How do I contact the FBI and CIA from the United Kingdom?

Question

I am researching an air crash that took place on the Greenland ice cap on 14th August 1967.

My dad was rescued after the crash by the USAF. In hospital he was interviewed by the FBI. I have tried the FOI form but it either doesnt work from the UK or they are ignoring me.

I have written to the US embassy in London twice but no reply.

It is now 40 years since the crash. What period of time elapses before information is made public?

Any help or suggestions welcomed. Regards Kevin W.

Answer 1

www.fbi.gov

Answer 2

see with the MI 5 through Scotland yard.

Answer 3

Try the web...

Answer 4

Try specifically directing your inquiry to the "Legatt" in the London Embassy (stands for "Legal Attache", which is the FBI).  They likely won't answer, as they're not staffed to be able to work on lengthy inquiries like yours.

CIA likely won't respond, same reason.

Answer 5

I'd use a phone or their web site to contact them

Answer 6

If the FBI did the interview, the CIA won't have anything for you.  Unfortunately, the FBI are a pack of degenerates and thieves who were dedicated to the destruction of American democracy long before W ever got started.  It is probably true that FOIA is not applicable to noncitizens residing outside the USA.  Your best bet might be to have an American living in the USA file the request.

Answer 7

It looks like AI M has given you a lot of information.  The only site that I can suggest is below.  As far as the Freedom of Information Act goes, I thought that it was 50 years but I could be wrong.

Answer 8

Contact your MP and ask for his/her assistance.

Answer 9

Some information is never made public.

Some information in government records gets destroyed or lost.

Some information is there, but the filing system is such that you have to know the right questions to ask.

If you are searching for various government agencies via the Internet, here is a search engine that specializes in US government web sites

http://usasearch.gov/search?v%3aproject=...

Notice stuff you can link on the side, such as sources, then drill down, but main problem with this site is that it is showing new stuff recently from government , not historical archives, or plain contacting government agencies

CIA web site https://www.cia.gov/

FBI web site http://www.fbi.gov/

As I explain later here, I do not believe you will get anything helpful to your search from either of the above

There is a FOIA Freedom of Information Act process, but it can take many years, and they can decide that there is some problem preventing information going back to the person who asked for it.  I think what happens is some people get good at doing FOIA while most people are not good at getting that system to work for them.

Here is a guide to FOIA http://www.foia.gov.tt/

Today, when there is an air crash, the US investigation is done by the NTSB = National Transportation Safety Board, which is part of the Department of Transportation under the Secretary of Transportation.  The FBI often works with them, because early on in a crash investigation, it is not known if it was caused by a deliberate criminal act, human negligence, terrorist etc. or if the cause was more of the nature of an accident, where planes need to be designed differently to prevent this from happening again.

Typically, a NTSB investigation makes a report several years later what they found out.  The date invariably is made public, but the public seldom pays atttention.  It is right after the crash when people are interested in how many people got hurt, what kind of disruption this was, but years later when the results come out, often not even the news media can be bothered to tell people that the results were announced.

Here is NTSB web site http://www.ntsb.gov/

Now when a crash occurred in a different nation, different nations have different procedures for dealing with investigations.  They may call on US or UK specialists, like Scotland Yard, to help out with the investigation, but the data results will go to the organization or nation like Greenland, that is conducting the investigation, to be incorporated into their final report.

I believe Greenland is a territory of Denmark.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland

It looks to me from a cursory search that there was some crash of USAF plane carrying nuclear weapons, but Denmark had laws saying no nukes in their territory, so perhaps NATO was in violation of their rules.

If the crash was somehow associated with goings on with the Cold War, then the data may be with USAF as opposed to with NTSB

http://www.well.com/~mareev/TIMELINE/196...

http://coldwar-c4i.net/BombAlarm/Thule.h...

http://www.thuleforum.com/broken_arrow.h...

http://www.metafilter.com/63456/The-Seco...

In 1967 there was a Branif crash which got blamed on clear air turbulance but apparently there are conspiracy theorists out there with other ideas

http://www.braniffpages.com/1965/1965.ht...