TO: Chief, Department of the Army Control Office
Attention: DAMI-CIC-CC (Counterintelligence Operations)
Fort George G. Mead, MD 20755-5975

FROM: Larry W. Bryant
3518 Martha Custis Drive

DATE: May 7, 2006

When the late Lt. Col. Philip James Corso (U. S. Army - Retired) published his memoirs in 1997 (The Day After Roswell; Pocket Books), he revealed his role, circa 1961-63 , in coordinating the U. S. Army/Air Force/Navy's technological exploitation of certain artifacts retrieved from the debris of a crash-landed "flying saucer" on ranch land near Roswell, N. M.

Because of that revelation (and related ones), a woman wrote to several military officials to express her concern that Corso's book constitutes the transmittal of highly classified national-security information to persons not officially authorized to receive, possess, and/or disseminate it for further public consumption. Of course, Corso, in his former role as a senior Army-intelligence and research-and-development analyst, may have viewed his "leakage" as nothing more than his belated exercise of declassification authority (assuming that he had possessed pertinent original-classification authority -- a rationalization mirroring that of President Bush's leakage of the Valerie Plame CIA information).

At any rate, as an independent writer focusing on national-security affairs (including the politics of UFOlogy), I want to help the public resolve all issues about Corso's conduct, associations, motivations, and accountability in this matter. In doing so, I hereby submit this letter as a formal, written freedom-of-information request that you send me a copy of all INSCOM-generated and INSCOM-received records pertaining to your command's response to the above-cited woman's notification letter (whose text is quoted below) -- said records to include any and all reports-of-investigation, transcripts of interviews, counterintelligence assessments, wiretapping authorizations and transcripts, physical-search warrants, surveillance reports, after-action reports, damage-control planning documents, and all related correspondence, memoranda for record, briefing papers, and minutes of meetings.

Since I submit this request as a "representative of the news media" in my capacity as a columnist for the newsstand periodical UFO Magazine, I ask that you waive all records-search fees incident to your fulfilling this request.

By snail-mail, I'm sending to you a signed printout of this e-formatted letter.

Larry W. Bryant