From: intrepid517@gmail.com   
      
   This letter was sent to the Smithsonian Institution today   
   (Certified Mail):   
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   Wayne Clough   
   Secretary   
   Smithsonian Institution   
   1000 Jefferson Drive SW   
   Washington, DC 20004   
      
   Dear Mr. Clough:   
      
   I hereby invoke The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that gives   
   me the right to access information from an agency of the federal   
   government -- in this case, the Smithsonian Institution.   
      
   I demand that I be given any and all paperwork in which my name   
   -- Ed Conrad -- is mentioned. This should obviously include not   
   only ALL letters and correspondence but other material as well,   
   including inter-office memos, telephone messages and even   
   scratch-pad notes.   
      
   Naturally, you are also obligated to place in my hands any and   
   all audio or visual material in the Institution's possession   
   in which my name is mentioned (or appears in writing on an   
   accompanying information contents tab).   
      
   I kindly can advise you that the vast majority of the material   
   you are required to furnish to me -- without undue delay --   
   undoubtedly can be found within the files of material compiled   
   by Raymond T. Rye II, long-time museum specialist in your   
   Department of Paleobiology.   
      
   Other places to look include files in your anthropology,   
   archaeology, paleontology and geology departments, as well   
   as material that may well have been filed by your predecessor   
   Lawrence M. Small; Margaret C. Hird, special assistant to   
   the Secretary; T. Dale Stewart and others.   
      
   I figure one month is ample time to fulfill my FOIA request   
   and I trust there will be no hanky-panky at your end because,   
   as I'm sure you're aware, the Smithsonian is in deep enough   
   trouble already the way it has reacted to honest science   
   with pseudoscience (deceit, deception, collusion and conspiracy).   
      
   Sincerely yours,   
      
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   Ed Conrad   
      
      
   cc:  Sen. John D. Rockefeller (Chairman: Committee on Commerce,   
        Science and Transportation)   
        Rep. Lamar Smith (Chairman: Science, Space, and Technology Committee)   
        Sen.  Bill Nelson (Chairman: Subcommittee on Science and Space)   
        New York Times -- Reuters -- CNN -- Wall Street Journal   
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