Joel Bryan Harris
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Houston, TX XXXXX
http://www.jbhfile.com
jbh@jbhfile.com

05/12/06

Re: Freedom of Information Appeal

Dear Co-Director, 

This is a request for administrative review of FOIPA# 1040934-000.

The response received by myself and from David Hardy at FBI headquarters, on March 17, 2006, claims to have located no records responsive to my initial request.

Furthermore, Mr. Hardy clearly states that, for reasons of expediency, the FBI only focuses on records kept in the “Central Records System at FBI Headquarters.” This would imply that other records, not made a part of the very clearly stated, “Central Records System at FBI Headquarters,” could feasibly exist as a part of other records systems either at local field offices or otherwise; this considered, and since I have it on good faith of more than one person who has acted as a numbered informant in a known and somewhat winded FBI investigation of myself that said investigation does in fact exist, I am led to believe that the data exists and that it is begin withheld.

I would appreciate it if you would thoroughly investigate the possibility of records existing either as part of the Houston local field office records systems, or otherwise, as part of some other record system not included in the Central Records system. 

This appeal is not my first regarding a previously submitted FOIPA request.

In the past I have expressed my intention of filing civil suit against the FBI as a means of acquiring proof of the investigation known by myself and others in the Houston area to exist, but have digressed in my efforts as none of those numbered informants known by myself and others, for obvious legal reasons, have agreed to cooperate in such a civil suit.

Therefore, now and for the foreseeable future, I continue my efforts at the administrative level.

In light of my above comments, please review the findings of FOIPA# 1040934-000.

				Thanks in Advance,

				Joel Harris