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From: bill payne <billp@nmol.com>
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Tuesesday March 10, 1998 3/10/98
E-mail Federico.F.Pena@hq.doe.gov and mail
Federico F. Pena
The Secretary of Energy
United States Department of Energy
Washington, D.C. 20585
Dear Secretary Pena:
Purpose of this letter is to appeal a denial of a Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) Request.
I wrote on Tuesday February 17, 1999 15:11
e-mail and mail
Ms. Elva Barfield
Freedom of Information Office
U. S. Department of Energy
Albuquerque Operations Office/OIEA
POB 5400
Albuquerque, NM 87185-5400
EBARFIELD@DOEAL.GOV
Dear Ms. Barfield:
VP Al Gore is in the crypto business.
Information SuperSpyWay
Al Gore Approved
Encryption for China
in Return for
Campaign Donations
by Charles R. Smith
Portions of the above document posted on Internet at
http://www.us.net/softwar/ and http://www.aci.net/kalliste/
states
1. Gore charged with encryption policy according to PDD-5 and
PRD-27 on April 16, 1993.
2. Government officials represent themselves on Al Gore's behalf for
RSA patent purchase negotiations in Feb. 1994.
3. RSA chairman Bidzos meets with Chinese officials at the same
time as Ron Brown in Oct. 1995.
4. RSA Chairman Bidzos enters into merger negotiations with Security
Dynamics, a company backed by Sanford Robertson, in Nov. 1995.
5. VP Gore calls Sanford Robertson from the White House for a
donation in Nov. 1995.
6. Robertson delivers $100,000 donation ($80,000 soft - $20,000
directly into the Clinton/Gore campaign) in Jan. 1996.
7. RSA signs deal with China in Feb. 1996. The administration
previously prosecuted similar deals but this time does nothing.
8. Justice Dept. approves RSA merger with Security Dynamics in
April 1996 for $280 million dollars, netting Sanford Robertson's
company a cool $2 million just to write the deal.
In 1991 I was in involved with Sandia National Laboratories
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty seismic data authenticator.
At that time Sandia director Tommy A Sellers had assumed
responsibility for directorship from Robert Clem.
Sandia supervisor Tom Wright replaced my supervisor, John Holovka,
who was the supervisor for the CTBT seismic data authenticator.
Wright brought in Ph.D. Steven Goldsmith to supervise me.
Sellars, Wright, and Goldsmith were new to crypto-type projects.
Much of this is documented at http://www.jya.com/whp021598.htm.
This is evidenced by Sellar's attached SEP 24 1991 memorandum,
which Goldsmith help author, addressed to Dr James J Hearn at
the National Security Agency.
The SEP 24 memorandum contained a number of technical errors.
I corrected these errors in my attached December 20, 1991 memorandum.
Department of Energy and it predecessors have a well-documented
history of not requiring technical expertise for pursuit of interests.
Stewart Udall, The Myths of August, writes,
Any cover-up must be implemented and enforced by designated
agents, and one man emerged in 1953 as the quarterback of the
AEC's damage-control effort. His name was Gordon Dunning.
Although the personnel charts of the 1950s list him as a low-level
"rad-safe" official in the Division of Biology and
Medicine,
documents demonstrate that he was clothed with authority to
manage and suppress information about the radiation released
by the testing of nuclear weapons. ...
About the time Sellers and Sandia Ombudsman gave me a directed
transfer to break electronic locks for the FBI/ERF [engineering
research facility], Goldsmith and Wright, certainly with the approval
of Sellers, placed a contract with RSA Inc [http://www.rsa.com/],
I was told.
Ms Barfield, we think the American public needs to know more about
RSA's work with Sandia National Laboratories.
Therefore, Under the provision of the Freedom of Information Act,
5 USC 552, I am requesting access to:
1 ALL purchase requisitions, including any attached statement of
work, issued by Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos
National Laboratories, or DOE/ALOO between January 1, 1991
and February 17, 1998 to RSA Inc.
2 Copies of all invoices from RSA Inc received by Sandia National
Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratories, or DOE/ALOO
between January 1, 1991 and February 17, 1998
If there are any fees for searching for, or copying, the records
I have requested, please inform me before you fill the request.
As you know, the Act permits you to reduce or waive the fees
when the release of the information is considered as "primarily
benefiting the public." I believe that this requests fits that
category and I therefore ask that you waive any fees.
Your office agreed to waive fees before. This request is surely
of "public interest."
December 13, 1994 DOE/AL FOIA officer Gwen Schreiner waived fees
for the reason,
"We have considered your request and have determined that
release of the requested records is in the public interest,
that disclosure of this information is likely to contribute
significantly to public understanding of the operations or
activities of the government, that you or the organization
you represent have little or no commercial interest in the
material contained in the records, that you or the
organization you represent have the qualifications and
ability to use and disseminate the information, and that the
records are not currently in the public domain. A waiver of
fees is therefore granted."
This waiver of fees was, undoubtedly, issued as a result of former
Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary's Openness initiative.
Heart of America paid my way to hear Secretary O'Leary's celebrated
whistleblower speech.
If all or any part of this request is denied, please cite the
specific exemption(s) which you think justifies your refusal to
release the information and inform me of your agency's
administrative appeal procedures available to me under the law.
I would appreciate your handling this request as quickly as
possible, and I look forward to hearing from you within 20
working days, as the law stipulates.
I received no response to the above FOIA.
Therefore I appeal as a result of non-response.
As you may be aware
(6)(A) Each agency, upon any request for records made under
paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of this subsection, shall--
(i) determine within ten days \1\ (excepting
Saturdays, Sundays, and legal public holidays) after
the receipt of any such request whether to comply with
such request and shall immediately notify the person
making such request of such determination and the
reasons therefor, and of the right of such person to
appeal to the head of the agency any adverse
determination; and
And you may also be aware
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\1\ Under section 12(b) of the Electronic Freedom of Information
Act Amendments of 1996 (Pub. L. 104-231; 110 Stat. 3054), the
amendment
made by section 8(b) of such Act striking ``ten days'' and inserting
``20 days'' shall take effect on October 3, 1997.
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(ii) make a determination with respect to any
appeal within twenty days (excepting Saturdays,
Sundays, and legal public holidays) after the receipt
of such appeal. If on appeal the denial of the request
for records is in whole or in part upheld, the agency
shall notify the person making such request of the
provisions for judicial review of that determination
under paragraph (4) of this subsection
So I expect a response to this appeal within the time allotted to you
by law.
Much of this unfortunate matter is appearing on Internet.
http://www.jya.com/whp021598.htm
http://www.jya.com/cylinked.htm
Letter from Bill Payne Regarding Cryptography at Sandia
http://www.aci.net/kalliste/
Crypto AG: The NSA's Trojan Whore?
http://caq.com/CAQ/caq63/caq63madsen.html
NSA, Crypto AG, and the Iraq-Iran War
http://www.aci.net/kalliste/speccoll.htm
How Secure is America's Nuclear Arsenal?
http://www.aci.net/kalliste/nukearse.htm
And, of course, we continue to seek settlement.
Sincerely,
William H. Payne
13015 Calle de Sandias
Albuquerque, NM 87111
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