrations in stark black and white on the screen. Only Stone Soup, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, and The Little Engine That Could had longer runs on the show.

Captain Kangaroo introduced me to Ping, many years ago. :)