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M Bimmler made this Freedom of Information request to Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The request was successful.

From: M Bimmler

5 May 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

I would like to request that you send me a copy of

1. All the documents that have been released pursuant to the ICO
Decision Notice case reference FS50083726

2. All documents that have been released before the escalation to
the ICO in this case. I understand that a selected number of
documents has been released at various times before the ICO issued
a decision notice and I ask for a copy of these too.

I have searched on the FCO's Access to Information (Disclosure Log)
website but have been unable to locate a copy of the files. If you
have uploaded *all of the files* (ref. above) now, I'd be grateful
if you could just deal with this request informally by sending me a
link to the documents and I will then confirm that I withdraw my
request. This is to avoid the necessity of you sending me a formal
Section 21 refusal notice.

Many thanks,

Michael Bimmler

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Foreign and Commonwealth Office

5 May 2009

Dear Michael

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request. It has been passed to
the relevant section within the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to deal
with. They will be in touch with you should your request need
clarification.

We received your request on 05 May 2009 and will aim to respond within 20
working days.

Yours sincerely

Bruce
Information Rights
Information Management Group | Information & Technology Directorate |
Foreign & Commonwealth Office
email: [FCO request email]
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office

3 June 2009

Dear Mr Bimmler,

Thank you for your recent request for information under the Freedom of
Information Act.

I am pleased to announce that we are now in a position to release the
documents to you.

However, we only possess the documents in hard copy.

Therefore, I would be grateful if you could supply me with a postal
address.

Many thanks and regards.

Brian

Brian Dorrington | Case Manager | Information Rights Team | Information
and Technology Directorate, SG/127, Old Admiralty Building, Foreign and
Commonwealth Office | London | SW1A 2PA |

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From: M Bimmler

3 June 2009

Dear Mr Dorrington,

thank you for your reply.

I will be sending you my current postal address by separate private
mail (ie. not through the whatdotheyknow.com website).

However, before dispatching the files, I would be grateful if you
could consider (again) the possibility of scanning them and sending
them to me via e-mail or, if they prove too large to send via
email, upload them to either the whatdotheyknow.com website or the
FCO website. The URL to upload the scanned documents through the
whatdotheyknow.com website is

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/upload/req...

If, however, you remain confident that it is impossible to scan the
documents for whatever reason, then I would be grateful if you
could arrange to send them to the postal address I shall provide to
you.

Yours sincerely,

Michael Bimmler

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M Bimmler left an annotation ( 4 June 2009)

Received confirmation of dispatch.

They're looking at how much memory it will use to scan the files and will be sharing them electronically if possible.

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M Bimmler left an annotation (10 June 2009)

Received documents. I don't have a scanner here and I will only consider scanning them at a commercial place once the FCO confirms that they will not do so themselves.

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From: M Bimmler

18 June 2009

Dear Mr Dorrington,

further to our email correspondence, have you been able to
investigate the possibility of publishing the documents in
electronic form which you have kindly sent me in hard copy?
Preferred would of course be a submission to the Whatdotheyknow.com
website, either in reply to this message or through the site's
upload facility:

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/upload/req...

Yours sincerely,

Michael Bimmler

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Foreign and Commonwealth Office

19 June 2009

Dear Mr Bimmler,

Thank you for your email to my colleague Mr Dorrington. I am replying on his behalf.

I can confirm that the documents will be published electronically on the FCO's Access to Information website.

The documents are currently being scanned, and our new publisher is being trained. As soon as that is complete, the documents will be published.

Kind regards,

Emma Walpole (Miss)
Information Rights Team, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Email: mailto:[email address]

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