EMAIL · 16 March 2022
FW: ACTION REQUIRED — FOIA Litigation Search Request | DF-2021-00235 (21-cv-01619)
Provenance: Five-message chain, 4–16 March 2022 · tasking issued through DNI_MI_Taskers and DNI_MI_NIC_TASKERS mailboxes · 3 pages.
A FOIA litigation search tasking and the internal reaction to it. The request’s breadth prompts first confusion and then a decision to stand down pending clarification.
The FOIA seeks all records, communications or briefings created, generated, forwarded, transmitted, sent, shared, saved, received or reviewed by any senior level DOS, NIH or ODNI official referencing Anthony Fauci, the Wuhan Institute of Virology and COVID-19, including any shorthand, pseudonyms or synonyms.
Timeline: 1 May 2020 to the date the request is processed. Suspense: close of business Tuesday 15 March 2022.
Five keyword strings are specified: Fauci AND Wuhan; Fauci AND COVID-19 AND Wuhan; Fauci AND COVID AND Origins; Biden AND COVID-19 AND Wuhan; Biden AND COVID AND Origins.
Tasked out by an Analytic Program Manager at the National Intelligence Council, ODNI/DDMI/NIC FO, on Booz Allen Hamilton contractor support.
16 Mar, 7:51 am — "What are we supposed to do with this? Shouldn’t this be sent to the ‘senior’ DOS, NIH, or ODNI officials for them to search their records? And what is a ‘senior’ official for these agencies?"
16 Mar, 8:04 am — Stand down for now, in hope of clarification that lowers the burden. The reply adds that this is one of six requests the same person filed on COVID origin material, with more probably on the way.
Item 15 of the ODNI COVID-19 document release of 18 June 2026, held complete and readable in the V.A.D.E.S. archive at DEFROST.WORLD.