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Dear Mr. Mills:

This email is in reply to your Freedom of Information Act request of
September 8, 2024, regarding volumes from the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s
Strategic Planning Seminar of April 17-21, 1972. It was received in our
office on September 11 and has the tracking number 24-66973.

We searched series among the Records of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
(Record Group 218) which potentially could include copies of the volumes,
but we were unable to locate them. We searched under the designations in
the 500s in the filing scheme used at the time which deal with planning.
In particular, we searched central files of the Office of the Director of
the Joint Staff’s Joint Secretariat from 1972 under various levels of
access restrictions – A1 Entry 1-BB; A1 Entry 1-DD; A1 Entry 1-GG; and A1
Entry 1-II. We also consulted P-05D Entry 9, Joint History Office (JHO);
Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (OCJCS) Records;
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS); Admiral Moorer Diaries, July
1970-July 1974.

The citation also notes that the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)
may have been involved. By April 1972, it was the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA). We do have records from ARPA and DARPA,
often in accessions among the Records of the Office of the Secretary of
Defense (Record Group 330). However, to conduct a search, we would need to
know what element within ARPA or DARPA was involved. If you know which
office may have contributed to the work on the volumes, please let us know.

We regret that we can not locate the volumes. We do not consider this
response a denial under the Freedom of Information Act because the records
in our custody do not include the information you requested. However, if
you are not satisfied with our action on this request, your options for
appeal and dispute resolution are outlined in the enclosure. This
concludes the processing of your request.

Sincerely,

M. A. GEDRA
Textual Reference Archives II Branch (RR2RR)
National Archives at College Park, MD

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National Archives And Records Administration – Archival Or Special Access
FOIA Office
Room 5500
8601 Adelphi Road
College Park, MD 20740

September 8, 2024

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following
records:

JCS's Strategic Planning Seminar 17-21 April 1972, Vol. I and II as
described in the following link.

https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/static/Deception.pdf
In April 1972, the Joint Chiefs of Staff sponsored a week-long Strategic
Planning Seminar concentrating on the question of deception. Seminar
presentations by participating U.S. Government departments and
agencies, and by the Syracuse University Research Corporation (SURC)
under contract to the Advanced Research Projects Agency, have been
summarized in JCS's Strategic Planning Seminar 17-21 April 1972, Vol. I
(SECRET/NO FOREIGN DISSEM). They appear in full in a 525-page
Volume II which is TOP SECRET/ NO FOREIGN DISSEM.

I received the following guidance from the OSD/JS FOIA office.
"DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION DIVISION 1155 DEFENSE
PENTAGON WASHINGTON, DC 20301-1155 Ref: 24-F-1590 September 5, 2024 Mr.
Brian Mills MuckRock News, DEPT MR172822 263 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA
02115 Dear Mr. Mills: This is a final response to your September 3, 2024
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, a copy of which is enclosed for
your convenience. The Office of the Secretary of Defense/Joint Staff
(OSD/JS) FOIA office received your request on September 4, 2024, and
assigned it FOIA case number 24-F-1590. We ask that you use this number
when referring to your request. This FOIA office only processes requests
for OSD/JS. There is no central FOIA processing point for records for the
entire Department of Defense (DoD). FOIA processing is decentralized and
delegated to those officials of the Military Departments and various DoD
Components who generate and/or maintain the records being sought or
reviewed. Although it is possible that the records you have requested were
once maintained by the OSD/JS, due to the age of the records, if they still
exist, they would be maintained at the National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA), who operates their own FOIA program. NARA is the
independent Federal agency that helps to preserve and care for records of
historical value. For your convenience, contact information for the NARA
office is provided below: The National Archives at College Park Office of
General Counsel 8601 Adelphi Road NGC, Room 3110 College Park, MD
20740-6001 foia@nara.gov This action closes your request with this office,
and there are no assessable fees associated with this response. If you have
any questions or concerns about the foregoing or about the processing of
your request, please do not hesitate to contact the Action Officer assigned
to your request, Meghann Burgess, at meghann.l.burgess.ctr@mail.mil or
571-372-0437."

The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and
this request is not being made for commercial purposes.

In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform
me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer
the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or
CD-ROM if not.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I
look forward to receiving your response to this request within 20 business
days, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

Brian Mills

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