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DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (DIA)
5 DAYS TO RESPOND TO ARCHIVE; OUTSTANDING REQUESTS UP
TO 12 YEARS OLD
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Ten Oldest - DIA responded within five business days
to the FOIA request with requests dating from July 8, 1991
through August 1, 1996. Eight of the ten requests were from
Archive analysts. The requests concerned biographical sketches
of identified Guatemalan military officials, identified reports
from the mid-1980s that are listed as unclassified in the
Air University Library, records from 1983-1985 relating to
Iraq and Kurdistan, intelligence reports concerning Chinese
military exercises in the Taiwan Strait in September 1995,
the assassination of Anwar Sadat, biographical materials on
a specified Chinese military officer, identified histories,
and Iraqi manuals concerning chemical, biological and/or nuclear
warfare. The oldest of these requests was submitted in 1991
to the CIA and appears to have been referred to the DIA in
1996; thus, several years of the delay can be accorded to
the CIA. |
Workload Statistics - Although DIA's reported statistics
from 1998 through 2002 indicate that the agency has received
a decreasing number of FOIA requests (down 29.5% from 1313
in 1998 to 926 in 2002), the number processed each year also
has decreased somewhat (down 5% from 861 processed in 1998
to 819 processed in 2002). DIA's processing rate per year
-- a comparison of the number of requests processed to the
number received -- increased from 65.58% in 1998 to 88.44%
in 2002. |
Backlog Statistics - DIA's backlog of pending FOIA
requests has gone up and down over the years and is slightly
down (from 1781 FOIA requests pending at the end of 1998 to
1756 FOIA requests pending at the end of 2002). DIA's backlog
as a percentage of FOIA requests processed each year has increased
from 206.85% in 1998 to 214.41% in 2002. Its backlog rate
per year -- a comparison of the number of requests pending
at the end of the year to the number received during that
year -- has increased from 135.64% in 1998 to 189.63% in 2002.
Thus, DIA's backlog includes almost twice as many requests
as it receives in a year. |
Processing Time - Under its two track system, DIA
reports a median processing time for 2002 of 35, while complex
requests in 2002 had a median of 540 days. Processing times
for both simple and complex requests have increased over the
1998-2002 period. Expedited requests have a median processing
time range of 5-60 days over the 1998-2002 time period. The
median days that backlogged requests have been pending is
reported as 890 (3-4 years) for 2002. As noted above, the
Ten Oldest FOIA Requests have been pending approximately 3060
to 1300 business days. |
TEN
OLDEST REQUESTS
DIA
Response Letter
DIA July 8,
1991 Letter
DIA December
16, 1994 Letter
DIA September
29, 1995 Letter
DIA October
21, 1995 Letter
DIA December
10, 1995 Letter
DIA March 11,
1996 Letter
DIA March 15,
1996 Letter
DIA March 30,
1996 Letter
DIA May 12,
1996 Letter
DIA August
1, 1996 Letter
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