David D. MINIER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, Defendant-Appellee

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• permitting the CIA to invoke the Glomar doctrine in response to a FOIA request seeking employment records of an alleged CIA operative
• taking judicial notice that the 25 plaintiff-appellant was a Municipal Court Judge
• describing how a government agency establishes that Exemption 3 applies and explaining that the agency may issue a “Glomar Response” refusing to confirm or deny the existence of certain records if the FOIA exemption would itself preclude the acknowledgment of such documents
• \[W]e hold that the JFK Act has no direct bearing on [a plaintiff's] FOIA request.\
• “[C]ourts often require Vaughn indices . . . . Vaughn 8 indices, however, are not appropriate in all FOIA cases.”
• “[W]hen the affidavit submitted by an agency is sufficient to establish that the requested documents should not be disclosed, a Vaughn index is not required.”

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