Our reference: 18/168813
29 May 2018
Snehan Kekre
By email: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
Dear Snehan,
Freedom of Information Request ACIC 18-36
I refer to your request for access to documents under the
Freedom of Information Act 1982. I have
taken your request to be for:
Copies of all briefings, communications, forms, reports, documents or notes mentioning or
regarding the not-for-profit media organization WikiLeaks or its Australian staff, including
but not limited to Julian Assange.
We received your request on Monday 28 May 2018 and the 30 day statutory period for processing
your request commenced from the day after that date. You should therefore expect a decision from
us on or before
Wednesday 27 June 2018. The period of 30 days may be extended if we need to
consult third parties or for other reasons. We will advise you if this happens.
The ACIC, in processing FOI requests, excludes the following information on the basis that it is
irrelevant to the requests:
Names, signatures, and contact details of ACIC members of staff, other than Senior
Executive Staff.
Duplicate documents, including duplicate emails. The ACIC will only provide emails where
they form a final email chain and the authors/recipients are contained within the final
email.
Information that is publicly available, for example, newspaper articles and online
publications, including information available on the ACIC website.
If you object to the ACIC excluding any of the above information, please advise the FOI Coordinator
within seven days of receipt of this letter.
Please note that information released under the FOI Act may later be published online on our
disclosure lo
g http://www.acic.gov.au/foi/foi-disclosure-log, subject to certain exceptions.
We will contact you using the email address you provided. Please advise if you would prefer us to
use an alternative means of contact. If you have any questions, please contact the following officer:
Rubi Simm
FOI Coordinator
xxx@xxxx.xxx.xx
Discovering threats,
supporting law enforcement,
protecting Australia.
Yours sincerely,
Rubi Simm
FOI Coordinator
2
Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission
